PHP Developer
UK

The median PHP Developer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 312 421
Rank change year-on-year -47 +109 -226
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 765 1,084 1,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 1.12% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 1.22% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 709 533 1,099
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 97,915 88,821 160,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 91.42% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 69,754 56,171 84,699
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 29 May 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 -33 698 £45,000 -14.29% 139
UK excluding London -50 682 £45,000 -5.26% 108
Work from Home +30 361 £47,500 -9.52% 80
North of England +20 223 £45,000 - 33
North West +26 117 £50,000 -4.76% 22
Midlands -53 117 £42,500 -15.00% 25
South East -100 113 £50,000 - 15
South West -28 107 £45,000 -5.26% 14
Yorkshire +64 93 £42,500 -1.16% 11
East of England +37 78 £43,500 -33.08% 17
West Midlands -7 66 £42,500 -10.53% 18
London +1 59 £55,000 -8.33% 33
East Midlands -61 50 £42,500 -19.05% 7
Scotland -94 26 £45,000 - 6
Wales -2 14 £47,500 -17.39% 1
North East -20 13 £46,500 +29.17%
Northern Ireland +6 4 £33,500 -4.29%

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 765 (100.00%) PHP
2 488 (63.79%) Laravel
3 427 (55.82%) JavaScript
4 397 (51.90%) MySQL
5 321 (41.96%) HTML
6 301 (39.35%) CSS
7 229 (29.93%) AWS
8 212 (27.71%) Git
9 191 (24.97%) Full Stack Development
10 182 (23.79%) React
11 172 (22.48%) Social Skills
12 171 (22.35%) Vue
13 158 (20.65%) Web Development
14 150 (19.61%) Symfony
15 149 (19.48%) Agile
16 136 (17.78%) OOP
17 127 (16.60%) jQuery
18 112 (14.64%) MVC
19 111 (14.51%) OO
19 111 (14.51%) SaaS
20 107 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
21 99 (12.94%) E-Commerce
22 98 (12.81%) Linux
23 95 (12.42%) Docker
24 92 (12.03%) TDD
25 85 (11.11%) SQL
26 81 (10.59%) Software Engineering
27 80 (10.46%) WordPress
28 71 (9.28%) HTML5
29 69 (9.02%) RESTful

PHP Developer Skill Set
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 80 (10.46%) WordPress
2 35 (4.58%) CMS
3 22 (2.88%) Apache
4 20 (2.61%) nginx
5 9 (1.18%) Drupal
6 6 (0.78%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.52%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.52%) ColdFusion
7 4 (0.52%) IIS
8 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.26%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.13%) Confluence
10 1 (0.13%) Moodle
10 1 (0.13%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.13%) Totara
Applications
1 5 (0.65%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.52%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 26 (3.40%) Magento
2 12 (1.57%) Shopify
3 3 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.26%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 229 (29.93%) AWS
2 111 (14.51%) SaaS
3 28 (3.66%) GCP
4 21 (2.75%) GitHub
5 16 (2.09%) Azure
6 15 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (1.44%) npm
8 10 (1.31%) Stripe
9 8 (1.05%) Figma
9 8 (1.05%) Serverless
10 6 (0.78%) DigitalOcean
11 5 (0.65%) Power Platform
12 4 (0.52%) Firebase
12 4 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.39%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.39%) Google Tag Manager
14 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 2 (0.26%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (0.26%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (0.26%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.78%) VoIP
1 6 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (0.65%) SSH
3 2 (0.26%) FTP
3 2 (0.26%) HTTP
3 2 (0.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 397 (51.90%) MySQL
2 35 (4.58%) Relational Database
3 27 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (3.27%) MariaDB
4 25 (3.27%) SQL Server
5 22 (2.88%) MongoDB
6 15 (1.96%) Redis
7 7 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.78%) GIS
8 6 (0.78%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.65%) Power BI
10 4 (0.52%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.39%) Looker
12 2 (0.26%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.26%) phpMyAdmin
13 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 212 (27.71%) Git
2 28 (3.66%) JIRA
3 17 (2.22%) webpack
4 13 (1.70%) Subversion
5 9 (1.18%) GitLab
6 8 (1.05%) PHPUnit
7 7 (0.92%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.39%) git-flow
9 3 (0.39%) Grunt
9 3 (0.39%) Selenium
10 2 (0.26%) gulp
11 1 (0.13%) Appium
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.13%) Storybook
General
1 172 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 52 (6.80%) Marketing
3 47 (6.14%) Finance
4 28 (3.66%) Retail
5 25 (3.27%) Games
6 16 (2.09%) Telecoms
7 15 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (1.31%) Manufacturing
8 10 (1.31%) Tech for Good
9 9 (1.18%) Turkish Language
10 7 (0.92%) Law
11 6 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.65%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.39%) Legal
13 3 (0.39%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.26%) Aviation
14 2 (0.26%) Banking
14 2 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.13%) Advertising
15 1 (0.13%) Digital Healthcare
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 488 (63.79%) Laravel
2 321 (41.96%) HTML
3 301 (39.35%) CSS
4 182 (23.79%) React
5 171 (22.35%) Vue
6 150 (19.61%) Symfony
7 127 (16.60%) jQuery
8 71 (9.28%) HTML5
9 69 (9.02%) LAMP
9 69 (9.02%) RESTful
10 58 (7.58%) Node.js
11 52 (6.80%) REST
12 47 (6.14%) AngularJS
13 45 (5.88%) CSS3
14 38 (4.97%) SOAP
15 34 (4.44%) Sass
16 33 (4.31%) Web Services
17 29 (3.79%) Tailwind CSS
18 27 (3.53%) Doctrine
19 23 (3.01%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.45%) Greenfield Project
2 32 (4.18%) Mobile App
3 25 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (1.83%) Product Ownership
6 13 (1.70%) PropTech
7 11 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.18%) Animation
9 7 (0.92%) Legacy Code
9 7 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (0.92%) Video Editing
10 5 (0.65%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.65%) Educational Technology
10 5 (0.65%) e-Learning
11 4 (0.52%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.39%) Blog
12 3 (0.39%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.39%) Digital Media
12 3 (0.39%) Solar Energy
Operating Systems
1 98 (12.81%) Linux
2 11 (1.44%) Windows
3 9 (1.18%) Ubuntu
4 6 (0.78%) Alpine Linux
5 5 (0.65%) Unix
6 2 (0.26%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) Android
7 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (24.97%) Full Stack Development
2 158 (20.65%) Web Development
3 149 (19.48%) Agile
4 136 (17.78%) OOP
5 112 (14.64%) MVC
6 111 (14.51%) OO
7 107 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
8 99 (12.94%) E-Commerce
9 92 (12.03%) TDD
10 81 (10.59%) Software Engineering
11 69 (9.02%) User Experience
12 68 (8.89%) Clean Code
13 63 (8.24%) Unit Testing
14 62 (8.10%) DevOps
15 60 (7.84%) OO PHP
16 56 (7.32%) Computer Science
17 52 (6.80%) Front End Development
18 47 (6.14%) Test Automation
19 42 (5.49%) Microservices
20 39 (5.10%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 765 (100.00%) PHP
2 427 (55.82%) JavaScript
3 85 (11.11%) SQL
4 51 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 17 (2.22%) Java
6 15 (1.96%) Python
7 13 (1.70%) Go
8 12 (1.57%) Ada
9 11 (1.44%) C#
10 9 (1.18%) Kotlin
10 9 (1.18%) VB
11 6 (0.78%) Rust
12 4 (0.52%) CFML
12 4 (0.52%) Ruby
12 4 (0.52%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 61 (7.97%) Degree
2 51 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.18%) QA
2 7 (0.92%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 95 (12.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 17 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.18%) Terraform
3 3 (0.39%) cPanel
4 1 (0.13%) Ansible
4 1 (0.13%) Plesk
Vendors
1 16 (2.09%) Adobe
2 13 (1.70%) Google
3 12 (1.57%) Microsoft
4 11 (1.44%) Zend
5 8 (1.05%) Twitter
5 8 (1.05%) WooCommerce
6 6 (0.78%) Actuate
7 5 (0.65%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.52%) HP
9 3 (0.39%) Facebook
9 3 (0.39%) Oracle
10 2 (0.26%) Progress
11 1 (0.13%) Apple
11 1 (0.13%) Panasonic
11 1 (0.13%) Sony