PHP Contracts in Southampton

PHP
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 14 24 24
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 +13
Contract jobs citing PHP 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 5.56% 0.59% 1.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.08% 3.23% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £401 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 - £325
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.71%
75th Percentile £404 - £338
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £389 £525 £325
% change year-on-year -25.95% +61.54% -35.00%

All Programming Languages
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 26 31 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 24.07% 18.34% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 34
10th Percentile £356 £300 £274
25th Percentile £367 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% - +0.56%
75th Percentile £497 £569 £625
90th Percentile £573 £610 £671
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £545 £525
% change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% +5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £66.50 £36.75
25th Percentile - £68.75 £37.88
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year - +88.68% +2.58%
75th Percentile - £78.75 £41.63
90th Percentile - £79.50 £42.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.50 £62.25 £55.25
% change year-on-year -7.63% +12.67% +57.86%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Southampton

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PHP in Southampton.

Daily rate trend for PHP in Southampton

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PHP in Southampton.

Hourly rate trend for PHP in Southampton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
2 4 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 4 (66.67%) Redis
3 3 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
1 5 (83.33%) Subversion
2 2 (33.33%) Codeception
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (50.00%) PHP Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Laravel
2 5 (83.33%) Phalcon
2 5 (83.33%) Web Services
3 4 (66.67%) Kafka
3 4 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (66.67%) React
3 4 (66.67%) Vue
4 3 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (50.00%) REST
4 3 (50.00%) RESTful
4 3 (50.00%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) MVC
1 6 (100.00%) OO
1 6 (100.00%) OO PHP
2 5 (83.33%) SDLC
2 5 (83.33%) Systems Analysis
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) OWASP
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) API Development
4 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Front End Development
4 3 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (50.00%) Web Development
5 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Zend
2 2 (33.33%) SAP