PHP Developer Contracts

PHP Developer
UK

The median PHP Developer daily rate in the UK is £363 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 576 572
Rank change year-on-year +71 -4 -107
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 97 119 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.21% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.23% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 96 252
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £306 £331 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £406 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% -4.41% +13.33%
75th Percentile £463 £499 £488
90th Percentile £505 £575 £536
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £400 £438
% change year-on-year -12.50% -8.57% +38.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £44.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +74 70 £375 -6.25% 151
UK excluding London +46 43 £350 -12.50% 126
Work from Home +71 41 £413 +1.54% 89
London +82 38 £413 -8.33% 28
North of England +19 12 £350 -12.50% 46
North West +8 9 £350 -12.50% 32
Wales +24 7 £550 +8.64% 2
Midlands +21 7 £350 -20.00% 23
Scotland +45 6 £291 -16.79% 5
South East +17 6 £350 -36.36% 18
East Midlands +13 5 £350 -30.00% 8
South West +14 4 £350 -3.45% 18
Yorkshire +12 2 £300 -20.00% 12
West Midlands +11 2 £375 -6.25% 15
North East +12 1 £375 - 2
East of England -2 1 £200 -42.86% 17

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 54 (55.67%) Laravel
3 36 (37.11%) AWS
4 28 (28.87%) JavaScript
4 28 (28.87%) Vue
5 25 (25.77%) MySQL
6 22 (22.68%) Full Stack Development
7 19 (19.59%) SQL
8 16 (16.49%) React
9 15 (15.46%) Linux
9 15 (15.46%) Agile
10 13 (13.40%) Social Skills
10 13 (13.40%) Symfony
11 12 (12.37%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (12.37%) Test Automation
11 12 (12.37%) Azure
12 11 (11.34%) Relational Database
12 11 (11.34%) HTML
12 11 (11.34%) CI/CD
13 10 (10.31%) CSS
13 10 (10.31%) Project Management
13 10 (10.31%) TDD
14 9 (9.28%) OOP
14 9 (9.28%) GitHub
14 9 (9.28%) Cypress.io
14 9 (9.28%) Postman
14 9 (9.28%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (8.25%) Product Ownership
15 8 (8.25%) RESTful
15 8 (8.25%) QA

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 5 (5.15%) CMS
2 4 (4.12%) Jadu
2 4 (4.12%) WordPress
3 3 (3.09%) Apache
4 2 (2.06%) Drupal
4 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.03%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 36 (37.11%) AWS
2 12 (12.37%) Azure
3 9 (9.28%) GitHub
4 4 (4.12%) Amazon S3
4 4 (4.12%) 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 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%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Internet
2 1 (1.03%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (25.77%) MySQL
2 11 (11.34%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.22%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.09%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.06%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.06%) Power BI
6 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Cypress.io
1 9 (9.28%) Postman
2 8 (8.25%) GitLab
3 4 (4.12%) Git
3 4 (4.12%) PHPUnit
4 2 (2.06%) JIRA
4 2 (2.06%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 13 (13.40%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.22%) Finance
3 6 (6.19%) Retail
4 5 (5.15%) Banking
4 5 (5.15%) Corporate Banking
4 5 (5.15%) Investment Banking
4 5 (5.15%) Retail Banking
5 2 (2.06%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.06%) Local Government
6 1 (1.03%) Advertising
6 1 (1.03%) Automotive
6 1 (1.03%) German Language
6 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (55.67%) Laravel
2 28 (28.87%) Vue
3 16 (16.49%) React
4 13 (13.40%) Symfony
5 11 (11.34%) HTML
6 10 (10.31%) CSS
7 8 (8.25%) RESTful
8 7 (7.22%) Yii
9 4 (4.12%) Ajax
9 4 (4.12%) jQuery
10 3 (3.09%) .NET
10 3 (3.09%) AngularJS
10 3 (3.09%) CodeIgniter
10 3 (3.09%) LAMP
11 2 (2.06%) .NET Framework
11 2 (2.06%) REST
11 2 (2.06%) SOAP
11 2 (2.06%) Twig
12 1 (1.03%) CakePHP
12 1 (1.03%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.25%) 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 15 (15.46%) Linux
2 2 (2.06%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (2.06%) CentOS
3 1 (1.03%) Android
3 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.03%) Unix
3 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (22.68%) Full Stack Development
2 15 (15.46%) Agile
3 12 (12.37%) Continuous Integration
3 12 (12.37%) Test Automation
4 11 (11.34%) CI/CD
5 10 (10.31%) Project Management
5 10 (10.31%) TDD
6 9 (9.28%) OOP
6 9 (9.28%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (7.22%) OO
7 7 (7.22%) Workflow
8 6 (6.19%) Analytics
8 6 (6.19%) Containerisation
8 6 (6.19%) Migration
8 6 (6.19%) MVC
9 5 (5.15%) Design Patterns
9 5 (5.15%) Unit Testing
9 5 (5.15%) User Experience
9 5 (5.15%) UX Design
9 5 (5.15%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (100.00%) PHP
2 28 (28.87%) JavaScript
3 19 (19.59%) SQL
4 4 (4.12%) C#
5 3 (3.09%) Java
6 2 (2.06%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.06%) Python
7 1 (1.03%) Go
7 1 (1.03%) Perl
7 1 (1.03%) R
7 1 (1.03%) Ruby
7 1 (1.03%) Rust
7 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (2.06%) Degree
1 2 (2.06%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) QA
2 1 (1.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (8.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (8.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.06%) Oracle
3 1 (1.03%) Splunk