PHP Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

PHP
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring PHP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PHP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.68% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - -
75th Percentile £288 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £600 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +26.32% -9.52% +31.25%

All Programming Languages
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 23 33 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 15.54% 21.57% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 23
10th Percentile - £344 £139
25th Percentile £350 £394 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £575
90th Percentile £580 £559 £585
South East median daily rate £490 £514 £530
% change year-on-year -4.62% -3.07% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £81.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate - £87.50 £32.31
Median % change year-on-year - +170.81% -12.08%
75th Percentile - £93.75 £32.32
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £64.76 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.07% +17.75% -12.00%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PHP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

PHP job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

PHP
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing PHP

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing PHP

PHP
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Oxford - 1 £275 - 2
PHP
South East

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
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