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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 87 85
Rank change year-on-year -34 -2 +6
Permanent jobs citing PHP 13 11 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.36% 0.93% 2.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.92% 3.59% 7.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 15
10th Percentile - £25,000 £34,550
25th Percentile £24,000 £32,375 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,750 £39,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% -22.00% -
75th Percentile £38,750 £49,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £47,500 £65,000 £91,500
West Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £39,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -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 445 306 658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.22% 25.93% 29.57%
Number of salaries quoted 287 267 317
10th Percentile £39,570 £35,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,000 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,375 £70,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,500 £79,760
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +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 11 October 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 1 (7.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Figma
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Automotive
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
1 8 (61.54%) PHP Developer
1 8 (61.54%) PHP Laravel Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Graduate
2 3 (23.08%) Graduate Software Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) C# Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) PHP Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Laravel
2 6 (46.15%) Vue
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) CSS3
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) HTML5
3 1 (7.69%) jQuery
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (7.69%) AI
3 1 (7.69%) Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
3 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (7.69%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
3 1 (7.69%) Customer Experience
3 1 (7.69%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis
3 1 (7.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (7.69%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations