PHP Developer Job Trends in Birmingham

PHP Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median PHP Developer salary in Birmingham is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 91 128
Rank change year-on-year -4 +37 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 17 8 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.56% 0.71% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.75% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12 8 12
10th Percentile £26,125 - £25,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -3.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £53,438 £49,063
90th Percentile - £71,250 £56,750
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +29.41% - -10.53%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,784 1,065 2,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 94.50% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,145 692 2,201
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,400 £84,875 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £52,387 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.99% +4.77% -4.76%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'PHP Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

PHP Developer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for PHP Developer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Salary distribution trend for PHP Developer job vacancies in Birmingham

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in Birmingham

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 26 May 2026, PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Birmingham region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) PHP
2 7 (41.18%) Laravel
3 6 (35.29%) SQL
3 6 (35.29%) Vue
4 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (29.41%) Data Collection
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) .NET
6 3 (17.65%) .NET Framework
6 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 3 (17.65%) CSS
6 3 (17.65%) DevOps
6 3 (17.65%) jQuery
6 3 (17.65%) Microservices
6 3 (17.65%) MySQL
6 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
6 3 (17.65%) Process Improvement
6 3 (17.65%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (17.65%) Rust
7 2 (11.76%) Agile
7 2 (11.76%) AWS
7 2 (11.76%) Azure
7 2 (11.76%) C#
7 2 (11.76%) C++
7 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (11.76%) Degree
7 2 (11.76%) Java
7 2 (11.76%) MVC
7 2 (11.76%) OOP

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MySQL
1 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (17.65%) Law
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Laravel
2 6 (35.29%) Vue
3 3 (17.65%) .NET
3 3 (17.65%) .NET Framework
3 3 (17.65%) CSS
3 3 (17.65%) jQuery
4 1 (5.88%) CSS3
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) HTML5
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (29.41%) Data Collection
2 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
3 3 (17.65%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Microservices
3 3 (17.65%) Process Improvement
3 3 (17.65%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (11.76%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
4 2 (11.76%) MVC
4 2 (11.76%) OOP
5 1 (5.88%) Clean Code
5 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.88%) OO
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) PHP
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Rust
4 2 (11.76%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) C++
4 2 (11.76%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft