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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 80 103
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 -9
Permanent jobs citing PHP 28 22 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.04% 1.70% 1.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.20% 5.88% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 28 19 34
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £30,450
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +12.82% -15.22%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 - £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -14.29%

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 389 374 767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.40% 28.95% 28.46%
Number of salaries quoted 313 287 704
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

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 17 April 2026.

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 7 (25.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) Azure
1 7 (25.00%) Figma
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Firebase
3 2 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) MySQL
2 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) webpack
General
1 6 (21.43%) Health Technology
1 6 (21.43%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Law
3 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Developer
2 12 (42.86%) PHP Developer
3 9 (32.14%) Software Engineer
4 6 (21.43%) Designer
4 6 (21.43%) HTML CSS Designer
4 6 (21.43%) Web Designer
5 5 (17.86%) Graduate
5 5 (17.86%) Senior
5 5 (17.86%) Senior Developer
5 5 (17.86%) Senior PHP Developer
6 4 (14.29%) C# Developer
6 4 (14.29%) C# Software Developer
6 4 (14.29%) Graduate C# Developer
6 4 (14.29%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 4 (14.29%) Graduate Developer
6 4 (14.29%) Graduate PHP Developer
6 4 (14.29%) Graduate Software Developer
6 4 (14.29%) Lead
6 4 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (42.86%) CSS
2 9 (32.14%) HTML
3 3 (10.71%) .NET
3 3 (10.71%) .NET Framework
3 3 (10.71%) jQuery
3 3 (10.71%) Next.js
4 2 (7.14%) Laravel
4 2 (7.14%) Node.js
4 2 (7.14%) React
4 2 (7.14%) React Native
4 2 (7.14%) Vue
5 1 (3.57%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.14%) Robotics
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Software Engineering
2 6 (21.43%) Computer Science
3 5 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (17.86%) Data Collection
3 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.29%) Agile
5 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
5 3 (10.71%) DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
5 3 (10.71%) Microservices
5 3 (10.71%) MVC
5 3 (10.71%) OOP
5 3 (10.71%) Process Improvement
5 3 (10.71%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (7.14%) E-Commerce
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (7.14%) Mobile Application Development
6 2 (7.14%) SDET
6 2 (7.14%) Software Testing
7 1 (3.57%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) SQL
2 5 (17.86%) C#
3 3 (10.71%) C++
3 3 (10.71%) Java
3 3 (10.71%) Rust
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft