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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 159 101
Rank change year-on-year +2 -58 -36
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,846 2,240 5,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.80% 2.30% 3.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.50% 5.35% 6.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,667 1,502 3,095
10th Percentile £30,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £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 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £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 33,562 41,867 90,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.71% 43.01% 54.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25,071 26,942 43,619
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £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 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.23% +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 28 May 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 28 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 +7 1,689 £50,000 -9.09% 426
UK excluding London -10 1,514 £47,500 -5.00% 302
Work from Home +17 852 £50,000 -9.09% 264
North of England +27 494 £47,500 -5.00% 87
South West +10 265 £45,000 -5.26% 54
London -5 263 £65,000 +8.33% 127
South East -85 251 £55,000 +10.00% 47
North West +42 241 £50,000 -9.09% 54
Midlands +10 227 £45,000 -14.29% 65
Yorkshire +61 225 £47,500 +5.56% 30
East of England +50 176 £43,750 -27.08% 35
West Midlands +19 127 £45,000 -14.29% 45
East Midlands -16 99 £45,000 -14.29% 20
Scotland -97 48 £45,000 -18.18% 12
Wales +11 44 £50,000 +2.56% 8
North East -42 28 £43,750 -23.91% 3
Northern Ireland -16 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
1 265 (14.36%) WordPress
2 111 (6.01%) CMS
3 78 (4.23%) Drupal
4 54 (2.93%) Apache
5 51 (2.76%) nginx
6 17 (0.92%) Confluence
7 14 (0.76%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.49%) Headless CMS
9 7 (0.38%) IIS
10 6 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.27%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.22%) ColdFusion
12 4 (0.22%) Moodle
12 4 (0.22%) 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 (0.054%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 19 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.65%) Adobe XD
4 11 (0.60%) Simulink
5 10 (0.54%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.054%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 78 (4.23%) Magento
2 47 (2.55%) Shopify
3 21 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.22%) CiviCRM
4 4 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 572 (30.99%) AWS
2 224 (12.13%) SaaS
3 102 (5.53%) Azure
4 89 (4.82%) GitHub
5 63 (3.41%) GCP
6 35 (1.90%) Amazon S3
7 34 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
7 34 (1.84%) Serverless
8 25 (1.35%) Amazon Kinesis
8 25 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.25%) npm
10 22 (1.19%) Figma
11 21 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
12 18 (0.98%) Stripe
13 17 (0.92%) Power Platform
14 15 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (0.54%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.84%) HTTP
2 27 (1.46%) Internet
3 16 (0.87%) DNS
4 13 (0.70%) SSL
5 12 (0.65%) Firewall
6 11 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.33%) SSH
7 6 (0.33%) VoIP
8 5 (0.27%) FTP
8 5 (0.27%) LAN
8 5 (0.27%) WAN
9 3 (0.16%) SMS
9 3 (0.16%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.11%) VPN
10 2 (0.11%) Wireless
11 1 (0.054%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.054%) Intranet
11 1 (0.054%) IPsec
11 1 (0.054%) IPv4
11 1 (0.054%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 768 (41.60%) MySQL
2 93 (5.04%) Relational Database
3 85 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
3 85 (4.60%) SQL Server
4 48 (2.60%) MongoDB
5 42 (2.28%) MariaDB
6 41 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (1.90%) Redis
8 30 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (1.52%) RDBMS
10 27 (1.46%) NoSQL
11 25 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
12 23 (1.25%) DynamoDB
13 17 (0.92%) Power BI
14 15 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
15 13 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
16 9 (0.49%) SQLite
17 8 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 7 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
19 6 (0.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 488 (26.44%) Git
2 72 (3.90%) JIRA
3 40 (2.17%) Selenium
4 35 (1.90%) Cypress.io
4 35 (1.90%) Jenkins
5 33 (1.79%) GitLab
6 27 (1.46%) Postman
7 24 (1.30%) Subversion
8 20 (1.08%) webpack
9 18 (0.98%) PHPUnit
10 13 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
11 11 (0.60%) gulp
12 10 (0.54%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.49%) Visual Studio
14 8 (0.43%) Eclipse
15 6 (0.33%) git-flow
16 5 (0.27%) Grunt
17 3 (0.16%) Appium
18 2 (0.11%) Bower
18 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 370 (20.04%) Social Skills
2 175 (9.48%) Marketing
3 129 (6.99%) Retail
4 113 (6.12%) Finance
5 62 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (2.76%) Games
7 38 (2.06%) Telecoms
8 37 (2.00%) Tech for Good
9 35 (1.90%) Public Sector
10 28 (1.52%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.03%) Electronics
12 19 (1.03%) Law
12 19 (1.03%) Legal
13 18 (0.98%) Banking
14 14 (0.76%) Health Technology
15 11 (0.60%) German Language
16 10 (0.54%) Retail Banking
17 9 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (0.49%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 1,399 (75.79%) Developer
2 757 (41.01%) PHP Developer
3 386 (20.91%) Senior
4 332 (17.98%) Senior Developer
5 254 (13.76%) Full Stack Developer
6 187 (10.13%) Lead
7 173 (9.37%) Web Developer
8 162 (8.78%) Senior PHP Developer
9 122 (6.61%) Software Engineer
10 112 (6.07%) Software Developer
11 102 (5.53%) WordPress Developer
12 99 (5.36%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 94 (5.09%) Full Stack PHP Developer
14 73 (3.95%) Junior
15 71 (3.85%) Lead Developer
16 70 (3.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 69 (3.74%) Junior Developer
18 59 (3.20%) PHP Web Developer
19 58 (3.14%) Technical Leader
20 45 (2.44%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 860 (46.59%) Laravel
2 748 (40.52%) HTML
3 709 (38.41%) CSS
4 445 (24.11%) React
5 328 (17.77%) Vue
6 239 (12.95%) Symfony
7 231 (12.51%) jQuery
8 179 (9.70%) LAMP
9 166 (8.99%) Node.js
10 160 (8.67%) HTML5
11 134 (7.26%) RESTful
12 122 (6.61%) CSS3
13 119 (6.45%) AngularJS
14 113 (6.12%) REST
15 91 (4.93%) Web Services
16 83 (4.50%) Sass
17 82 (4.44%) JSON
18 78 (4.23%) .NET
19 53 (2.87%) SOAP
20 50 (2.71%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.20%) Greenfield Project
2 53 (2.87%) Mobile App
3 41 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 38 (2.06%) Cloud Native
5 35 (1.90%) Product Ownership
6 34 (1.84%) Management Information System
7 31 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.41%) IoT
10 23 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
12 19 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
13 16 (0.87%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.81%) Animation
15 14 (0.76%) Client/Server
16 13 (0.70%) PropTech
16 13 (0.70%) Virtual Team
17 10 (0.54%) Data Structures
17 10 (0.54%) Legacy Code
17 10 (0.54%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 185 (10.02%) Linux
2 42 (2.28%) Windows
3 19 (1.03%) Ubuntu
4 13 (0.70%) Unix
5 7 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
6 6 (0.33%) Android
7 5 (0.27%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.11%) AIX
9 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.054%) CentOS
10 1 (0.054%) Rocky
10 1 (0.054%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (25.19%) Full Stack Development
2 398 (21.56%) Agile
3 397 (21.51%) Web Development
4 341 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
5 294 (15.93%) Software Engineering
6 258 (13.98%) E-Commerce
7 256 (13.87%) OOP
8 224 (12.13%) MVC
9 209 (11.32%) DevOps
10 197 (10.67%) User Experience
11 156 (8.45%) Computer Science
12 147 (7.96%) Front End Development
13 142 (7.69%) Mentoring
14 138 (7.48%) OO
15 137 (7.42%) TDD
16 117 (6.34%) CI/CD
17 115 (6.23%) Clean Code
18 108 (5.85%) Roadmaps
19 99 (5.36%) Project Management
20 96 (5.20%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 960 (52.00%) JavaScript
2 245 (13.27%) SQL
3 164 (8.88%) TypeScript
4 137 (7.42%) C#
5 120 (6.50%) Python
6 118 (6.39%) Java
7 46 (2.49%) Go
8 44 (2.38%) C
9 30 (1.63%) Ruby
10 24 (1.30%) Bash
11 23 (1.25%) Rust
12 21 (1.14%) C++
13 16 (0.87%) VB
14 14 (0.76%) PowerShell
14 14 (0.76%) T-SQL
15 13 (0.70%) Ada
15 13 (0.70%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.65%) VB.NET
17 11 (0.60%) MATLAB
18 7 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 237 (12.84%) Degree
2 104 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (0.98%) Security Cleared
4 17 (0.92%) Azure Certification
5 7 (0.38%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.22%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.16%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.054%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.054%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.054%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (3.58%) QA
2 40 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.90%) WCAG
4 19 (1.03%) 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 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.054%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.054%) PMO
System Software
1 257 (13.92%) Docker
2 4 (0.22%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.11%) Firmware
3 2 (0.11%) Varnish
3 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.054%) PowerDNS
4 1 (0.054%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.054%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 111 (6.01%) Kubernetes
2 76 (4.12%) Terraform
3 20 (1.08%) Ansible
4 16 (0.87%) Puppet
5 13 (0.70%) Progress Chef
6 11 (0.60%) Grafana
7 8 (0.43%) cPanel
7 8 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.22%) Rancher
9 3 (0.16%) Galera Cluster
10 2 (0.11%) Plesk
10 2 (0.11%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.054%) Argo
11 1 (0.054%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.054%) Podman
11 1 (0.054%) SCCM
11 1 (0.054%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.054%) systemd
Vendors
1 67 (3.63%) Google
2 53 (2.87%) WooCommerce
3 42 (2.28%) Microsoft
4 33 (1.79%) Adobe
5 14 (0.76%) Twitter
5 14 (0.76%) Zend
6 10 (0.54%) New Relic
6 10 (0.54%) Oracle
7 9 (0.49%) VMware
8 8 (0.43%) OpenAI
8 8 (0.43%) SAP
9 7 (0.38%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.38%) SaltStack
10 6 (0.33%) Actuate
10 6 (0.33%) Facebook
10 6 (0.33%) Sitecore
11 5 (0.27%) F5
11 5 (0.27%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.22%) HP
12 4 (0.22%) Progress