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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 155 102
Rank change year-on-year +2 -53 -38
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,926 2,193 5,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.79% 2.34% 3.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.60% 5.55% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,697 1,461 3,099
10th Percentile £30,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £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 34,375 39,479 92,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.86% 42.12% 54.11%
Number of salaries quoted 25,498 26,416 43,645
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 £85,000 £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 7 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 7 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 +4 1,764 £50,000 -9.09% 407
UK excluding London -15 1,585 £47,500 -5.00% 311
Work from Home +20 870 £50,000 -9.09% 256
North of England +25 504 £47,500 -5.00% 101
South West +9 274 £45,000 -5.26% 56
London -15 270 £64,109 +6.85% 98
South East -99 269 £55,000 +10.00% 54
Midlands +13 253 £45,000 -14.29% 57
North West +35 249 £50,000 -9.09% 61
Yorkshire +57 226 £47,500 +5.56% 34
East of England +53 180 £44,000 -23.48% 35
West Midlands +17 141 £45,000 -14.29% 37
East Midlands -10 111 £47,500 -9.52% 20
Scotland -99 51 £45,000 -18.18% 10
Wales +19 44 £50,000 -18.37% 7
North East -51 29 £42,500 -26.09% 6
Northern Ireland -19 11 £39,250 -31.74%

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
1 275 (14.28%) WordPress
2 112 (5.82%) CMS
3 78 (4.05%) Drupal
4 56 (2.91%) Apache
5 50 (2.60%) nginx
6 16 (0.83%) Confluence
7 14 (0.73%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.47%) Headless CMS
9 7 (0.36%) IIS
10 6 (0.31%) Moodle
10 6 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.21%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.21%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.21%) SAS
12 2 (0.10%) Joomla!
12 2 (0.10%) Liferay
12 2 (0.10%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.10%) Totara
Applications
1 19 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.62%) Adobe XD
4 11 (0.57%) Simulink
5 10 (0.52%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.10%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.052%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 82 (4.26%) Magento
2 49 (2.54%) Shopify
3 24 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.21%) CiviCRM
4 4 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.10%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 588 (30.53%) AWS
2 240 (12.46%) SaaS
3 105 (5.45%) Azure
4 89 (4.62%) GitHub
5 69 (3.58%) GCP
6 35 (1.82%) Amazon S3
7 33 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
8 32 (1.66%) Serverless
9 25 (1.30%) Amazon Kinesis
9 25 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (1.30%) npm
10 23 (1.19%) Figma
11 20 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
12 18 (0.93%) Stripe
13 17 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (0.83%) Power Platform
15 14 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (0.67%) Microsoft 365
17 12 (0.62%) Amazon ECS
18 11 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.82%) HTTP
2 27 (1.40%) Internet
3 15 (0.78%) DNS
4 13 (0.67%) SSL
4 13 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (0.62%) Firewall
6 7 (0.36%) LAN
6 7 (0.36%) WAN
7 6 (0.31%) SSH
7 6 (0.31%) VoIP
8 5 (0.26%) FTP
9 3 (0.16%) SMS
10 2 (0.10%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.10%) VPN
10 2 (0.10%) Wireless
11 1 (0.052%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.052%) Intranet
11 1 (0.052%) IPv4
11 1 (0.052%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 799 (41.48%) MySQL
2 99 (5.14%) Relational Database
3 93 (4.83%) SQL Server
4 92 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
5 50 (2.60%) MongoDB
6 40 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
6 40 (2.08%) MariaDB
7 35 (1.82%) Redis
8 30 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (1.51%) NoSQL
10 28 (1.45%) RDBMS
11 25 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
12 23 (1.19%) DynamoDB
13 16 (0.83%) Power BI
14 14 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
16 9 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 9 (0.47%) SQLite
17 7 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
18 6 (0.31%) GIS
Development Applications
1 508 (26.38%) Git
2 72 (3.74%) JIRA
3 43 (2.23%) Selenium
4 35 (1.82%) Cypress.io
5 34 (1.77%) GitLab
6 33 (1.71%) Jenkins
7 27 (1.40%) Postman
8 24 (1.25%) Subversion
9 21 (1.09%) webpack
10 20 (1.04%) PHPUnit
11 13 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
12 11 (0.57%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.57%) gulp
13 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio
14 8 (0.42%) Eclipse
15 6 (0.31%) git-flow
16 5 (0.26%) Grunt
17 3 (0.16%) Appium
18 2 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
18 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 385 (19.99%) Social Skills
2 186 (9.66%) Marketing
3 127 (6.59%) Retail
4 122 (6.33%) Finance
5 66 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (2.65%) Games
7 44 (2.28%) Tech for Good
8 38 (1.97%) Telecoms
9 35 (1.82%) Public Sector
10 28 (1.45%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
12 21 (1.09%) Law
12 21 (1.09%) Legal
13 20 (1.04%) Electronics
14 18 (0.93%) Banking
15 15 (0.78%) Health Technology
16 11 (0.57%) Automotive
16 11 (0.57%) German Language
16 11 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,477 (76.69%) Developer
2 798 (41.43%) PHP Developer
3 408 (21.18%) Senior
4 352 (18.28%) Senior Developer
5 275 (14.28%) Full Stack Developer
6 187 (9.71%) Lead
7 181 (9.40%) Web Developer
8 176 (9.14%) Senior PHP Developer
9 124 (6.44%) Software Engineer
10 112 (5.82%) Software Developer
11 106 (5.50%) WordPress Developer
12 104 (5.40%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 102 (5.30%) Full Stack PHP Developer
14 74 (3.84%) Junior
15 72 (3.74%) Lead Developer
16 70 (3.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 70 (3.63%) Junior Developer
17 62 (3.22%) PHP Web Developer
18 58 (3.01%) Technical Leader
19 47 (2.44%) Senior Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 893 (46.37%) Laravel
2 787 (40.86%) HTML
3 743 (38.58%) CSS
4 475 (24.66%) React
5 340 (17.65%) Vue
6 247 (12.82%) Symfony
7 238 (12.36%) jQuery
8 179 (9.29%) Node.js
9 177 (9.19%) LAMP
10 169 (8.77%) HTML5
11 136 (7.06%) RESTful
12 124 (6.44%) CSS3
13 122 (6.33%) AngularJS
14 115 (5.97%) REST
15 93 (4.83%) Web Services
16 89 (4.62%) Sass
17 83 (4.31%) .NET
18 81 (4.21%) JSON
19 52 (2.70%) SOAP
20 51 (2.65%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 96 (4.98%) Greenfield Project
2 57 (2.96%) Mobile App
3 41 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 39 (2.02%) Cloud Native
5 36 (1.87%) Product Ownership
6 34 (1.77%) Management Information System
7 31 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.40%) IoT
10 23 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
12 19 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
13 18 (0.93%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.78%) Animation
15 14 (0.73%) Client/Server
15 14 (0.73%) PropTech
16 13 (0.67%) Virtual Team
17 12 (0.62%) Legacy Code
18 10 (0.52%) Data Structures
18 10 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 196 (10.18%) Linux
2 47 (2.44%) Windows
3 20 (1.04%) Ubuntu
4 13 (0.67%) Unix
5 8 (0.42%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.31%) Alpine Linux
7 6 (0.31%) Android
8 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.10%) AIX
10 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.052%) CentOS
11 1 (0.052%) Rocky
11 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (25.86%) Full Stack Development
2 418 (21.70%) Web Development
3 412 (21.39%) Agile
4 355 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
5 304 (15.78%) Software Engineering
6 268 (13.91%) E-Commerce
7 264 (13.71%) OOP
8 228 (11.84%) MVC
9 211 (10.96%) DevOps
10 210 (10.90%) User Experience
11 158 (8.20%) Computer Science
12 151 (7.84%) Front End Development
13 148 (7.68%) OO
14 144 (7.48%) TDD
15 142 (7.37%) Mentoring
16 119 (6.18%) CI/CD
17 118 (6.13%) Clean Code
18 111 (5.76%) Roadmaps
19 102 (5.30%) Project Management
19 102 (5.30%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1,006 (52.23%) JavaScript
2 255 (13.24%) SQL
3 176 (9.14%) TypeScript
4 139 (7.22%) C#
5 125 (6.49%) Python
6 121 (6.28%) Java
7 52 (2.70%) Go
8 45 (2.34%) C
9 30 (1.56%) Ruby
10 24 (1.25%) C++
11 23 (1.19%) Bash
11 23 (1.19%) Rust
12 16 (0.83%) VB
13 15 (0.78%) Ada
13 15 (0.78%) T-SQL
14 14 (0.73%) Kotlin
14 14 (0.73%) PowerShell
15 12 (0.62%) VB.NET
16 11 (0.57%) MATLAB
17 7 (0.36%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 239 (12.41%) Degree
2 106 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (0.88%) Azure Certification
3 17 (0.88%) Security Cleared
4 6 (0.31%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.16%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.16%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.10%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.052%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.052%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.052%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.37%) QA
2 42 (2.18%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.82%) WCAG
4 19 (0.99%) GDPR
5 2 (0.10%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.10%) HL7
5 2 (0.10%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.10%) SLA
6 1 (0.052%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.052%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.052%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.052%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.052%) PMO
System Software
1 259 (13.45%) Docker
2 7 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.10%) Firmware
4 2 (0.10%) Varnish
4 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.052%) PowerDNS
5 1 (0.052%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.052%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 114 (5.92%) Kubernetes
2 76 (3.95%) Terraform
3 19 (0.99%) Ansible
4 16 (0.83%) Puppet
5 13 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 11 (0.57%) Grafana
7 9 (0.47%) cPanel
8 8 (0.42%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.21%) Rancher
10 3 (0.16%) Galera Cluster
10 3 (0.16%) Plesk
11 2 (0.10%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.052%) Argo
12 1 (0.052%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.052%) Podman
12 1 (0.052%) SCCM
12 1 (0.052%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.052%) systemd
Vendors
1 69 (3.58%) Google
2 55 (2.86%) WooCommerce
3 42 (2.18%) Microsoft
4 34 (1.77%) Adobe
5 15 (0.78%) Zend
6 14 (0.73%) Twitter
7 12 (0.62%) New Relic
8 11 (0.57%) VMware
9 10 (0.52%) Oracle
10 9 (0.47%) OpenAI
10 9 (0.47%) SAP
11 7 (0.36%) F5
11 7 (0.36%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.36%) SaltStack
12 6 (0.31%) Actuate
12 6 (0.31%) Facebook
12 6 (0.31%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.26%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.21%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.21%) YouTube