PHP Contracts in Reading

PHP
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 83 97
Rank change year-on-year +3 +14 -32
Contract jobs citing PHP 15 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.26% 0.38% 0.074%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.19% 1.45% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile £380 £275 -
25th Percentile £425 £294 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -12.50% +48.15%
75th Percentile £625 £363 -
90th Percentile - £370 -
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £413 £525
% change year-on-year +15.15% -21.43% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £35.00 - -

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 289 275 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 24.27% 26.42% 23.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 216 247
10th Percentile £363 £369 £354
25th Percentile £425 £461 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £613
90th Percentile £688 £714 £659
Berkshire median daily rate £538 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 0
10th Percentile £54.13 £63.00 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £72.63 -
Median hourly rate £59.22 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.22% - -
75th Percentile £66.03 - -
90th Percentile £67.63 £80.06 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% -12.50% +106.45%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Reading

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in Reading over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (13.33%) Jadu
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) CMS
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Retail
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Designer
2 5 (33.33%) Lead
2 5 (33.33%) Lead Designer
3 4 (26.67%) Java Developer
4 2 (13.33%) PHP Developer
5 1 (6.67%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Magento Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Symfony
2 6 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (40.00%) CSS
2 6 (40.00%) HTML
3 5 (33.33%) Kafka
3 5 (33.33%) Node.js
3 5 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 4 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (26.67%) Spring
5 2 (13.33%) LAMP
5 2 (13.33%) Twig
6 1 (6.67%) .NET
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
6 1 (6.67%) Doctrine
6 1 (6.67%) Laravel
6 1 (6.67%) React
6 1 (6.67%) RESTful
6 1 (6.67%) SOAP
6 1 (6.67%) Vue
6 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (33.33%) Data-Driven Testing
2 5 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 5 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 5 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 5 (33.33%) System Testing
2 5 (33.33%) TDD
2 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 4 (26.67%) API Design
3 4 (26.67%) API Development
3 4 (26.67%) Coaching
3 4 (26.67%) Event-Driven
3 4 (26.67%) Microservices
3 4 (26.67%) SOLID
4 3 (20.00%) Product Backlog
5 2 (13.33%) Customer Experience
5 2 (13.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) C
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle