PHP Jobs in the UK excluding London

PHP
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 132 122 85
Rank change year-on-year -10 -37 -38
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,509 1,718 2,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.14% 2.80% 3.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.69% 6.97% 8.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,356 1,091 2,111
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £32,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,553 24,637 32,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.05% 40.11% 46.30%
Number of salaries quoted 16,391 13,869 21,444
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
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 within the UK excluding London 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% 113
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% 69
Midlands +13 236 £45,000 -10.00% 57
Yorkshire +75 221 £47,250 +5.00% 35
East of England +45 168 £43,500 -33.08% 34
East Midlands +3 118 £45,000 -5.26% 27
West Midlands +22 117 £45,000 -14.29% 30
Scotland -101 49 £47,500 -13.64% 9
Wales +13 44 £50,000 +19.05% 8
North East -46 26 £45,000 -21.74% 10
Northern Ireland -2 9 £45,000 -21.74% 2
PHP
UK

PHP
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
1 215 (14.25%) WordPress
2 82 (5.43%) CMS
3 50 (3.31%) Apache
4 48 (3.18%) nginx
5 26 (1.72%) Drupal
6 14 (0.93%) Confluence
7 12 (0.80%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.66%) IIS
9 9 (0.60%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.40%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
12 4 (0.27%) ColdFusion
12 4 (0.27%) SAS
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.13%) Joomla!
13 2 (0.13%) Liferay
13 2 (0.13%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
14 1 (0.066%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 20 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.80%) Adobe XD
4 11 (0.73%) Simulink
5 10 (0.66%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.13%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.066%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 69 (4.57%) Magento
2 43 (2.85%) Shopify
3 20 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 447 (29.62%) AWS
2 187 (12.39%) SaaS
3 84 (5.57%) Azure
4 61 (4.04%) GitHub
5 51 (3.38%) GCP
6 32 (2.12%) Amazon S3
7 27 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (1.59%) Serverless
10 22 (1.46%) npm
11 21 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
11 21 (1.39%) Figma
12 20 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
13 15 (0.99%) Power Platform
14 13 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
16 11 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (0.73%) Stripe
17 10 (0.66%) Cloudflare
17 10 (0.66%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.59%) LAN
1 24 (1.59%) WAN
2 19 (1.26%) DNS
3 12 (0.80%) Firewall
3 12 (0.80%) SSL
4 8 (0.53%) Internet
4 8 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.40%) HTTP
5 6 (0.40%) VoIP
6 5 (0.33%) FTP
6 5 (0.33%) SSH
7 4 (0.27%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.20%) SMS
9 2 (0.13%) 3G
9 2 (0.13%) DHCP
9 2 (0.13%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.13%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.13%) IPsec
9 2 (0.13%) IPv6
9 2 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 648 (42.94%) MySQL
2 96 (6.36%) SQL Server
3 79 (5.24%) Relational Database
4 69 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
5 44 (2.92%) MariaDB
6 40 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (2.39%) MongoDB
8 26 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (1.59%) RDBMS
10 21 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (1.39%) NoSQL
11 15 (0.99%) DynamoDB
12 14 (0.93%) Redis
13 13 (0.86%) Power BI
14 12 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (0.53%) SQLite
16 7 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 6 (0.40%) Big Data
17 6 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 405 (26.84%) Git
2 62 (4.11%) JIRA
3 40 (2.65%) Cypress.io
4 39 (2.58%) Selenium
5 29 (1.92%) GitLab
6 22 (1.46%) Jenkins
6 22 (1.46%) Postman
6 22 (1.46%) Subversion
7 17 (1.13%) webpack
8 13 (0.86%) PHPUnit
9 11 (0.73%) gulp
9 11 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
9 11 (0.73%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.60%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.53%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.33%) Grunt
13 4 (0.27%) git-flow
14 2 (0.13%) Appium
14 2 (0.13%) Bower
14 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 315 (20.87%) Social Skills
2 166 (11.00%) Marketing
3 131 (8.68%) Retail
4 76 (5.04%) Finance
5 56 (3.71%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (3.18%) Games
7 33 (2.19%) Tech for Good
8 29 (1.92%) Manufacturing
9 28 (1.86%) Telecoms
10 20 (1.33%) Electronics
11 18 (1.19%) Law
12 16 (1.06%) Banking
12 16 (1.06%) Public Sector
13 14 (0.93%) Legal
14 13 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.73%) Health Technology
16 10 (0.66%) Retail Banking
17 8 (0.53%) German Language
17 8 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 6 (0.40%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,188 (78.73%) Developer
2 652 (43.21%) PHP Developer
3 295 (19.55%) Senior
4 267 (17.69%) Senior Developer
5 208 (13.78%) Full Stack Developer
6 157 (10.40%) Web Developer
7 135 (8.95%) Senior PHP Developer
8 131 (8.68%) Lead
9 120 (7.95%) Software Developer
10 88 (5.83%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 82 (5.43%) Software Engineer
12 81 (5.37%) WordPress Developer
13 80 (5.30%) Full Stack PHP Developer
14 68 (4.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 60 (3.98%) Junior
16 58 (3.84%) Junior Developer
17 54 (3.58%) PHP Web Developer
18 47 (3.11%) Technical Leader
19 42 (2.78%) Lead Developer
20 41 (2.72%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 695 (46.06%) Laravel
2 694 (45.99%) HTML
3 654 (43.34%) CSS
4 399 (26.44%) React
5 281 (18.62%) Vue
6 212 (14.05%) jQuery
7 180 (11.93%) Symfony
8 169 (11.20%) HTML5
9 148 (9.81%) LAMP
10 146 (9.68%) Node.js
11 114 (7.55%) AngularJS
12 113 (7.49%) CSS3
13 107 (7.09%) RESTful
14 79 (5.24%) REST
15 76 (5.04%) Web Services
16 73 (4.84%) JSON
17 66 (4.37%) Sass
18 65 (4.31%) XML
19 59 (3.91%) .NET
20 50 (3.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 72 (4.77%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (2.58%) Mobile App
3 34 (2.25%) Cloud Native
4 33 (2.19%) Onboarding
5 27 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 26 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.39%) IoT
8 19 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
8 19 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (1.06%) Algorithms
11 15 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (0.93%) Animation
13 11 (0.73%) PropTech
14 10 (0.66%) Video Editing
15 8 (0.53%) Digital Media
15 8 (0.53%) Driving Licence
15 8 (0.53%) Graphic Design
16 7 (0.46%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 166 (11.00%) Linux
2 31 (2.05%) Windows
3 18 (1.19%) Ubuntu
4 9 (0.60%) Unix
5 8 (0.53%) Android
6 6 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
6 6 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.20%) AIX
9 2 (0.13%) CentOS
9 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.066%) VMS
10 1 (0.066%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (25.45%) Web Development
2 381 (25.25%) Full Stack Development
3 334 (22.13%) Agile
4 286 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
5 215 (14.25%) Software Engineering
6 212 (14.05%) OOP
7 201 (13.32%) MVC
8 199 (13.19%) E-Commerce
9 173 (11.46%) User Experience
10 165 (10.93%) DevOps
11 135 (8.95%) Front End Development
12 124 (8.22%) OO
13 118 (7.82%) Computer Science
14 111 (7.36%) Mentoring
15 103 (6.83%) TDD
16 93 (6.16%) CI/CD
17 83 (5.50%) UX Design
18 79 (5.24%) Unit Testing
19 78 (5.17%) CRM
20 77 (5.10%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 856 (56.73%) JavaScript
2 228 (15.11%) SQL
3 131 (8.68%) C#
3 131 (8.68%) TypeScript
4 122 (8.08%) Python
5 94 (6.23%) Java
6 45 (2.98%) C
7 38 (2.52%) VB
8 32 (2.12%) Go
9 23 (1.52%) JSX
9 23 (1.52%) Ruby
10 19 (1.26%) C++
10 19 (1.26%) Rust
11 18 (1.19%) Bash
12 13 (0.86%) Ada
13 12 (0.80%) PowerShell
13 12 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 11 (0.73%) MATLAB
14 11 (0.73%) VB.NET
15 10 (0.66%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 220 (14.58%) Degree
2 71 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (0.99%) Azure Certification
4 13 (0.86%) Security Cleared
5 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.13%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.13%) MCSE
7 1 (0.066%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.066%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.066%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.066%) MCP
7 1 (0.066%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.066%) RIBA
7 1 (0.066%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (3.51%) QA
2 35 (2.32%) WCAG
3 33 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.13%) GDPR
5 5 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.13%) HL7
6 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.13%) SLA
7 1 (0.066%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 191 (12.66%) Docker
2 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.13%) Varnish
5 1 (0.066%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 93 (6.16%) Kubernetes
2 59 (3.91%) Terraform
3 13 (0.86%) Ansible
4 12 (0.80%) Progress Chef
5 10 (0.66%) Puppet
6 8 (0.53%) Grafana
7 7 (0.46%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.33%) cPanel
9 4 (0.27%) Rancher
10 3 (0.20%) Galera Cluster
11 1 (0.066%) Argo
11 1 (0.066%) Plesk
11 1 (0.066%) Podman
11 1 (0.066%) systemd
Vendors
1 63 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 54 (3.58%) Google
3 48 (3.18%) WooCommerce
4 31 (2.05%) Adobe
5 15 (0.99%) Twitter
6 9 (0.60%) SAP
7 8 (0.53%) New Relic
7 8 (0.53%) OpenAI
7 8 (0.53%) Oracle
8 7 (0.46%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.46%) Zend
9 6 (0.40%) Actuate
9 6 (0.40%) Facebook
9 6 (0.40%) SaltStack
9 6 (0.40%) Sitecore
10 5 (0.33%) F5
11 4 (0.27%) Apple
11 4 (0.27%) HP
11 4 (0.27%) Progress
11 4 (0.27%) VMware