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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 107 117
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 +68
Contract jobs citing Laravel 1 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.055% 0.21% 0.094%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.33% 1.23% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £315 £402
25th Percentile - £319 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £420
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -16.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile - £381 £445
90th Percentile - £385 £454
England median daily rate £400 £375 £425
% change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -5.56%

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 306 325 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.89% 17.11% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 198 227
10th Percentile £368 £350 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +11.11% -3.88%
75th Percentile £597 £675 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 1
10th Percentile £33.91 £22.40 -
25th Percentile £41.96 £34.63 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +29.41% -26.72%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile - £71.00 -
England median hourly rate £54.35 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.17% -2.44%

Laravel
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Laravel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Laravel 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 10 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
Birmingham -1 1 £400 +6.67% 2
Laravel
England

Laravel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript