PHP Developer
UK

The median PHP Developer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 318 381
Rank change year-on-year -48 +63 -194
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 739 1,128 1,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 1.09% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.19% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 696 573 1,189
10th Percentile £29,875 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 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
England -30 671 £45,000 -14.29% 145
UK excluding London -51 653 £45,000 -5.26% 120
Work from Home +30 360 £50,000 -4.76% 97
North of England +44 219 £45,000 - 52
North West +46 116 £49,250 -10.45% 31
Midlands -28 108 £42,500 -5.56% 19
South East -95 108 £50,000 - 18
South West -41 103 £45,000 -5.26% 13
Yorkshire +77 90 £42,500 +6.25% 17
East of England +43 71 £43,500 -33.08% 15
West Midlands +2 62 £42,500 - 10
London +6 60 £54,000 -10.00% 29
East Midlands -49 45 £40,000 -20.00% 9
Scotland -100 26 £45,000 - 5
Wales +2 14 £47,500 +5.56% 1
North East -21 13 £46,500 +29.17% 4
Northern Ireland +7 4 £33,500 -4.29%

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 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 featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 739 (100.00%) PHP
2 484 (65.49%) Laravel
3 417 (56.43%) JavaScript
4 380 (51.42%) MySQL
5 313 (42.35%) HTML
6 294 (39.78%) CSS
7 229 (30.99%) AWS
8 198 (26.79%) Git
9 178 (24.09%) Full Stack Development
10 177 (23.95%) React
10 177 (23.95%) Vue
11 163 (22.06%) Social Skills
12 156 (21.11%) Web Development
13 146 (19.76%) Agile
13 146 (19.76%) Symfony
14 139 (18.81%) OOP
15 123 (16.64%) jQuery
16 115 (15.56%) MVC
17 114 (15.43%) SaaS
18 106 (14.34%) OO
19 97 (13.13%) Docker
19 97 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
20 95 (12.86%) E-Commerce
21 91 (12.31%) Linux
22 89 (12.04%) SQL
23 88 (11.91%) TDD
24 78 (10.55%) Software Engineering
25 75 (10.15%) WordPress
26 71 (9.61%) HTML5
26 71 (9.61%) LAMP

PHP Developer Skill Set
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 75 (10.15%) WordPress
2 32 (4.33%) CMS
3 23 (3.11%) Apache
4 20 (2.71%) nginx
5 8 (1.08%) Drupal
6 6 (0.81%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.54%) ColdFusion
7 4 (0.54%) IIS
8 3 (0.41%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.27%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.14%) Confluence
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.14%) Totara
Applications
1 5 (0.68%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.54%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 24 (3.25%) Magento
2 13 (1.76%) Shopify
3 3 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.27%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 229 (30.99%) AWS
2 114 (15.43%) SaaS
3 27 (3.65%) GCP
4 22 (2.98%) Azure
5 19 (2.57%) GitHub
6 16 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (1.49%) npm
8 10 (1.35%) Serverless
8 10 (1.35%) Stripe
9 8 (1.08%) Figma
10 6 (0.81%) DigitalOcean
11 5 (0.68%) Power Platform
12 4 (0.54%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.54%) Firebase
13 3 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.41%) Google Tag Manager
14 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 2 (0.27%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (0.27%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.81%) VoIP
1 6 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (0.54%) SSH
3 2 (0.27%) FTP
3 2 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (51.42%) MySQL
2 32 (4.33%) Relational Database
3 29 (3.92%) MariaDB
4 25 (3.38%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 21 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (1.89%) Redis
8 9 (1.22%) NoSQL
9 7 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.81%) GIS
11 5 (0.68%) Power BI
12 4 (0.54%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.41%) Looker
14 2 (0.27%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.27%) phpMyAdmin
15 1 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
15 1 (0.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 198 (26.79%) Git
2 29 (3.92%) JIRA
3 17 (2.30%) webpack
4 13 (1.76%) Subversion
5 8 (1.08%) GitLab
6 7 (0.95%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.95%) PHPUnit
7 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.41%) git-flow
8 3 (0.41%) Grunt
9 2 (0.27%) gulp
9 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.14%) Selenium
10 1 (0.14%) Storybook
10 1 (0.14%) WiX
General
1 163 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 47 (6.36%) Marketing
3 43 (5.82%) Finance
4 29 (3.92%) Retail
5 23 (3.11%) Games
6 17 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (2.17%) Telecoms
8 11 (1.49%) Tech for Good
9 10 (1.35%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.22%) Turkish Language
11 7 (0.95%) Law
12 6 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.54%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.41%) Legal
14 3 (0.41%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.27%) Aviation
15 2 (0.27%) Banking
16 1 (0.14%) Advertising
16 1 (0.14%) Digital Healthcare
16 1 (0.14%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 484 (65.49%) Laravel
2 313 (42.35%) HTML
3 294 (39.78%) CSS
4 177 (23.95%) React
4 177 (23.95%) Vue
5 146 (19.76%) Symfony
6 123 (16.64%) jQuery
7 71 (9.61%) HTML5
7 71 (9.61%) LAMP
8 65 (8.80%) RESTful
9 54 (7.31%) Node.js
10 52 (7.04%) REST
11 47 (6.36%) AngularJS
12 46 (6.22%) CSS3
13 40 (5.41%) SOAP
14 36 (4.87%) Web Services
15 33 (4.47%) Sass
16 30 (4.06%) Tailwind CSS
17 29 (3.92%) Doctrine
18 23 (3.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (7.85%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (4.06%) Mobile App
3 24 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (1.76%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.49%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.49%) PropTech
7 9 (1.22%) Animation
8 7 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (0.95%) Video Editing
9 5 (0.68%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.68%) Educational Technology
9 5 (0.68%) e-Learning
9 5 (0.68%) Legacy Code
10 4 (0.54%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.41%) Blog
11 3 (0.41%) Digital Media
11 3 (0.41%) NHS
11 3 (0.41%) Photography
11 3 (0.41%) Solar Energy
Operating Systems
1 91 (12.31%) Linux
2 10 (1.35%) Windows
3 9 (1.22%) Ubuntu
4 6 (0.81%) Alpine Linux
5 5 (0.68%) Unix
6 2 (0.27%) AIX
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (24.09%) Full Stack Development
2 156 (21.11%) Web Development
3 146 (19.76%) Agile
4 139 (18.81%) OOP
5 115 (15.56%) MVC
6 106 (14.34%) OO
7 97 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (12.86%) E-Commerce
9 88 (11.91%) TDD
10 78 (10.55%) Software Engineering
11 65 (8.80%) Unit Testing
11 65 (8.80%) User Experience
12 63 (8.53%) DevOps
13 61 (8.25%) Clean Code
14 59 (7.98%) OO PHP
15 56 (7.58%) Computer Science
16 51 (6.90%) Front End Development
17 44 (5.95%) Test Automation
18 43 (5.82%) Microservices
19 39 (5.28%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 739 (100.00%) PHP
2 417 (56.43%) JavaScript
3 89 (12.04%) SQL
4 45 (6.09%) TypeScript
5 18 (2.44%) Java
6 15 (2.03%) Python
7 12 (1.62%) Ada
7 12 (1.62%) C#
7 12 (1.62%) Go
8 9 (1.22%) Kotlin
8 9 (1.22%) VB
9 6 (0.81%) Rust
10 4 (0.54%) CFML
10 4 (0.54%) Ruby
10 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.14%) Bash
11 1 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 61 (8.25%) Degree
2 51 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.19%) QA
2 6 (0.81%) GDPR
3 5 (0.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 97 (13.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 16 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.22%) Terraform
3 2 (0.27%) cPanel
4 1 (0.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (2.03%) Adobe
2 13 (1.76%) Google
3 12 (1.62%) Microsoft
4 8 (1.08%) Twitter
4 8 (1.08%) WooCommerce
5 6 (0.81%) Actuate
5 6 (0.81%) Zend
6 5 (0.68%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.54%) HP
8 3 (0.41%) Facebook
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle
9 2 (0.27%) Progress
9 2 (0.27%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.14%) Apple
10 1 (0.14%) Panasonic
10 1 (0.14%) Sony