PHP Contracts in London

PHP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 260 319 310
Rank change year-on-year +59 -9 -71
Contract jobs citing PHP 140 165 335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.79% 0.66% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.10% 1.64% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 125 267
10th Percentile £300 £313 £310
25th Percentile £313 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% -2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £491 £575 £575
90th Percentile £553 £675 £675
England median daily rate £400 £450 £440
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 14
10th Percentile - £26.43 £27.15
25th Percentile - £28.19 £31.81
Median hourly rate £33.07 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.16% -9.29% -36.36%
75th Percentile - £34.69 -
90th Percentile - £36.08 £46.03
England median hourly rate £34.04 £58.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -41.82% +67.14% -22.22%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,656 10,091 16,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.65% 40.12% 41.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,062 7,612 12,393
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £713
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 76 104
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.50 £28.55
25th Percentile £38.83 £43.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £61.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% +28.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £88.28 £75.71
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in London

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in London

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for PHP in London

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in London

PHP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the London 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
Central London +27 14 £475 -5.00% 10
South London - 2 £450 - 1
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 11 (7.86%) nginx
1 11 (7.86%) WordPress
2 9 (6.43%) Apache
3 3 (2.14%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.43%) CMS
4 2 (1.43%) Drupal
4 2 (1.43%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.71%) Confluence
5 1 (0.71%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.71%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.71%) IIS
5 1 (0.71%) Jadu
5 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.71%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Magento
2 3 (2.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (31.43%) AWS
2 12 (8.57%) Azure
3 9 (6.43%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 9 (6.43%) GitHub
4 7 (5.00%) Amazon MSK
5 5 (3.57%) Amazon ECR
5 5 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.57%) WhatsApp
6 4 (2.86%) Amazon Alexa
6 4 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.86%) Firebase
6 4 (2.86%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.14%) Cloudflare
7 3 (2.14%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.14%) Serverless
8 2 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.43%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.43%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.71%) DNS
2 4 (2.86%) MQTT
2 4 (2.86%) VPN
3 3 (2.14%) SMTP
4 2 (1.43%) HTTP
4 2 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (26.43%) MySQL
2 11 (7.86%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.86%) Amazon QuickSight
4 4 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.86%) KNIME
4 4 (2.86%) MariaDB
5 3 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.14%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.14%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.43%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.43%) Parquet
6 2 (1.43%) Redis
7 1 (0.71%) Metadata
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (7.14%) Git
2 8 (5.71%) Cypress.io
3 5 (3.57%) GitLab
3 5 (3.57%) PHPUnit
4 4 (2.86%) Snyk
5 3 (2.14%) Postman
6 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.71%) JIRA
6 1 (0.71%) Storybook
6 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (14.29%) Finance
1 20 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.86%) Banking
3 9 (6.43%) Retail Banking
4 8 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.71%) Retail
5 6 (4.29%) Corporate Banking
5 6 (4.29%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.43%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.71%) Advertising
9 1 (0.71%) Back Office
9 1 (0.71%) Games
9 1 (0.71%) Local Government
9 1 (0.71%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 88 (62.86%) Developer
2 36 (25.71%) PHP Developer
3 22 (15.71%) Full Stack Developer
4 10 (7.14%) Senior
5 8 (5.71%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 8 (5.71%) Senior Developer
6 7 (5.00%) WordPress Developer
7 5 (3.57%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (3.57%) Applications Support
7 5 (3.57%) Applications Support Engineer
7 5 (3.57%) AWS Developer
7 5 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (3.57%) Full Stack PHP Developer
7 5 (3.57%) JavaScript Developer
7 5 (3.57%) Support Engineer
8 4 (2.86%) Automation Developer
8 4 (2.86%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (2.86%) Software Developer
8 4 (2.86%) Software Engineer
8 4 (2.86%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (41.43%) Laravel
2 39 (27.86%) HTML
3 36 (25.71%) CSS
4 24 (17.14%) Vue
5 14 (10.00%) Sass
5 14 (10.00%) Symfony
6 11 (7.86%) React
7 10 (7.14%) .NET
8 9 (6.43%) Kafka
9 8 (5.71%) WebSockets
10 7 (5.00%) HTML5
10 7 (5.00%) Node.js
10 7 (5.00%) RESTful
11 6 (4.29%) jQuery
12 5 (3.57%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (3.57%) GraphQL
13 4 (2.86%) AngularJS
13 4 (2.86%) ASP.NET
13 4 (2.86%) REST
13 4 (2.86%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (2.86%) Mobile App
2 4 (2.86%) NHS
2 4 (2.86%) Social Media
3 3 (2.14%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.43%) Blockchain
4 2 (1.43%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.43%) IoT
5 1 (0.71%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.71%) PKI
5 1 (0.71%) PropTech
5 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (18.57%) Linux
2 11 (7.86%) Unix
3 8 (5.71%) CentOS
4 6 (4.29%) Windows
5 5 (3.57%) Android
5 5 (3.57%) Apple iOS
5 5 (3.57%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (25.71%) Full Stack Development
2 24 (17.14%) Test Automation
3 21 (15.00%) TDD
4 14 (10.00%) Agile
4 14 (10.00%) Web Development
5 12 (8.57%) Software Engineering
6 11 (7.86%) Migration
6 11 (7.86%) OOP
7 10 (7.14%) DevOps
7 10 (7.14%) Microservices
8 9 (6.43%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (5.71%) CI/CD
9 8 (5.71%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (5.71%) User Experience
10 7 (5.00%) Fintech
10 7 (5.00%) Open Source
10 7 (5.00%) Wealth Management
11 6 (4.29%) OO
11 6 (4.29%) Security Testing
11 6 (4.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 54 (38.57%) JavaScript
2 22 (15.71%) SQL
3 18 (12.86%) Java
4 13 (9.29%) Python
5 10 (7.14%) Go
5 10 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.71%) C#
7 6 (4.29%) Bash
8 5 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.57%) Ruby
8 5 (3.57%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.57%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.86%) Rust
10 3 (2.14%) Perl
10 3 (2.14%) R
11 2 (1.43%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.43%) Lua
12 1 (0.71%) C++
12 1 (0.71%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 16 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.00%) Degree
4 2 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.71%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (10.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (7.86%) Terraform
2 8 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.86%) Grafana
3 4 (2.86%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.14%) Ansible
4 3 (2.14%) Puppet
5 1 (0.71%) Bugsnag
5 1 (0.71%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.57%) Google
2 5 (3.57%) Red Hat
3 4 (2.86%) Alteryx
3 4 (2.86%) Apple
3 4 (2.86%) Automation Anywhere
3 4 (2.86%) Blue Prism
3 4 (2.86%) UiPath
4 3 (2.14%) F5
4 3 (2.14%) Splunk
5 2 (1.43%) Adobe
5 2 (1.43%) Oracle
6 1 (0.71%) Sybase
6 1 (0.71%) Syncfusion