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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 745 477 979
Rank change year-on-year -268 +502 -380
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 151 618 228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.59% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.65% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 146 119 166
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £44,375
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,875 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +21.05%
75th Percentile £63,250 £76,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £90,500 £73,500
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 93,176 95,124 149,724
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,877 59,832 85,287
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,507
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +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 30 April 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 30 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 -191 137 £55,000 -4.35% 35
UK excluding London -300 135 £55,000 -4.35% 27
Work from Home +100 103 £55,000 -8.33% 28
North of England -55 55 £52,500 -4.55% 12
North West +5 41 £52,500 -4.55% 8
South West -50 30 £55,000 -4.35% 2
South East -48 24 £55,000 +10.00% 3
Yorkshire +18 14 £55,000 +27.91% 2
London +74 11 £75,000 +30.43% 11
Midlands -123 9 £42,500 -22.73% 5
East of England -6 8 £53,750 -36.76% 3
Wales 0 7 £61,500 - 1
East Midlands -85 6 £42,500 -22.73% 1
West Midlands -37 3 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Scotland -88 2 £52,500 +10.53% 2

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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.

1 151 (100.00%) PHP
2 113 (74.83%) Laravel
3 68 (45.03%) JavaScript
4 67 (44.37%) MySQL
5 62 (41.06%) AWS
6 54 (35.76%) React
7 46 (30.46%) HTML
8 42 (27.81%) CSS
9 40 (26.49%) Social Skills
10 39 (25.83%) Vue
11 37 (24.50%) Symfony
12 33 (21.85%) Git
13 30 (19.87%) SaaS
14 27 (17.88%) Full Stack Development
15 26 (17.22%) Agile
16 25 (16.56%) TDD
16 25 (16.56%) OOP
17 24 (15.89%) MVC
18 21 (13.91%) RESTful
19 20 (13.25%) Web Development
19 20 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
20 19 (12.58%) E-Commerce
21 16 (10.60%) TypeScript
22 15 (9.93%) Node.js
22 15 (9.93%) LAMP
23 14 (9.27%) Docker
23 14 (9.27%) Clean Code
24 13 (8.61%) GCP
25 12 (7.95%) Mentoring
25 12 (7.95%) jQuery

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 8 (5.30%) CMS
2 7 (4.64%) WordPress
3 2 (1.32%) Apache
3 2 (1.32%) Drupal
3 2 (1.32%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (3.31%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 62 (41.06%) AWS
2 30 (19.87%) SaaS
3 13 (8.61%) GCP
4 8 (5.30%) Azure
5 7 (4.64%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.65%) Firebase
6 4 (2.65%) GitHub
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.66%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.66%) Datadog
7 1 (0.66%) Discord
7 1 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.66%) Serverless
7 1 (0.66%) Slack
7 1 (0.66%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (44.37%) MySQL
2 7 (4.64%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.31%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.65%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (21.85%) Git
2 4 (2.65%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.99%) PHPUnit
3 3 (1.99%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.99%) webpack
4 1 (0.66%) git-flow
4 1 (0.66%) GitLab
4 1 (0.66%) Storybook
General
1 40 (26.49%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.28%) Retail
3 10 (6.62%) Finance
4 8 (5.30%) Marketing
5 7 (4.64%) Games
6 5 (3.31%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.65%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.66%) Legal
9 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (74.83%) Laravel
2 54 (35.76%) React
3 46 (30.46%) HTML
4 42 (27.81%) CSS
5 39 (25.83%) Vue
6 37 (24.50%) Symfony
7 21 (13.91%) RESTful
8 15 (9.93%) LAMP
8 15 (9.93%) Node.js
9 12 (7.95%) jQuery
9 12 (7.95%) Web Services
10 8 (5.30%) AngularJS
11 7 (4.64%) REST
12 6 (3.97%) JSON
12 6 (3.97%) Yii
13 4 (2.65%) CodeIgniter
13 4 (2.65%) Electron
13 4 (2.65%) HTML5
13 4 (2.65%) Redux
13 4 (2.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.62%) Greenfield Project
1 10 (6.62%) PropTech
2 8 (5.30%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.65%) Client/Server
3 4 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.99%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.99%) Solar Energy
5 2 (1.32%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.32%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.32%) NHS
6 1 (0.66%) Digital Wallet
6 1 (0.66%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (17.88%) Full Stack Development
2 26 (17.22%) Agile
3 25 (16.56%) OOP
3 25 (16.56%) TDD
4 24 (15.89%) MVC
5 20 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (13.25%) Web Development
6 19 (12.58%) E-Commerce
7 14 (9.27%) Clean Code
8 12 (7.95%) Mentoring
8 12 (7.95%) Scrum
9 11 (7.28%) API Development
9 11 (7.28%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (5.96%) User Experience
11 8 (5.30%) Computer Science
11 8 (5.30%) Fintech
11 8 (5.30%) Kanban
11 8 (5.30%) Roadmaps
12 7 (4.64%) CI/CD
12 7 (4.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 151 (100.00%) PHP
2 68 (45.03%) JavaScript
3 16 (10.60%) TypeScript
4 8 (5.30%) SQL
5 4 (2.65%) Python
5 4 (2.65%) Ruby
6 1 (0.66%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (5.30%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 14 (9.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 4 (2.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.66%) Ansible
2 1 (0.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (3.31%) Google
1 5 (3.31%) 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