PHP Contracts in the Midlands

PHP
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 114 150
Rank change year-on-year +20 +36 +19
Contract jobs citing PHP 17 19 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.89% 0.69% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.56% 3.07% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 15
10th Percentile - - £270
25th Percentile £350 £131 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -22.22% +38.46%
75th Percentile £481 £356 £531
90th Percentile £575 £513 £570
England median daily rate £425 £400 £413
% change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
England median hourly rate £34.50 £45.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -23.33% -37.93% +107.14%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

PHP falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 477 618 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.92% 22.42% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 447 697
10th Percentile £275 £260 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £563
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 15
10th Percentile £16.46 £22.42 £20.24
25th Percentile £17.60 £27.38 £24.31
Median hourly rate £20.24 £51.78 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% +55.10% -4.61%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £60.13 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PHP in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for PHP in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PHP in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for PHP in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +17 13 £435 +216.36% 42
East Midlands +5 4 £400 +14.29% 42
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) Moodle
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) PHPUnit
2 3 (17.65%) Postman
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 5 (29.41%) Advertising
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Support Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) JavaScript Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) PHP Developer
4 4 (23.53%) PHP Symfony Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Senior
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Symfony Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Moodle Developer
6 2 (11.76%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (11.76%) PHP Software Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
7 1 (5.88%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (5.88%) MySQL Developer
7 1 (5.88%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) React
2 4 (23.53%) RESTful
2 4 (23.53%) Symfony
3 3 (17.65%) Behat
3 3 (17.65%) JSON
3 3 (17.65%) XML
4 2 (11.76%) Laravel
4 2 (11.76%) REST
5 1 (5.88%) CakePHP
5 1 (5.88%) HTML
5 1 (5.88%) jQuery
5 1 (5.88%) SOAP
5 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (17.65%) e-Learning
1 3 (17.65%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Agile
1 6 (35.29%) API Development
1 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (29.41%) Project Delivery
2 5 (29.41%) Project Management
2 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (23.53%) Fintech
4 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
4 3 (17.65%) Data Management
4 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
4 3 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (11.76%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) OO
5 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
6 1 (5.88%) Design Patterns
6 1 (5.88%) MVC
6 1 (5.88%) TDD
6 1 (5.88%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) SQL
4 2 (11.76%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (5.88%) Firmware