PHP Contracts in the South East

PHP
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 158 185
Rank change year-on-year +16 +27 +13
Contract jobs citing PHP 17 47 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.56% 0.85% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.15% 3.90% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 43 31
10th Percentile £329 - £313
25th Percentile £341 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% +18.75% -23.81%
75th Percentile £400 £538 £456
90th Percentile £489 £610 £500
England median daily rate £425 £400 £413
% change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -56.25% -
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.50 £45.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -23.33% -37.93% +107.14%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 792 1,205 1,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.31% 21.68% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 831 1,136
10th Percentile £353 £325 £328
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £679 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 73 91
10th Percentile £40.05 £35.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £48.99 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%
75th Percentile £64.52 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.19 £74.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the South East

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PHP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for PHP in the South East

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PHP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for PHP in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hampshire +19 14 £389 -25.95% 5
Surrey - 2 £350 - 2
East Sussex -6 1 - - 23
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (41.18%) Apache
2 4 (23.53%) CMS
2 4 (23.53%) Confluence
2 4 (23.53%) Drupal
2 4 (23.53%) WordPress
3 2 (11.76%) IIS
3 2 (11.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Internet
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (88.24%) MySQL
2 7 (41.18%) Relational Database
3 6 (35.29%) MongoDB
3 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
4 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
4 4 (23.53%) Redis
5 3 (17.65%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Git
2 5 (29.41%) Subversion
3 4 (23.53%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (23.53%) JIRA
4 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
4 2 (11.76%) Codeception
4 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Korean Language
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) PHP Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (23.53%) PHP Software Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) IT Support
4 2 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) E-Commerce Web Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Graduate
5 1 (5.88%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Graduate Web Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Operations Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Integrator
5 1 (5.88%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Web Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) Web Services
2 6 (35.29%) LAMP
2 6 (35.29%) Laravel
3 5 (29.41%) CSS
3 5 (29.41%) Phalcon
3 5 (29.41%) React
4 4 (23.53%) Ajax
4 4 (23.53%) AngularJS
4 4 (23.53%) CodeIgniter
4 4 (23.53%) HTML
4 4 (23.53%) jQuery
4 4 (23.53%) Kafka
4 4 (23.53%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (23.53%) REST
4 4 (23.53%) SOAP
4 4 (23.53%) Symfony
4 4 (23.53%) Vue
5 3 (17.65%) .NET
5 3 (17.65%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (17.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Legacy Code
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Unix
3 2 (11.76%) Windows
4 1 (5.88%) CentOS
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Agile
2 10 (58.82%) MVC
2 10 (58.82%) OO
3 8 (47.06%) Scrum
4 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 6 (35.29%) OO PHP
5 5 (29.41%) API Development
5 5 (29.41%) SDLC
5 5 (29.41%) Secure Coding
5 5 (29.41%) Systems Analysis
5 5 (29.41%) Web Development
6 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
6 4 (23.53%) Front End Development
6 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (23.53%) Kanban
6 4 (23.53%) Microservices
6 4 (23.53%) OOP
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) JavaScript
2 6 (35.29%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Perl
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Zend
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) SAP