PHP Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

PHP
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring PHP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 96 107
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 +9
Contract jobs citing PHP 6 7 13
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.40% 0.48% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.76% 1.81% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 9
10th Percentile £408 £590 £295
25th Percentile £411 £622 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £659 £400
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +64.69% -20.00%
75th Percentile £438 £671 £450
90th Percentile - £671 £625
South East median daily rate £413 £513 £400
% change year-on-year -19.51% +28.13% -

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 341 386 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.79% 26.46% 20.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 240 247
10th Percentile £341 £390 £350
25th Percentile £410 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £578 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.00% +1.29%
75th Percentile £567 £651 £638
90th Percentile £620 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 10
10th Percentile £39.25 £44.62 £48.40
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.87 £48.73
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £55.31
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% +2.59% -11.50%
75th Percentile £82.00 £65.62 £59.91
90th Percentile £84.40 £69.32 £69.78
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.00 £57.41
% change year-on-year -3.50% -0.72% -4.32%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PHP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

PHP job vacancy trend in Berkshire

PHP
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PHP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PHP

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PHP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PHP

PHP
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 December 2025. 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
Reading +10 5 £425 -35.48% 5
PHP
South East

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Azure Functions
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub Actions
1 5 (83.33%) Serverless
2 3 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Billing
4 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Delphi Software Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) REST
2 5 (83.33%) .NET Core
2 5 (83.33%) GraphQL
3 3 (50.00%) ARM Templates
3 3 (50.00%) OAuth
3 3 (50.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (50.00%) OpenID
3 3 (50.00%) SAML
4 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) AI
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) DevSecOps
2 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) API Management
3 3 (50.00%) B2C
3 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Log Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) MLOps
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) RBAC
3 3 (50.00%) User Experience
4 2 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (83.33%) Bash
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 5 (83.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) Delphi
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft