PHP Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median PHP Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 285 235 262
Rank change year-on-year -50 +27 -134
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 658 900 965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.93% 1.50% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 1.68% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 624 399 851
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £61,875
90th Percentile £62,500 £66,500 £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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,217 53,628 67,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.16% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,585 30,477 42,470
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 +55 219 £45,000 - 49
North West +46 115 £50,000 -9.09% 31
South East -101 111 £50,000 - 20
Midlands -52 109 £42,500 -8.11% 22
South West -42 103 £45,000 -5.26% 17
Yorkshire +81 91 £42,500 +6.25% 15
East of England +42 72 £43,500 -33.08% 13
West Midlands -1 62 £42,500 - 13
East Midlands -49 46 £40,000 -23.81% 9
Scotland -100 26 £45,000 -2.70% 5
Wales -5 14 £47,500 +5.56% 2
North East -22 13 £46,500 +29.17% 3
Northern Ireland +8 4 £33,500 -4.29% 1
PHP Developer
UK

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 658 (100.00%) PHP
2 416 (63.22%) Laravel
3 388 (58.97%) JavaScript
4 350 (53.19%) MySQL
5 303 (46.05%) HTML
6 286 (43.47%) CSS
7 205 (31.16%) AWS
8 175 (26.60%) Git
9 160 (24.32%) Full Stack Development
10 157 (23.86%) Vue
11 155 (23.56%) React
12 151 (22.95%) Social Skills
13 149 (22.64%) Web Development
14 125 (19.00%) Symfony
15 122 (18.54%) jQuery
16 121 (18.39%) OOP
17 119 (18.09%) Agile
18 106 (16.11%) OO
19 104 (15.81%) MVC
20 103 (15.65%) SaaS
21 91 (13.83%) Linux
22 90 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
23 84 (12.77%) SQL
24 75 (11.40%) E-Commerce
24 75 (11.40%) Docker
25 74 (11.25%) WordPress
26 70 (10.64%) TDD
27 69 (10.49%) LAMP
28 65 (9.88%) HTML5
29 64 (9.73%) User Experience

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 74 (11.25%) WordPress
2 33 (5.02%) CMS
3 22 (3.34%) Apache
4 20 (3.04%) nginx
5 6 (0.91%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.61%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.61%) ColdFusion
6 4 (0.61%) IIS
7 3 (0.46%) Drupal
7 3 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.30%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.15%) Confluence
9 1 (0.15%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 5 (0.76%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.61%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.61%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 25 (3.80%) Magento
2 13 (1.98%) Shopify
3 3 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.30%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 205 (31.16%) AWS
2 103 (15.65%) SaaS
3 26 (3.95%) GCP
4 19 (2.89%) Azure
4 19 (2.89%) GitHub
5 15 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (1.67%) npm
7 8 (1.22%) Figma
7 8 (1.22%) Serverless
7 8 (1.22%) Stripe
8 6 (0.91%) DigitalOcean
9 5 (0.76%) Power Platform
10 4 (0.61%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.46%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.46%) Google Tag Manager
12 2 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 2 (0.30%) BigCommerce
12 2 (0.30%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.30%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.91%) VoIP
1 6 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (0.61%) SSH
3 2 (0.30%) FTP
3 2 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 350 (53.19%) MySQL
2 31 (4.71%) Relational Database
3 26 (3.95%) MariaDB
4 23 (3.50%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.28%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.91%) GIS
8 6 (0.91%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.76%) Power BI
10 4 (0.61%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.46%) Looker
11 3 (0.46%) Redis
12 2 (0.30%) phpMyAdmin
13 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 175 (26.60%) Git
2 29 (4.41%) JIRA
3 14 (2.13%) webpack
4 13 (1.98%) Subversion
5 8 (1.22%) GitLab
6 7 (1.06%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.91%) PHPUnit
8 4 (0.61%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.46%) Grunt
10 2 (0.30%) git-flow
10 2 (0.30%) gulp
11 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.15%) Selenium
11 1 (0.15%) Storybook
11 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.15%) WiX
General
1 151 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 48 (7.29%) Marketing
3 29 (4.41%) Finance
3 29 (4.41%) Retail
4 23 (3.50%) Games
5 14 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (1.98%) Telecoms
7 10 (1.52%) Manufacturing
7 10 (1.52%) Tech for Good
8 7 (1.06%) Law
9 6 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.61%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.30%) Aviation
12 1 (0.15%) Advertising
12 1 (0.15%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.15%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.15%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 416 (63.22%) Laravel
2 303 (46.05%) HTML
3 286 (43.47%) CSS
4 157 (23.86%) Vue
5 155 (23.56%) React
6 125 (19.00%) Symfony
7 122 (18.54%) jQuery
8 69 (10.49%) LAMP
9 65 (9.88%) HTML5
10 63 (9.57%) RESTful
11 49 (7.45%) REST
12 45 (6.84%) Node.js
13 43 (6.53%) CSS3
14 40 (6.08%) SOAP
15 39 (5.93%) AngularJS
16 36 (5.47%) Web Services
17 31 (4.71%) Sass
18 29 (4.41%) Tailwind CSS
19 23 (3.50%) XML
20 22 (3.34%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 37 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
2 26 (3.95%) Mobile App
3 25 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.67%) PropTech
7 9 (1.37%) Animation
8 7 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.06%) Video Editing
9 5 (0.76%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.76%) Educational Technology
9 5 (0.76%) Legacy Code
10 4 (0.61%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.46%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.46%) Digital Media
11 3 (0.46%) Photography
11 3 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.46%) Solar Energy
12 2 (0.30%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.30%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 91 (13.83%) Linux
2 10 (1.52%) Windows
3 9 (1.37%) Ubuntu
4 6 (0.91%) Alpine Linux
5 5 (0.76%) Unix
6 2 (0.30%) AIX
7 1 (0.15%) Android
7 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (24.32%) Full Stack Development
2 149 (22.64%) Web Development
3 121 (18.39%) OOP
4 119 (18.09%) Agile
5 106 (16.11%) OO
6 104 (15.81%) MVC
7 90 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
8 75 (11.40%) E-Commerce
9 70 (10.64%) TDD
10 64 (9.73%) User Experience
11 62 (9.42%) Software Engineering
12 59 (8.97%) DevOps
13 58 (8.81%) OO PHP
14 50 (7.60%) Front End Development
15 48 (7.29%) Clean Code
15 48 (7.29%) Unit Testing
16 41 (6.23%) Microservices
16 41 (6.23%) Test Automation
17 37 (5.62%) Computer Science
18 34 (5.17%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 658 (100.00%) PHP
2 388 (58.97%) JavaScript
3 84 (12.77%) SQL
4 36 (5.47%) TypeScript
5 18 (2.74%) Java
6 15 (2.28%) Python
7 12 (1.82%) Ada
7 12 (1.82%) Go
8 9 (1.37%) VB
9 7 (1.06%) C#
9 7 (1.06%) Kotlin
10 6 (0.91%) Rust
11 4 (0.61%) CFML
11 4 (0.61%) Ruby
11 4 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) Bash
12 1 (0.15%) RPG
Qualifications
1 42 (6.38%) Degree
2 32 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.71%) QA
2 6 (0.91%) GDPR
3 5 (0.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 75 (11.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 16 (2.43%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.22%) Terraform
3 2 (0.30%) cPanel
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (2.28%) Adobe
2 13 (1.98%) Google
3 10 (1.52%) Microsoft
4 8 (1.22%) Twitter
4 8 (1.22%) WooCommerce
5 7 (1.06%) Zend
6 6 (0.91%) Actuate
7 5 (0.76%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.61%) HP
9 3 (0.46%) Facebook
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle
10 2 (0.30%) Progress
11 1 (0.15%) Rollbar