PHP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 158 161
Rank change year-on-year -118 +3 -60
Permanent jobs citing PHP 639 1,839 2,295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 1.84% 2.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.83% 5.54% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 524 1,672 1,555
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,275 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

All Programming Languages
UK

PHP falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,699 33,218 43,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.89% 33.25% 43.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,150 24,863 27,599
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +4.76%

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 21 May 2025.

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 21 May 2025. 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 -115 584 £50,157 +0.31% 721
UK excluding London -95 509 £50,000 +5.26% 566
Work from Home -72 357 £52,500 +5.00% 600
North of England -128 141 £52,500 +10.53% 198
South East -9 127 £50,000 -9.09% 139
London -17 107 £60,000 -5.09% 265
Midlands -37 86 £40,000 -11.11% 76
North West -109 81 £52,500 +5.00% 135
South West -7 77 £60,000 +33.33% 60
Yorkshire -55 45 £47,500 - 57
West Midlands -14 44 £56,750 +26.11% 42
East of England -64 42 £35,000 -19.54% 50
East Midlands -16 41 £35,000 -22.22% 32
Scotland +92 19 £55,000 +18.92% 12
North East +27 15 £55,000 +22.22% 11
Wales +16 15 £32,500 -35.00% 17
Northern Ireland +32 2 £85,000 +116.56% 9

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 81 (12.68%) WordPress
2 53 (8.29%) CMS
3 15 (2.35%) Apache
4 12 (1.88%) Drupal
5 11 (1.72%) nginx
6 7 (1.10%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.63%) IIS
9 3 (0.47%) ColdFusion
9 3 (0.47%) Confluence
9 3 (0.47%) Joomla!
9 3 (0.47%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.31%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.16%) Kentico
11 1 (0.16%) SAS
11 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.56%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.63%) Adobe Premiere
3 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.47%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.31%) Trello
6 1 (0.16%) InVision
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.16%) Sketch
6 1 (0.16%) SPSS
6 1 (0.16%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 15 (2.35%) Shopify
2 12 (1.88%) Magento
3 11 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (1.41%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.31%) Odoo
5 2 (0.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 183 (28.64%) AWS
2 84 (13.15%) Azure
3 62 (9.70%) GCP
4 41 (6.42%) GitHub
5 31 (4.85%) SaaS
6 28 (4.38%) Serverless
7 19 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (1.88%) Slack
9 11 (1.72%) Amazon S3
9 11 (1.72%) npm
9 11 (1.72%) Zapier
10 10 (1.56%) Google Analytics
11 9 (1.41%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 9 (1.41%) Stripe
12 8 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (1.10%) Power Platform
14 5 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (0.78%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.35%) Internet
2 11 (1.72%) DNS
3 10 (1.56%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.41%) HTTPS
5 7 (1.10%) IPsec
6 5 (0.78%) VoIP
7 4 (0.63%) HTTP
7 4 (0.63%) MPLS
7 4 (0.63%) Network Security
8 3 (0.47%) SSL
8 3 (0.47%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.31%) FTP
9 2 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.31%) LoRaWAN
9 2 (0.31%) SSH
9 2 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.16%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.16%) RTP
10 1 (0.16%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (45.23%) MySQL
2 72 (11.27%) SQL Server
3 37 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (3.60%) Relational Database
5 21 (3.29%) MongoDB
6 15 (2.35%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (1.72%) Redis
9 9 (1.41%) SQLite
10 7 (1.10%) Couchbase
10 7 (1.10%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.78%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.78%) Power BI
12 4 (0.63%) TimescaleDB
13 3 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.47%) GIS
14 2 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
14 2 (0.31%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 166 (25.98%) Git
2 17 (2.66%) JIRA
3 15 (2.35%) Selenium
4 14 (2.19%) PHPUnit
5 10 (1.56%) webpack
6 9 (1.41%) Jenkins
7 8 (1.25%) Postman
8 7 (1.10%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.10%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.10%) Grunt
9 6 (0.94%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.94%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.63%) GitLab
10 4 (0.63%) Mocha
10 4 (0.63%) Subversion
11 3 (0.47%) git-flow
11 3 (0.47%) Jasmine
11 3 (0.47%) Vite
12 2 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.16%) Android Studio
General
1 157 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 101 (15.81%) Finance
3 75 (11.74%) Games
4 30 (4.69%) Marketing
5 25 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (3.13%) Retail
7 19 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (2.66%) Legal
9 15 (2.35%) Law
10 14 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.19%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.88%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.41%) Back Office
14 7 (1.10%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.10%) Turkish Language
15 4 (0.63%) Automotive
15 4 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.47%) Advertising
16 3 (0.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 374 (58.53%) Developer
2 187 (29.26%) PHP Developer
3 144 (22.54%) Senior
4 95 (14.87%) Senior Developer
5 59 (9.23%) Software Engineer
6 54 (8.45%) Full-Stack Developer
6 54 (8.45%) Web Developer
7 46 (7.20%) Lead
8 45 (7.04%) Senior PHP Developer
9 37 (5.79%) Graduate
9 37 (5.79%) Graduate Developer
9 37 (5.79%) IT Graduate
10 35 (5.48%) PHP Software Engineer
11 28 (4.38%) Junior
12 27 (4.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 26 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
14 23 (3.60%) Junior Developer
15 22 (3.44%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
15 22 (3.44%) SQL Developer
16 18 (2.82%) Junior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (46.48%) HTML
2 277 (43.35%) CSS
3 227 (35.52%) Laravel
4 118 (18.47%) React
5 89 (13.93%) Vue
6 75 (11.74%) .NET
6 75 (11.74%) jQuery
6 75 (11.74%) LAMP
7 58 (9.08%) AngularJS
7 58 (9.08%) Symfony
8 50 (7.82%) Node.js
9 45 (7.04%) RESTful
10 43 (6.73%) ASP.NET
11 35 (5.48%) HTML5
12 30 (4.69%) CSS3
13 27 (4.23%) Web Services
14 23 (3.60%) Tailwind CSS
15 21 (3.29%) CakePHP
15 21 (3.29%) REST
16 20 (3.13%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.73%) Mobile App
2 18 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (2.66%) Onboarding
4 14 (2.19%) IoT
5 12 (1.88%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 10 (1.56%) Legacy Code
8 9 (1.41%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (1.10%) Learning Management System
9 7 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.94%) Driving Licence
10 6 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.78%) Blog
11 5 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.78%) Educational Technology
11 5 (0.78%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.63%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 49 (7.67%) Linux
2 29 (4.54%) Windows
3 13 (2.03%) Android
3 13 (2.03%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.10%) Unix
5 5 (0.78%) CentOS
5 5 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.31%) AIX
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Debian
8 1 (0.16%) Rocky
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (26.45%) Agile
2 153 (23.94%) E-Commerce
3 146 (22.85%) Web Development
4 138 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
5 136 (21.28%) Computer Science
6 126 (19.72%) Software Engineering
7 117 (18.31%) OOP
8 112 (17.53%) MVC
9 94 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
10 88 (13.77%) OO
11 76 (11.89%) User Experience
12 70 (10.95%) Artificial Intelligence
13 68 (10.64%) Front End Development
14 65 (10.17%) TDD
15 64 (10.02%) Mentoring
16 63 (9.86%) CI/CD
17 62 (9.70%) Machine Learning
18 56 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
19 54 (8.45%) Data Privacy
20 53 (8.29%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 369 (57.75%) JavaScript
2 158 (24.73%) SQL
3 132 (20.66%) Python
4 127 (19.87%) Java
5 110 (17.21%) C#
6 107 (16.74%) TypeScript
7 99 (15.49%) C++
8 63 (9.86%) C
9 52 (8.14%) R
10 51 (7.98%) Ruby
11 50 (7.82%) Dart
11 50 (7.82%) MATLAB
12 49 (7.67%) Rust
13 39 (6.10%) Go
14 11 (1.72%) Perl
15 5 (0.78%) Scala
15 5 (0.78%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.63%) Bash
16 4 (0.63%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.31%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 145 (22.69%) Degree
2 115 (18.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.25%) Security Cleared
4 4 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (0.63%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (0.47%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.47%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.31%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.31%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.16%) HND
7 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.16%) PMP
7 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.89%) QA
2 32 (5.01%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.35%) WCAG
4 14 (2.19%) GDPR
5 8 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.63%) GMP
6 4 (0.63%) SLA
7 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 70 (10.95%) Docker
2 3 (0.47%) Samba
3 2 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.31%) KVM
3 2 (0.31%) Postfix
3 2 (0.31%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) Varnish
4 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 30 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.29%) Terraform
3 10 (1.56%) Ansible
4 4 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
4 4 (0.63%) Grafana
5 3 (0.47%) Puppet
6 2 (0.31%) Nagios
6 2 (0.31%) Nessus
6 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.16%) cPanel
Vendors
1 40 (6.26%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.44%) Adobe
2 22 (3.44%) Google
3 16 (2.50%) Twitter
4 15 (2.35%) WooCommerce
5 10 (1.56%) Cisco
6 9 (1.41%) New Relic
7 8 (1.25%) SAP
8 6 (0.94%) Meraki
8 6 (0.94%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.78%) Ahrefs
9 5 (0.78%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.78%) Screaming Frog
10 4 (0.63%) Apple
10 4 (0.63%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.63%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.47%) Oracle
11 3 (0.47%) Sage
12 2 (0.31%) IBM
12 2 (0.31%) Xamarin