PHP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

PHP
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 229 198 272
Rank change year-on-year -31 +74 -55
Contract jobs citing PHP 75 153 215
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.76% 1.00% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.03% 2.98% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 114 154
10th Percentile £300 £286 £300
25th Percentile £351 £303 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +12.43% -11.06%
75th Percentile £453 £524 £475
90th Percentile £575 £618 £529
UK median daily rate £423 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -0.59% - -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 6
10th Percentile - £22.50 £68.75
25th Percentile - £28.44 £75.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £62.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% -24.24% +135.71%
75th Percentile - £72.34 £85.00
90th Percentile - £72.50 £86.25
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £62.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -44.80% -21.88% +128.57%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

PHP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PHP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

PHP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PHP.

PHP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing PHP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

PHP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PHP.

PHP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (14.67%) CMS
2 10 (13.33%) WordPress
3 7 (9.33%) Apache
4 5 (6.67%) Drupal
4 5 (6.67%) Moodle
5 4 (5.33%) Confluence
6 2 (2.67%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.33%) Joomla!
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 26 (34.67%) AWS
2 9 (12.00%) Azure
3 6 (8.00%) SaaS
4 5 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.33%) GitHub
6 3 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.00%) Amazon Lightsail
6 3 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (4.00%) DigitalOcean
6 3 (4.00%) Figma
6 3 (4.00%) Google Workspace
6 3 (4.00%) Heroku
6 3 (4.00%) Serverless
6 3 (4.00%) Slack
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.67%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.67%) DNS
2 4 (5.33%) Internet
3 2 (2.67%) SMTP
3 2 (2.67%) SSL
4 1 (1.33%) Firewall
4 1 (1.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (29.33%) MySQL
2 7 (9.33%) MongoDB
3 6 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.33%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 19 (25.33%) Git
2 8 (10.67%) PHPUnit
3 5 (6.67%) GitLab
3 5 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.67%) Postman
4 4 (5.33%) Appium
4 4 (5.33%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (5.33%) CircleCI
4 4 (5.33%) Gatling
4 4 (5.33%) JIRA
4 4 (5.33%) JMeter
4 4 (5.33%) NeoLoad
4 4 (5.33%) Selenium
4 4 (5.33%) SpecFlow
5 3 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (2.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 24 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.67%) Advertising
2 8 (10.67%) Finance
3 3 (4.00%) Retail
4 2 (2.67%) Banking
4 2 (2.67%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Local Government
5 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (68.00%) Developer
2 21 (28.00%) PHP Developer
3 13 (17.33%) Software Developer
4 11 (14.67%) Support Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Senior
6 6 (8.00%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.67%) JavaScript Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Moodle Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Symfony Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Developer in Test
8 4 (5.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) PHP Software Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) PHP Symfony Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Software Test Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Test Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) React Developer
10 2 (2.67%) Analyst
11 1 (1.33%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (26.67%) React
2 18 (24.00%) CSS
3 17 (22.67%) Laravel
4 16 (21.33%) Symfony
5 11 (14.67%) Tailwind CSS
6 10 (13.33%) HTML
7 9 (12.00%) REST
8 8 (10.67%) Alpine.js
9 6 (8.00%) AngularJS
9 6 (8.00%) LAMP
9 6 (8.00%) RESTful
10 5 (6.67%) Behat
10 5 (6.67%) JSON
10 5 (6.67%) Node.js
10 5 (6.67%) SOAP
10 5 (6.67%) Vue
10 5 (6.67%) XML
11 4 (5.33%) Play Framework
11 4 (5.33%) Playwright
11 4 (5.33%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (6.67%) e-Learning
2 5 (6.67%) Legacy Code
2 5 (6.67%) VLE
3 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.33%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.33%) Linux
2 4 (5.33%) Unix
3 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (37.33%) Agile
2 23 (30.67%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (22.67%) CI/CD
4 15 (20.00%) API Development
4 15 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (18.67%) Design Patterns
5 14 (18.67%) DevOps
5 14 (18.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (16.00%) Project Management
7 11 (14.67%) Software Engineering
8 10 (13.33%) OO
9 9 (12.00%) Scrum
10 8 (10.67%) Containerisation
10 8 (10.67%) Kanban
11 7 (9.33%) Microservices
11 7 (9.33%) Project Delivery
12 6 (8.00%) Data Protection
12 6 (8.00%) Fintech
12 6 (8.00%) Front End Development
12 6 (8.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.33%) JavaScript
2 21 (28.00%) Python
3 18 (24.00%) SQL
4 14 (18.67%) Java
5 12 (16.00%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.33%) C#
7 6 (8.00%) Ruby
8 5 (6.67%) C++
9 4 (5.33%) Scala
10 2 (2.67%) Perl
10 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.33%) Bash
11 1 (1.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (10.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (10.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.00%) Degree
3 2 (2.67%) CISSP
3 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.33%) CEH
4 1 (1.33%) CISA
4 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.33%) CISM
4 1 (1.33%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.33%) GDPR
3 1 (1.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (18.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.67%) Terraform
2 1 (1.33%) Grafana
2 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.33%) Oracle
2 4 (5.33%) Zend
3 3 (4.00%) Google
3 3 (4.00%) Sage
4 2 (2.67%) F5