PHP Developer Contracts in the North of England

PHP Developer
England > North of England

The median PHP Developer daily rate in the North of England is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 170 187
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 +17
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 3 12 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.078% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.28% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 14
10th Percentile £305 £309 £306
25th Percentile £313 £341 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £363
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -17.14%
75th Percentile £406 £397 £426
90th Percentile £425 £459 £446
England median daily rate £400 £400 £400
% change year-on-year - - -8.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 3,556 4,349 5,287
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 92.43% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,326 2,656 3,645
10th Percentile £252 £263 £269
25th Percentile £375 £388 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £654 £687
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 410 191
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.30 £14.65
25th Percentile £17.21 £13.50 £17.48
Median hourly rate £22.63 £24.18 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% +7.42% +12.55%
75th Percentile £50.00 £47.50 £43.39
90th Percentile £76.02 £66.70 £53.35
England median hourly rate £28.34 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.15% -6.98% +72.00%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the North of England

PHP Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for PHP Developer in the North of England

PHP Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for PHP Developer in the North of England

PHP Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Yorkshire +2 2 £363 -12.12% 8
North West +1 1 £350 -6.67% 18
PHP Developer
England

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 13 July 2025, PHP Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Refactoring
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Laravel
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Finance

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Laravel
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) SQL