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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 88 78
Rank change year-on-year -31 -10 +11
Permanent jobs citing PHP 14 10 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.38% 0.85% 2.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.13% 3.12% 7.73%
Number of salaries quoted 8 8 18
10th Percentile - - £35,150
25th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,250 £39,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.87% -25.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £40,938 £44,625 £78,750
90th Percentile £50,125 £70,875 £86,750
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £39,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -8.24% -15.00%

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 448 321 621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.26% 27.13% 27.70%
Number of salaries quoted 304 279 343
10th Percentile £41,625 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £76,075 £72,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,100 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +3.77%

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 23 September 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Law
2 1 (7.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Developer
1 10 (71.43%) PHP Developer
2 8 (57.14%) PHP Laravel Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Graduate
4 3 (21.43%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Software Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) PHP Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Developer
6 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
6 1 (7.14%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Graduate C# Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Graduate Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Graduate Software Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Graduate SQL Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 1 (7.14%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) Laravel
2 6 (42.86%) Vue
3 2 (14.29%) CSS
3 2 (14.29%) jQuery
4 1 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.14%) CSS3
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) HTML5
4 1 (7.14%) React
4 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.14%) Agile
3 1 (7.14%) AI
3 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.14%) Clean Code
3 1 (7.14%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
3 1 (7.14%) Customer Experience
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.14%) Microservices
3 1 (7.14%) MVC
3 1 (7.14%) OO
3 1 (7.14%) OOP
3 1 (7.14%) Process Improvement
3 1 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) C++
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft