PHP Contracts in Wales

PHP
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 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 41 22 49
Rank change year-on-year -19 +27 +23
Contract jobs citing PHP 2 22 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.68% 5.57% 1.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.67% 19.30% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 22 11
10th Percentile £283 £451 £325
25th Percentile £305 £501 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -30.83% +14.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £405 £551 £584
90th Percentile £424 £643 £600
UK median daily rate £423 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -0.59% - -5.56%

All Programming Languages
Wales

PHP falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 75 114 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 25.60% 28.86% 24.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 87 124
10th Percentile £225 £340 £363
25th Percentile £355 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £613
90th Percentile £588 £599 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile £20.12 £15.51 £17.18
25th Percentile £21.53 £16.98 £17.48
Median hourly rate £26.13 £21.49 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +21.60% +14.19% -9.33%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.96 £19.81
90th Percentile £47.63 £39.56 £19.91
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Wales

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in Wales

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in Wales

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in Wales

PHP
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Wales region 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
South Wales -10 2 £356 -32.78% 4
PHP
UK

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Joomla!
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Storybook
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (50.00%) Joomla! Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Joomla! Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Laravel
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA