Senior PHP Developer
UK

The median Senior PHP Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 746 482 976
Rank change year-on-year -264 +494 -374
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 152 614 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.61% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.66% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 146 119 162
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +21.05%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £67,188
90th Percentile £78,750 £90,500 £74,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +27.78%

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 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
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 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior PHP Developer in the UK

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior PHP Developer in the UK

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior PHP Developer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior PHP Developer in the UK

Senior PHP Developer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior PHP Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 -218 138 £55,000 -4.35% 31
UK excluding London -291 135 £55,000 -4.35% 27
Work from Home +85 103 £55,000 -8.33% 23
North of England -44 56 £52,500 -4.55% 9
North West -3 42 £52,500 -4.55% 7
South West -64 28 £55,000 -4.35% 1
South East -57 25 £55,000 +10.00% 7
Yorkshire +22 14 £55,000 +27.91% 1
London +65 12 £77,500 +29.17% 7
Midlands -134 9 £42,500 -22.73% 4
East of England -1 8 £53,750 -36.76% 3
Wales -2 7 £61,500 - 1
East Midlands -79 7 £42,500 -22.73% 1
West Midlands -59 2 £70,000 +40.00% 3
Scotland -91 2 £52,500 +8.81% 2

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior PHP Developer in the job title.

1 152 (100.00%) PHP
2 113 (74.34%) Laravel
3 68 (44.74%) JavaScript
4 67 (44.08%) MySQL
5 63 (41.45%) AWS
6 54 (35.53%) React
7 45 (29.61%) HTML
8 42 (27.63%) Social Skills
9 41 (26.97%) CSS
10 38 (25.00%) Symfony
11 37 (24.34%) Vue
12 34 (22.37%) Git
13 30 (19.74%) SaaS
14 27 (17.76%) Agile
14 27 (17.76%) Full Stack Development
15 24 (15.79%) TDD
15 24 (15.79%) OOP
16 21 (13.82%) MVC
16 21 (13.82%) RESTful
17 20 (13.16%) E-Commerce
17 20 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
18 19 (12.50%) Web Development
19 17 (11.18%) TypeScript
20 15 (9.87%) Node.js
20 15 (9.87%) LAMP
20 15 (9.87%) Clean Code
21 14 (9.21%) GCP
21 14 (9.21%) Docker
22 13 (8.55%) jQuery
23 12 (7.89%) Mentoring

Senior 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 9 (5.92%) CMS
2 8 (5.26%) WordPress
3 2 (1.32%) Apache
3 2 (1.32%) Drupal
3 2 (1.32%) nginx
Business Applications
1 6 (3.95%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 63 (41.45%) AWS
2 30 (19.74%) SaaS
3 14 (9.21%) GCP
4 8 (5.26%) Azure
4 8 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (2.63%) Firebase
5 4 (2.63%) GitHub
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.66%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.66%) Datadog
6 1 (0.66%) Discord
6 1 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.66%) Serverless
6 1 (0.66%) Slack
6 1 (0.66%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (44.08%) MySQL
2 5 (3.29%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.29%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.63%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (22.37%) Git
2 4 (2.63%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.97%) PHPUnit
3 3 (1.97%) webpack
4 2 (1.32%) GitLab
5 1 (0.66%) Appium
5 1 (0.66%) git-flow
5 1 (0.66%) Selenium
5 1 (0.66%) Storybook
5 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.24%) Retail
3 10 (6.58%) Finance
3 10 (6.58%) Marketing
4 7 (4.61%) Games
5 5 (3.29%) Tech for Good
6 4 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.66%) Legal
8 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (74.34%) Laravel
2 54 (35.53%) React
3 45 (29.61%) HTML
4 41 (26.97%) CSS
5 38 (25.00%) Symfony
6 37 (24.34%) Vue
7 21 (13.82%) RESTful
8 15 (9.87%) LAMP
8 15 (9.87%) Node.js
9 13 (8.55%) jQuery
10 10 (6.58%) Web Services
11 8 (5.26%) AngularJS
11 8 (5.26%) REST
12 6 (3.95%) JSON
12 6 (3.95%) Yii
13 4 (2.63%) CodeIgniter
13 4 (2.63%) Electron
13 4 (2.63%) HTML5
13 4 (2.63%) Redux
13 4 (2.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.24%) PropTech
2 10 (6.58%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (5.92%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.63%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.97%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.97%) Solar Energy
6 2 (1.32%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.32%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.32%) NHS
7 1 (0.66%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (0.66%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (17.76%) Agile
1 27 (17.76%) Full Stack Development
2 24 (15.79%) OOP
2 24 (15.79%) TDD
3 21 (13.82%) MVC
4 20 (13.16%) E-Commerce
4 20 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (12.50%) Web Development
6 15 (9.87%) Clean Code
7 12 (7.89%) Collaborative Working
7 12 (7.89%) Mentoring
7 12 (7.89%) Scrum
8 11 (7.24%) API Development
9 9 (5.92%) User Experience
10 8 (5.26%) Computer Science
10 8 (5.26%) Fintech
10 8 (5.26%) Kanban
10 8 (5.26%) Roadmaps
10 8 (5.26%) Software Engineering
11 7 (4.61%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 152 (100.00%) PHP
2 68 (44.74%) JavaScript
3 17 (11.18%) TypeScript
4 6 (3.95%) SQL
5 4 (2.63%) Python
5 4 (2.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 14 (9.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 4 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.66%) Ansible
2 1 (0.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (3.29%) Google
1 5 (3.29%) Twitter
2 1 (0.66%) Apple
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.66%) Panasonic
2 1 (0.66%) Sony
2 1 (0.66%) Zend