PHP Contracts in the Thames Valley

PHP
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 130 147
Rank change year-on-year +8 +17 -46
Contract jobs citing PHP 19 26 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.70% 0.88% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.53% 3.64% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 15
10th Percentile £340 £353 £335
25th Percentile £400 - £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -23.81% +50.00%
75th Percentile £500 £456 £538
90th Percentile £625 £500 -
South East median daily rate £475 £400 £513
% change year-on-year +18.75% -21.95% +51.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -56.25% - -

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 539 715 800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.86% 24.30% 22.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 531 585
10th Percentile £350 £350 £341
25th Percentile £425 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £575
90th Percentile £668 £680 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 5
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £31.30
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £56.88 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -13.17% +63.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £84.66
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £44.86
% change year-on-year +9.09% +22.60% +10.77%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PHP in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for PHP in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PHP in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for PHP in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 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
Berkshire +1 18 £475 +15.15% 11
Oxfordshire +4 1 £350 -30.00% 3
PHP
South East

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (10.53%) Jadu
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) CMS
2 1 (5.26%) Drupal
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.26%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (15.79%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) Azure API Management
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.53%) IaaS
4 2 (10.53%) PaaS
4 2 (10.53%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
1 2 (10.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) Lead
3 5 (26.32%) Designer
3 5 (26.32%) Lead Designer
4 4 (21.05%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) PHP Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Drupal Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Full Stack PHP Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Java Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Magento Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) AngularJS
1 7 (36.84%) Symfony
2 6 (31.58%) CSS
2 6 (31.58%) HTML
3 5 (26.32%) Kafka
3 5 (26.32%) Node.js
3 5 (26.32%) Spring Boot
4 4 (21.05%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (21.05%) Spring
5 3 (15.79%) .NET
5 3 (15.79%) Web Services
6 2 (10.53%) LAMP
6 2 (10.53%) React
6 2 (10.53%) SOAP
6 2 (10.53%) Twig
7 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
7 1 (5.26%) Doctrine
7 1 (5.26%) Laravel
7 1 (5.26%) RESTful
7 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) Agile
3 7 (36.84%) Microservices
4 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 5 (26.32%) Data-Driven Testing
4 5 (26.32%) Integration Testing
4 5 (26.32%) Security Testing
4 5 (26.32%) Software Testing
4 5 (26.32%) System Testing
4 5 (26.32%) TDD
4 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
4 5 (26.32%) Unit Testing
5 4 (21.05%) API Design
5 4 (21.05%) API Development
5 4 (21.05%) Coaching
5 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven
5 4 (21.05%) Migration
5 4 (21.05%) SOLID
6 3 (15.79%) Product Backlog
7 2 (10.53%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) JavaScript
2 8 (42.11%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) C#
4 2 (10.53%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) Ruby
5 1 (5.26%) C
5 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
1 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle