PHP Contracts in the North of England

PHP
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 139 169
Rank change year-on-year -15 +30 -15
Contract jobs citing PHP 10 39 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.84% 0.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.08% 3.25% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 26 33
10th Percentile £321 £306 £270
25th Percentile £352 £333 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £388 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -3.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £415 £475 £475
90th Percentile £429 £481 £535
England median daily rate £435 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +8.75% -5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £71.87 -
England median hourly rate £34.50 £45.00 £58.50
% change year-on-year -23.33% -23.08% +67.14%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 926 1,200 1,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.06% 25.81% 28.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 845 1,166
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £613 £625 £688
England median daily rate £525 £549 £563
% change year-on-year -4.37% -2.40% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 52 29
10th Percentile £31.70 £37.56 £29.42
25th Percentile £52.00 £41.25 £37.80
Median hourly rate £79.00 £47.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.32% -3.06% +12.41%
75th Percentile £88.75 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £95.71 £74.30 £70.00
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +21.36%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the North of England

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in the North of England

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in the North of England

PHP
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 25 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
Yorkshire +14 5 £358 +5.29% 287
North West -22 4 - - 378
North East -2 1 - - 75
PHP
England

PHP
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Magento
1 3 (30.00%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Lightsail
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Architect
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (20.00%) PHP Developer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) React Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior PHP Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) React
3 3 (30.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (30.00%) CSS
3 3 (30.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) Laravel
4 1 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (10.00%) React Native
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) Symfony
4 1 (10.00%) Vue
4 1 (10.00%) WPF
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (30.00%) Open Source
2 3 (30.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (30.00%) Web Development
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (20.00%) LLM
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) BDD
4 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (10.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Kanban
4 1 (10.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Ruby
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle