PHP Contracts with Work from Home Options

PHP
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 207 271 216
Rank change year-on-year +64 -55 -40
Contract jobs citing PHP 144 206 554
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.97% 0.84% 1.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.88% 2.25% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 148 450
10th Percentile £282 £300 £331
25th Percentile £303 £330 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £409 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% -9.17% +12.50%
75th Percentile £521 £475 £548
90th Percentile £586 £538 £650
UK median daily rate £415 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -2.47% -5.56% +9.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 9
10th Percentile £22.50 £68.75 £32.00
25th Percentile £28.44 £75.00 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £82.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% +135.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £72.34 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £72.50 £86.25 £36.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £80.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.88% +128.57% -22.22%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,002 9,174 16,719
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.80% 37.22% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,628 6,731 12,427
10th Percentile £356 £390 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 195 194
10th Percentile £33.13 £32.45 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £63.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +26.00% +11.73%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

PHP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PHP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing PHP over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

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 a work from home option citing PHP.

PHP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PHP over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

PHP hourly rate histogram 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 21 (14.58%) nginx
2 12 (8.33%) WordPress
3 5 (3.47%) Apache Solr
3 5 (3.47%) CMS
4 4 (2.78%) Drupal
5 1 (0.69%) Confluence
5 1 (0.69%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.69%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.69%) Jadu
Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Magento
2 1 (0.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (45.83%) AWS
2 17 (11.81%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 14 (9.72%) Azure
4 11 (7.64%) GitHub
5 6 (4.17%) GCP
6 4 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (2.78%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.08%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (2.08%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.39%) Amazon Alexa
8 2 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.39%) AWS CodeCommit
8 2 (1.39%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 2 (1.39%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (1.39%) Firebase
8 2 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.86%) DNS
1 7 (4.86%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.78%) HTTPS
2 4 (2.78%) IPsec
2 4 (2.78%) VPN
3 3 (2.08%) HTTP
4 2 (1.39%) MQTT
5 1 (0.69%) Internet
5 1 (0.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (23.61%) MySQL
2 8 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.17%) MariaDB
3 6 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.47%) Couchbase
4 5 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.08%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.08%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.08%) Redis
6 2 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.39%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (6.25%) Git
2 8 (5.56%) Cypress.io
3 5 (3.47%) Postman
4 4 (2.78%) GitLab
4 4 (2.78%) JIRA
4 4 (2.78%) PHPUnit
5 3 (2.08%) Snyk
6 1 (0.69%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.69%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.69%) Gatling
6 1 (0.69%) Gradle
6 1 (0.69%) gulp
6 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.69%) Maven
6 1 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.69%) Storybook
6 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.69%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (18.06%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.11%) Finance
3 11 (7.64%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.86%) Banking
4 7 (4.86%) Retail Banking
5 6 (4.17%) Retail
6 5 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.47%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.78%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.78%) Legal
8 2 (1.39%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.69%) Back Office
9 1 (0.69%) Games
9 1 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 86 (59.72%) Developer
2 39 (27.08%) PHP Developer
3 23 (15.97%) Full Stack Developer
4 16 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 11 (7.64%) Senior
6 7 (4.86%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (4.86%) Full Stack PHP Developer
6 7 (4.86%) Java Developer
6 7 (4.86%) WordPress Developer
7 5 (3.47%) Java Engineer
7 5 (3.47%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (2.78%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 4 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (2.08%) AWS Developer
9 3 (2.08%) JavaScript Developer
9 3 (2.08%) Senior Developer
9 3 (2.08%) Software Developer
9 3 (2.08%) Symfony Developer
9 3 (2.08%) Web Developer
9 3 (2.08%) WebOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (43.75%) Laravel
2 35 (24.31%) HTML
3 34 (23.61%) CSS
4 20 (13.89%) Sass
4 20 (13.89%) Symfony
5 18 (12.50%) React
6 17 (11.81%) Vue
7 13 (9.03%) AngularJS
7 13 (9.03%) Kafka
8 12 (8.33%) WebSockets
9 9 (6.25%) jQuery
10 8 (5.56%) Node.js
10 8 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (4.86%) RESTful
12 6 (4.17%) .NET
12 6 (4.17%) Spring Boot
13 5 (3.47%) GraphQL
14 4 (2.78%) Ajax
14 4 (2.78%) LEMP Stack
14 4 (2.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.47%) Cloud Native
1 5 (3.47%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.78%) IoT
2 4 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.39%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.39%) Blockchain
4 2 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.39%) Social Media
5 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.69%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (21.53%) Linux
2 17 (11.81%) Unix
3 7 (4.86%) CentOS
4 4 (2.78%) Android
4 4 (2.78%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.39%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.39%) Windows
5 2 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (26.39%) Test Automation
2 37 (25.69%) Full Stack Development
3 35 (24.31%) TDD
4 29 (20.14%) Microservices
5 23 (15.97%) Software Engineering
6 19 (13.19%) Agile
6 19 (13.19%) DevOps
7 18 (12.50%) Web Development
8 15 (10.42%) Migration
9 13 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (8.33%) Containerisation
11 11 (7.64%) CI/CD
12 10 (6.94%) Security Testing
13 9 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (5.56%) Design Patterns
14 8 (5.56%) SDLC
14 8 (5.56%) User Experience
15 7 (4.86%) Event-Driven
16 6 (4.17%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 62 (43.06%) JavaScript
2 28 (19.44%) Java
3 17 (11.81%) SQL
4 10 (6.94%) Python
5 8 (5.56%) Go
6 6 (4.17%) C#
7 5 (3.47%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.78%) Bash
8 4 (2.78%) Ruby
9 2 (1.39%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.39%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.69%) C++
10 1 (0.69%) Groovy
10 1 (0.69%) Perl
10 1 (0.69%) R
10 1 (0.69%) RPG
10 1 (0.69%) Rust
10 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.69%) Solidity
10 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (9.72%) SC Cleared
1 14 (9.72%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.47%) Degree
3 3 (2.08%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (1.39%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.33%) QA
2 11 (7.64%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.78%) GDPR
3 4 (2.78%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.78%) NIST
4 1 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 18 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.69%) Firmware
2 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (11.81%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.03%) Terraform
3 7 (4.86%) Ansible
4 5 (3.47%) Grafana
4 5 (3.47%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.39%) Argo
5 2 (1.39%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.69%) Bugsnag
6 1 (0.69%) Graylog
6 1 (0.69%) Kibana
6 1 (0.69%) Nagios
6 1 (0.69%) Puppet
6 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (5.56%) Google
2 6 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.39%) Apple
3 2 (1.39%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.39%) Splunk
4 1 (0.69%) Checkmarx
4 1 (0.69%) IBM
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle
4 1 (0.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.69%) VMware