The first table below looks at the demand for the PHP Developer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP Developer
Rank 133 112 143
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 2215 2839 2212
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 2.049% 2.352% 1.778%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.171% 2.481% 1.887%
Number of salaries quoted 2032 2711 2054
Average salary £34,000 £35,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,000 £30,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

PHP Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

PHP Developer Jobs Demand Trend

PHP Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the UK.

PHP Developer Salary Trend

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PHP Developer over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

PHP Developer Salary Histogram

PHP Developer
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -24 2135 £34,000 -2.85%
London -73 723 £40,000 -
South East +25 570 £35,000 +11.11%
North West +12 267 £30,000 -4.76%
South West +11 197 £33,000 +10.00%
Manchester +14 184 £30,000 -6.25%
City of London +13 149 £35,750 -10.62%
Yorkshire -11 134 £27,500 -5.17%
Surrey +36 128 £35,000 -
Hampshire +7 113 £32,500 +11.11%
East Sussex +16 105 £34,000 +13.33%
Brighton +11 100 £34,000 +13.33%
East of England -54 99 £32,500 +8.33%
West Midlands -52 89 £27,500 -3.50%
Berkshire +18 88 £35,000 +7.69%
Bristol -4 74 £32,500 +4.83%
West Yorkshire -41 62 £30,000 -
Reading +23 51 £37,500 +7.14%
Birmingham -27 51 £28,500 -5.00%
South Yorkshire +24 47 £29,000 -3.33%
Oxfordshire -27 47 £35,000 +16.66%
Leeds -33 47 £28,750 -4.16%
Cambridgeshire +23 46 £35,000 -
East Midlands -47 46 £29,250 +6.36%
Southampton +13 44 £35,000 +16.66%
Sheffield +16 43 £27,500 -4.34%
Kent +11 40 £32,500 -
Guildford +14 36 £38,500 +10.00%
Dorset -6 35 £30,000 +9.09%
Cheshire -16 35 £30,000 -4.76%

PHP Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited PHP Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with PHP Developer in their job title.

1 4434 (100.00%) PHP
2 3043 (68.63%) MySQL
3 2989 (67.41%) CSS
4 2957 (66.69%) JavaScript
5 2586 (58.32%) HTML
6 1970 (44.43%) jQuery
7 1593 (35.93%) OO
8 1569 (35.39%) MVC
9 1508 (34.01%) Zend
10 1430 (32.25%) Linux
11 1164 (26.25%) LAMP
12 1163 (26.23%) PHP5
13 976 (22.01%) OOP
14 974 (21.97%) E-Commerce
15 903 (20.37%) HTML5
16 756 (17.05%) Ajax
17 709 (15.99%) Apache
18 691 (15.58%) Symfony
19 687 (15.49%) SQL
20 681 (15.36%) Drupal
21 680 (15.34%) CMS
22 677 (15.27%) Subversion
23 661 (14.91%) XML
24 657 (14.82%) Web Development
25 615 (13.87%) Git (software)
26 569 (12.83%) CSS3
27 559 (12.61%) Magento
28 554 (12.49%) XHTML
29 502 (11.32%) CodeIgniter
30 478 (10.78%) WordPress

PHP Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited PHP Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with PHP Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2989 (67.41%) CSS
2 2586 (58.32%) HTML
3 1970 (44.43%) jQuery
4 1164 (26.25%) LAMP
5 903 (20.37%) HTML5
6 756 (17.05%) Ajax
7 691 (15.58%) Symfony
8 661 (14.91%) XML
9 569 (12.83%) CSS3
10 554 (12.49%) XHTML
11 502 (11.32%) CodeIgniter
12 432 (9.743%) CakePHP
13 404 (9.111%) Zend Framework
14 350 (7.894%) Web Services
15 255 (5.751%) SOAP
16 242 (5.458%) JSON
17 197 (4.443%) .NET
18 180 (4.060%) RESTful
19 164 (3.699%) REST
20 125 (2.819%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 709 (15.99%) Apache
2 681 (15.36%) Drupal
3 680 (15.34%) CMS
4 559 (12.61%) Magento
5 478 (10.78%) WordPress
6 238 (5.368%) Joomla!
7 89 (2.007%) nginx
8 58 (1.308%) ExpressionEngine
9 52 (1.173%) Apache Solr
10 50 (1.128%) Amazon AWS
11 42 (0.947%) Moodle
12 38 (0.857%) IIS
13 34 (0.767%) concrete5
14 29 (0.654%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (0.406%) SharePoint
15 18 (0.406%) Amazon S3
16 16 (0.361%) Facebook Platform
17 12 (0.271%) SilverStripe
18 11 (0.248%) SugarCRM
19 10 (0.226%) TYPO3
Applications
1 295 (6.653%) Photoshop
2 49 (1.105%) Adobe Illustrator
3 44 (0.992%) MS Excel
4 31 (0.699%) MS Office
5 21 (0.474%) Fireworks
6 10 (0.226%) MS Project
7 7 (0.158%) MS PowerPoint
8 5 (0.113%) Google Apps
8 5 (0.113%) InDesign
8 5 (0.113%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.045%) QuarkXPress
9 2 (0.045%) SPSS
10 1 (0.023%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 32 (0.722%) Google Analytics
2 9 (0.203%) SAP LE
3 2 (0.045%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (0.045%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.023%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.023%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.023%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.023%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 205 (4.623%) Internet
2 105 (2.368%) HTTP
3 49 (1.105%) Intranet
4 36 (0.812%) DNS
5 22 (0.496%) SSL
6 16 (0.361%) SMS
6 16 (0.361%) HTTPS
7 15 (0.338%) SSH
8 13 (0.293%) Firewall
8 13 (0.293%) FTP
9 12 (0.271%) Wireless
10 10 (0.226%) VPN
11 9 (0.203%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.203%) NFC
12 8 (0.180%) TCP/IP
13 7 (0.158%) Extranet
13 7 (0.158%) LDAP
14 4 (0.090%) Wireshark
15 3 (0.068%) Asterisk PBX
16 2 (0.045%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3043 (68.63%) MySQL
2 245 (5.525%) SQL Server
3 112 (2.526%) PostgreSQL
4 111 (2.503%) NoSQL
5 102 (2.300%) MongoDB
6 59 (1.331%) Redis
7 49 (1.105%) Hadoop
7 49 (1.105%) Big Data
8 38 (0.857%) RDBMS
9 15 (0.338%) Oracle 10g
9 15 (0.338%) Oracle 11g
10 14 (0.316%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (0.293%) Informix
11 13 (0.293%) SQL Server 2008
12 9 (0.203%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (0.180%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (0.180%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.158%) LevelDB
14 7 (0.158%) SQL Server 2005
15 6 (0.135%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 677 (15.27%) Subversion
2 615 (13.87%) Git (software)
3 118 (2.661%) PHPUnit
4 73 (1.646%) Jenkins
5 57 (1.286%) GitHub
6 54 (1.218%) JIRA
7 48 (1.083%) Mercurial
8 46 (1.037%) Selenium
9 43 (0.970%) Eclipse
10 37 (0.834%) Dreamweaver
11 26 (0.586%) Redmine
12 22 (0.496%) Behat
13 21 (0.474%) NetBeans
14 20 (0.451%) VSS/SourceSafe
15 18 (0.406%) Hudson
15 18 (0.406%) Basecamp
16 17 (0.383%) PhoneGap
17 15 (0.338%) FogBugz
17 15 (0.338%) Trac
18 9 (0.203%) Capistrano
General
1 410 (9.247%) Marketing
2 204 (4.601%) Retail
3 189 (4.263%) Finance
4 113 (2.548%) Games
5 85 (1.917%) Publishing
6 62 (1.398%) Advertising
7 54 (1.218%) Telecoms
8 48 (1.083%) Back Office
9 23 (0.519%) Music
10 17 (0.383%) Legal
11 15 (0.338%) Automotive
12 14 (0.316%) Banking
13 13 (0.293%) Manufacturing
13 13 (0.293%) Multimedia
14 11 (0.248%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.248%) Music Industry
15 9 (0.203%) Billing
16 8 (0.180%) Russian Language
17 5 (0.113%) Online Betting
18 4 (0.090%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 280 (6.315%) Open Source
2 261 (5.886%) Mobile App
3 222 (5.007%) Computer Science
4 162 (3.654%) Digital Media
5 130 (2.932%) Social Media
6 87 (1.962%) SaaS
7 70 (1.579%) W3C
8 57 (1.286%) iPhone
9 54 (1.218%) E-Learning
10 50 (1.128%) Social Network
11 39 (0.880%) Mathematics
11 39 (0.880%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (0.722%) Cloud Computing
13 31 (0.699%) iPad
14 28 (0.631%) BBC
15 27 (0.609%) Visualisation
16 26 (0.586%) Online Games
17 25 (0.564%) Web 2.0
18 24 (0.541%) Graphic Design
19 22 (0.496%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 1430 (32.25%) Linux
2 212 (4.781%) UNIX
3 154 (3.473%) Windows
4 128 (2.887%) Android
5 123 (2.774%) Apple iOS
6 60 (1.353%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.631%) CentOS
8 22 (0.496%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.316%) Mac OS X
10 10 (0.226%) Windows Phone
11 7 (0.158%) Windows 8
12 6 (0.135%) FreeBSD
13 5 (0.113%) Fedora
14 4 (0.090%) Solaris
15 3 (0.068%) SUSE
15 3 (0.068%) Debian
15 3 (0.068%) Windows Mobile
16 2 (0.045%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.045%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.045%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1593 (35.93%) OO
2 1569 (35.39%) MVC
3 976 (22.01%) OOP
4 974 (21.97%) E-Commerce
5 657 (14.82%) Web Development
6 419 (9.450%) Agile Software Development
7 289 (6.518%) Scrum
8 252 (5.683%) Unit Testing
9 241 (5.435%) TDD
10 194 (4.375%) Continuous Integration
11 169 (3.811%) Content Management
12 164 (3.699%) SEO
13 154 (3.473%) Project Management
14 120 (2.706%) Digital Marketing
15 118 (2.661%) Web Application Development
16 107 (2.413%) Web Design
17 89 (2.007%) CRM
17 89 (2.007%) Mobile Application Development
18 82 (1.849%) Software Engineering
19 69 (1.556%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 4434 (100.00%) PHP
2 2957 (66.69%) JavaScript
3 1163 (26.23%) PHP5
4 687 (15.49%) SQL
5 298 (6.721%) Java
6 178 (4.014%) Python
7 163 (3.676%) Ruby
8 128 (2.887%) Perl
9 105 (2.368%) C
10 102 (2.300%) C++
11 98 (2.210%) C#
12 69 (1.556%) Objective-C
13 57 (1.286%) Shell Script
14 46 (1.037%) Bash shell
15 45 (1.015%) ActionScript
16 44 (0.992%) PHP4
17 38 (0.857%) XPath
18 35 (0.789%) VB
19 30 (0.677%) VB.NET
20 27 (0.609%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 429 (9.675%) Degree
2 22 (0.496%) Security Cleared
3 17 (0.383%) SC Cleared
4 9 (0.203%) CNA
4 9 (0.203%) Novell Certification
5 5 (0.113%) PMP
6 3 (0.068%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.068%) MCSE
6 3 (0.068%) MySQL Certification
7 2 (0.045%) Postgraduate
7 2 (0.045%) HND
8 1 (0.023%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (2.413%) QA
2 17 (0.383%) WAI
3 11 (0.248%) PCI DSS
4 7 (0.158%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.113%) WCAG
6 4 (0.090%) SLA
7 1 (0.023%) HL7
System Software
1 58 (1.308%) Varnish
2 12 (0.271%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 4 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.068%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (0.474%) Plesk
2 10 (0.226%) Puppet
3 5 (0.113%) Nagios
3 5 (0.113%) Munin
4 2 (0.045%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 1508 (34.01%) Zend
2 188 (4.240%) Oracle
3 166 (3.744%) Facebook
4 141 (3.180%) Google
5 123 (2.774%) Twitter
6 111 (2.503%) Adobe
7 105 (2.368%) Microsoft
8 26 (0.586%) Red Hat
9 21 (0.474%) Apple
10 20 (0.451%) Akamai
11 17 (0.383%) VMware
12 15 (0.338%) Citrix
12 15 (0.338%) Salesforce.com
13 13 (0.293%) Rackspace
13 13 (0.293%) SAP
14 12 (0.271%) BT
15 10 (0.226%) HP
16 9 (0.203%) Sybase
17 7 (0.158%) Zoho
17 7 (0.158%) Acunetix
Glasgow, Scotland
My client is looking for a developer who is particularly experienced in PHP programming and has the following experience: *MySQL database knowledge *HTML/CSS *Javascript My client is...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £27000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
My client is looking for a developer who is particularly experienced in PHP programming and has the following experience: *MySQL database knowledge *HTML/CSS *Javascript My client is...
Cathcart Associates Ltd
Salary: £27000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Blackburn, Lancashire
PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript - £20k - £25k - Blackburn A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a PHP Developer to join an establish team, working closely with a senior member of...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Permanent £30k to £40k I am looking for a PHP Developer to work across a number of exciting projects for a city centre client... Skills Required - PHP (Essential)...
Experis IT
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bath, South West
PHP Developer £45,000 I am currently looking for a PHP developer to join a new business on theBatharea... This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate to...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bath, South West
This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate to come on board as a Lead Developer and expand with the business over the next 12 months. The role...
Computer Futures
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
A fantastic PHP Developer role has arisen at Newbury's most forward thinking digital agency... After a phenomenal 2012 this agency are looking to take on a PHP...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £40000.00 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Skills Needed: PHP / Drupal / MySQL Robert Walters are working with a leading digital agency based in Birmingham who are looking to recruit a PHP Developer with strong experience...
Robert Walters
Salary: £220 - £250 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
St. Ives, Cambridgeshire
Our client is a fast growing software based building and facility management company who write and provide their software to very large corporates across the UK and soon...
DMS Computer Recruitment
Salary: From £30,000 to £30,000 per annum CIRCA £30K PA
Posted: 23 May 2013
Stockport, North West
PHP Developer - Award Winning Digital Agency - South Manchester - £22,000-£28,000This award winning Digital Agency based in South Manchester is looking to increase their development team by...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £22000 - £28000 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013
Lancashire, North West
Rapidly growing Payroll Services Company in Lancashire is looking to increase their development team by adding a PHP Developer.Due to recent and forecasted growth and an increased...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 25 May 2013
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leading Software Provider within exciting niche industry is looking for an experienced PHP Developer to work on in-house Web/ middle-tier apps and client Web Apps... You...
Pro-Quest Resourcing Ltd
Salary: From £25,000 to £30,000 per annum Negotiable
Posted: 20 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
You will ideally have the following experience: *PHP programming experience (at least 2 years) *MySQL experience *Experience with HTML, CSS, Javascript/JQuery My client is looking for someone...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £27000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 25 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
You will ideally have the following experience: *PHP programming experience (at least 2 years) *MySQL experience *Experience with HTML, CSS, Javascript/JQuery My client is looking for someone...
Cathcart Associates Ltd
Salary: £27000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
We are searching for a talented IT professional who is looking to kick start their career. You will be working in an exciting and creative agency environment where...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £18000 - £22000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
The company operate an E-commerce website, providing systems and services to promoters of events, concerts and and festivals with capacities of twenty thousand plus... Continually improve code...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bath, South West
PHP Developer £45,000 PHP / MySql / Object Orientated Programming / Python I am currently looking for a PHP developer to join a new business on theBatharea... This is an...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + BENEFITS
Posted: 15 May 2013
Lancashire
The successful PHP Developer will ideally have the following commercial experience: *PHP *MySQL *Apache *HTML *JavaScript *JQuery *CSS *MVC *OOP The PHP Developer will constantly improve and develop...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
West Sussex
These include: -PHP -MySQL -JavaScript -CSS -Linux As such you will have gained a strong level of commercial development experience with the above technologies and will enjoy working...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000 Per Annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
You will have good knowledge of Object Oriented PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS and MySQL, and ideallydeveloped businessapplications as well as web products... They are looking for PHP...
Conex Europe Ltd
Salary: £27000 - £34000 per annum + great benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Folkestone, Kent
A PHP, MYSQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS Developer is needed for this well established, thriving software house based in Hythe. The PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS Developer will be...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Leicestershire, East Midlands
This is a hands-on development role giving the successful candidate the opportunity to work with a number of high profile blue chip clients with fantastic career prospects...
greywood
Salary: £30000 - £38000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 1 May 2013
Sheffield, Yorkshire
We are seeking experienced candidates with good working experience developing in PHP and web application/ database development... To be successful for this role you must have:* Experience in...
Salt
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 25 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
This is a PHP Developer role will require candidates to have at least 3 years' experience with: *PHP *MySQL *HTML *CSS *JavaScript My client is a leading company...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £25000 - £32000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Dundee, Scotland
My client is looking for the following demonstrable experience: *Solid PHP programming experience *Experience with CSS, HTML (ideally to HTML 5) *Good experience on Javascript and JQuery You...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013