Object-Oriented PHP (OO PHP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OO PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OO PHP over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 837 944 1014
Rank change year-on-year +107 +70 -275
Permanent jobs citing OO PHP 67 49 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.047% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.049% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 62 33 117
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +8.25% +14.12%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £75,000 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

OO PHP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

OO PHP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OO PHP in the UK

OO PHP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for OO PHP in the UK

OO PHP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OO PHP over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OO PHP in the UK

OO PHP
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OO PHP within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
UK excluding London +45 66 £45,000 -14.29% 12
England +106 61 £45,000 -14.29% 13
Work from Home +92 33 £45,000 -14.29% 10
South East +7 15 £57,500 +9.52%
South West -11 14 £45,000 +5.88%
North of England +55 13 £47,500 - 5
East of England - 11 £40,000 - 3
Yorkshire - 8 £47,500 - 1
Midlands +17 7 £37,500 +25.00% 2
East Midlands -2 6 £37,500 +25.00% 1
Scotland - 5 £45,000 - 2
North West +4 3 £45,000 -5.26% 4
North East -5 2 £85,000 -
London +117 1 £80,000 +23.08% 3
West Midlands +17 1 £37,500 - 1
Wales +4 1 £32,500 -53.57%

OO PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.99%) CMS
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Drupal
3 1 (1.49%) nginx
3 1 (1.49%) PrestaShop
3 1 (1.49%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Magento
1 1 (1.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (53.73%) AWS
2 19 (28.36%) SaaS
3 8 (11.94%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (5.97%) DigitalOcean
5 3 (4.48%) Azure
5 3 (4.48%) npm
5 3 (4.48%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.99%) Yarn
7 1 (1.49%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (5.97%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (74.63%) MySQL
2 17 (25.37%) SQL Server
3 16 (23.88%) MariaDB
4 12 (17.91%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.48%) Power BI
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (31.34%) Git
2 11 (16.42%) JIRA
3 2 (2.99%) git-flow
4 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.49%) Grunt
4 1 (1.49%) PHPUnit
4 1 (1.49%) Selenium
4 1 (1.49%) webpack
4 1 (1.49%) WiX
General
1 27 (40.30%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.46%) Retail
2 5 (7.46%) Telecoms
3 4 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.48%) Marketing
5 2 (2.99%) Finance
5 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Games
Job Titles
1 62 (92.54%) Developer
2 59 (88.06%) PHP Developer
3 17 (25.37%) PHP Laravel Developer
4 7 (10.45%) Full Stack Developer
4 7 (10.45%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 7 (10.45%) Senior
4 7 (10.45%) Senior Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Backend Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Mid-Level PHP Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Senior PHP Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Software Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Software Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Development Manager
8 2 (2.99%) PHP Web Developer
8 2 (2.99%) Software Development Manager
8 2 (2.99%) Software Manager
8 2 (2.99%) Web Developer
9 1 (1.49%) Full Stack Web Developer
9 1 (1.49%) Senior Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (79.10%) Laravel
2 36 (53.73%) Vue
3 35 (52.24%) HTML
4 33 (49.25%) CSS
5 30 (44.78%) jQuery
6 19 (28.36%) HTML5
7 18 (26.87%) CSS3
7 18 (26.87%) Symfony
8 17 (25.37%) RESTful
9 12 (17.91%) React
10 11 (16.42%) REST
11 10 (14.93%) SOAP
11 10 (14.93%) Yii
12 9 (13.43%) Sass
13 7 (10.45%) AngularJS
13 7 (10.45%) LAMP
14 6 (8.96%) Doctrine
14 6 (8.96%) React Native
15 4 (5.97%) Tailwind CSS
16 3 (4.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (8.96%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.48%) Digital Media
3 3 (4.48%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.49%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.49%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.43%) Linux
2 1 (1.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (100.00%) OO
2 21 (31.34%) Agile
2 21 (31.34%) Web Development
3 16 (23.88%) MVC
4 14 (20.90%) Full Stack Development
4 14 (20.90%) Unit Testing
5 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (17.91%) OOP
6 12 (17.91%) Software Engineering
7 11 (16.42%) Front End Development
8 8 (11.94%) Clean Code
8 8 (11.94%) Containerisation
8 8 (11.94%) Microservices
9 7 (10.45%) DevOps
9 7 (10.45%) User Experience
10 6 (8.96%) Computer Science
10 6 (8.96%) Mobile Application Development
11 5 (7.46%) CRM
11 5 (7.46%) TDD
11 5 (7.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 67 (100.00%) PHP
2 50 (74.63%) JavaScript
3 13 (19.40%) SQL
4 6 (8.96%) C#
5 4 (5.97%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.48%) Delphi
6 3 (4.48%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (11.94%) Degree
2 6 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) QA
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (11.94%) Kubernetes
1 8 (11.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (5.97%) HP
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.49%) Apple
3 1 (1.49%) Sony