PHP Jobs in England

PHP
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 165 104
Rank change year-on-year +20 -61 -38
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,711 2,092 4,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.01% 2.26% 3.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.20% 5.23% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,543 1,459 2,752
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% +14.44%

All Programming Languages
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,610 40,021 70,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.39% 43.30% 53.49%
Number of salaries quoted 22,490 25,683 39,461
10th Percentile £35,238 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in England

PHP
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for PHP in England

PHP
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for PHP in England

PHP
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 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 +41 486 £47,500 -9.52% 111
London +4 287 £63,218 +5.36% 99
South West +4 268 £45,000 -5.26% 52
South East -89 250 £55,000 +10.00% 54
North West +40 239 £50,000 -9.09% 68
Midlands +13 236 £45,000 -10.00% 50
Yorkshire +75 221 £47,250 +5.00% 34
East of England +45 168 £43,500 -33.08% 34
East Midlands +3 118 £45,000 -5.26% 23
West Midlands +22 117 £45,000 -14.29% 27
North East -46 26 £45,000 -21.74% 10
PHP
UK

PHP
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
1 244 (14.26%) WordPress
2 104 (6.08%) CMS
3 74 (4.32%) Drupal
4 56 (3.27%) Apache
5 49 (2.86%) nginx
6 19 (1.11%) Confluence
7 10 (0.58%) Headless CMS
7 10 (0.58%) IIS
7 10 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.41%) Moodle
9 6 (0.35%) Apache Solr
9 6 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.23%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.23%) SAS
12 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.12%) Joomla!
12 2 (0.12%) Liferay
12 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.70%) Adobe XD
3 12 (0.70%) Photoshop
4 11 (0.64%) Simulink
5 8 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.12%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.058%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 73 (4.27%) Magento
2 46 (2.69%) Shopify
3 21 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.23%) CiviCRM
4 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.058%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 519 (30.33%) AWS
2 200 (11.69%) SaaS
3 108 (6.31%) Azure
4 85 (4.97%) GitHub
5 63 (3.68%) GCP
6 36 (2.10%) Amazon S3
7 34 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (1.46%) Amazon Kinesis
10 23 (1.34%) Figma
10 23 (1.34%) Power Platform
11 21 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
11 21 (1.23%) npm
11 21 (1.23%) Serverless
12 14 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (0.82%) Stripe
13 13 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (0.64%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.28%) HTTP
2 27 (1.58%) Internet
3 25 (1.46%) LAN
3 25 (1.46%) WAN
4 24 (1.40%) DNS
5 12 (0.70%) Firewall
5 12 (0.70%) SSL
6 7 (0.41%) VoIP
7 6 (0.35%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.29%) FTP
8 5 (0.29%) SSH
9 2 (0.12%) 3G
9 2 (0.12%) 4G
9 2 (0.12%) DHCP
9 2 (0.12%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.12%) IPv6
9 2 (0.12%) VPN
9 2 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 696 (40.68%) MySQL
2 97 (5.67%) SQL Server
3 84 (4.91%) Relational Database
4 71 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
5 50 (2.92%) MongoDB
6 44 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
7 41 (2.40%) MariaDB
8 31 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (1.69%) NoSQL
10 27 (1.58%) RDBMS
11 25 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (1.40%) Redis
13 19 (1.11%) Power BI
14 17 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
15 15 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (0.76%) DynamoDB
17 9 (0.53%) SQLite
18 8 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 8 (0.47%) Tableau
19 7 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 451 (26.36%) Git
2 73 (4.27%) JIRA
3 40 (2.34%) Selenium
4 37 (2.16%) Jenkins
5 36 (2.10%) Cypress.io
6 33 (1.93%) GitLab
7 26 (1.52%) Postman
8 24 (1.40%) Subversion
9 17 (0.99%) webpack
10 13 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
11 12 (0.70%) gulp
11 12 (0.70%) PHPUnit
12 11 (0.64%) Visual Studio
13 9 (0.53%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.47%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.23%) git-flow
15 4 (0.23%) Grunt
16 2 (0.12%) Appium
16 2 (0.12%) Bower
16 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 346 (20.22%) Social Skills
2 170 (9.94%) Marketing
3 129 (7.54%) Retail
4 94 (5.49%) Finance
5 62 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (2.57%) Games
7 33 (1.93%) Tech for Good
8 32 (1.87%) Telecoms
9 29 (1.69%) Manufacturing
10 27 (1.58%) Public Sector
11 20 (1.17%) Electronics
12 18 (1.05%) Banking
12 18 (1.05%) Law
12 18 (1.05%) Legal
13 17 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (0.76%) Health Technology
15 11 (0.64%) German Language
16 10 (0.58%) Retail Banking
17 9 (0.53%) Turkish Language
18 8 (0.47%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 1,274 (74.46%) Developer
2 670 (39.16%) PHP Developer
3 336 (19.64%) Senior
4 291 (17.01%) Senior Developer
5 224 (13.09%) Full Stack Developer
6 174 (10.17%) Lead
7 158 (9.23%) Web Developer
8 137 (8.01%) Senior PHP Developer
9 119 (6.95%) Software Engineer
10 112 (6.55%) Software Developer
11 89 (5.20%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 89 (5.20%) WordPress Developer
12 84 (4.91%) Full Stack PHP Developer
13 79 (4.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 77 (4.50%) Junior
15 71 (4.15%) Junior Developer
16 64 (3.74%) Lead Developer
17 54 (3.16%) Technical Leader
18 52 (3.04%) PHP Web Developer
19 44 (2.57%) Junior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 776 (45.35%) Laravel
2 722 (42.20%) HTML
3 682 (39.86%) CSS
4 440 (25.72%) React
5 289 (16.89%) Vue
6 216 (12.62%) jQuery
7 201 (11.75%) Symfony
8 187 (10.93%) HTML5
9 170 (9.94%) LAMP
10 160 (9.35%) Node.js
11 136 (7.95%) AngularJS
12 126 (7.36%) CSS3
13 111 (6.49%) RESTful
14 110 (6.43%) REST
15 88 (5.14%) Web Services
16 84 (4.91%) JSON
17 75 (4.38%) Sass
18 69 (4.03%) XML
19 66 (3.86%) .NET
20 54 (3.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 90 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 46 (2.69%) Mobile App
3 45 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 36 (2.10%) Cloud Native
5 34 (1.99%) Management Information System
6 29 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (1.64%) Product Ownership
8 25 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (1.34%) IoT
10 22 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
12 19 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
13 15 (0.88%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.88%) Animation
14 14 (0.82%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.70%) Educational Technology
16 11 (0.64%) PropTech
17 10 (0.58%) Client/Server
17 10 (0.58%) Data Structures
17 10 (0.58%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 189 (11.05%) Linux
2 37 (2.16%) Windows
3 19 (1.11%) Ubuntu
4 10 (0.58%) Unix
5 7 (0.41%) CentOS
5 7 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
6 6 (0.35%) Android
7 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.18%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.058%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.058%) Rocky
11 1 (0.058%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (25.48%) Full Stack Development
2 403 (23.55%) Web Development
3 374 (21.86%) Agile
4 295 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
5 276 (16.13%) Software Engineering
6 241 (14.09%) OOP
7 230 (13.44%) E-Commerce
8 222 (12.97%) MVC
9 203 (11.86%) DevOps
10 175 (10.23%) User Experience
11 153 (8.94%) Computer Science
12 145 (8.47%) Front End Development
13 137 (8.01%) Mentoring
14 122 (7.13%) CI/CD
14 122 (7.13%) TDD
15 120 (7.01%) OO
16 109 (6.37%) Roadmaps
17 94 (5.49%) Clean Code
18 92 (5.38%) Project Management
19 87 (5.08%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 909 (53.13%) JavaScript
2 268 (15.66%) SQL
3 150 (8.77%) Python
4 144 (8.42%) TypeScript
5 135 (7.89%) C#
6 108 (6.31%) Java
7 40 (2.34%) C
8 38 (2.22%) VB
9 35 (2.05%) Go
10 28 (1.64%) Bash
11 26 (1.52%) Ruby
12 23 (1.34%) JSX
13 22 (1.29%) Rust
14 21 (1.23%) C++
15 17 (0.99%) PowerShell
16 16 (0.94%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.76%) Ada
18 12 (0.70%) Perl
19 11 (0.64%) MATLAB
19 11 (0.64%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 256 (14.96%) Degree
2 98 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (1.29%) Security Cleared
4 16 (0.94%) Azure Certification
5 9 (0.53%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.35%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.18%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.12%) MCSE
10 1 (0.058%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.058%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.058%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.058%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.058%) MCP
10 1 (0.058%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.058%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (3.33%) QA
2 42 (2.45%) WCAG
3 35 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.05%) GDPR
5 5 (0.29%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.12%) HL7
7 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.12%) SLA
8 1 (0.058%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.058%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.058%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.058%) NCSC
8 1 (0.058%) PMO
System Software
1 248 (14.49%) Docker
2 5 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.12%) Firmware
4 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.058%) OpenSIPS
5 1 (0.058%) Varnish
5 1 (0.058%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.058%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 113 (6.60%) Kubernetes
2 80 (4.68%) Terraform
3 24 (1.40%) Ansible
4 13 (0.76%) Puppet
5 11 (0.64%) Grafana
5 11 (0.64%) Progress Chef
6 8 (0.47%) cPanel
6 8 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.23%) Rancher
8 2 (0.12%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.058%) Argo
9 1 (0.058%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.058%) Plesk
9 1 (0.058%) Podman
9 1 (0.058%) SCCM
9 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.058%) systemd
Vendors
1 70 (4.09%) Microsoft
2 63 (3.68%) Google
3 44 (2.57%) WooCommerce
4 26 (1.52%) Adobe
5 15 (0.88%) Twitter
6 13 (0.76%) Zend
7 10 (0.58%) Oracle
8 9 (0.53%) New Relic
8 9 (0.53%) SAP
9 7 (0.41%) Facebook
9 7 (0.41%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.41%) SaltStack
10 6 (0.35%) Actuate
10 6 (0.35%) Sitecore
10 6 (0.35%) VMware
11 5 (0.29%) Apple
11 5 (0.29%) F5
11 5 (0.29%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.29%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.23%) YouTube