PHP Jobs in Birmingham

PHP
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 105 94
Rank change year-on-year +18 -11 -17
Permanent jobs citing PHP 17 46 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.30% 1.49% 2.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.71% 5.54% 5.95%
Number of salaries quoted 14 34 29
10th Percentile - £31,500 £42,250
25th Percentile £25,000 £38,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £48,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.64% -15.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,875 £64,375 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 -
West Midlands median annual salary £54,250 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.56% -14.29% -4.55%

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 361 830 655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.56% 26.87% 36.43%
Number of salaries quoted 281 711 509
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,300
25th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,964 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Birmingham

PHP
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP in Birmingham.

Salary trend for PHP in Birmingham

PHP
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in Birmingham over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP in Birmingham

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Solr
1 1 (5.88%) ColdFusion
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) MPLS
1 2 (11.76%) VoIP
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) HTTPS
2 1 (5.88%) IPsec
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) tcpdump
2 1 (5.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (64.71%) MySQL
2 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) Couchbase
4 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Subversion
3 1 (5.88%) GDB
3 1 (5.88%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) WinDbg
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
3 2 (11.76%) Games
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Back Office
4 1 (5.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) PHP Developer
3 6 (35.29%) Graduate
3 6 (35.29%) Graduate Developer
3 6 (35.29%) IT Graduate
4 3 (17.65%) Agile C# Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Agile Developer
4 3 (17.65%) C# Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Graduate C# Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Graduate PHP Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Lead
4 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) SQL Developer
5 2 (11.76%) PHP Software Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) PHP Symfony Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Symfony Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Lead PHP Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) CSS
2 7 (41.18%) jQuery
3 6 (35.29%) .NET
3 6 (35.29%) ASP.NET
4 4 (23.53%) HTML
4 4 (23.53%) Laravel
5 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (11.76%) React
5 2 (11.76%) Symfony
5 2 (11.76%) Web Services
6 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
6 1 (5.88%) Bootstrap
6 1 (5.88%) ColdBox
6 1 (5.88%) JSON
6 1 (5.88%) LAMP
6 1 (5.88%) libvirt
6 1 (5.88%) RESTful
6 1 (5.88%) SOAP
6 1 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Virtual Team
2 2 (11.76%) CCTV
3 1 (5.88%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.88%) Educational Technology
3 1 (5.88%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) CentOS
2 1 (5.88%) Debian
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) MVC
2 8 (47.06%) OO
3 7 (41.18%) Computer Science
4 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (29.41%) OOP
6 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce
8 2 (11.76%) Business Strategy
8 2 (11.76%) DevOps
8 2 (11.76%) Network Architecture
9 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
9 1 (5.88%) Collaborative Culture
9 1 (5.88%) Line Management
9 1 (5.88%) LLM
9 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
9 1 (5.88%) OO PHP
9 1 (5.88%) User Experience
9 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) C#
1 7 (41.18%) C++
1 7 (41.18%) Java
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
3 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) C
4 1 (5.88%) CodeQL
4 1 (5.88%) Go
4 1 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Postgraduate
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat