PHP Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

PHP
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 85 106
Rank change year-on-year -5 +21 -8
Permanent jobs citing PHP 9 5 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.51% 0.49% 1.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.36% 2.42% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 17
10th Percentile £39,600 - £36,300
25th Percentile £53,125 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £71,250 £57,500
90th Percentile - £76,500 £65,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%

All Programming Languages
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 268 207 442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 15.17% 20.35% 22.51%
Number of salaries quoted 204 125 356
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -
75th Percentile £67,625 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,375 £76,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

PHP job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

PHP
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for PHP in Buckinghamshire

PHP
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 11 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes -39 5 £50,000 -11.11% 2
Aylesbury - 4 £60,000 - 2
PHP
South East

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Postman
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
1 8 (88.89%) PHP Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior PHP Developer
3 2 (22.22%) PHP Laravel Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
4 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 1 (11.11%) C# Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Graduate
4 1 (11.11%) Graduate C# Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Graduate C# Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Graduate Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Graduate PHP Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Graduate Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Laravel
2 3 (33.33%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (11.11%) CSS3
3 1 (11.11%) Ember.js
3 1 (11.11%) HTML5
3 1 (11.11%) pytest
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) Sass
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) Symfony
3 1 (11.11%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) OO
1 2 (22.22%) OO PHP
2 1 (11.11%) Agile
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (11.11%) Fintech
2 1 (11.11%) MVC
2 1 (11.11%) OOP
2 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) SDLC
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Zend