PHP Contracts in the North West

PHP
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 104 131
Rank change year-on-year -9 +27 +38
Contract jobs citing PHP 12 18 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.55% 0.75% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.20% 3.40% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 16
10th Percentile £316 £313 £306
25th Percentile £331 £331 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £354 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £373 £438 £418
90th Percentile £406 £505 £434
England median daily rate £430 £430 £440
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £71.87 -
England median hourly rate £34.50 £33.07 £26.50
% change year-on-year +4.32% +24.79% -24.29%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 545 529 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.82% 22.10% 27.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 378 614
10th Percentile £313 £350 £363
25th Percentile £367 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £466 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% -11.19% +1.94%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £600
90th Percentile £625 £610 £675
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 23 31
10th Percentile £27.12 £37.55 £37.55
25th Percentile £48.75 £46.59 £42.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +19.10% +26.87%
75th Percentile £86.63 £73.50 £51.62
90th Percentile £91.25 £94.60 £65.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the North West

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in the North West

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in the North West

PHP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Manchester -1 4 £388 +6.90% 33
Cheshire - 4 £358 - 14
Merseyside +4 3 - - 5
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (8.33%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Magento
1 3 (25.00%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) SaaS
2 5 (41.67%) IaaS
2 5 (41.67%) OpenShift
2 5 (41.67%) PaaS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Relational Database
2 4 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Architect
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) PHP Developer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Developer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Backend Developer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (8.33%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Node.js
2 5 (41.67%) AngularJS
3 3 (25.00%) .NET
3 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (25.00%) HTML
3 3 (25.00%) Laravel
4 2 (16.67%) CSS
4 2 (16.67%) Vue
5 1 (8.33%) Bootstrap
5 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (8.33%) React
5 1 (8.33%) REST
5 1 (8.33%) Symfony
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
1 5 (41.67%) ETL
1 5 (41.67%) Observability
2 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 4 (33.33%) Open Source
2 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 4 (33.33%) Web Development
3 3 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (16.67%) Refactoring
4 2 (16.67%) User Experience
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) Content Management
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) ERP
5 1 (8.33%) Logistics
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (8.33%) Microservices
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (41.67%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) AppDynamics
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Google