PHP Contracts in the UK excluding London

PHP
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 234 285 247
Rank change year-on-year +51 -38 -91
Contract jobs citing PHP 167 169 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.80% 0.70% 1.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.43% 2.39% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 134 229
10th Percentile £263 £311 £311
25th Percentile £325 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £525 £475 £500
90th Percentile £573 £559 £555
UK median daily rate £415 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -2.47% -5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £22.50 £23.22 -
25th Percentile £25.31 £31.85 £41.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.74 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% +14.67% +66.67%
75th Percentile £71.87 £68.12 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.06 £78.25 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £80.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.88% +128.57% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,871 7,081 9,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.44% 29.25% 28.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,294 5,058 6,298
10th Percentile £318 £338 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +3.09% +14.12%
75th Percentile £584 £594 £575
90th Percentile £656 £678 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 359 341
10th Percentile £35.72 £23.08 £17.28
25th Percentile £49.61 £50.00 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year - +25.63% +18.45%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.42
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £61.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% +22.35% +14.94%

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 24 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PHP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 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
South East +23 47 £475 +18.75% 48
North of England +35 46 £350 -12.50% 118
North West +15 31 £394 +5.00% 56
Wales +26 23 £515 +14.44% 13
Midlands +41 20 £350 -22.22% 54
South West +13 19 £350 -12.50% 50
Yorkshire +26 13 £330 -17.50% 51
West Midlands +30 10 £138 -70.27% 30
East Midlands +18 10 £350 - 24
Scotland +25 9 £388 -12.92% 14
East of England +4 3 £475 +31.94% 29
North East +17 2 £375 -1.32% 12
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 15 (8.98%) Drupal
2 13 (7.78%) WordPress
3 6 (3.59%) Apache
3 6 (3.59%) Apache Solr
4 5 (2.99%) CMS
5 4 (2.40%) nginx
6 3 (1.80%) Jadu
6 3 (1.80%) Moodle
7 1 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.60%) Confluence
7 1 (0.60%) FileNet
7 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (6.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.60%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 35 (20.96%) AWS
2 34 (20.36%) Azure
3 22 (13.17%) GitHub
4 11 (6.59%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (4.79%) GCP
6 7 (4.19%) SaaS
7 5 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (2.40%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 4 (2.40%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (1.80%) iPaaS
10 2 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.20%) Azure API Management
10 2 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.20%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.20%) IaaS
10 2 (1.20%) PaaS
10 2 (1.20%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) OpenLDAP
2 4 (2.40%) DNS
2 4 (2.40%) HTTPS
2 4 (2.40%) IPsec
2 4 (2.40%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.80%) HTTP
4 2 (1.20%) Network Security
4 2 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (41.32%) MySQL
2 9 (5.39%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.59%) Couchbase
4 6 (3.59%) MariaDB
4 6 (3.59%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.40%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.20%) Power BI
6 2 (1.20%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.20%) Redis
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (10.18%) Git
2 9 (5.39%) Postman
3 8 (4.79%) Cypress.io
4 7 (4.19%) GitLab
5 3 (1.80%) JIRA
5 3 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.60%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.60%) Gatling
6 1 (0.60%) Gradle
6 1 (0.60%) gulp
6 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.60%) Maven
6 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.60%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.60%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 21 (12.57%) Social Skills
2 8 (4.79%) Public Sector
3 6 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.40%) Advertising
4 4 (2.40%) Legal
4 4 (2.40%) Marketing
5 3 (1.80%) Finance
5 3 (1.80%) Retail
6 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.60%) Automotive
7 1 (0.60%) Games
7 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 104 (62.28%) Developer
2 55 (32.93%) PHP Developer
3 22 (13.17%) Full Stack Developer
4 14 (8.38%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 13 (7.78%) Software Engineer
6 11 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (6.59%) Migration Manager
6 11 (6.59%) Migration Project Manager
6 11 (6.59%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 11 (6.59%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.99%) Drupal Developer
7 10 (5.99%) Java Developer
7 10 (5.99%) WordPress Developer
8 9 (5.39%) Lead
8 9 (5.39%) Senior
9 5 (2.99%) Designer
9 5 (2.99%) Lead Designer
9 5 (2.99%) Network Engineer
10 4 (2.40%) Java Engineer
10 4 (2.40%) Magento Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (26.35%) Laravel
2 42 (25.15%) HTML
3 31 (18.56%) CSS
4 28 (16.77%) React
5 25 (14.97%) Vue
6 17 (10.18%) Symfony
7 16 (9.58%) AngularJS
8 13 (7.78%) Node.js
9 8 (4.79%) .NET
9 8 (4.79%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (4.19%) LAMP
10 7 (4.19%) REST
10 7 (4.19%) RESTful
10 7 (4.19%) Yii
11 6 (3.59%) Kafka
11 6 (3.59%) Spring
12 5 (2.99%) Sass
12 5 (2.99%) Spring Boot
12 5 (2.99%) Web Services
13 4 (2.40%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.39%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.99%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.40%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.80%) Blockchain
4 3 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.80%) IoT
4 3 (1.80%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.80%) Web3
5 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.60%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.60%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.60%) PropTech
6 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.17%) Linux
2 4 (2.40%) CentOS
2 4 (2.40%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) Android
3 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (26.35%) Agile
2 31 (18.56%) Full Stack Development
3 22 (13.17%) DevOps
3 22 (13.17%) Migration
3 22 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (11.38%) CI/CD
5 18 (10.78%) SDLC
6 16 (9.58%) TDD
6 16 (9.58%) Test Automation
7 14 (8.38%) Containerisation
7 14 (8.38%) E-Commerce
7 14 (8.38%) Software Engineering
8 13 (7.78%) Scrum
9 11 (6.59%) Microservices
9 11 (6.59%) Web Development
10 10 (5.99%) Project Management
10 10 (5.99%) Unit Testing
11 9 (5.39%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (4.79%) Analytics
12 8 (4.79%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 53 (31.74%) JavaScript
2 31 (18.56%) Java
3 23 (13.77%) SQL
4 9 (5.39%) C#
4 9 (5.39%) Python
5 3 (1.80%) Perl
5 3 (1.80%) Ruby
5 3 (1.80%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.20%) Bash
7 1 (0.60%) C
7 1 (0.60%) Go
7 1 (0.60%) Groovy
7 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.60%) RPG
Qualifications
1 16 (9.58%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.98%) Degree
2 15 (8.98%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.80%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.60%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.98%) QA
2 4 (2.40%) GDPR
2 4 (2.40%) HIPAA
2 4 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.40%) NIST
3 2 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (7.19%) Docker
2 7 (4.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.20%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (7.19%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.59%) Argo
3 8 (4.79%) Terraform
4 7 (4.19%) Ansible
5 2 (1.20%) Grafana
5 2 (1.20%) Kibana
5 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.60%) Graylog
6 1 (0.60%) logstash
6 1 (0.60%) Nagios
6 1 (0.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.59%) Atlassian
3 8 (4.79%) Oracle
4 5 (2.99%) Google
5 2 (1.20%) VMware
5 2 (1.20%) Zend
6 1 (0.60%) Adobe
6 1 (0.60%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.60%) Genesys
6 1 (0.60%) IBM
6 1 (0.60%) KANA
6 1 (0.60%) Splunk