PHP Contracts in the UK excluding London

PHP
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 290 262
Rank change year-on-year +35 -28 -100
Contract jobs citing PHP 144 161 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.70% 0.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.01% 2.43% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 125 207
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £325 £330 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £438
Median % change year-on-year - -8.57% +23.67%
75th Percentile £523 £488 £519
90th Percentile £550 £578 £588
UK median daily rate £415 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -2.47% -5.56% +9.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £22.50 £23.22 -
25th Percentile £25.31 £31.85 £41.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.74 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% +14.67% +66.67%
75th Percentile £71.87 £68.12 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.06 £78.25 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £80.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.88% +128.57% -22.22%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,786 6,635 8,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.59% 28.84% 28.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,218 4,688 6,111
10th Percentile £315 £350 £337
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £650 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 410 329 336
10th Percentile £37.96 £23.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £27.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.38
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PHP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PHP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PHP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
South East +21 47 £474 +18.44% 49
North of England +17 39 £375 -6.25% 94
North West +17 30 £425 +13.33% 62
Midlands +29 18 £350 -24.32% 58
Wales +26 16 £515 -9.65% 6
South West +5 16 £350 -12.50% 61
West Midlands +26 10 £138 -70.27% 31
East Midlands +15 8 £350 -15.66% 27
Yorkshire +7 7 £333 -26.11% 25
Scotland +26 5 £254 -42.98% 15
East of England -2 3 £475 +33.80% 24
North East +11 2 £375 - 7
PHP
UK

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (9.72%) Drupal
2 12 (8.33%) WordPress
3 6 (4.17%) Apache
3 6 (4.17%) Apache Solr
4 5 (3.47%) CMS
5 4 (2.78%) Jadu
5 4 (2.78%) nginx
6 3 (2.08%) Moodle
7 1 (0.69%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.69%) Confluence
7 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.69%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 28 (19.44%) AWS
2 24 (16.67%) Azure
3 17 (11.81%) GitHub
4 8 (5.56%) SaaS
5 6 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (3.47%) GCP
7 3 (2.08%) Azure API Management
7 3 (2.08%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.08%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.08%) IaaS
7 3 (2.08%) PaaS
8 2 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.39%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.69%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.69%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.47%) OpenLDAP
2 4 (2.78%) DNS
2 4 (2.78%) HTTPS
2 4 (2.78%) IPsec
2 4 (2.78%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.08%) HTTP
3 3 (2.08%) Network Security
3 3 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (40.97%) MySQL
2 9 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.17%) Couchbase
3 6 (4.17%) MariaDB
3 6 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.47%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.39%) Power BI
6 2 (1.39%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.39%) Redis
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (9.03%) Git
2 9 (6.25%) Postman
3 8 (5.56%) Cypress.io
4 7 (4.86%) GitLab
5 4 (2.78%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.08%) JIRA
7 1 (0.69%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.69%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.69%) Gatling
7 1 (0.69%) Gradle
7 1 (0.69%) gulp
7 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.69%) Maven
7 1 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.69%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.69%) Travis CI
General
1 17 (11.81%) Social Skills
2 6 (4.17%) Public Sector
3 4 (2.78%) Advertising
3 4 (2.78%) Legal
4 3 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.08%) Finance
4 3 (2.08%) Marketing
4 3 (2.08%) Retail
5 2 (1.39%) Local Government
6 1 (0.69%) Automotive
6 1 (0.69%) Games
6 1 (0.69%) German Language
6 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
6 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (63.19%) Developer
2 45 (31.25%) PHP Developer
3 21 (14.58%) Full Stack Developer
4 13 (9.03%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 13 (9.03%) Software Engineer
5 11 (7.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (6.94%) Java Developer
6 10 (6.94%) WordPress Developer
7 9 (6.25%) Drupal Developer
8 7 (4.86%) Lead
8 7 (4.86%) Senior
9 6 (4.17%) Migration Manager
9 6 (4.17%) Migration Project Manager
9 6 (4.17%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.47%) Network Engineer
10 5 (3.47%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 4 (2.78%) Java Engineer
11 4 (2.78%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (2.78%) PHP Software Engineer
12 3 (2.08%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (23.61%) Laravel
2 30 (20.83%) HTML
3 26 (18.06%) React
4 24 (16.67%) Vue
5 22 (15.28%) CSS
6 15 (10.42%) Symfony
7 13 (9.03%) AngularJS
8 9 (6.25%) .NET
9 8 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (4.86%) LAMP
10 7 (4.86%) RESTful
11 6 (4.17%) Kafka
11 6 (4.17%) Node.js
11 6 (4.17%) Spring
11 6 (4.17%) Web Services
12 5 (3.47%) Sass
12 5 (3.47%) Spring Boot
13 4 (2.78%) JSON
13 4 (2.78%) LDAP
13 4 (2.78%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.47%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.78%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.69%) IoT
6 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.69%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.69%) PropTech
6 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.28%) Linux
2 4 (2.78%) CentOS
2 4 (2.78%) Unix
3 1 (0.69%) Android
3 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.69%) Windows
3 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (25.00%) Agile
2 29 (20.14%) Full Stack Development
3 19 (13.19%) DevOps
4 18 (12.50%) Migration
4 18 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (11.81%) TDD
6 16 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 14 (9.72%) Software Engineering
8 13 (9.03%) SDLC
8 13 (9.03%) Test Automation
9 12 (8.33%) Microservices
10 11 (7.64%) E-Commerce
10 11 (7.64%) Web Development
11 9 (6.25%) Containerisation
11 9 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (6.25%) Front End Development
11 9 (6.25%) Project Management
12 8 (5.56%) Scrum
13 7 (4.86%) Analytics
13 7 (4.86%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 40 (27.78%) JavaScript
2 31 (21.53%) Java
3 17 (11.81%) SQL
4 11 (7.64%) C#
5 7 (4.86%) Python
6 4 (2.78%) Ruby
7 3 (2.08%) Perl
7 3 (2.08%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.39%) Bash
9 1 (0.69%) C
9 1 (0.69%) Go
9 1 (0.69%) Groovy
9 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.69%) RPG
Qualifications
1 14 (9.72%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.03%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.25%) Degree
4 4 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.42%) QA
2 4 (2.78%) GDPR
2 4 (2.78%) HIPAA
2 4 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.78%) NIST
3 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 10 (6.94%) Docker
2 8 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.08%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.56%) Terraform
3 7 (4.86%) Ansible
4 6 (4.17%) Argo
5 3 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.39%) Grafana
6 2 (1.39%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.39%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.69%) Graylog
7 1 (0.69%) Kibana
7 1 (0.69%) Nagios
7 1 (0.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.17%) Atlassian
2 6 (4.17%) Oracle
3 5 (3.47%) Google
4 3 (2.08%) VMware
5 1 (0.69%) Adobe
5 1 (0.69%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.69%) IBM
5 1 (0.69%) Splunk
5 1 (0.69%) Zend