PHP Contracts in the North of England

PHP
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 158 141
Rank change year-on-year +19 -17 -74
Contract jobs citing PHP 45 52 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.96% 0.90% 1.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.76% 3.07% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 38 94
10th Percentile £313 £251 £313
25th Percentile £322 £316 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £400 £403
Median % change year-on-year -7.81% -0.62% +7.33%
75th Percentile £475 £475 £444
90th Percentile £486 £507 £500
England median daily rate £400 £420 £438
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.00% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £68.37 - -
25th Percentile £69.69 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £71.87 - £42.50
75th Percentile £72.19 - £43.75
90th Percentile £72.37 - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £72.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.93% +107.14% -22.22%

All Programming Languages
North of England

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,197 1,693 2,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.50% 29.22% 31.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 1,252 1,735
10th Percentile £316 £350 £325
25th Percentile £400 £420 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £542 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.13% +2.69% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 29 43
10th Percentile £37.63 £30.42 £14.25
25th Percentile £44.72 £38.50 £19.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +24.36% +50.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £50.60
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £59.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.56% +21.88% +14.94%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the North of England

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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

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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 4 May 2024. 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
North West +16 32 £413 +6.45% 68
Yorkshire +18 11 £328 -18.13% 38
North East +18 2 £375 -1.32% 7
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 3 (6.67%) Drupal
2 1 (2.22%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 15 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (15.56%) Azure
3 5 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (4.44%) GitHub
4 2 (4.44%) SaaS
5 1 (2.22%) GCP
5 1 (2.22%) Heroku
5 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (42.22%) MySQL
2 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) Gatling
2 1 (2.22%) Postman
General
1 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.22%) Advertising
2 1 (2.22%) Automotive
2 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.22%) Retail
2 1 (2.22%) Tech for Good
2 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (51.11%) Developer
2 17 (37.78%) PHP Developer
3 9 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Java Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (4.44%) C# Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Full Stack PHP Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Head of Development
7 2 (4.44%) Lead
7 2 (4.44%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Lead PHP Developer
7 2 (4.44%) PHP Software Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) PHP Symfony Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior
7 2 (4.44%) Symfony Developer
8 1 (2.22%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.67%) Laravel
2 10 (22.22%) React
3 8 (17.78%) HTML
4 7 (15.56%) CSS
5 6 (13.33%) AngularJS
6 5 (11.11%) Node.js
6 5 (11.11%) Symfony
7 3 (6.67%) Vue
7 3 (6.67%) web3js
8 2 (4.44%) .NET
8 2 (4.44%) jQuery
8 2 (4.44%) RESTful
8 2 (4.44%) Web Services
9 1 (2.22%) CSS3
9 1 (2.22%) HTML5
9 1 (2.22%) Redux
9 1 (2.22%) REST
9 1 (2.22%) Spring
9 1 (2.22%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Blockchain
1 3 (6.67%) Web3
2 2 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.22%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (22.22%) Software Engineering
2 5 (11.11%) DevOps
2 5 (11.11%) E-Commerce
2 5 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
2 5 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (11.11%) TDD
3 4 (8.89%) Agile
3 4 (8.89%) Clean Code
3 4 (8.89%) Front End Development
3 4 (8.89%) Mentoring
3 4 (8.89%) Refactoring
3 4 (8.89%) Test Automation
3 4 (8.89%) Web Development
4 3 (6.67%) B2B
4 3 (6.67%) Data Security
4 3 (6.67%) Design Patterns
4 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (6.67%) OOP
4 3 (6.67%) Test Strategy
5 2 (4.44%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
2 10 (22.22%) Java
3 5 (11.11%) SQL
4 2 (4.44%) C#
4 2 (4.44%) Perl
4 2 (4.44%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Kibana
1 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.22%) Zend