OO PHP Contracts

Object-Oriented PHP (OO PHP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OO PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OO 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 510 - 701
Rank change year-on-year - - +130
Contract jobs citing OO PHP 10 0 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% - 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% - 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 15
10th Percentile £352 - £325
25th Percentile £354 - £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £404 - £456
90th Percentile £435 - £468
UK excluding London median daily rate £355 - £380
% change year-on-year - - -10.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

OO PHP falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OO PHP in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OO PHP in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OO PHP in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OO PHP 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 - 10 £355 - 1
UK excluding London - 9 £355 - 3
South East - 6 £403 -
South West - 3 £354 -
Work from Home - 3 £354 - 5

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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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (60.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (60.00%) MySQL
3 4 (40.00%) Redis
4 3 (30.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Git
2 5 (50.00%) Subversion
3 2 (20.00%) Codeception
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) PHP Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) Laravel
2 5 (50.00%) Phalcon
2 5 (50.00%) Web Services
3 4 (40.00%) Kafka
3 4 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (40.00%) React
3 4 (40.00%) Vue
4 3 (30.00%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (30.00%) CSS
4 3 (30.00%) CSS3
4 3 (30.00%) HTML
4 3 (30.00%) HTML5
4 3 (30.00%) REST
4 3 (30.00%) RESTful
4 3 (30.00%) Symfony
4 3 (30.00%) Yii
5 1 (10.00%) .NET
5 1 (10.00%) LAMP
5 1 (10.00%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) OO
2 9 (90.00%) MVC
3 6 (60.00%) Agile
4 5 (50.00%) SDLC
4 5 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
5 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (40.00%) Microservices
5 4 (40.00%) OWASP
5 4 (40.00%) Scrum
6 3 (30.00%) API Development
6 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
6 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (30.00%) Design Patterns
6 3 (30.00%) Front End Development
6 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (30.00%) Web Development
7 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
8 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (10.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) PHP
2 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Zend
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft