PHP Developer Contract Job Trends in Oxford

PHP Developer
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The median PHP Developer daily rate in Oxford is £275, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 1.85% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - -
75th Percentile £288 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £275 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Oxford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Oxford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Oxford with a recognized job title 52 55 109
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.30% 93.22% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 40 77
10th Percentile £222 £160 £162
25th Percentile £252 £274 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £553 £500 £475
90th Percentile £688 £569 £643
Oxfordshire median daily rate £406 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -9.72% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 2
10th Percentile - £12.18 -
25th Percentile £25.15 £14.09 -
Median hourly rate £51.08 £20.50 £18.08
Median % change year-on-year +149.15% +13.38% +6.35%
75th Percentile £87.97 £21.75 -
90th Percentile £89.63 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £25.83 £20.50 £32.30
% change year-on-year +25.98% -36.53% +90.00%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'PHP Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

PHP Developer job vacancy trend in Oxford

PHP Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PHP Developer job vacancies in Oxford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PHP Developer job vacancies in Oxford

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 9 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford

For the 6 months to 4 October 2025, PHP Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Oxford region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Symfony
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) PHPUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) PHPUnit
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) Symfony
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP