PHP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 166 96
Rank change year-on-year +11 -70 -33
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,869 2,418 5,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.92% 2.27% 3.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.65% 5.20% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,691 1,661 3,230
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,435 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +18.40%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,094 46,460 81,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.04% 43.62% 53.49%
Number of salaries quoted 25,070 29,482 44,615
10th Percentile £35,125 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,146 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.73% +2.80% +7.00%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the UK

PHP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for PHP in the UK

PHP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP in the UK

PHP
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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 +28 1,706 £50,000 -9.09% 390
UK excluding London -10 1,498 £47,500 -5.00% 313
Work from Home +24 875 £50,000 -9.09% 260
North of England +51 480 £47,500 -7.32% 113
London +26 295 £62,500 +4.17% 93
South West -1 264 £45,000 -5.26% 42
South East -92 252 £55,000 +10.00% 51
North West +51 236 £50,000 -9.09% 54
Midlands +19 230 £45,000 -14.29% 52
Yorkshire +83 219 £45,000 - 49
East of England +49 168 £41,750 -42.41% 28
East Midlands 0 118 £45,000 -12.20% 24
West Midlands +24 111 £45,000 -14.29% 28
Scotland -99 53 £47,500 -13.64% 18
Wales +5 43 £50,000 +19.05% 11
North East -45 25 £45,000 -21.74% 11
Northern Ireland -8 9 £45,000 -21.74% 3

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
1 268 (14.34%) WordPress
2 115 (6.15%) CMS
3 81 (4.33%) Drupal
4 59 (3.16%) Apache
5 50 (2.68%) nginx
6 19 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 18 (0.96%) Confluence
8 11 (0.59%) IIS
9 10 (0.54%) Headless CMS
10 9 (0.48%) Moodle
11 6 (0.32%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.32%) ColdFusion
11 6 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
11 6 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.21%) SAS
13 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.11%) Joomla!
13 2 (0.11%) Liferay
13 2 (0.11%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.70%) Adobe XD
4 12 (0.64%) Photoshop
5 10 (0.54%) Simulink
6 8 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.054%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 73 (3.91%) Magento
2 46 (2.46%) Shopify
3 20 (1.07%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.21%) CiviCRM
4 4 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 580 (31.03%) AWS
2 232 (12.41%) SaaS
3 120 (6.42%) Azure
4 91 (4.87%) GitHub
5 65 (3.48%) GCP
6 41 (2.19%) Serverless
7 39 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
8 37 (1.98%) Amazon S3
9 30 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (1.55%) Power Platform
11 27 (1.44%) Amazon Kinesis
12 24 (1.28%) Figma
13 22 (1.18%) npm
14 21 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
15 18 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (0.80%) Stripe
17 14 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
17 14 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
18 13 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
19 12 (0.64%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.30%) HTTP
2 28 (1.50%) Internet
3 26 (1.39%) DNS
4 25 (1.34%) LAN
4 25 (1.34%) WAN
5 14 (0.75%) Firewall
6 12 (0.64%) SSL
7 9 (0.48%) VoIP
8 8 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (0.32%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.21%) FTP
10 4 (0.21%) SSH
11 3 (0.16%) SMS
12 2 (0.11%) 2G
12 2 (0.11%) 4G
12 2 (0.11%) DHCP
12 2 (0.11%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.11%) IPsec
12 2 (0.11%) VPN
12 2 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 745 (39.86%) MySQL
2 104 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 88 (4.71%) Relational Database
4 82 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (2.84%) MongoDB
6 46 (2.46%) MariaDB
7 45 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (1.82%) NoSQL
9 33 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
10 32 (1.71%) Redis
11 28 (1.50%) RDBMS
12 25 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (1.28%) DynamoDB
14 20 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
15 19 (1.02%) Power BI
16 17 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
17 9 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 9 (0.48%) Tableau
18 8 (0.43%) SQLite
19 7 (0.37%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 472 (25.25%) Git
2 77 (4.12%) JIRA
3 44 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 41 (2.19%) Selenium
5 39 (2.09%) Cypress.io
6 36 (1.93%) GitLab
7 27 (1.44%) Postman
8 24 (1.28%) Subversion
9 22 (1.18%) webpack
10 15 (0.80%) PHPUnit
11 13 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
11 13 (0.70%) Visual Studio
12 12 (0.64%) gulp
13 9 (0.48%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.43%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.27%) git-flow
15 5 (0.27%) Grunt
16 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
16 2 (0.11%) TestRail
16 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 378 (20.22%) Social Skills
2 175 (9.36%) Marketing
3 132 (7.06%) Retail
4 104 (5.56%) Finance
5 69 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (2.68%) Games
7 42 (2.25%) Public Sector
7 42 (2.25%) Telecoms
8 30 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 29 (1.55%) Tech for Good
10 21 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (1.02%) Electronics
11 19 (1.02%) Law
11 19 (1.02%) Legal
12 18 (0.96%) Banking
13 11 (0.59%) German Language
14 10 (0.54%) Advertising
14 10 (0.54%) Health Technology
14 10 (0.54%) Retail Banking
15 9 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1,397 (74.75%) Developer
2 723 (38.68%) PHP Developer
3 365 (19.53%) Senior
4 313 (16.75%) Senior Developer
5 235 (12.57%) Full Stack Developer
6 197 (10.54%) Lead
7 166 (8.88%) Web Developer
8 144 (7.70%) Senior PHP Developer
9 130 (6.96%) Software Developer
10 115 (6.15%) Software Engineer
11 100 (5.35%) WordPress Developer
12 99 (5.30%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 87 (4.65%) Full Stack PHP Developer
14 79 (4.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 79 (4.23%) Junior
15 75 (4.01%) Lead Developer
16 73 (3.91%) Junior Developer
17 57 (3.05%) Technical Leader
18 54 (2.89%) PHP Web Developer
19 45 (2.41%) Junior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 847 (45.32%) Laravel
2 773 (41.36%) HTML
3 733 (39.22%) CSS
4 458 (24.51%) React
5 322 (17.23%) Vue
6 237 (12.68%) jQuery
7 228 (12.20%) Symfony
8 188 (10.06%) HTML5
9 186 (9.95%) Node.js
10 176 (9.42%) LAMP
11 149 (7.97%) AngularJS
12 129 (6.90%) CSS3
13 126 (6.74%) RESTful
14 116 (6.21%) REST
15 94 (5.03%) JSON
16 92 (4.92%) Web Services
17 82 (4.39%) Sass
18 78 (4.17%) .NET
19 71 (3.80%) XML
20 53 (2.84%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.14%) Greenfield Project
2 55 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 48 (2.57%) Mobile App
4 38 (2.03%) Cloud Native
5 34 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 31 (1.66%) Product Ownership
7 29 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.50%) IoT
8 28 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
11 18 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
12 15 (0.80%) Algorithms
12 15 (0.80%) Animation
12 15 (0.80%) Low-Code
13 14 (0.75%) Client/Server
13 14 (0.75%) Virtual Team
14 11 (0.59%) Educational Technology
15 10 (0.54%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.54%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 200 (10.70%) Linux
2 36 (1.93%) Windows
3 19 (1.02%) Ubuntu
4 15 (0.80%) Unix
5 11 (0.59%) Android
6 10 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.54%) CentOS
6 10 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.32%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.16%) AIX
10 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.054%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.054%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (25.20%) Full Stack Development
2 415 (22.20%) Web Development
3 409 (21.88%) Agile
4 326 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
5 286 (15.30%) Software Engineering
6 254 (13.59%) OOP
7 249 (13.32%) E-Commerce
8 230 (12.31%) MVC
9 224 (11.99%) DevOps
10 196 (10.49%) User Experience
11 160 (8.56%) Computer Science
12 149 (7.97%) Mentoring
13 148 (7.92%) Front End Development
14 132 (7.06%) CI/CD
15 131 (7.01%) TDD
16 129 (6.90%) OO
17 109 (5.83%) Roadmaps
18 106 (5.67%) Clean Code
19 101 (5.40%) Unit Testing
20 100 (5.35%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 987 (52.81%) JavaScript
2 289 (15.46%) SQL
3 164 (8.77%) TypeScript
4 158 (8.45%) Python
5 151 (8.08%) C#
6 121 (6.47%) Java
7 45 (2.41%) C
8 39 (2.09%) Go
8 39 (2.09%) VB
9 29 (1.55%) Bash
9 29 (1.55%) Ruby
10 23 (1.23%) C++
10 23 (1.23%) JSX
11 22 (1.18%) Rust
12 20 (1.07%) PowerShell
13 17 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 16 (0.86%) Perl
15 14 (0.75%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.70%) Ada
17 11 (0.59%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 272 (14.55%) Degree
2 104 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (1.55%) Security Cleared
4 17 (0.91%) Azure Certification
4 17 (0.91%) SC Cleared
5 7 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (0.32%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.21%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.11%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.11%) MCP
9 2 (0.11%) MCSE
10 1 (0.054%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.054%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.054%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (3.69%) QA
2 42 (2.25%) WCAG
3 41 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.07%) GDPR
5 7 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.11%) HL7
7 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.11%) SLA
8 1 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.054%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.054%) NCSC
8 1 (0.054%) PMO
System Software
1 270 (14.45%) Docker
2 5 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.16%) OpenSIPS
4 3 (0.16%) Varnish
5 2 (0.11%) Firmware
5 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.054%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.054%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 116 (6.21%) Kubernetes
2 80 (4.28%) Terraform
3 24 (1.28%) Ansible
4 15 (0.80%) Puppet
5 13 (0.70%) Progress Chef
6 12 (0.64%) Grafana
7 7 (0.37%) cPanel
7 7 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.21%) Rancher
9 3 (0.16%) Galera Cluster
10 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.11%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.054%) Argo
11 1 (0.054%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.054%) Kibana
11 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.054%) Plesk
11 1 (0.054%) Podman
11 1 (0.054%) SCCM
Vendors
1 71 (3.80%) Microsoft
2 63 (3.37%) Google
3 57 (3.05%) WooCommerce
4 32 (1.71%) Adobe
5 15 (0.80%) Twitter
6 13 (0.70%) Oracle
7 12 (0.64%) Zend
8 10 (0.54%) New Relic
8 10 (0.54%) SAP
9 7 (0.37%) Facebook
9 7 (0.37%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.37%) SaltStack
10 6 (0.32%) Actuate
10 6 (0.32%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.32%) Sitecore
10 6 (0.32%) VMware
11 5 (0.27%) Apple
11 5 (0.27%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.21%) HP
12 4 (0.21%) Progress