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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 83 86
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing PHP 20 44 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.33% 2.11% 1.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.73% 7.00% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 20 13 13
10th Percentile £24,900 £36,850 £33,750
25th Percentile £26,250 £50,000 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £65,001 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,000 £66,000
West Midlands median annual salary £39,000 £43,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.86% -2.78% -10.00%

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 349 629 425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 23.19% 30.20% 37.05%
Number of salaries quoted 300 286 360
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,813 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,988 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.11%

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 4 December 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 (30.00%) Apache
1 6 (30.00%) IIS
2 1 (5.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) SaaS
2 7 (35.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) AWS
4 3 (15.00%) Firebase
5 1 (5.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (55.00%) MySQL
2 8 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) JIRA
3 2 (10.00%) git-flow
4 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Health Technology
2 4 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Applications Specialist
2 6 (30.00%) Applications Support
2 6 (30.00%) Applications Support Specialist
2 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Support Specialist
3 4 (20.00%) Graduate
3 4 (20.00%) Lead
3 4 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Graduate Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Junior
4 3 (15.00%) Junior Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 2 (10.00%) C# Software Developer
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Graduate C# Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Graduate C# Software Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Graduate Software Developer
5 2 (10.00%) PHP Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) CSS
1 6 (30.00%) LAMP
2 4 (20.00%) HTML
2 4 (20.00%) jQuery
2 4 (20.00%) Next.js
3 3 (15.00%) Laravel
3 3 (15.00%) Node.js
3 3 (15.00%) React
3 3 (15.00%) React Native
3 3 (15.00%) Vue
4 2 (10.00%) REST
4 2 (10.00%) Symfony
5 1 (5.00%) .NET
5 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.00%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (15.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (30.00%) CRM
3 6 (30.00%) Customer Experience
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
5 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (15.00%) Mobile Application Development
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) MVC
6 2 (10.00%) OOP
6 2 (10.00%) Trunk-Based Development
7 1 (5.00%) OO
7 1 (5.00%) SEO
7 1 (5.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) SQL
2 9 (45.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (20.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) C++
4 2 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
1 6 (30.00%) Salesforce