PHP Contracts in the Midlands

PHP
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 122 138 161
Rank change year-on-year +16 +23 -29
Contract jobs citing PHP 19 20 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.64% 0.62% 0.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.75% 2.40% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 21
10th Percentile - £344 £275
25th Percentile £131 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £490 £400
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +22.50% +39.13%
75th Percentile £363 £544 £500
90th Percentile £455 £600 £538
England median daily rate £400 £450 £440
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
75th Percentile £28.13 - -
90th Percentile £28.50 - -
England median hourly rate £34.04 £58.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -41.82% +67.14% -22.22%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 690 835 1,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.41% 25.94% 26.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 605 957
10th Percentile £260 £313 £324
25th Percentile £350 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +4.40% +13.75%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £540
90th Percentile £634 £700 £625
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 17
10th Percentile £22.50 £23.61 £16.55
25th Percentile £30.37 £26.02 £20.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +42.86% +45.83%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.75 £44.80
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +18 12 £138 -69.95% 40
East Midlands +6 7 £350 -30.00% 25
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 10 (52.63%) WordPress
2 1 (5.26%) CMS
2 1 (5.26%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) GitHub
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) MySQL
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (10.53%) Retail
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (94.74%) Developer
2 9 (47.37%) WordPress Developer
3 6 (31.58%) PHP Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Head of Architecture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) Vue
2 4 (21.05%) Laravel
3 3 (15.79%) React
3 3 (15.79%) Symfony
4 2 (10.53%) CSS
4 2 (10.53%) HTML
5 1 (5.26%) .NET
5 1 (5.26%) Yii
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Android
1 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Web Development
2 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.79%) MVC
4 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
4 2 (10.53%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (5.26%) Agile
5 1 (5.26%) Analytics
5 1 (5.26%) Android Development
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.26%) Data Architecture
5 1 (5.26%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.26%) ERP
5 1 (5.26%) iOS Development
5 1 (5.26%) OO
5 1 (5.26%) OOP
5 1 (5.26%) Open Source
5 1 (5.26%) Roadmaps
5 1 (5.26%) Software Architecture
5 1 (5.26%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (5.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft