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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 456 602
Rank change year-on-year -59 +146 +78
Contract jobs citing Laravel 28 126 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.093% 0.29% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.41% 1.36% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 100 88
10th Percentile £293 £300 £312
25th Percentile £400 £322 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £471 £502 £500
90th Percentile £627 £561 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £403
% change year-on-year +12.50% -0.62% -6.40%

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 6,838 9,285 12,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.79% 21.17% 22.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,662 6,376 9,226
10th Percentile £356 £350 £390
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 280 151
10th Percentile £29.07 £22.45 £30.00
25th Percentile £38.52 £43.00 £50.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +25.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.44 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £57.13 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.41% -12.12% +18.18%

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 22 June 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 11 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 22 June 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 -7 26 £450 +20.00% 670
Work from Home -15 16 £450 +22.03% 496
London -4 14 £475 +26.67% 235
UK excluding London +8 12 £450 +12.50% 492
East of England +26 6 £450 -5.26% 46
South East +46 3 £400 -20.00% 135
South West +37 1 - - 51
West Midlands +7 1 - - 23
Midlands +7 1 - - 48
North of England +1 1 £400 +10.34% 176
Yorkshire - 1 £400 - 63

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 (10.71%) CMS
1 3 (10.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) AWS
2 6 (21.43%) GitHub
3 5 (17.86%) SaaS
4 3 (10.71%) DigitalOcean
4 3 (10.71%) Figma
4 3 (10.71%) Google Workspace
4 3 (10.71%) Heroku
4 3 (10.71%) Slack
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (7.14%) Azure
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.57%) Serverless
6 1 (3.57%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) MySQL
2 7 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Redis
4 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (7.14%) PHPUnit
3 2 (7.14%) Subversion
4 1 (3.57%) Codeception
4 1 (3.57%) GitLab
4 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Automotive
4 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (89.29%) Developer
2 8 (28.57%) PHP Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Architect
5 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Backend Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Conversational AI Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Flutter Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
5 1 (3.57%) React Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior PHP Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Telephony Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (39.29%) Vue
2 10 (35.71%) CSS
2 10 (35.71%) Tailwind CSS
3 8 (28.57%) Alpine.js
4 4 (14.29%) React
4 4 (14.29%) REST
4 4 (14.29%) RESTful
4 4 (14.29%) Symfony
5 3 (10.71%) .NET
5 3 (10.71%) Bootstrap
5 3 (10.71%) HTML
6 2 (7.14%) CSS3
6 2 (7.14%) HTML5
6 2 (7.14%) Next.js
6 2 (7.14%) Nuxt
6 2 (7.14%) Phalcon
6 2 (7.14%) Web Services
6 2 (7.14%) Yii
7 1 (3.57%) Node.js
7 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Android
1 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Agile
2 10 (35.71%) Design Patterns
3 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 7 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (25.00%) OO
5 7 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (21.43%) Microservices
7 5 (17.86%) API Development
7 5 (17.86%) MVC
7 5 (17.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 4 (14.29%) Analytics
8 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 4 (14.29%) DevOps
8 4 (14.29%) OOP
9 3 (10.71%) Fintech
9 3 (10.71%) Front End Development
9 3 (10.71%) Prototyping
9 3 (10.71%) Technology Strategy
9 3 (10.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 26 (92.86%) PHP
2 10 (35.71%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) Dart
4 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Google
1 3 (10.71%) Sage
2 2 (7.14%) Zend