PHP Contracts in Scotland

PHP
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 110 147
Rank change year-on-year -7 +37 +20
DemandTrendContract jobs citing PHP 2 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.31% 1.30% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile - £284 £381
25th Percentile - £300 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £69 £350 £513
Median % change year-on-year -80.29% -31.71% +2.50%
75th Percentile - £375 £566
90th Percentile - - £581
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 644 462 787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.70% 24.77% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 308 526
10th Percentile £321 £347 £400
25th Percentile £418 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £483
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.74% -1.03%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £538
90th Percentile £588 £601 £601
UK median daily rate £503 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -5.72% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 15
10th Percentile £41.28 £18.79 £43.84
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.40 £50.63
Median hourly rate £58.75 £57.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% - +27.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £59.79
90th Percentile £67.25 £66.25 £64.94
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +9.09%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Scotland

PHP
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PHP

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PHP

PHP
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 21 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Lothian - 2 £69 - 2
PHP
UK

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (100.00%) FileNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Genesys Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
1 2 (100.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Genesys
1 2 (100.00%) KANA
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle