PHP Contracts in the West Midlands

PHP
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 133 146
Rank change year-on-year +32 +13 -42
Contract jobs citing PHP 10 12 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.49% 0.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.36% 1.86% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 12
10th Percentile - £363 £218
25th Percentile £131 £394 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £138 £475 £313
Median % change year-on-year -71.05% +52.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £353 £550 £358
90th Percentile £535 £575 £421
England median daily rate £400 £425 £438
% change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% +9.38%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 423 646 960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.03% 26.57% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 452 709
10th Percentile £260 £363 £325
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £460
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +14.13% +15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £638 £700 £638
England median daily rate £540 £569 £550
% change year-on-year -5.10% +3.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 3
10th Percentile £40.10 £21.23 £16.46
25th Percentile £55.00 £23.61 £16.77
Median hourly rate £57.50 £25.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +127.72% +44.29% -54.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £66.29 £46.88
90th Percentile £69.75 £98.50 £63.75
England median hourly rate £62.00 £61.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.35% +22.35% +16.80%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PHP in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for PHP in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PHP in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for PHP in the West Midlands

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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 PHP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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 +12 8 £138 -72.50% 9
Coventry +13 1 £350 -6.67% 3
Herefordshire - 1 £400 -
PHP
England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (70.00%) WordPress
2 1 (10.00%) CMS
2 1 (10.00%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) WordPress Developer
3 2 (20.00%) PHP Developer
4 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Head of Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Magento Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) Vue
2 2 (20.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) CSS
3 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (10.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) Laravel
3 1 (10.00%) Symfony
3 1 (10.00%) Yii
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Web Development
2 2 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Android Development
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (10.00%) iOS Development
3 1 (10.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile Development
3 1 (10.00%) OO
3 1 (10.00%) OOP
3 1 (10.00%) Open Source
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (10.00%) SDLC
3 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft