PHP Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median PHP Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 399 386
Rank change year-on-year +48 -13 -68
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 43 43 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.19% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.20% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 37 108
10th Percentile £272 £312 £313
25th Percentile £313 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £438
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -8.57% +36.72%
75th Percentile £413 £499 £452
90th Percentile £542 £538 £538
UK median daily rate £375 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 19,181 21,601 29,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 94.27% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,558 15,029 20,712
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,082 1,404
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.76 £18.01 £14.78
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
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 Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
North of England +18 13 £350 -6.67% 39
North West +1 9 £350 -6.67% 27
Wales +27 7 £550 +8.64% 1
Midlands +23 7 £350 -20.00% 20
South East +18 6 £350 -36.36% 18
Scotland +50 5 £283 -19.29% 4
East Midlands +11 5 £350 -30.00% 5
South West +11 4 £350 -3.45% 17
Yorkshire +16 3 £338 -10.00% 12
West Midlands +14 2 £375 -6.25% 15
North East +11 1 £375 -
East of England +1 1 £200 -42.86% 16
PHP Developer
UK

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) PHP
2 23 (53.49%) Laravel
3 14 (32.56%) React
4 13 (30.23%) Vue
4 13 (30.23%) Full Stack Development
4 13 (30.23%) MySQL
5 12 (27.91%) AWS
6 10 (23.26%) Agile
7 9 (20.93%) Linux
8 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
9 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (16.28%) Postman
9 7 (16.28%) Cypress.io
9 7 (16.28%) SQL
9 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
9 7 (16.28%) Project Management
10 6 (13.95%) QA
10 6 (13.95%) Symfony
10 6 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (13.95%) Azure
10 6 (13.95%) Test Automation
10 6 (13.95%) GitHub
10 6 (13.95%) Relational Database
10 6 (13.95%) GitLab
10 6 (13.95%) Product Ownership
11 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
12 4 (9.30%) CMS
12 4 (9.30%) HTML
12 4 (9.30%) CSS
12 4 (9.30%) AngularJS

PHP Developer Skill Set
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 4 (9.30%) CMS
2 3 (6.98%) Jadu
3 2 (4.65%) Apache
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (2.33%) Confluence
4 1 (2.33%) Drupal
4 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.91%) AWS
2 6 (13.95%) Azure
2 6 (13.95%) GitHub
3 2 (4.65%) SaaS
4 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.33%) GCP
4 1 (2.33%) Heroku
4 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) MySQL
2 6 (13.95%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.33%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Cypress.io
1 7 (16.28%) Postman
2 6 (13.95%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) Git
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (4.65%) Local Government
2 1 (2.33%) Advertising
2 1 (2.33%) Automotive
2 1 (2.33%) German Language
2 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (53.49%) Laravel
2 14 (32.56%) React
3 13 (30.23%) Vue
4 6 (13.95%) Symfony
5 4 (9.30%) AngularJS
5 4 (9.30%) CSS
5 4 (9.30%) HTML
6 2 (4.65%) .NET
6 2 (4.65%) LAMP
6 2 (4.65%) RESTful
6 2 (4.65%) Twig
7 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.33%) CakePHP
7 1 (2.33%) REST
7 1 (2.33%) SOAP
7 1 (2.33%) Spring
7 1 (2.33%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.33%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.93%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Android
2 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.23%) Full Stack Development
2 10 (23.26%) Agile
3 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
4 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (16.28%) Project Management
5 6 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (13.95%) Test Automation
6 4 (9.30%) Analytics
7 3 (6.98%) Clean Code
7 3 (6.98%) Front End Development
7 3 (6.98%) OOP
7 3 (6.98%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (4.65%) Data Analytics
8 2 (4.65%) Data Protection
8 2 (4.65%) E-Commerce
8 2 (4.65%) Migration
8 2 (4.65%) MVC
8 2 (4.65%) TDD
9 1 (2.33%) Android Development
9 1 (2.33%) iOS Development
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) PHP
2 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
2 7 (16.28%) SQL
3 3 (6.98%) C#
4 1 (2.33%) Java
4 1 (2.33%) Perl
4 1 (2.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.33%) Degree
1 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle
2 1 (2.33%) Zend