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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 80 94
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 -23
Permanent jobs citing PHP 9 48 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.76% 2.10% 1.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.80% 7.74% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 7 18 17
10th Percentile - £35,150 £33,750
25th Percentile £25,000 £42,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £49,750 £78,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,500 £80,000 -
West Midlands median annual salary £39,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -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 322 620 517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.10% 27.06% 36.41%
Number of salaries quoted 279 353 429
10th Percentile £36,650 £31,250 £38,125
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,991 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% +1.90%

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

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 16 September 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 2 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Solr
2 1 (11.11%) ColdFusion
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) MPLS
1 2 (22.22%) VoIP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
2 1 (11.11%) IPsec
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) MySQL
2 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) Couchbase
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (22.22%) Legal
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Graduate
1 3 (33.33%) Graduate Developer
1 3 (33.33%) IT Graduate
2 2 (22.22%) Applications Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Applications Support
2 2 (22.22%) Applications Support Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Support Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Agile C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate PHP Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate SQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) PHP Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) CSS
1 4 (44.44%) jQuery
2 3 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (22.22%) LAMP
4 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
4 1 (11.11%) ColdBox
4 1 (11.11%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) JSON
4 1 (11.11%) Laravel
4 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (11.11%) React
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) SOAP
4 1 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (11.11%) Vue
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Virtual Team
2 2 (22.22%) CCTV
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) CentOS
2 1 (11.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) MVC
3 3 (33.33%) OO
3 3 (33.33%) OOP
4 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) CRM
4 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Network Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
5 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) User Experience
5 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) C#
3 3 (33.33%) C++
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Chartered Engineer
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat