PHP Contracts in the North West

PHP
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 129 140
Rank change year-on-year +22 +11 -68
Contract jobs citing PHP 30 32 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.13% 1.02% 1.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.53% 3.47% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 33
10th Percentile £313 £278 £271
25th Percentile £341 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £475 £473 £413
90th Percentile £504 £494 £510
England median daily rate £400 £425 £440
% change year-on-year -5.88% -3.41% +9.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
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 West

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 West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 662 923 1,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.89% 29.50% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 684 1,083
10th Percentile £325 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +22.47%
75th Percentile £546 £588 £588
90th Percentile £614 £650 £663
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 17 42
10th Percentile £39.25 £25.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.80 £21.57
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £49.98
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -18.78% +66.58%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.40 £68.75
90th Percentile £80.45 £65.85 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.59%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in the North West over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the North West

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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

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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 13 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
Manchester +21 25 £438 +16.67% 45
Merseyside +19 2 £350 - 5
Cheshire +4 2 - - 12
Lancashire +6 1 £475 - 4
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) AWS
2 5 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (6.67%) GitHub
3 2 (6.67%) SaaS
4 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (43.33%) MySQL
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) Gatling
2 1 (3.33%) Postman
General
1 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.33%) Advertising
2 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.33%) Retail
2 1 (3.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Developer
2 8 (26.67%) PHP Developer
3 7 (23.33%) Software Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Java Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Head of Development
6 2 (6.67%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) Lead Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Lead PHP Developer
6 2 (6.67%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 2 (6.67%) PHP Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) ERP Developer
7 1 (3.33%) HTML CSS Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) Laravel
1 7 (23.33%) React
2 5 (16.67%) CSS
2 5 (16.67%) HTML
3 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.67%) .NET
4 2 (6.67%) Node.js
4 2 (6.67%) RESTful
4 2 (6.67%) Vue
4 2 (6.67%) Web Services
5 1 (3.33%) Redux
5 1 (3.33%) Spring
5 1 (3.33%) Symfony
5 1 (3.33%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
2 5 (16.67%) DevOps
3 4 (13.33%) E-Commerce
3 4 (13.33%) Front End Development
3 4 (13.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (13.33%) Web Development
4 3 (10.00%) B2B
4 3 (10.00%) Data Security
4 3 (10.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (10.00%) Refactoring
4 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (10.00%) TDD
4 3 (10.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (6.67%) Agile
5 2 (6.67%) Coaching
5 2 (6.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (6.67%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (6.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (6.67%) Product Information Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) Java
2 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.67%) C#
3 2 (6.67%) Perl
3 2 (6.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft