PHP Contracts with Work from Home Options

PHP
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 203 257 218
Rank change year-on-year +54 -39 -48
Contract jobs citing PHP 143 209 565
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.97% 0.88% 1.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.81% 2.40% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 152 460
10th Percentile £300 £309 £325
25th Percentile £313 £345 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £543
90th Percentile £575 £550 £656
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -11.11% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 9
10th Percentile £22.50 - £32.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £75.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +128.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 -
90th Percentile - - £37.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £80.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -34.38% +128.57% -22.22%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

PHP falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,080 8,696 16,767
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.43% 36.42% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,656 6,423 12,512
10th Percentile £356 £381 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 187 184
10th Percentile £29.38 £26.96 £20.25
25th Percentile £44.88 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

PHP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PHP trend for jobs with a WFH option

PHP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PHP.

PHP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PHP over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

PHP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PHP.

PHP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

PHP
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PHP over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

PHP hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (11.19%) nginx
2 14 (9.79%) WordPress
3 5 (3.50%) Apache Solr
3 5 (3.50%) Drupal
4 4 (2.80%) CMS
5 2 (1.40%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.70%) Confluence
6 1 (0.70%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.70%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Magento
2 3 (2.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (43.36%) AWS
2 11 (7.69%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2 11 (7.69%) Azure
2 11 (7.69%) GitHub
3 6 (4.20%) GCP
4 4 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (2.80%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (2.80%) Amazon S3
4 4 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (2.10%) Amazon MSK
5 3 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.40%) AWS CodeCommit
6 2 (1.40%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 2 (1.40%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (1.40%) AWS IoT
6 2 (1.40%) Figma
6 2 (1.40%) Firebase
6 2 (1.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.59%) DNS
2 7 (4.90%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.80%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.80%) IPsec
3 4 (2.80%) VPN
4 3 (2.10%) HTTP
5 2 (1.40%) Internet
5 2 (1.40%) MQTT
6 1 (0.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (23.78%) MySQL
2 8 (5.59%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.59%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.50%) Couchbase
3 5 (3.50%) MariaDB
3 5 (3.50%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.10%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.40%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.40%) Redis
7 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (6.29%) Git
2 8 (5.59%) Cypress.io
3 5 (3.50%) Postman
4 4 (2.80%) GitLab
4 4 (2.80%) JIRA
4 4 (2.80%) PHPUnit
5 3 (2.10%) Snyk
6 1 (0.70%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.70%) Gatling
6 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.70%) Storybook
6 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (19.58%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.79%) Finance
3 8 (5.59%) Banking
3 8 (5.59%) Retail Banking
4 7 (4.90%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.90%) Retail
5 5 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.50%) Corporate Banking
5 5 (3.50%) Investment Banking
5 5 (3.50%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.80%) Legal
7 2 (1.40%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.70%) Back Office
8 1 (0.70%) Games
8 1 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 84 (58.74%) Developer
2 40 (27.97%) PHP Developer
3 18 (12.59%) Full Stack Developer
4 16 (11.19%) Software Engineer
5 12 (8.39%) Senior
6 9 (6.29%) WordPress Developer
7 7 (4.90%) Java Developer
8 6 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.20%) Java Engineer
8 6 (4.20%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (4.20%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 4 (2.80%) AWS Developer
9 4 (2.80%) Full Stack PHP Developer
9 4 (2.80%) Senior Developer
9 4 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (2.80%) Symfony Developer
10 3 (2.10%) Architect
10 3 (2.10%) Software Developer
10 3 (2.10%) WebOps Engineer
11 2 (1.40%) PHP WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (41.96%) Laravel
2 30 (20.98%) HTML
3 29 (20.28%) CSS
4 21 (14.69%) Symfony
5 18 (12.59%) React
6 17 (11.89%) Vue
7 15 (10.49%) Sass
8 13 (9.09%) Kafka
9 12 (8.39%) AngularJS
10 10 (6.99%) WebSockets
11 8 (5.59%) jQuery
11 8 (5.59%) Node.js
11 8 (5.59%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (4.20%) .NET
12 6 (4.20%) RESTful
12 6 (4.20%) Spring Boot
13 5 (3.50%) GraphQL
14 4 (2.80%) LEMP Stack
14 4 (2.80%) Spring
14 4 (2.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.50%) Cloud Native
1 5 (3.50%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.80%) IoT
2 4 (2.80%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.80%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.10%) Social Media
4 2 (1.40%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.40%) Blockchain
4 2 (1.40%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.70%) PKI
5 1 (0.70%) PropTech
5 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (18.18%) Linux
2 11 (7.69%) Unix
3 7 (4.90%) CentOS
4 5 (3.50%) Android
4 5 (3.50%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.40%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.40%) Windows
5 2 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (22.38%) Full Stack Development
1 32 (22.38%) Test Automation
2 30 (20.98%) TDD
3 25 (17.48%) Microservices
4 23 (16.08%) Software Engineering
5 17 (11.89%) Agile
5 17 (11.89%) DevOps
5 17 (11.89%) Migration
6 15 (10.49%) Web Development
7 14 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (9.09%) Containerisation
9 10 (6.99%) CI/CD
10 9 (6.29%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (5.59%) Event-Driven
11 8 (5.59%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (5.59%) Security Testing
11 8 (5.59%) User Experience
12 7 (4.90%) Design Patterns
12 7 (4.90%) Front End Development
12 7 (4.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 59 (41.26%) JavaScript
2 28 (19.58%) Java
3 18 (12.59%) SQL
4 8 (5.59%) Python
5 7 (4.90%) Go
6 5 (3.50%) C#
7 4 (2.80%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.10%) Bash
8 3 (2.10%) Ruby
9 2 (1.40%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.70%) C++
10 1 (0.70%) Perl
10 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.70%) R
10 1 (0.70%) Rust
10 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.70%) Solidity
10 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (6.99%) SC Cleared
1 10 (6.99%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.20%) Degree
3 2 (1.40%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.70%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.39%) QA
2 8 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.80%) GDPR
3 4 (2.80%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.80%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (13.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.70%) Firmware
2 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (11.19%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.69%) Terraform
3 6 (4.20%) Ansible
4 4 (2.80%) Grafana
4 4 (2.80%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.40%) Argo
6 1 (0.70%) Bugsnag
6 1 (0.70%) Graylog
6 1 (0.70%) Kibana
6 1 (0.70%) Nagios
6 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.70%) Puppet
6 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (5.59%) Google
2 6 (4.20%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.40%) Adobe
3 2 (1.40%) Apple
3 2 (1.40%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.40%) Splunk
4 1 (0.70%) Checkmarx
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle
4 1 (0.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.70%) VMware