PHPUnit Contract Job Trends

PHPUnit
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring PHPUnit skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 559 632
Rank change year-on-year +9 +73 +207
Contract jobs citing PHPUnit 9 14 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.037% 0.014%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.18% 0.28% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 6
10th Percentile £404 £323 £356
25th Percentile £406 £325 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.33% -11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £495 £469
90th Percentile £625 £600 £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £375 £425
% change year-on-year +53.33% -11.76% -19.05%

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 5,013 5,075 6,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.22% 13.27% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,372 3,242 4,640
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 175 243
10th Percentile £31.28 £28.09 £45.94
25th Percentile £50.75 £51.13 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.25
90th Percentile £87.05 £73.00 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PHPUnit.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PHPUnit

PHPUnit
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHPUnit over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PHPUnit in the UK

PHPUnit
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PHPUnit.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PHPUnit

PHPUnit
Top 5 Contract Job 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 17 September 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
Work from Home +9 7 £483 -11.87% 9
England +24 5 £550 +51.72% 9
UK excluding London +1 2 £575 +53.33% 6
Midlands - 2 £575 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £575 - 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 3 (33.33%) Moodle
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) Moodle Developer
3 3 (33.33%) PHP Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (22.22%) PHP Software Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Behat
1 3 (33.33%) JSON
1 3 (33.33%) RESTful
1 3 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) Doctrine
2 1 (11.11%) Loki
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) e-Learning
1 3 (33.33%) VLE
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Code
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Code Quality
1 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Data Management
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (11.11%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (11.11%) Functional Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) PHP
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana