PHP Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

PHP
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring PHP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 23 30
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing PHP 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 2.35% 0.63% 0.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.76% 2.00% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £452 - £478
25th Percentile £476 £406 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.06% -17.50% +22.70%
75th Percentile £547 £419 £519
90th Percentile £560 - £523
East Midlands median daily rate £520 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +26.06% -17.50% +5.26%

All Programming Languages
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 34 50 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 20.00% 31.65% 33.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 31 59
10th Percentile £380 £406 £350
25th Percentile £394 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 £531 £650
90th Percentile £674 £613 £700
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £445 £473
% change year-on-year -7.30% -5.82% -0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
East Midlands median hourly rate £16.42 £22.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -27.02% -57.55% +57.04%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Nottinghamshire

PHP
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing PHP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing PHP

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in Nottinghamshire

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing PHP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing PHP

PHP
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Nottingham - 4 £520 - 7
PHP
East Midlands

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) ChatGPT
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle