PHP Job Trends in Berkshire

PHP
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 95 87
Rank change year-on-year -33 -8 +18
Permanent jobs citing PHP 4 32 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.20% 1.78% 2.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.41% 4.85% 6.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4 25 53
10th Percentile £48,375 £52,500 £49,120
25th Percentile £53,438 £68,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £77,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.81% +29.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £58,750 £81,250 £81,250
90th Percentile - - £92,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 284 660 772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.19% 36.63% 42.19%
Number of salaries quoted 180 377 537
10th Percentile £41,000 £46,150 £37,328
25th Percentile £44,625 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,430 £70,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -19.39% +23.84% -9.56%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

PHP job vacancy trend in Berkshire

PHP
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PHP

PHP
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +25 4 £57,500 -8.00% 3
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 (25.00%) WordPress
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (75.00%) Postman
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
1 3 (75.00%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) pytest
1 3 (75.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Batch Processing
1 3 (75.00%) Fintech
1 3 (75.00%) QA Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Go
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA