Laravel Contracts

Laravel PHP Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Laravel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Laravel 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 482 452 609
Rank change year-on-year -30 +157 +67
Contract jobs citing Laravel 38 130 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.30% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.57% 1.45% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 103 89
10th Percentile £280 £270 £300
25th Percentile £353 £306 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £455 £525 £475
90th Percentile £550 £575 £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +5.25% - -5.88%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Laravel falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Laravel
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Laravel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Laravel in the UK

Laravel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Laravel in the UK

Laravel
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Laravel over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Laravel in the UK

Laravel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Laravel in the UK

Laravel
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Laravel within the UK 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
England -16 32 £450 +28.57% 166
UK excluding London +41 25 £421 +5.25% 133
Work from Home -12 17 £450 +28.57% 145
London -19 10 £580 +54.67% 46
South East +45 7 £403 -19.50% 21
East of England - 6 £450 - 13
South West +40 4 £354 +1.14% 19
North of England +9 3 £500 +42.86% 56
Yorkshire +8 3 £500 +51.52% 15
Midlands +22 2 £250 -41.18% 20
West Midlands +15 2 £250 -28.57% 10
Scotland +12 2 £417 -33.28% 4
Wales -9 1 £425 -22.73% 6

Laravel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (7.89%) CMS
1 3 (7.89%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) AWS
2 8 (21.05%) GitHub
3 5 (13.16%) SaaS
4 4 (10.53%) Azure
5 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.89%) DigitalOcean
5 3 (7.89%) Figma
5 3 (7.89%) Google Workspace
5 3 (7.89%) Heroku
5 3 (7.89%) Slack
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.63%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (36.84%) MySQL
2 11 (28.95%) MongoDB
3 7 (18.42%) NoSQL
4 5 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (10.53%) Redis
6 3 (7.89%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
6 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (47.37%) Git
2 5 (13.16%) Subversion
3 3 (7.89%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (5.26%) Codeception
4 2 (5.26%) GitLab
4 2 (5.26%) PHPUnit
5 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.63%) JIRA
5 1 (2.63%) Postman
5 1 (2.63%) Storybook
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (5.26%) Banking
3 2 (5.26%) Investment Banking
3 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.63%) Automotive
4 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (94.74%) Developer
2 12 (31.58%) PHP Developer
3 9 (23.68%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (7.89%) React Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Senior
4 3 (7.89%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Flutter Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
6 1 (2.63%) Architect
6 1 (2.63%) Conversational AI Architect
6 1 (2.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (2.63%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 1 (2.63%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (2.63%) MySQL Developer
6 1 (2.63%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 1 (2.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (2.63%) Senior PHP Developer
6 1 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.63%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.63%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (39.47%) Vue
2 13 (34.21%) CSS
3 11 (28.95%) Tailwind CSS
4 9 (23.68%) React
5 8 (21.05%) Alpine.js
5 8 (21.05%) REST
6 7 (18.42%) Symfony
7 6 (15.79%) HTML
7 6 (15.79%) RESTful
8 5 (13.16%) .NET
8 5 (13.16%) CSS3
8 5 (13.16%) HTML5
8 5 (13.16%) Phalcon
8 5 (13.16%) Web Services
8 5 (13.16%) Yii
9 4 (10.53%) Kafka
9 4 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
10 3 (7.89%) Bootstrap
10 3 (7.89%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Android
1 3 (7.89%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Agile
2 14 (36.84%) OO
3 13 (34.21%) Design Patterns
3 13 (34.21%) Full-Stack Development
3 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (31.58%) CI/CD
5 11 (28.95%) MVC
6 9 (23.68%) Microservices
6 9 (23.68%) OO PHP
7 8 (21.05%) API Development
7 8 (21.05%) Front End Development
7 8 (21.05%) Software Engineering
8 7 (18.42%) Scrum
9 5 (13.16%) Containerisation
9 5 (13.16%) SDLC
9 5 (13.16%) Systems Analysis
9 5 (13.16%) TDD
9 5 (13.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 5 (13.16%) Web Development
10 4 (10.53%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 36 (94.74%) PHP
2 13 (34.21%) SQL
3 11 (28.95%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.26%) Dart
4 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.63%) C#
5 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Zend
2 3 (7.89%) Google
2 3 (7.89%) Sage
3 2 (5.26%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft