PHP Contract Job Trends in Reading

PHP
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring PHP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 84 73
Rank change year-on-year +13 -11 +20
Contract jobs citing PHP 5 7 13
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.71% 0.65% 1.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.29% 2.36% 5.24%
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% +14.29%
75th Percentile £438 £671 £450
90th Percentile - £671 £625
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £659 £400
% change year-on-year -35.48% +64.69% +6.67%

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 152 296 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 21.65% 27.36% 23.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 188 195
10th Percentile £363 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +3.45% +10.48%
75th Percentile £600 £651 £644
90th Percentile £633 £671 £691
Berkshire median daily rate £492 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -14.43% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £71.00 £69.57 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £70.34 £59.89
Median hourly rate £75.00 £73.25 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +21.79% +9.35%
75th Percentile £83.00 £81.18 £60.39
90th Percentile £84.80 £84.97 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £54.56
% change year-on-year +32.17% +4.00% -26.02%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

PHP job vacancy trend in Reading

PHP
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing PHP

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing PHP

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Functions
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
1 4 (80.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Billing
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
1 4 (80.00%) Senior DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Delphi Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Core
2 4 (80.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (40.00%) OAuth
3 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (40.00%) OpenID
3 2 (40.00%) SAML
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (20.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) AI
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) API Management
3 2 (40.00%) B2C
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) CRM
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) MLOps
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) RBAC
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) Bash
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Delphi
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft