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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 257 281
Rank change year-on-year -21 +24 -11
Contract jobs citing PHP 57 144 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.70% 0.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.53% 2.94% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 120 120
10th Percentile £306 £279 £313
25th Percentile £350 £325 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -8.57%
75th Percentile £450 £523 £500
90th Percentile £575 £550 £589
UK median daily rate £425 £411 £438
% change year-on-year +3.34% -6.00% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - £22.50 -
25th Percentile - £25.31 £75.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -43.75% +88.24%
75th Percentile - £71.87 £85.00
90th Percentile - £72.06 -
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -37.27% -31.25% +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 3,727 4,902 6,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.97% 23.79% 28.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,493 3,298 4,502
10th Percentile £322 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £561 £585 £592
90th Percentile £638 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 426 324
10th Percentile £27.95 £37.55 £26.16
25th Percentile £44.63 £52.50 £50.94
Median hourly rate £63.37 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% - +22.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.36 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.79% -0.23% +22.11%

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 29 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 29 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
South East +12 17 £389 -17.72% 657
Midlands +9 16 £435 +24.29% 502
West Midlands +16 12 £435 +216.36% 263
North of England -20 10 £358 -7.61% 620
East of England +36 8 £450 -5.26% 406
Yorkshire +9 5 £358 +5.29% 244
East Midlands +3 4 £400 +14.29% 206
North West -22 4 - - 317
South West +32 3 £515 +47.14% 319
Wales -9 3 £425 -17.48% 78
North East -2 1 - - 66
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 11 (19.30%) Apache
2 6 (10.53%) CMS
3 5 (8.77%) WordPress
4 4 (7.02%) Confluence
4 4 (7.02%) Drupal
5 3 (5.26%) Moodle
6 2 (3.51%) IIS
6 2 (3.51%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.75%) Joomla!
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Magento
1 3 (5.26%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.32%) AWS
2 6 (10.53%) SaaS
3 5 (8.77%) Azure
4 2 (3.51%) GitHub
4 2 (3.51%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Lightsail
5 1 (1.75%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.75%) OVHcloud
5 1 (1.75%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) Internet
2 2 (3.51%) Firewall
2 2 (3.51%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (43.86%) MySQL
2 12 (21.05%) MongoDB
3 7 (12.28%) SQL Server
4 6 (10.53%) Relational Database
5 5 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.26%) Redis
7 2 (3.51%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 21 (36.84%) Git
2 5 (8.77%) JIRA
3 4 (7.02%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (7.02%) Postman
3 4 (7.02%) Subversion
4 3 (5.26%) PHPUnit
5 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.51%) Codeception
5 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.75%) GitLab
6 1 (1.75%) MSI
6 1 (1.75%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.75%) Storybook
General
1 9 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.53%) Finance
3 5 (8.77%) Advertising
4 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.26%) Retail
5 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Korean Language
5 2 (3.51%) Law
6 1 (1.75%) Automotive
6 1 (1.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 32 (56.14%) Developer
2 14 (24.56%) PHP Developer
3 8 (14.04%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (14.04%) Software Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Support Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) PHP Software Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) JavaScript Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Senior
6 5 (8.77%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.02%) PHP Symfony Developer
7 4 (7.02%) Symfony Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Architect
8 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Moodle Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.51%) .NET Architect
9 2 (3.51%) .NET Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.51%) Analyst
9 2 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (28.07%) Laravel
2 14 (24.56%) CSS
3 13 (22.81%) React
4 10 (17.54%) HTML
5 9 (15.79%) .NET
6 8 (14.04%) LAMP
6 8 (14.04%) Symfony
6 8 (14.04%) Web Services
7 7 (12.28%) AngularJS
7 7 (12.28%) Vue
8 6 (10.53%) REST
8 6 (10.53%) RESTful
9 5 (8.77%) Alpine.js
9 5 (8.77%) jQuery
9 5 (8.77%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (7.02%) Ajax
10 4 (7.02%) CodeIgniter
10 4 (7.02%) Phalcon
10 4 (7.02%) SOAP
11 3 (5.26%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Legacy Code
2 3 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.26%) e-Learning
2 3 (5.26%) VLE
3 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.75%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (19.30%) Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Unix
3 3 (5.26%) CentOS
3 3 (5.26%) Windows
4 1 (1.75%) Android
4 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.86%) Agile
2 17 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (24.56%) Software Engineering
4 12 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 12 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (17.54%) Design Patterns
5 10 (17.54%) MVC
5 10 (17.54%) OO
6 9 (15.79%) API Development
6 9 (15.79%) Web Development
7 8 (14.04%) DevOps
7 8 (14.04%) Microservices
7 8 (14.04%) Scrum
8 7 (12.28%) E-Commerce
8 7 (12.28%) Project Management
9 6 (10.53%) Code Quality
9 6 (10.53%) TDD
10 5 (8.77%) OO PHP
10 5 (8.77%) Project Delivery
10 5 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (40.35%) JavaScript
2 12 (21.05%) Python
2 12 (21.05%) SQL
3 8 (14.04%) Java
4 6 (10.53%) C#
5 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.51%) Ruby
7 1 (1.75%) Perl
7 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.02%) Degree
2 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.75%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.75%) Firmware
2 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.26%) Ansible
2 3 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (1.75%) WMI
Vendors
1 9 (15.79%) Zend
2 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.02%) Oracle
4 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.75%) SAP
4 1 (1.75%) VMware