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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 123 91
Rank change year-on-year -13 -32 -44
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,492 1,667 2,642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.09% 2.82% 3.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.64% 7.06% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,354 1,042 2,088
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £31,750
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 £62,743
90th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%

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 22,464 23,615 32,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.41% 40.01% 45.88%
Number of salaries quoted 16,334 13,300 21,054
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
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 17 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 17 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 +38 488 £47,500 -5.00% 94
South West +14 266 £45,000 -5.26% 62
South East -91 249 £55,000 +10.00% 49
North West +32 239 £50,000 -9.09% 60
Yorkshire +65 222 £47,500 +5.56% 26
Midlands +1 218 £45,000 -14.29% 57
East of England +50 170 £43,500 -31.76% 24
West Midlands +17 120 £45,000 -14.29% 31
East Midlands -14 97 £45,000 -12.20% 26
Scotland -99 49 £46,250 -15.91% 15
Wales +19 44 £50,000 +13.64% 6
North East -43 27 £45,000 -21.74% 8
Northern Ireland -15 9 £45,000 -21.74% 3
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 (14.41%) WordPress
2 84 (5.63%) CMS
3 49 (3.28%) nginx
4 48 (3.22%) Apache
5 27 (1.81%) Drupal
6 14 (0.94%) Confluence
7 10 (0.67%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.60%) Headless CMS
9 8 (0.54%) IIS
10 6 (0.40%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.27%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.27%) SAS
12 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.13%) Joomla!
12 2 (0.13%) Liferay
12 2 (0.13%) Magnolia
13 1 (0.067%) PrestaShop
13 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.80%) Adobe XD
4 11 (0.74%) Simulink
5 10 (0.67%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.54%) 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 (0.067%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 70 (4.69%) Magento
2 44 (2.95%) Shopify
3 20 (1.34%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 450 (30.16%) AWS
2 184 (12.33%) SaaS
3 79 (5.29%) Azure
4 65 (4.36%) GitHub
5 53 (3.55%) GCP
6 32 (2.14%) Amazon S3
7 27 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
8 24 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.54%) Serverless
10 22 (1.47%) npm
11 21 (1.41%) Amazon Kinesis
11 21 (1.41%) Figma
12 19 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (0.80%) Power Platform
15 11 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (0.74%) Stripe
16 10 (0.67%) Cloudflare
16 10 (0.67%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.07%) DNS
2 13 (0.87%) SSL
3 12 (0.80%) Firewall
4 10 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (0.54%) Internet
6 6 (0.40%) SSH
6 6 (0.40%) VoIP
7 5 (0.34%) FTP
8 4 (0.27%) HTTP
9 3 (0.20%) LAN
9 3 (0.20%) SMS
9 3 (0.20%) WAN
10 2 (0.13%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.13%) IPsec
10 2 (0.13%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.13%) Wireless
11 1 (0.067%) Intranet
11 1 (0.067%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 660 (44.24%) MySQL
2 80 (5.36%) Relational Database
3 72 (4.83%) SQL Server
4 69 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (2.75%) MariaDB
6 38 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (2.28%) MongoDB
8 26 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (1.61%) RDBMS
10 22 (1.47%) NoSQL
11 21 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (1.01%) DynamoDB
12 15 (1.01%) Redis
13 12 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
13 12 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (0.80%) Power BI
14 8 (0.54%) SQLite
15 7 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (0.40%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 414 (27.75%) Git
2 61 (4.09%) JIRA
3 38 (2.55%) Selenium
4 35 (2.35%) Cypress.io
5 30 (2.01%) GitLab
6 23 (1.54%) Jenkins
7 22 (1.47%) Postman
7 22 (1.47%) Subversion
8 17 (1.14%) webpack
9 16 (1.07%) PHPUnit
10 11 (0.74%) gulp
10 11 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.67%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.60%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.54%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.34%) Grunt
15 4 (0.27%) git-flow
16 2 (0.13%) Appium
16 2 (0.13%) Bower
16 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 318 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 163 (10.92%) Marketing
3 129 (8.65%) Retail
4 82 (5.50%) Finance
5 55 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (3.28%) Games
7 34 (2.28%) Tech for Good
8 27 (1.81%) Manufacturing
9 26 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 18 (1.21%) Electronics
10 18 (1.21%) Law
11 16 (1.07%) Banking
12 14 (0.94%) Legal
12 14 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (0.94%) Public Sector
13 11 (0.74%) Health Technology
14 10 (0.67%) Retail Banking
15 8 (0.54%) German Language
15 8 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (0.40%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,166 (78.15%) Developer
2 661 (44.30%) PHP Developer
3 301 (20.17%) Senior
4 269 (18.03%) Senior Developer
5 209 (14.01%) Full Stack Developer
6 157 (10.52%) Web Developer
7 139 (9.32%) Senior PHP Developer
8 137 (9.18%) Lead
9 98 (6.57%) Software Developer
10 87 (5.83%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 83 (5.56%) Software Engineer
12 82 (5.50%) WordPress Developer
13 80 (5.36%) Full Stack PHP Developer
14 63 (4.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 58 (3.89%) Junior
15 58 (3.89%) PHP Web Developer
16 57 (3.82%) Junior Developer
17 48 (3.22%) Technical Leader
18 43 (2.88%) Lead Developer
18 43 (2.88%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 700 (46.92%) Laravel
2 676 (45.31%) HTML
3 635 (42.56%) CSS
4 365 (24.46%) React
5 279 (18.70%) Vue
6 214 (14.34%) jQuery
7 183 (12.27%) Symfony
8 152 (10.19%) LAMP
9 140 (9.38%) HTML5
10 123 (8.24%) Node.js
11 107 (7.17%) CSS3
11 107 (7.17%) RESTful
12 87 (5.83%) AngularJS
13 78 (5.23%) REST
14 77 (5.16%) Web Services
15 71 (4.76%) JSON
16 66 (4.42%) Sass
17 57 (3.82%) .NET
18 49 (3.28%) SOAP
19 48 (3.22%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 73 (4.89%) Greenfield Project
2 38 (2.55%) Mobile App
3 34 (2.28%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.14%) Onboarding
5 31 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 27 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (1.74%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.47%) IoT
9 20 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
11 18 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.07%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.94%) Animation
15 12 (0.80%) PropTech
16 10 (0.67%) Video Editing
17 8 (0.54%) Digital Media
17 8 (0.54%) Driving Licence
17 8 (0.54%) Legacy Code
18 7 (0.47%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 168 (11.26%) Linux
2 33 (2.21%) Windows
3 18 (1.21%) Ubuntu
4 9 (0.60%) Unix
5 6 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
6 5 (0.34%) Android
6 5 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.067%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.067%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (24.06%) Full Stack Development
1 359 (24.06%) Web Development
2 338 (22.65%) Agile
3 291 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
4 216 (14.48%) OOP
4 216 (14.48%) Software Engineering
5 206 (13.81%) E-Commerce
6 200 (13.40%) MVC
7 178 (11.93%) User Experience
8 160 (10.72%) DevOps
9 130 (8.71%) Front End Development
10 128 (8.58%) OO
11 114 (7.64%) Computer Science
12 113 (7.57%) Mentoring
13 112 (7.51%) TDD
14 88 (5.90%) CI/CD
15 86 (5.76%) UX Design
16 83 (5.56%) Clean Code
17 78 (5.23%) CRM
18 75 (5.03%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 834 (55.90%) JavaScript
2 197 (13.20%) SQL
3 125 (8.38%) TypeScript
4 124 (8.31%) C#
5 96 (6.43%) Java
6 95 (6.37%) Python
7 43 (2.88%) C
8 35 (2.35%) Go
9 24 (1.61%) Ruby
10 19 (1.27%) C++
10 19 (1.27%) Rust
11 17 (1.14%) Bash
12 16 (1.07%) VB
13 13 (0.87%) Ada
14 11 (0.74%) MATLAB
14 11 (0.74%) VB.NET
15 10 (0.67%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.67%) PowerShell
15 10 (0.67%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 190 (12.73%) Degree
2 70 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (1.01%) Azure Certification
4 11 (0.74%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.13%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.067%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.067%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.067%) MCP
7 1 (0.067%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (3.62%) QA
2 33 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 31 (2.08%) WCAG
4 17 (1.14%) GDPR
5 4 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.13%) HL7
6 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.13%) SLA
7 1 (0.067%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 186 (12.47%) Docker
2 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.13%) Varnish
5 1 (0.067%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 90 (6.03%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.82%) Terraform
3 12 (0.80%) Ansible
3 12 (0.80%) Progress Chef
4 11 (0.74%) Puppet
5 8 (0.54%) Grafana
6 7 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.34%) cPanel
8 4 (0.27%) Rancher
9 3 (0.20%) Galera Cluster
10 1 (0.067%) Argo
10 1 (0.067%) Plesk
10 1 (0.067%) Podman
10 1 (0.067%) systemd
Vendors
1 55 (3.69%) Google
2 48 (3.22%) WooCommerce
3 40 (2.68%) Microsoft
4 31 (2.08%) Adobe
5 15 (1.01%) Twitter
6 10 (0.67%) Zend
7 8 (0.54%) New Relic
7 8 (0.54%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.47%) Oracle
8 7 (0.47%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.47%) SAP
9 6 (0.40%) Actuate
9 6 (0.40%) Facebook
9 6 (0.40%) SaltStack
9 6 (0.40%) Sitecore
9 6 (0.40%) VMware
10 5 (0.34%) F5
11 4 (0.27%) HP
11 4 (0.27%) Progress
11 4 (0.27%) YouTube