PHP Contracts in the South West

PHP
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 144 146
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -40
Contract jobs citing PHP 13 17 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.40% 0.50% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.93% 1.82% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 23
10th Percentile £313 £325 £320
25th Percentile £325 £359 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -13.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £475 £441 £506
90th Percentile £565 £469 £623
England median daily rate £400 £431 £439
% change year-on-year -7.25% -1.71% +9.55%

All Programming Languages
South West

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 675 935 1,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 20.74% 27.48% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 657 754
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.40%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £649
England median daily rate £543 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 86 66
10th Percentile £51.00 £51.25 £46.87
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.18 £54.05
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +9.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in the South West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the South West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Bristol +8 6 £350 -12.50% 14
Dorset +8 5 £525 +40.00% 3
Devon - 2 £400 - 15
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (38.46%) Apache Solr
2 4 (30.77%) nginx
3 3 (23.08%) CMS
4 1 (7.69%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (7.69%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Google Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
1 4 (30.77%) HTTPS
1 4 (30.77%) IPsec
1 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) MySQL
2 5 (38.46%) Couchbase
3 4 (30.77%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Full Stack Developer
2 4 (30.77%) PHP Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Backend Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Magento Developer
4 1 (7.69%) PHP Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Laravel
2 4 (30.77%) JSON
2 4 (30.77%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (30.77%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (30.77%) React
2 4 (30.77%) Vue
2 4 (30.77%) YAML
3 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.69%) CSS
4 1 (7.69%) Doctrine
4 1 (7.69%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) Node.js
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
1 4 (30.77%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) CentOS
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) SDLC
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
2 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (30.77%) Cost Reduction
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Full Stack Development
2 4 (30.77%) Information Security
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (30.77%) Microservices
2 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Risk Assessment
2 4 (30.77%) Software Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
4 1 (7.69%) MVC
4 1 (7.69%) OOP
4 1 (7.69%) SEO
4 1 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) GDPR
1 4 (30.77%) HIPAA
1 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (30.77%) NIST
1 4 (30.77%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe