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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 - 101
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing PHP 3 0 16
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.17% - 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.96% - 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 15
10th Percentile - - £360
25th Percentile - - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.15%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - £575
South East median daily rate £275 £389 £473
% change year-on-year -29.26% -17.72% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
South East median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -56.25%

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 311 332 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.11% 29.59% 18.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 207 250
10th Percentile £306 £400 £325
25th Percentile £375 £452 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -9.00% +2.33%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 13
10th Percentile £61.87 £39.74 £56.33
25th Percentile £80.75 £53.97 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.50 £63.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +27.85% +3.48% -12.00%
75th Percentile £82.25 £68.51 £67.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.72 £68.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +12.00%

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 26 May 2026. 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 - 3 £525 - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) PHP Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) OpenID
2 1 (33.33%) LAMP
2 1 (33.33%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ERP
1 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared