PHP Software Engineer Contracts

PHP Software Engineer
UK

The median PHP Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 690 843
Rank change year-on-year +111 +153 -121
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Software Engineer 5 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.013% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.013% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - £290 -
25th Percentile £513 £397 £706
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £438 £713
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -38.60% +54.05%
75th Percentile £538 £456 £719
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £400 -
% change year-on-year +31.25% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

PHP Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured PHP Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Software Engineer in the UK

PHP Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PHP Software Engineer in the UK

PHP Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP Software Engineer in the UK

PHP Software Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England +86 5 £525 +20.00% 5
UK excluding London +32 4 £525 +31.25% 3
Work from Home +112 2 - - 6
North of England +18 2 - - 1
North West - 2 - - 1
London +79 1 - - 2
South East - 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £525 -

PHP Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, PHP Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring PHP Software Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 3 (60.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Solr
3 2 (40.00%) Laravel
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Couchbase
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (40.00%) Data Security
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) SOLID
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (20.00%) Runbook
4 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (20.00%) Spring
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Android

PHP Software Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (40.00%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) Couchbase
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Redis
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Laravel
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (40.00%) Data Security
3 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) SOLID
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Android Development
4 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) iOS Development
4 1 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (20.00%) Runbook
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
2 3 (60.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript