PHP Developer Jobs in England

PHP Developer
UK > England

The median PHP Developer salary in England is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 318 374
Rank change year-on-year -26 +56 -185
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 670 989 1,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.79% 1.07% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 1.17% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 627 526 1,084
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £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 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,536 84,581 127,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,273 53,585 75,560
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,595 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,820 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in England

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for PHP Developer in England

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in England

PHP Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +47 218 £45,000 - 56
North West +38 116 £49,250 -10.45% 34
Midlands -36 108 £42,500 -5.56% 22
South East -86 108 £50,000 - 18
South West -45 103 £45,000 -5.26% 13
Yorkshire +79 90 £42,500 +6.25% 17
East of England +35 71 £43,500 -33.08% 16
West Midlands +12 62 £42,500 - 11
London +12 60 £54,000 -10.00% 28
East Midlands -51 45 £40,000 -20.00% 11
North East -26 12 £48,250 +34.03% 5
PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 across the England region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 670 (100.00%) PHP
2 444 (66.27%) Laravel
3 388 (57.91%) JavaScript
4 352 (52.54%) MySQL
5 296 (44.18%) HTML
6 277 (41.34%) CSS
7 204 (30.45%) AWS
8 185 (27.61%) Git
9 161 (24.03%) React
10 159 (23.73%) Vue
10 159 (23.73%) Full Stack Development
11 150 (22.39%) Web Development
12 148 (22.09%) Social Skills
13 136 (20.30%) OOP
14 130 (19.40%) Agile
15 128 (19.10%) Symfony
16 118 (17.61%) jQuery
17 112 (16.72%) MVC
18 101 (15.07%) SaaS
19 98 (14.63%) OO
20 90 (13.43%) Linux
20 90 (13.43%) Docker
21 86 (12.84%) E-Commerce
21 86 (12.84%) SQL
22 82 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
23 80 (11.94%) TDD
24 75 (11.19%) Software Engineering
25 70 (10.45%) LAMP
25 70 (10.45%) HTML5
26 65 (9.70%) WordPress

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 65 (9.70%) WordPress
2 25 (3.73%) CMS
3 23 (3.43%) Apache
4 20 (2.99%) nginx
5 6 (0.90%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.60%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.60%) ColdFusion
6 4 (0.60%) IIS
7 3 (0.45%) Drupal
7 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.30%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.15%) Confluence
9 1 (0.15%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 5 (0.75%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.60%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 24 (3.58%) Magento
2 13 (1.94%) Shopify
3 3 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.30%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 204 (30.45%) AWS
2 101 (15.07%) SaaS
3 27 (4.03%) GCP
4 18 (2.69%) Azure
5 17 (2.54%) GitHub
6 16 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (1.49%) npm
7 10 (1.49%) Stripe
8 8 (1.19%) Figma
8 8 (1.19%) Serverless
9 6 (0.90%) DigitalOcean
10 5 (0.75%) Power Platform
11 4 (0.60%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.45%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.45%) Google Tag Manager
13 2 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 2 (0.30%) BigCommerce
13 2 (0.30%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.30%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.90%) VoIP
1 6 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (0.60%) SSH
3 2 (0.30%) FTP
3 2 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (52.54%) MySQL
2 31 (4.63%) Relational Database
3 27 (4.03%) MariaDB
4 24 (3.58%) MongoDB
4 24 (3.58%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (1.79%) Redis
7 9 (1.34%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.90%) GIS
10 5 (0.75%) Power BI
11 4 (0.60%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.45%) Looker
13 2 (0.30%) phpMyAdmin
14 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 185 (27.61%) Git
2 29 (4.33%) JIRA
3 13 (1.94%) Subversion
3 13 (1.94%) webpack
4 8 (1.19%) GitLab
5 6 (0.90%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.60%) PHPUnit
7 2 (0.30%) git-flow
7 2 (0.30%) Grunt
7 2 (0.30%) gulp
7 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.15%) Selenium
8 1 (0.15%) Storybook
8 1 (0.15%) WiX
General
1 148 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 45 (6.72%) Marketing
3 37 (5.52%) Finance
4 29 (4.33%) Retail
5 23 (3.43%) Games
6 14 (2.09%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.09%) Telecoms
7 10 (1.49%) Manufacturing
7 10 (1.49%) Tech for Good
8 9 (1.34%) Turkish Language
9 7 (1.04%) Law
10 4 (0.60%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.45%) Legal
12 2 (0.30%) Aviation
12 2 (0.30%) Banking
13 1 (0.15%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.15%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.15%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 444 (66.27%) Laravel
2 296 (44.18%) HTML
3 277 (41.34%) CSS
4 161 (24.03%) React
5 159 (23.73%) Vue
6 128 (19.10%) Symfony
7 118 (17.61%) jQuery
8 70 (10.45%) HTML5
8 70 (10.45%) LAMP
9 63 (9.40%) RESTful
10 46 (6.87%) REST
11 45 (6.72%) CSS3
11 45 (6.72%) Node.js
12 44 (6.57%) AngularJS
13 39 (5.82%) SOAP
14 35 (5.22%) Web Services
15 30 (4.48%) Sass
16 29 (4.33%) Tailwind CSS
17 28 (4.18%) Doctrine
18 22 (3.28%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.61%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (4.48%) Mobile App
3 23 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (1.94%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.64%) PropTech
7 10 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.34%) Animation
9 7 (1.04%) Video Editing
10 6 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.75%) Educational Technology
12 4 (0.60%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.60%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.60%) Legacy Code
13 3 (0.45%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.45%) Digital Media
13 3 (0.45%) Photography
13 3 (0.45%) Solar Energy
14 2 (0.30%) Low-Code
14 2 (0.30%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 90 (13.43%) Linux
2 10 (1.49%) Windows
3 9 (1.34%) Ubuntu
4 6 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
5 5 (0.75%) Unix
6 2 (0.30%) AIX
7 1 (0.15%) Android
7 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (23.73%) Full Stack Development
2 150 (22.39%) Web Development
3 136 (20.30%) OOP
4 130 (19.40%) Agile
5 112 (16.72%) MVC
6 98 (14.63%) OO
7 86 (12.84%) E-Commerce
8 82 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (11.94%) TDD
10 75 (11.19%) Software Engineering
11 57 (8.51%) Unit Testing
11 57 (8.51%) User Experience
12 55 (8.21%) Clean Code
13 54 (8.06%) Computer Science
14 53 (7.91%) OO PHP
15 51 (7.61%) DevOps
16 46 (6.87%) Front End Development
17 43 (6.42%) Test Automation
18 39 (5.82%) Roadmaps
19 36 (5.37%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 670 (100.00%) PHP
2 388 (57.91%) JavaScript
3 86 (12.84%) SQL
4 32 (4.78%) TypeScript
5 17 (2.54%) Java
6 14 (2.09%) Python
7 12 (1.79%) Ada
7 12 (1.79%) Go
8 9 (1.34%) VB
9 7 (1.04%) C#
9 7 (1.04%) Kotlin
10 6 (0.90%) Rust
11 4 (0.60%) CFML
11 4 (0.60%) Ruby
11 4 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) Bash
12 1 (0.15%) RPG
Qualifications
1 59 (8.81%) Degree
2 50 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (0.15%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.03%) QA
2 6 (0.90%) GDPR
3 5 (0.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 90 (13.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (2.24%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.34%) Terraform
3 2 (0.30%) cPanel
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (1.94%) Google
2 12 (1.79%) Adobe
2 12 (1.79%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.19%) Twitter
3 8 (1.19%) WooCommerce
4 6 (0.90%) Actuate
4 6 (0.90%) Zend
5 5 (0.75%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.60%) HP
7 3 (0.45%) Facebook
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle
8 2 (0.30%) Progress
9 1 (0.15%) Apple
9 1 (0.15%) Panasonic
9 1 (0.15%) Sony