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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 85 85
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -5
Permanent jobs citing PHP 17 44 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.31% 2.02% 1.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.07% 6.73% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 17 11 11
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,750 -
25th Percentile £26,250 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £39,500 £75,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £102,500 -
West Midlands median annual salary £39,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% -11.11% -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 335 654 462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.85% 30.03% 37.84%
Number of salaries quoted 284 303 385
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £39,250
25th Percentile £45,938 £38,750 £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 £78,778 £79,445 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

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 November 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 (35.29%) Apache
1 6 (35.29%) IIS
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Solr
2 1 (5.88%) nginx
2 1 (5.88%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) SaaS
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Firebase
4 1 (5.88%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) HTTPS
1 1 (5.88%) IPsec
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (70.59%) MySQL
2 8 (47.06%) SQL Server
3 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) Couchbase
4 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) JIRA
3 2 (11.76%) git-flow
4 1 (5.88%) webpack
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Health Technology
2 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Applications Specialist
1 6 (35.29%) Applications Support
1 6 (35.29%) Applications Support Specialist
1 6 (35.29%) Support Specialist
2 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Graduate
3 3 (17.65%) Junior
3 3 (17.65%) Junior Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Graduate Developer
4 2 (11.76%) IT Graduate
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Symfony Developer
5 1 (5.88%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Graduate Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) CSS
1 6 (35.29%) LAMP
2 4 (23.53%) HTML
2 4 (23.53%) jQuery
2 4 (23.53%) Next.js
3 3 (17.65%) Laravel
3 3 (17.65%) Node.js
3 3 (17.65%) React
3 3 (17.65%) React Native
3 3 (17.65%) Vue
4 2 (11.76%) .NET
4 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
4 2 (11.76%) REST
4 2 (11.76%) Symfony
5 1 (5.88%) HTML5
5 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (35.29%) CRM
2 6 (35.29%) Customer Experience
3 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
3 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) E-Commerce
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
5 3 (17.65%) Mobile Application Development
6 2 (11.76%) MVC
6 2 (11.76%) OO
6 2 (11.76%) OOP
6 2 (11.76%) Trunk-Based Development
7 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
7 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.88%) SEO
7 1 (5.88%) Software Delivery
7 1 (5.88%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 9 (52.94%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) C++
4 2 (11.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
1 6 (35.29%) Salesforce