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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 585 679
Rank change year-on-year +136 +94 -150
Contract jobs citing Laravel 130 109 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.46% 0.82% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 89 154
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £313 £343 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £444
Median % change year-on-year - -9.86% +18.33%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £492
90th Percentile £575 £550 £584
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +3.13% -11.11% +33.33%
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 8,906 13,255 23,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.94% 23.15% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,185 9,676 17,493
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 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 144 238
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.35
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 £65.71
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.25 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 20 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 20 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 +127 106 £375 -6.25% 249
London +134 71 £388 -3.13% 79
Work from Home +114 71 £375 -6.25% 166
UK excluding London +39 42 £413 +3.13% 189
Wales +29 12 £545 -4.39% 6
North of England +19 12 £375 -6.25% 57
North West +7 9 £350 -9.68% 44
South East +23 8 £500 +17.65% 29
South West +11 8 £350 -12.50% 31
West Midlands +18 2 £338 -23.30% 27
North East +13 2 £375 - 3
Midlands +12 2 £338 -27.03% 42
Yorkshire +17 1 £375 -18.92% 10

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 (19.23%) nginx
2 11 (8.46%) WordPress
3 9 (6.92%) CMS
4 2 (1.54%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.77%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 67 (51.54%) AWS
2 24 (18.46%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 13 (10.00%) GitHub
4 7 (5.38%) Amazon S3
5 5 (3.85%) Azure
6 4 (3.08%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.08%) OCI
6 4 (3.08%) Route 53
6 4 (3.08%) SaaS
7 3 (2.31%) Amazon Alexa
7 3 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.31%) Firebase
7 3 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.54%) AWS CodeCommit
8 2 (1.54%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 2 (1.54%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.77%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.31%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (25.38%) MySQL
2 12 (9.23%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.62%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.54%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.54%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.77%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (10.77%) Cypress.io
2 11 (8.46%) Postman
3 10 (7.69%) GitLab
4 4 (3.08%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.31%) PHPUnit
5 3 (2.31%) Storybook
5 3 (2.31%) webpack
6 2 (1.54%) Git
7 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (11.54%) Public Sector
2 11 (8.46%) Social Skills
3 5 (3.85%) Finance
4 4 (3.08%) Digital Healthcare
4 4 (3.08%) Retail
5 3 (2.31%) Banking
5 3 (2.31%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.31%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.31%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.54%) Advertising
7 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.77%) Marketing
7 1 (0.77%) Military
7 1 (0.77%) Music Industry
7 1 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 93 (71.54%) Developer
2 54 (41.54%) PHP Developer
3 40 (30.77%) Full Stack Developer
4 16 (12.31%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 14 (10.77%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 6 (4.62%) Full Stack Engineer
7 4 (3.08%) AWS Developer
7 4 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (3.08%) HTML Developer
7 4 (3.08%) Software Engineer
8 3 (2.31%) HTML CSS Developer
8 3 (2.31%) JavaScript Developer
8 3 (2.31%) JavaScript Engineer
8 3 (2.31%) Web Developer
9 2 (1.54%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 2 (1.54%) Lead
9 2 (1.54%) PHP Software Engineer
9 2 (1.54%) PHP Web Developer
9 2 (1.54%) PHP WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (34.62%) HTML
2 43 (33.08%) CSS
3 42 (32.31%) Vue
4 31 (23.85%) React
4 31 (23.85%) Sass
5 19 (14.62%) WebSockets
6 12 (9.23%) Node.js
7 7 (5.38%) Symfony
8 5 (3.85%) AngularJS
8 5 (3.85%) Next.js
8 5 (3.85%) RESTful
8 5 (3.85%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (3.08%) Ionic Framework
9 4 (3.08%) React Native
9 4 (3.08%) Twig
9 4 (3.08%) Yii
10 3 (2.31%) CodeIgniter
10 3 (2.31%) Playwright
11 1 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.77%) Nuxt
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.77%) IoT
4 1 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 40 (30.77%) Linux
2 25 (19.23%) Unix
3 2 (1.54%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (1.54%) CentOS
4 1 (0.77%) Android
4 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.77%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (45.38%) Full Stack Development
2 41 (31.54%) Test Automation
3 35 (26.92%) TDD
4 31 (23.85%) Web Development
5 21 (16.15%) Microservices
6 20 (15.38%) Agile
7 17 (13.08%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (12.31%) CI/CD
9 14 (10.77%) Project Management
9 14 (10.77%) Security Testing
10 8 (6.15%) DevOps
11 7 (5.38%) Analytics
11 7 (5.38%) Front End Development
11 7 (5.38%) Software Engineering
11 7 (5.38%) Unit Testing
12 6 (4.62%) Containerisation
12 6 (4.62%) OOP
13 5 (3.85%) MVC
13 5 (3.85%) OO
13 5 (3.85%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 113 (86.92%) PHP
2 54 (41.54%) JavaScript
3 13 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 8 (6.15%) SQL
5 1 (0.77%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.46%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.85%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.08%) QA
2 16 (12.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (4.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.08%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.08%) Prometheus
1 4 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (3.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (6.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.08%) Dynatrace
2 4 (3.08%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.31%) Apple
3 3 (2.31%) Google
3 3 (2.31%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.77%) Zend