Laravel PHP Framework
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Laravel skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Laravel over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 442 578 666
Rank change year-on-year +136 +88 -129
Contract jobs citing Laravel 129 109 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.45% 0.83% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 89 149
10th Percentile £296 £310 £313
25th Percentile £309 £343 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £438
Median % change year-on-year - -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £518 £500 £500
90th Percentile £575 £550 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £400 £444
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.86% +31.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Laravel is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,924 13,173 23,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.96% 23.13% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,198 9,621 17,311
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £665
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 144 237
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.47 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

Laravel
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Laravel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Laravel in the UK

Laravel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Laravel in the UK

Laravel
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Laravel over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Laravel in the UK

Laravel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Laravel in the UK

Laravel
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Laravel within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +120 105 £375 -6.25% 231
Work from Home +109 71 £363 -9.38% 154
London +131 70 £375 -6.25% 71
UK excluding London +46 42 £413 +3.13% 176
Wales +27 12 £545 -4.39% 6
North of England +21 11 £363 -9.38% 55
South West +10 9 £350 -12.50% 32
South East +35 8 £500 +17.65% 25
North West +11 8 £350 -9.68% 41
West Midlands +20 2 £338 -23.30% 20
Midlands +17 2 £338 -27.03% 35
North East +13 2 £375 - 3
Yorkshire +13 1 £375 -18.92% 11

Laravel
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 25 (19.38%) nginx
2 11 (8.53%) WordPress
3 9 (6.98%) CMS
4 2 (1.55%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.78%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 67 (51.94%) AWS
2 24 (18.60%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 12 (9.30%) GitHub
4 7 (5.43%) Amazon S3
5 5 (3.88%) Azure
6 4 (3.10%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.10%) OCI
6 4 (3.10%) Route 53
6 4 (3.10%) SaaS
7 3 (2.33%) Amazon Alexa
7 3 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.33%) Firebase
7 3 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.55%) AWS CodeCommit
8 2 (1.55%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 2 (1.55%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.78%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.33%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (25.58%) MySQL
2 11 (8.53%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.65%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.55%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.55%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (10.08%) Cypress.io
2 10 (7.75%) Postman
3 9 (6.98%) GitLab
4 4 (3.10%) PHPUnit
4 4 (3.10%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.33%) Storybook
5 3 (2.33%) webpack
6 2 (1.55%) Git
7 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (11.63%) Public Sector
2 11 (8.53%) Social Skills
3 6 (4.65%) Finance
4 4 (3.10%) Digital Healthcare
4 4 (3.10%) Retail
5 3 (2.33%) Banking
5 3 (2.33%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.33%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.33%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.55%) Advertising
7 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.78%) Marketing
7 1 (0.78%) Military
7 1 (0.78%) Music Industry
7 1 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 92 (71.32%) Developer
2 52 (40.31%) PHP Developer
3 39 (30.23%) Full Stack Developer
4 15 (11.63%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 13 (10.08%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 6 (4.65%) Full Stack Engineer
7 4 (3.10%) AWS Developer
7 4 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (3.10%) HTML Developer
7 4 (3.10%) Software Engineer
8 3 (2.33%) HTML CSS Developer
8 3 (2.33%) JavaScript Developer
8 3 (2.33%) JavaScript Engineer
8 3 (2.33%) Web Developer
9 2 (1.55%) Lead Developer
9 2 (1.55%) Lead PHP Developer
9 2 (1.55%) PHP Software Engineer
9 2 (1.55%) PHP Web Developer
9 2 (1.55%) PHP WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (34.88%) HTML
2 43 (33.33%) CSS
3 41 (31.78%) Vue
4 31 (24.03%) Sass
5 30 (23.26%) React
6 19 (14.73%) WebSockets
7 12 (9.30%) Node.js
8 7 (5.43%) Symfony
9 5 (3.88%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.88%) Next.js
9 5 (3.88%) RESTful
9 5 (3.88%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (3.10%) Ionic Framework
10 4 (3.10%) React Native
10 4 (3.10%) Twig
10 4 (3.10%) Yii
11 3 (2.33%) CodeIgniter
11 3 (2.33%) Playwright
12 1 (0.78%) HTML5
12 1 (0.78%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.85%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.78%) IoT
4 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 39 (30.23%) Linux
2 25 (19.38%) Unix
3 2 (1.55%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (1.55%) CentOS
4 1 (0.78%) Android
4 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (44.96%) Full Stack Development
2 40 (31.01%) Test Automation
3 35 (27.13%) TDD
4 31 (24.03%) Web Development
5 21 (16.28%) Microservices
6 19 (14.73%) Agile
7 16 (12.40%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (11.63%) CI/CD
9 14 (10.85%) Security Testing
10 13 (10.08%) Project Management
11 8 (6.20%) DevOps
12 7 (5.43%) Front End Development
12 7 (5.43%) Software Engineering
12 7 (5.43%) Unit Testing
13 6 (4.65%) Analytics
13 6 (4.65%) Containerisation
13 6 (4.65%) OOP
14 5 (3.88%) MVC
14 5 (3.88%) OO
14 5 (3.88%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 112 (86.82%) PHP
2 54 (41.86%) JavaScript
3 13 (10.08%) TypeScript
4 8 (6.20%) SQL
5 1 (0.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.88%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.40%) Accessibility
1 16 (12.40%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.88%) Terraform
2 4 (3.10%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.10%) Prometheus
2 4 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (5.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.10%) Dynatrace
2 4 (3.10%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.33%) Apple
3 3 (2.33%) Google
3 3 (2.33%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.78%) Zend