Laravel Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 576 650
Rank change year-on-year +124 +74 -103
Contract jobs citing Laravel 123 106 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.36% 0.82% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 88 155
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £313 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £491
90th Percentile £564 £550 £583
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £435
% change year-on-year - -8.05% +28.89%
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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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 1 June 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 14 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 1 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 +94 98 £375 -6.25% 187
Work from Home +110 67 £363 -9.38% 126
London +123 66 £375 -6.25% 47
UK excluding London +29 41 £400 - 143
Wales +27 12 £545 -4.39% 3
North of England +13 11 £363 -9.38% 51
North West +13 8 £350 -9.68% 32
South East +12 7 £500 +17.65% 11
South West +8 7 £350 -12.50% 31
Midlands +19 3 £350 -26.32% 31
West Midlands +13 3 £350 -16.67% 19
North East +12 2 £375 - 2
Scotland +37 1 £350 -6.67% 7
Yorkshire +16 1 £375 -18.92% 17

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 18 (14.63%) nginx
2 11 (8.94%) WordPress
3 8 (6.50%) CMS
4 2 (1.63%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.63%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 60 (48.78%) AWS
2 16 (13.01%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 13 (10.57%) GitHub
4 8 (6.50%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.07%) Azure
6 4 (3.25%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (3.25%) OCI
6 4 (3.25%) Route 53
6 4 (3.25%) SaaS
7 3 (2.44%) Amazon Alexa
7 3 (2.44%) Firebase
7 3 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.63%) AWS CodeCommit
8 2 (1.63%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 2 (1.63%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.81%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.44%) MQTT
2 1 (0.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (26.02%) MySQL
2 12 (9.76%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.88%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.63%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.63%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (11.38%) Cypress.io
2 11 (8.94%) Postman
3 10 (8.13%) GitLab
4 4 (3.25%) PHPUnit
4 4 (3.25%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.44%) Storybook
5 3 (2.44%) webpack
6 2 (1.63%) Git
7 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (9.76%) Public Sector
1 12 (9.76%) Social Skills
2 6 (4.88%) Retail
3 5 (4.07%) Finance
4 4 (3.25%) Banking
4 4 (3.25%) Corporate Banking
4 4 (3.25%) Digital Healthcare
4 4 (3.25%) Investment Banking
4 4 (3.25%) Retail Banking
5 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.63%) Advertising
7 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.81%) Marketing
7 1 (0.81%) Military
7 1 (0.81%) Music Industry
7 1 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 87 (70.73%) Developer
2 54 (43.90%) PHP Developer
3 34 (27.64%) Full Stack Developer
4 15 (12.20%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 13 (10.57%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 6 (4.88%) Full Stack Engineer
7 4 (3.25%) AWS Developer
7 4 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.25%) Software Engineer
8 3 (2.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (2.44%) HTML CSS Developer
8 3 (2.44%) HTML Developer
8 3 (2.44%) JavaScript Developer
8 3 (2.44%) JavaScript Engineer
8 3 (2.44%) Lead
8 3 (2.44%) Lead Developer
9 2 (1.63%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 2 (1.63%) Lead PHP Developer
9 2 (1.63%) PHP Software Engineer
9 2 (1.63%) PHP WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (34.15%) Vue
2 37 (30.08%) HTML
3 35 (28.46%) CSS
4 29 (23.58%) React
5 24 (19.51%) Sass
6 15 (12.20%) WebSockets
7 12 (9.76%) Node.js
8 8 (6.50%) Symfony
9 6 (4.88%) Tailwind CSS
10 5 (4.07%) Next.js
10 5 (4.07%) Yii
11 4 (3.25%) AngularJS
11 4 (3.25%) Ionic Framework
11 4 (3.25%) React Native
11 4 (3.25%) RESTful
11 4 (3.25%) Twig
12 3 (2.44%) CodeIgniter
12 3 (2.44%) Playwright
13 1 (0.81%) .NET
13 1 (0.81%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.20%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.81%) IoT
4 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.81%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 33 (26.83%) Linux
2 17 (13.82%) Unix
3 2 (1.63%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (1.63%) CentOS
4 1 (0.81%) Android
4 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (43.09%) Full Stack Development
2 34 (27.64%) Test Automation
3 27 (21.95%) TDD
3 27 (21.95%) Web Development
4 19 (15.45%) Agile
5 17 (13.82%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (13.01%) CI/CD
7 15 (12.20%) Microservices
8 14 (11.38%) Project Management
9 10 (8.13%) Security Testing
10 7 (5.69%) Analytics
10 7 (5.69%) Containerisation
10 7 (5.69%) DevOps
10 7 (5.69%) OOP
10 7 (5.69%) Software Engineering
10 7 (5.69%) Unit Testing
11 6 (4.88%) Front End Development
11 6 (4.88%) OO
11 6 (4.88%) Workflow
12 5 (4.07%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 108 (87.80%) PHP
2 47 (38.21%) JavaScript
3 13 (10.57%) TypeScript
4 9 (7.32%) SQL
5 1 (0.81%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (15.45%) SC Cleared
1 19 (15.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.44%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.81%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.01%) QA
2 11 (8.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (5.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.25%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.25%) Prometheus
1 4 (3.25%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (3.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (6.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.25%) Dynatrace
2 4 (3.25%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.44%) Apple
3 3 (2.44%) Google
3 3 (2.44%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.81%) Zend