PHP Job Trends in Birmingham

PHP
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 76 96
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 -11
Permanent jobs citing PHP 13 48 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.09% 2.19% 1.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.21% 7.29% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 13 14 12
10th Percentile £25,250 £36,275 -
25th Percentile £26,250 £42,188 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £39,500 £72,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £64,000 £94,250 £59,500
West Midlands median annual salary £39,000 £42,500 £46,250
% change year-on-year -8.24% -8.11% -7.50%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

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 in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 309 658 479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.88% 29.98% 36.96%
Number of salaries quoted 267 313 399
10th Percentile £36,550 £31,250 £38,950
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,001
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,600 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

PHP job vacancy trend in Birmingham

PHP
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in Birmingham over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP in Birmingham

PHP
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (46.15%) Apache
1 6 (46.15%) IIS
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Solr
2 1 (7.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) SaaS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
1 1 (7.69%) IPsec
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (84.62%) MySQL
2 8 (61.54%) SQL Server
3 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.69%) Couchbase
4 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) git-flow
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Applications Specialist
1 6 (46.15%) Applications Support
1 6 (46.15%) Applications Support Specialist
1 6 (46.15%) Support Specialist
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Graduate
3 2 (15.38%) Graduate Developer
3 2 (15.38%) IT Graduate
3 2 (15.38%) Junior
3 2 (15.38%) Junior Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Symfony Developer
4 1 (7.69%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Team Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) LAMP
2 4 (30.77%) CSS
2 4 (30.77%) jQuery
3 2 (15.38%) .NET
3 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 2 (15.38%) Laravel
3 2 (15.38%) Next.js
3 2 (15.38%) Node.js
3 2 (15.38%) React
3 2 (15.38%) React Native
3 2 (15.38%) REST
3 2 (15.38%) Symfony
3 2 (15.38%) Vue
4 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) CRM
2 6 (46.15%) Customer Experience
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) E-Commerce
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Mobile Application Development
5 2 (15.38%) MVC
5 2 (15.38%) OO
5 2 (15.38%) OOP
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Trunk-Based Development
6 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (7.69%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) SQL
2 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
1 6 (46.15%) Salesforce