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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 92 97
Rank change year-on-year +15 +5 +1
Permanent jobs citing PHP 30 33 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.36% 2.04% 1.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.24% 6.35% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 30 15 32
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £30,150
25th Percentile £33,063 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +26.32% -17.39%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £63,125
90th Percentile £100,000 - £69,750
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £63,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year -29.41% +41.67% -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 364 520 663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.53% 32.08% 31.11%
Number of salaries quoted 298 267 615
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £81,250
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 6 March 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 6 (20.00%) Apache
1 6 (20.00%) IIS
2 5 (16.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) SaaS
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) Figma
4 3 (10.00%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) MySQL
2 8 (26.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) JIRA
3 2 (6.67%) git-flow
4 1 (3.33%) webpack
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Health Technology
2 6 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Developer
1 10 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) PHP Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Applications Specialist
3 6 (20.00%) Applications Support
3 6 (20.00%) Applications Support Specialist
3 6 (20.00%) Support Specialist
4 4 (13.33%) Designer
4 4 (13.33%) Graduate
4 4 (13.33%) HTML CSS Designer
4 4 (13.33%) Lead
4 4 (13.33%) Lead Software Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior PHP Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Web Designer
5 3 (10.00%) Graduate C# Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Graduate C# Software Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Graduate Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) CSS
2 8 (26.67%) HTML
3 6 (20.00%) LAMP
4 4 (13.33%) jQuery
4 4 (13.33%) Next.js
5 3 (10.00%) Laravel
5 3 (10.00%) Node.js
5 3 (10.00%) React
5 3 (10.00%) React Native
5 3 (10.00%) Vue
6 2 (6.67%) REST
6 2 (6.67%) Symfony
7 1 (3.33%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.67%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (20.00%) CRM
3 6 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 5 (16.67%) Agile
5 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (13.33%) Data Collection
6 3 (10.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.00%) Mobile Application Development
7 2 (6.67%) DevOps
7 2 (6.67%) MVC
7 2 (6.67%) OOP
7 2 (6.67%) SDET
7 2 (6.67%) Software Testing
7 2 (6.67%) Trunk-Based Development
8 1 (3.33%) SEO
8 1 (3.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) SQL
2 9 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.33%) C#
4 2 (6.67%) C++
4 2 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (20.00%) Oracle
1 6 (20.00%) Salesforce