PHP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 156 101
Rank change year-on-year -2 -55 -37
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,887 2,203 5,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.79% 2.32% 3.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.56% 5.50% 6.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,689 1,479 3,074
10th Percentile £30,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.77% +17.78%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,625 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%

All Programming Languages
UK

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,947 40,085 91,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 42.29% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,291 26,714 43,327
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the UK

PHP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP.

Salary trend for PHP in the UK

PHP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP in the UK

PHP
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
England +10 1,729 £50,000 -9.09% 411
UK excluding London -17 1,550 £47,500 -5.00% 299
Work from Home +19 862 £50,000 -9.09% 264
North of England +26 498 £47,500 -5.00% 95
South West +14 270 £45,000 -5.26% 53
London -2 268 £64,109 +6.85% 112
South East -92 261 £55,000 +10.00% 51
North West +30 245 £50,000 -9.09% 57
Midlands +10 240 £45,000 -14.29% 59
Yorkshire +65 225 £47,500 +5.56% 33
East of England +50 179 £44,000 -26.67% 33
West Midlands +11 133 £45,000 -14.29% 40
East Midlands -11 106 £47,500 -9.52% 19
Scotland -106 49 £45,000 -18.18% 9
Wales +16 44 £50,000 -4.76% 6
North East -48 28 £43,750 -23.91% 5
Northern Ireland -17 10 £39,250 -31.74% 1

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 272 (14.41%) WordPress
2 113 (5.99%) CMS
3 80 (4.24%) Drupal
4 54 (2.86%) Apache
5 51 (2.70%) nginx
6 17 (0.90%) Confluence
7 14 (0.74%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.48%) Headless CMS
9 7 (0.37%) IIS
10 6 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.26%) Moodle
12 4 (0.21%) ColdFusion
12 4 (0.21%) SAS
13 3 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
14 2 (0.11%) Joomla!
14 2 (0.11%) Liferay
14 2 (0.11%) Magnolia
15 1 (0.053%) Totara
Applications
1 19 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.64%) Adobe XD
4 11 (0.58%) Simulink
5 10 (0.53%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.053%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 81 (4.29%) Magento
2 49 (2.60%) Shopify
3 23 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.21%) CiviCRM
4 4 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 582 (30.84%) AWS
2 231 (12.24%) SaaS
3 101 (5.35%) Azure
4 90 (4.77%) GitHub
5 66 (3.50%) GCP
6 35 (1.85%) Amazon S3
7 34 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
8 33 (1.75%) Serverless
9 25 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
9 25 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (1.27%) npm
11 23 (1.22%) Figma
12 21 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (0.95%) Stripe
14 17 (0.90%) Power Platform
15 16 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (0.64%) Amazon ECS
17 12 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
18 11 (0.58%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.80%) HTTP
2 27 (1.43%) Internet
3 16 (0.85%) DNS
4 13 (0.69%) SSL
5 12 (0.64%) Firewall
5 12 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.32%) LAN
6 6 (0.32%) SSH
6 6 (0.32%) VoIP
6 6 (0.32%) WAN
7 5 (0.26%) FTP
8 3 (0.16%) SMS
8 3 (0.16%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.11%) VPN
9 2 (0.11%) Wireless
10 1 (0.053%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.053%) Intranet
10 1 (0.053%) IPsec
10 1 (0.053%) IPv4
10 1 (0.053%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 784 (41.55%) MySQL
2 94 (4.98%) Relational Database
3 88 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (4.66%) SQL Server
4 48 (2.54%) MongoDB
5 41 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (2.17%) MariaDB
6 35 (1.85%) Redis
7 30 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (1.48%) NoSQL
8 28 (1.48%) RDBMS
9 25 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
10 23 (1.22%) DynamoDB
11 17 (0.90%) Power BI
12 15 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
13 12 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (0.48%) SQLite
15 8 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
17 6 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 496 (26.29%) Git
2 73 (3.87%) JIRA
3 40 (2.12%) Selenium
4 35 (1.85%) Jenkins
5 33 (1.75%) Cypress.io
5 33 (1.75%) GitLab
6 27 (1.43%) Postman
7 24 (1.27%) Subversion
8 20 (1.06%) PHPUnit
8 20 (1.06%) webpack
9 13 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.58%) gulp
11 9 (0.48%) Visual Studio
12 8 (0.42%) Eclipse
13 6 (0.32%) git-flow
14 5 (0.26%) Grunt
15 3 (0.16%) Appium
16 2 (0.11%) Bower
16 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 378 (20.03%) Social Skills
2 180 (9.54%) Marketing
3 128 (6.78%) Retail
4 120 (6.36%) Finance
5 64 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (2.70%) Games
7 40 (2.12%) Tech for Good
8 38 (2.01%) Telecoms
9 36 (1.91%) Public Sector
10 29 (1.54%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.06%) Electronics
12 20 (1.06%) Law
12 20 (1.06%) Legal
13 18 (0.95%) Banking
14 14 (0.74%) Health Technology
15 11 (0.58%) German Language
16 10 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (0.53%) Retail Banking
17 9 (0.48%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 1,435 (76.05%) Developer
2 778 (41.23%) PHP Developer
3 397 (21.04%) Senior
4 341 (18.07%) Senior Developer
5 263 (13.94%) Full Stack Developer
6 188 (9.96%) Lead
7 174 (9.22%) Web Developer
8 170 (9.01%) Senior PHP Developer
9 124 (6.57%) Software Engineer
10 111 (5.88%) Software Developer
11 104 (5.51%) WordPress Developer
12 102 (5.41%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 98 (5.19%) Full Stack PHP Developer
14 73 (3.87%) Junior
15 71 (3.76%) Lead Developer
16 69 (3.66%) Junior Developer
17 68 (3.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 59 (3.13%) PHP Web Developer
18 59 (3.13%) Technical Leader
19 46 (2.44%) Senior Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 877 (46.48%) Laravel
2 765 (40.54%) HTML
3 723 (38.31%) CSS
4 453 (24.01%) React
5 333 (17.65%) Vue
6 242 (12.82%) Symfony
7 236 (12.51%) jQuery
8 180 (9.54%) LAMP
9 171 (9.06%) Node.js
10 164 (8.69%) HTML5
11 135 (7.15%) RESTful
12 121 (6.41%) CSS3
13 119 (6.31%) AngularJS
14 114 (6.04%) REST
15 92 (4.88%) Web Services
16 87 (4.61%) Sass
17 82 (4.35%) JSON
18 79 (4.19%) .NET
19 52 (2.76%) SOAP
20 51 (2.70%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.14%) Greenfield Project
2 56 (2.97%) Mobile App
3 41 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 39 (2.07%) Cloud Native
5 36 (1.91%) Product Ownership
6 34 (1.80%) Management Information System
7 31 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.38%) IoT
10 23 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
12 19 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
13 16 (0.85%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.79%) Animation
15 14 (0.74%) Client/Server
16 13 (0.69%) PropTech
16 13 (0.69%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.58%) Legacy Code
18 10 (0.53%) Data Structures
18 10 (0.53%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 190 (10.07%) Linux
2 44 (2.33%) Windows
3 20 (1.06%) Ubuntu
4 13 (0.69%) Unix
5 7 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.32%) Alpine Linux
6 6 (0.32%) Android
6 6 (0.32%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.11%) AIX
9 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.053%) CentOS
10 1 (0.053%) Rocky
10 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (25.54%) Full Stack Development
2 405 (21.46%) Agile
3 403 (21.36%) Web Development
4 348 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
5 301 (15.95%) Software Engineering
6 266 (14.10%) E-Commerce
7 262 (13.88%) OOP
8 228 (12.08%) MVC
9 212 (11.23%) DevOps
10 202 (10.70%) User Experience
11 154 (8.16%) Computer Science
12 145 (7.68%) Front End Development
13 144 (7.63%) Mentoring
14 141 (7.47%) OO
15 140 (7.42%) TDD
16 120 (6.36%) CI/CD
17 116 (6.15%) Clean Code
18 108 (5.72%) Roadmaps
19 99 (5.25%) Project Management
20 97 (5.14%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 976 (51.72%) JavaScript
2 248 (13.14%) SQL
3 168 (8.90%) TypeScript
4 135 (7.15%) C#
5 121 (6.41%) Python
6 119 (6.31%) Java
7 50 (2.65%) Go
8 44 (2.33%) C
9 30 (1.59%) Ruby
10 24 (1.27%) Bash
11 23 (1.22%) Rust
12 21 (1.11%) C++
13 16 (0.85%) VB
14 14 (0.74%) Ada
14 14 (0.74%) Kotlin
14 14 (0.74%) PowerShell
14 14 (0.74%) T-SQL
15 12 (0.64%) VB.NET
16 11 (0.58%) MATLAB
17 7 (0.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 235 (12.45%) Degree
2 104 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (0.95%) Security Cleared
4 17 (0.90%) Azure Certification
5 7 (0.37%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.21%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.16%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.053%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.053%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.053%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.44%) QA
2 40 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 33 (1.75%) WCAG
4 20 (1.06%) GDPR
5 3 (0.16%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.11%) HL7
6 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.11%) SLA
7 1 (0.053%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.053%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.053%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.053%) PMO
System Software
1 254 (13.46%) Docker
2 5 (0.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.11%) Firmware
4 2 (0.11%) Varnish
4 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.053%) PowerDNS
5 1 (0.053%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.053%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 111 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 78 (4.13%) Terraform
3 19 (1.01%) Ansible
4 16 (0.85%) Puppet
5 13 (0.69%) Progress Chef
6 11 (0.58%) Grafana
7 8 (0.42%) cPanel
7 8 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.21%) Rancher
9 3 (0.16%) Galera Cluster
10 2 (0.11%) Plesk
10 2 (0.11%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.053%) Argo
11 1 (0.053%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.053%) Podman
11 1 (0.053%) SCCM
11 1 (0.053%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.053%) systemd
Vendors
1 67 (3.55%) Google
2 54 (2.86%) WooCommerce
3 42 (2.23%) Microsoft
4 33 (1.75%) Adobe
5 15 (0.79%) Zend
6 14 (0.74%) Twitter
7 12 (0.64%) New Relic
8 10 (0.53%) Oracle
8 10 (0.53%) VMware
9 9 (0.48%) OpenAI
9 9 (0.48%) SAP
10 7 (0.37%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.37%) SaltStack
11 6 (0.32%) Actuate
11 6 (0.32%) Facebook
11 6 (0.32%) Sitecore
12 5 (0.26%) F5
12 5 (0.26%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.21%) Progress
13 4 (0.21%) YouTube