PHP Contracts in the South East

PHP
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 185 193
Rank change year-on-year +31 +8 -34
Contract jobs citing PHP 47 36 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.85% 0.62% 0.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.93% 2.26% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 30 46
10th Percentile - £313 £325
25th Percentile £325 £363 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -23.81% +55.56%
75th Percentile £538 £438 £588
90th Percentile £610 £500 £700
England median daily rate £400 £413 £438
% change year-on-year -3.03% -5.71% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -56.25% - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £72.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.93% +107.14% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
South East

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,196 1,596 2,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.67% 27.47% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 825 1,136 1,360
10th Percentile £325 £328 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £684 £700 £650
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 91 87
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £60.07 £55.00 £43.64
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% +26.03% +5.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.88 £75.00 £65.52
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +13.64%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in the South East over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 +21 21 £525 +61.54% 13
Thames Valley -2 19 £475 +18.75% 22
Berkshire +4 18 £475 +15.15% 11
East Sussex +10 5 £350 - 3
Oxfordshire 0 1 £350 -30.00% 2
West Sussex - 1 £550 - 9
Kent - 1 £325 - 4
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 9 (19.15%) Drupal
2 6 (12.77%) Apache
3 3 (6.38%) Jadu
3 3 (6.38%) Moodle
4 2 (4.26%) WordPress
5 1 (2.13%) Apache Solr
5 1 (2.13%) CMS
5 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.02%) Azure
2 4 (8.51%) AWS
2 4 (8.51%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 4 (8.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (8.51%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (8.51%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (4.26%) Azure API Management
3 2 (4.26%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.26%) IaaS
3 2 (4.26%) PaaS
3 2 (4.26%) SaaS
4 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (6.38%) HTTP
3 2 (4.26%) Network Security
3 2 (4.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.91%) MySQL
2 5 (10.64%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.13%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.13%) Power BI
3 1 (2.13%) Redis
3 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (25.53%) Git
2 3 (6.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.38%) Advertising
3 3 (6.38%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Marketing
5 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (65.96%) Developer
2 9 (19.15%) Drupal Developer
2 9 (19.15%) Java Developer
3 7 (14.89%) Full Stack Developer
3 7 (14.89%) Lead
4 5 (10.64%) Designer
4 5 (10.64%) Lead Designer
4 5 (10.64%) Network Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) PHP Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Senior
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) C# Developer
7 1 (2.13%) Consultant
7 1 (2.13%) Head of Development
7 1 (2.13%) Java Consultant
7 1 (2.13%) LAMP Developer
7 1 (2.13%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (2.13%) Senior Java Consultant
7 1 (2.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (40.43%) HTML
2 11 (23.40%) CSS
3 8 (17.02%) Symfony
4 7 (14.89%) AngularJS
4 7 (14.89%) LAMP
5 5 (10.64%) Kafka
5 5 (10.64%) Node.js
5 5 (10.64%) Sass
5 5 (10.64%) Spring Boot
6 4 (8.51%) .NET
6 4 (8.51%) Laravel
6 4 (8.51%) LDAP
6 4 (8.51%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (8.51%) Spring
7 3 (6.38%) React
7 3 (6.38%) RESTful
7 3 (6.38%) Web Services
8 2 (4.26%) SOAP
8 2 (4.26%) Twig
9 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) IoT
3 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (29.79%) Agile
2 11 (23.40%) TDD
3 9 (19.15%) DevOps
3 9 (19.15%) Full Stack Development
4 7 (14.89%) Microservices
4 7 (14.89%) Migration
5 5 (10.64%) API Design
5 5 (10.64%) BDD
5 5 (10.64%) CI/CD
5 5 (10.64%) Data-Driven Testing
5 5 (10.64%) Integration Testing
5 5 (10.64%) Security Testing
5 5 (10.64%) Software Testing
5 5 (10.64%) SOLID
5 5 (10.64%) System Testing
5 5 (10.64%) Test Automation
5 5 (10.64%) Unit Testing
6 4 (8.51%) API Development
6 4 (8.51%) Event-Driven
6 4 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 23 (48.94%) JavaScript
2 18 (38.30%) Java
3 5 (10.64%) C#
4 4 (8.51%) SQL
5 2 (4.26%) Python
5 2 (4.26%) Ruby
6 1 (2.13%) C
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 13 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
1 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
1 2 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.26%) VMware
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle