PHP Contracts in Scotland

PHP
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 150 170
Rank change year-on-year +42 +20 -18
Contract jobs citing PHP 7 14 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.33% 0.52% 0.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 1.58% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 3
10th Percentile £213 £355 £339
25th Percentile £243 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £446 £500
Median % change year-on-year -32.74% -10.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £375 £500 £531
90th Percentile - £548 £535
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -11.11% - +9.09%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

PHP falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 594 885 1,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 27.72% 33.12% 30.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 616 745
10th Percentile £350 £400 £390
25th Percentile £409 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £493 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +1.03% +14.71%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £613 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £41.90 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £50.37 £32.88
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.27 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.31% +23.97% +2.17%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.11 £55.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.88 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Scotland

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in Scotland

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in Scotland

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in Scotland

PHP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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
Edinburgh +32 3 £350 -24.32% 1
Glasgow +12 3 £225 -49.55% 5
Stirling - 1 £350 - 1
PHP
UK

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) German Language
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) HTML CSS Developer
2 1 (14.29%) HTML Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Perl Developer
2 1 (14.29%) PHP Web Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Unix Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Laravel
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) CakePHP
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Agile
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
1 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
1 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) Perl