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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 200 269
Rank change year-on-year -27 +69 -51
Contract jobs citing PHP 74 153 212
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.75% 1.00% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 2.99% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 113 151
10th Percentile £300 £284 £300
25th Percentile £351 £300 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £453 £525 £475
90th Percentile £575 £620 £525
UK median daily rate £423 £430 £425
% change year-on-year -1.74% +1.18% -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 3,731 5,111 9,594
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.69% 33.50% 37.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,656 3,695 7,011
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £420 £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 59 144 211
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +26.26%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £87.63 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year +1.46% +2.67% +20.00%

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

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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 3 May 2025.

PHP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 (14.86%) CMS
2 10 (13.51%) WordPress
3 7 (9.46%) Apache
4 5 (6.76%) Drupal
4 5 (6.76%) Moodle
5 4 (5.41%) Confluence
6 2 (2.70%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.35%) Joomla!
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 26 (35.14%) AWS
2 9 (12.16%) Azure
3 6 (8.11%) SaaS
4 5 (6.76%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.41%) GitHub
6 3 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.05%) Amazon Lightsail
6 3 (4.05%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (4.05%) DigitalOcean
6 3 (4.05%) Figma
6 3 (4.05%) Google Workspace
6 3 (4.05%) Heroku
6 3 (4.05%) Serverless
6 3 (4.05%) Slack
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.70%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.76%) DNS
2 4 (5.41%) Internet
3 2 (2.70%) SMTP
3 2 (2.70%) SSL
4 1 (1.35%) Firewall
4 1 (1.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (29.73%) MySQL
2 7 (9.46%) MongoDB
3 6 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.76%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.35%) GIS
Development Applications
1 19 (25.68%) Git
2 8 (10.81%) PHPUnit
3 5 (6.76%) GitLab
3 5 (6.76%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.76%) Postman
4 4 (5.41%) Appium
4 4 (5.41%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (5.41%) CircleCI
4 4 (5.41%) Gatling
4 4 (5.41%) JIRA
4 4 (5.41%) JMeter
4 4 (5.41%) NeoLoad
4 4 (5.41%) Selenium
4 4 (5.41%) SpecFlow
5 3 (4.05%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket
General
1 24 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.81%) Advertising
2 8 (10.81%) Finance
3 3 (4.05%) Retail
4 2 (2.70%) Banking
4 2 (2.70%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.35%) Local Government
5 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (68.92%) Developer
2 21 (28.38%) PHP Developer
3 13 (17.57%) Software Developer
4 10 (13.51%) Support Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Senior
6 6 (8.11%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.76%) JavaScript Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Moodle Developer
7 5 (6.76%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Symfony Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Developer in Test
8 4 (5.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) PHP Software Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) PHP Symfony Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Software Test Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Test Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) React Developer
10 2 (2.70%) Analyst
11 1 (1.35%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.68%) React
2 18 (24.32%) CSS
3 17 (22.97%) Laravel
4 16 (21.62%) Symfony
5 11 (14.86%) Tailwind CSS
6 10 (13.51%) HTML
7 8 (10.81%) Alpine.js
7 8 (10.81%) REST
8 6 (8.11%) AngularJS
8 6 (8.11%) LAMP
8 6 (8.11%) RESTful
9 5 (6.76%) Behat
9 5 (6.76%) JSON
9 5 (6.76%) Node.js
9 5 (6.76%) Vue
9 5 (6.76%) XML
10 4 (5.41%) CodeIgniter
10 4 (5.41%) jQuery
10 4 (5.41%) Play Framework
10 4 (5.41%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.76%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (6.76%) e-Learning
1 5 (6.76%) Legacy Code
1 5 (6.76%) VLE
2 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.35%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.46%) Linux
2 4 (5.41%) Unix
3 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (37.84%) Agile
2 22 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (22.97%) CI/CD
4 15 (20.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (18.92%) API Development
5 14 (18.92%) Design Patterns
5 14 (18.92%) DevOps
5 14 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (16.22%) Project Management
7 11 (14.86%) Software Engineering
8 9 (12.16%) OO
8 9 (12.16%) Scrum
9 8 (10.81%) Containerisation
9 8 (10.81%) Kanban
10 7 (9.46%) Microservices
10 7 (9.46%) Project Delivery
11 6 (8.11%) Front End Development
11 6 (8.11%) MVC
11 6 (8.11%) OOP
11 6 (8.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (40.54%) JavaScript
2 21 (28.38%) Python
3 18 (24.32%) SQL
4 14 (18.92%) Java
5 12 (16.22%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.46%) C#
7 6 (8.11%) Ruby
8 5 (6.76%) C++
9 4 (5.41%) Scala
10 2 (2.70%) Perl
10 2 (2.70%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.35%) Bash
11 1 (1.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (10.81%) SC Cleared
1 8 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.05%) Degree
3 2 (2.70%) CISSP
3 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.35%) CEH
4 1 (1.35%) CISA
4 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.35%) CISM
4 1 (1.35%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) QA
2 2 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
3 1 (1.35%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (18.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.81%) Terraform
2 1 (1.35%) Grafana
2 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (6.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.41%) Oracle
2 4 (5.41%) Zend
3 3 (4.05%) Google
3 3 (4.05%) Sage
4 2 (2.70%) F5