PHP Contracts in the UK excluding London

PHP
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 272 239 294
Rank change year-on-year -33 +55 -43
Contract jobs citing PHP 64 163 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.78% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.76% 3.35% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 135 135
10th Percentile £310 £263 £311
25th Percentile £350 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £450 £528 £475
90th Percentile £555 £574 £570
UK median daily rate £423 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -0.59% - -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 2
10th Percentile - £22.50 £23.22
25th Percentile - £25.31 £31.85
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -7.66% +14.67%
75th Percentile - £71.87 £68.12
90th Percentile - £72.06 £78.25
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £62.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -44.80% -21.88% +128.57%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PHP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PHP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the UK excluding London 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
Midlands +20 17 £435 +24.29% 89
South East +16 17 £363 -23.68% 130
West Midlands +17 13 £435 +216.36% 41
North of England -14 12 £400 +12.28% 183
East of England +35 8 £450 -5.26% 35
Yorkshire +3 7 £400 +21.21% 54
South West +34 6 £355 +1.29% 51
East Midlands +5 4 £400 +14.29% 41
North West -10 4 - - 121
Scotland +6 2 £417 +7.61% 10
Wales -19 2 £356 -30.83% 9
North East -1 1 - - 9
PHP
UK

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (14.06%) Apache
2 6 (9.38%) CMS
3 5 (7.81%) WordPress
4 4 (6.25%) Confluence
4 4 (6.25%) Drupal
5 3 (4.69%) Moodle
6 2 (3.13%) IIS
6 2 (3.13%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.56%) Joomla!
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Magento
1 3 (4.69%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.44%) AWS
2 7 (10.94%) Azure
3 5 (7.81%) SaaS
4 4 (6.25%) GitHub
5 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.13%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon Lightsail
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.56%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) Internet
2 2 (3.13%) Firewall
2 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (43.75%) MySQL
2 13 (20.31%) MongoDB
3 9 (14.06%) SQL Server
4 7 (10.94%) NoSQL
4 7 (10.94%) Relational Database
5 5 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (6.25%) Redis
7 3 (4.69%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 25 (39.06%) Git
2 5 (7.81%) JIRA
2 5 (7.81%) Subversion
3 4 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (6.25%) Postman
4 3 (4.69%) PHPUnit
5 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.13%) Codeception
5 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.56%) GitLab
6 1 (1.56%) Storybook
General
1 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.94%) Finance
3 5 (7.81%) Advertising
4 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Retail
6 2 (3.13%) Korean Language
6 2 (3.13%) Law
7 1 (1.56%) Automotive
7 1 (1.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 40 (62.50%) Developer
2 18 (28.13%) PHP Developer
3 9 (14.06%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Software Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) PHP Software Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) JavaScript Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Senior
7 5 (7.81%) Senior Developer
8 4 (6.25%) PHP Symfony Developer
8 4 (6.25%) Symfony Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Architect
9 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Moodle Developer
9 3 (4.69%) React Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (3.13%) Analyst
10 2 (3.13%) Data Analyst
10 2 (3.13%) IT Support
10 2 (3.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (37.50%) Laravel
2 17 (26.56%) CSS
2 17 (26.56%) React
3 12 (18.75%) .NET
3 12 (18.75%) HTML
4 11 (17.19%) Symfony
5 10 (15.63%) Vue
6 9 (14.06%) AngularJS
6 9 (14.06%) Web Services
7 8 (12.50%) LAMP
8 7 (10.94%) REST
8 7 (10.94%) RESTful
9 5 (7.81%) Alpine.js
9 5 (7.81%) jQuery
9 5 (7.81%) Phalcon
9 5 (7.81%) SOAP
9 5 (7.81%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (6.25%) Ajax
10 4 (6.25%) CodeIgniter
10 4 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (6.25%) Legacy Code
2 3 (4.69%) e-Learning
2 3 (4.69%) VLE
3 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.06%) Linux
2 5 (7.81%) Unix
3 3 (4.69%) Android
3 3 (4.69%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.13%) Windows
5 1 (1.56%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (37.50%) Agile
2 20 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (23.44%) OO
3 15 (23.44%) Software Engineering
4 14 (21.88%) MVC
5 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
5 13 (20.31%) Design Patterns
5 13 (20.31%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (17.19%) API Development
6 11 (17.19%) Scrum
7 9 (14.06%) Microservices
7 9 (14.06%) OO PHP
7 9 (14.06%) Web Development
8 8 (12.50%) E-Commerce
8 8 (12.50%) TDD
9 7 (10.94%) Code Quality
9 7 (10.94%) Front End Development
9 7 (10.94%) Kanban
9 7 (10.94%) Project Management
10 6 (9.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 28 (43.75%) JavaScript
2 17 (26.56%) SQL
3 11 (17.19%) Python
4 8 (12.50%) Java
5 6 (9.38%) C#
6 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.13%) Ruby
8 1 (1.56%) Perl
8 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (7.81%) Degree
1 5 (7.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 9 (14.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Zend
2 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.25%) Oracle
4 2 (3.13%) SAP
5 1 (1.56%) Red Hat