PHPUnit Contracts

PHPUnit
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring PHPUnit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PHPUnit 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 509 579 705
Rank change year-on-year +70 +126 +131
Contract jobs citing PHPUnit 11 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.007% 0.022%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% 0.058% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 9
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £450 £263 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £275 £400
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -31.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £625 £288 £460
90th Percentile £690 - £485
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £275 £400
% change year-on-year +100.00% -31.25% +3.23%

All Development Application Skills
UK

PHPUnit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,103 5,181 9,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.89% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,744 3,477 6,339
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £717 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 197 246
10th Percentile £26.92 £32.48 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.53 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £81.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

PHPUnit
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PHPUnit in the UK

PHPUnit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PHPUnit in the UK

PHPUnit
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for PHPUnit in the UK

PHPUnit
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PHPUnit in the UK

PHPUnit
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHPUnit 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 +64 10 £550 +100.00% 36
Work from Home +46 8 £600 +118.18% 27
London +41 5 £425 - 13
UK excluding London +65 3 £550 +100.00% 26
Midlands - 3 £550 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £550 - 1

PHPUnit
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 5 (45.45%) Moodle
2 2 (18.18%) WordPress
3 1 (9.09%) Apache
3 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
1 5 (45.45%) Postman
2 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 7 (63.64%) Senior
3 5 (45.45%) Moodle Developer
3 5 (45.45%) Senior Developer
4 3 (27.27%) PHP Developer
5 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Behat
1 5 (45.45%) JSON
1 5 (45.45%) RESTful
1 5 (45.45%) XML
2 3 (27.27%) Symfony
3 2 (18.18%) Jest
3 2 (18.18%) Laravel
3 2 (18.18%) Playwright
3 2 (18.18%) Yii
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) Doctrine
4 1 (9.09%) HTML
4 1 (9.09%) LAMP
4 1 (9.09%) Loki
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) e-Learning
1 5 (45.45%) VLE
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Code
2 1 (9.09%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Code Quality
1 5 (45.45%) Data Management
1 5 (45.45%) Performance Optimisation
1 5 (45.45%) Technical Leadership
1 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
2 4 (36.36%) Unit Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
3 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
3 3 (27.27%) OO
3 3 (27.27%) OOP
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
4 2 (18.18%) Fintech
4 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Functional Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) PHP
2 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Rust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana