PHP Contracts in the Thames Valley

PHP
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 123 148
Rank change year-on-year +6 +25 -9
Contract jobs citing PHP 13 19 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.61% 0.72% 1.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.47% 3.27% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 29
10th Percentile £535 £313 £312
25th Percentile £556 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £641 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +60.31% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £670 £423 £525
90th Percentile £671 £506 £658
South East median daily rate £513 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +13.89% +12.50% -2.44%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

PHP falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 526 581 916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 24.59% 21.87% 23.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 443 702
10th Percentile £375 £325 £357
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.02%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £625
90th Percentile £663 £688 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 7
10th Percentile £34.80 £32.32 £36.60
25th Percentile £55.87 £36.34 £56.25
Median hourly rate £57.62 £48.40 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.04% -21.30% -0.81%
75th Percentile £66.89 £53.35 £81.81
90th Percentile £76.13 £59.48 £96.25
South East median hourly rate £64.76 £55.00 £62.96
% change year-on-year +17.75% -12.64% +19.92%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the Thames Valley

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PHP in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for PHP in the Thames Valley

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PHP in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for PHP in the Thames Valley

PHP
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Berkshire +7 7 £659 +102.69% 6
Buckinghamshire +5 6 £550 +35.80% 10
PHP
South East

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (30.77%) WordPress
2 2 (15.38%) Apache
2 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
1 7 (53.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 7 (53.85%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Functions
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Key Vault
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Monitor
2 6 (46.15%) Serverless
3 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
4 2 (15.38%) Azure API Management
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
2 2 (15.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Git
2 7 (53.85%) Visual Studio
3 6 (46.15%) Selenium
4 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Lead
2 6 (46.15%) Lead DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Symfony Developer
3 4 (30.77%) WordPress Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) AngularJS
1 7 (53.85%) CSS
1 7 (53.85%) HTML
1 7 (53.85%) Node.js
2 4 (30.77%) Symfony
3 3 (23.08%) ADO
3 3 (23.08%) YAML
4 2 (15.38%) LAMP
4 2 (15.38%) NETCONF
4 2 (15.38%) REST
4 2 (15.38%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
1 2 (15.38%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
1 9 (69.23%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) ETL
3 6 (46.15%) ITIL
3 6 (46.15%) SDLC
3 6 (46.15%) Software Testing
4 4 (30.77%) API Management
4 4 (30.77%) Clean Code
4 4 (30.77%) Data-Driven Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Security Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Integration Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) System Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (15.38%) Product Backlog
6 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Python
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) SendGrid