PHP Contracts in the South West

PHP
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 149 145
Rank change year-on-year +17 -4 -38
Contract jobs citing PHP 18 24 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.56% 0.66% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.88% 2.25% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 26
10th Percentile £233 £325 £325
25th Percentile £263 £363 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £375 £472 £509
90th Percentile £525 £571 £619
England median daily rate £400 £420 £438
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.00% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £72.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.93% +107.14% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 625 1,065 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.60% 29.15% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 763 776
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £628
England median daily rate £540 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -4.26% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 98 69
10th Percentile £40.00 £49.90 £46.62
25th Percentile £53.13 £57.33 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.14 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% +4.00% +37.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.70 £75.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +14.94%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the South West

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in the South West

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in the South West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 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
Bristol +9 10 £350 -12.50% 20
Dorset +8 5 £525 +40.00% 1
Devon - 3 £400 - 8
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (27.78%) Apache Solr
2 4 (22.22%) nginx
3 3 (16.67%) CMS
4 2 (11.11%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (5.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) Google Analytics
3 1 (5.56%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
1 4 (22.22%) HTTPS
1 4 (22.22%) IPsec
1 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) MySQL
2 5 (27.78%) Couchbase
3 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) PHPUnit
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Legal
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) PHP Developer
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Full Stack Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 2 (11.11%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Backend Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Drupal Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Magento Developer
6 1 (5.56%) PHP Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) RPG Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) Laravel
2 5 (27.78%) React
3 4 (22.22%) JSON
3 4 (22.22%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (22.22%) Vue
3 4 (22.22%) YAML
4 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 3 (16.67%) HTML
5 2 (11.11%) CSS
5 2 (11.11%) RESTful
6 1 (5.56%) Doctrine
6 1 (5.56%) Node.js
6 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) CentOS
3 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) SDLC
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 4 (22.22%) Cost Reduction
3 4 (22.22%) Full Stack Development
3 4 (22.22%) Information Security
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (22.22%) Microservices
3 4 (22.22%) Migration
3 4 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (22.22%) Software Delivery
4 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
5 1 (5.56%) Analytics
5 1 (5.56%) User Experience
5 1 (5.56%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) RPG
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
2 4 (22.22%) GDPR
2 4 (22.22%) HIPAA
2 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (22.22%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
2 4 (22.22%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe
2 1 (5.56%) IBM
2 1 (5.56%) Zend