Laravel Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Laravel PHP Framework
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Laravel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 94 110
Rank change year-on-year -62 +16 +23
Contract jobs citing Laravel 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.035% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% 0.85% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £290
25th Percentile - £225 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £250 £375
Median % change year-on-year +120.00% -33.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £275 £438
90th Percentile - - £460
England median daily rate £335 £438 £350
% change year-on-year -23.43% +25.00% -11.95%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 558 235 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.75% 17.83% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 147 188
10th Percentile £360 £381 £311
25th Percentile £425 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £469
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +12.00% -14.38%
75th Percentile £588 £643 £600
90th Percentile £675 £710 £691
England median daily rate £525 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £19.02 - £16.23
25th Percentile - £26.25 £17.41
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -31.11% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £28.75 £44.06
90th Percentile £77.30 - £56.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

Laravel
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Laravel relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Laravel job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Laravel
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Laravel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Laravel

Laravel
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Laravel within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 March 2026. 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
Bilston - 1 £550 -
Laravel
England

Laravel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Vite
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) LEMP Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker