PHP Developer Contracts

PHP Developer
UK

The median PHP Developer daily rate in the UK is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 594 540
Rank change year-on-year +104 -54 -86
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 97 112 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.19% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.21% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 90 265
10th Percentile £263 £310 £313
25th Percentile £300 £326 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £456 £478 £475
90th Percentile £527 £550 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £375 £428
% change year-on-year -6.67% -12.28% +33.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £37.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £42.50
% change year-on-year - - +41.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer.

Daily rate trend for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer.

Hourly rate trend for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +94 69 £350 -12.50% 159
UK excluding London +72 48 £350 -6.67% 135
Work from Home +78 40 £425 +6.25% 108
London +76 32 £425 -5.56% 30
North of England +17 14 £330 -12.00% 49
Wales +26 8 £545 +7.65% 2
North West +16 8 £338 -10.00% 32
South East +27 7 £375 -31.82% 19
Midlands +26 7 £350 -20.00% 25
South West +14 6 £350 -3.45% 21
Scotland +42 5 £254 -27.50% 7
East Midlands +20 5 £350 -30.00% 9
Yorkshire - 5 £328 - 14
West Midlands +21 2 £375 -6.25% 16
North East +11 1 £375 - 3
East of England +8 1 £200 -42.86% 14

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, PHP Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 97 (100.00%) PHP
2 52 (53.61%) Laravel
3 35 (36.08%) AWS
4 32 (32.99%) JavaScript
5 27 (27.84%) MySQL
5 27 (27.84%) Vue
6 24 (24.74%) Full Stack Development
7 21 (21.65%) SQL
8 18 (18.56%) React
9 17 (17.53%) HTML
10 16 (16.49%) Linux
11 15 (15.46%) CSS
11 15 (15.46%) Social Skills
12 14 (14.43%) Agile
13 13 (13.40%) Symfony
14 12 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (12.37%) Azure
14 12 (12.37%) Test Automation
14 12 (12.37%) TDD
15 10 (10.31%) Continuous Integration
15 10 (10.31%) CI/CD
16 9 (9.28%) Relational Database
16 9 (9.28%) RESTful
16 9 (9.28%) Project Management
17 8 (8.25%) OOP
17 8 (8.25%) Cypress.io
17 8 (8.25%) QA
17 8 (8.25%) GitHub
17 8 (8.25%) Docker
17 8 (8.25%) Postman

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (6.19%) CMS
2 4 (4.12%) Jadu
3 3 (3.09%) Apache
3 3 (3.09%) WordPress
4 2 (2.06%) nginx
4 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.03%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.03%) Confluence
5 1 (1.03%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.08%) AWS
2 12 (12.37%) Azure
3 8 (8.25%) GitHub
4 3 (3.09%) Amazon S3
4 3 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (2.06%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (2.06%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (2.06%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 2 (2.06%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.06%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.06%) SaaS
6 1 (1.03%) GCP
6 1 (1.03%) Heroku
6 1 (1.03%) iPaaS
6 1 (1.03%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) Internet
1 1 (1.03%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (27.84%) MySQL
2 9 (9.28%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.22%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.09%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.06%) Power BI
6 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (8.25%) Cypress.io
1 8 (8.25%) Postman
2 7 (7.22%) GitLab
3 4 (4.12%) Git
4 3 (3.09%) PHPUnit
5 2 (2.06%) JIRA
5 2 (2.06%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 15 (15.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.22%) Finance
3 5 (5.15%) Retail
4 4 (4.12%) Banking
4 4 (4.12%) Corporate Banking
4 4 (4.12%) Investment Banking
4 4 (4.12%) Retail Banking
5 2 (2.06%) Advertising
5 2 (2.06%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.06%) Local Government
5 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.03%) Automotive
6 1 (1.03%) German Language
6 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.03%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (53.61%) Laravel
2 27 (27.84%) Vue
3 18 (18.56%) React
4 17 (17.53%) HTML
5 15 (15.46%) CSS
6 13 (13.40%) Symfony
7 9 (9.28%) RESTful
8 7 (7.22%) Yii
9 5 (5.15%) AngularJS
10 4 (4.12%) Ajax
10 4 (4.12%) jQuery
10 4 (4.12%) LAMP
10 4 (4.12%) REST
11 3 (3.09%) .NET
11 3 (3.09%) CodeIgniter
11 3 (3.09%) Sass
11 3 (3.09%) Twig
12 2 (2.06%) .NET Framework
12 2 (2.06%) SOAP
12 2 (2.06%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.03%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.49%) Linux
2 3 (3.09%) Unix
3 2 (2.06%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (2.06%) CentOS
4 1 (1.03%) Android
4 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (24.74%) Full Stack Development
2 14 (14.43%) Agile
3 12 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (12.37%) TDD
3 12 (12.37%) Test Automation
4 10 (10.31%) CI/CD
4 10 (10.31%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (9.28%) Project Management
6 8 (8.25%) OOP
7 7 (7.22%) MVC
8 6 (6.19%) OO
8 6 (6.19%) Web Development
8 6 (6.19%) Workflow
9 5 (5.15%) Analytics
9 5 (5.15%) Containerisation
9 5 (5.15%) DevOps
9 5 (5.15%) E-Commerce
9 5 (5.15%) Migration
9 5 (5.15%) Unit Testing
9 5 (5.15%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 97 (100.00%) PHP
2 32 (32.99%) JavaScript
3 21 (21.65%) SQL
4 4 (4.12%) C#
5 3 (3.09%) Java
5 3 (3.09%) Python
6 2 (2.06%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.03%) Go
7 1 (1.03%) Perl
7 1 (1.03%) R
7 1 (1.03%) RPG
7 1 (1.03%) Ruby
7 1 (1.03%) Rust
7 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (3.09%) Degree
1 3 (3.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) QA
2 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (8.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (7.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.06%) Oracle
3 1 (1.03%) IBM
3 1 (1.03%) Splunk
3 1 (1.03%) Zend