PHP Developer Jobs in the City of London

PHP Developer
Central London > City of London

The median PHP Developer salary in the City of London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 174 209
Rank change year-on-year +42 +35 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 9 6 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.43% 0.18% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.19% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 26
10th Percentile £42,625 - £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £31,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £33,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -40.00% +27.91%
75th Percentile £65,313 £58,750 £78,438
90th Percentile £73,750 £71,500 £83,750
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £33,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +66.67% -40.00% +22.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,926 3,224 4,573
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 95.90% 96.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,467 2,574 3,849
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,125 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the City of London

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in the City of London.

Salary trend for PHP Developer in the City of London

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the City of London

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) PHP
2 6 (66.67%) MySQL
3 5 (55.56%) MVC
3 5 (55.56%) Turkish Language
3 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 5 (55.56%) Memcached
3 5 (55.56%) MongoDB
3 5 (55.56%) Laravel
3 5 (55.56%) Redis
3 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (55.56%) Fintech
3 5 (55.56%) Onboarding
4 4 (44.44%) HTML
4 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
4 4 (44.44%) CSS
5 3 (33.33%) CMS
5 3 (33.33%) React
5 3 (33.33%) Vue
5 3 (33.33%) WordPress
5 3 (33.33%) Git
6 2 (22.22%) SOLID
6 2 (22.22%) Jasmine
6 2 (22.22%) Sass
6 2 (22.22%) LESS
6 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
6 2 (22.22%) Node.js
6 2 (22.22%) CSS3
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
6 2 (22.22%) Jest

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (33.33%) CMS
1 3 (33.33%) WordPress
2 1 (11.11%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) MySQL
2 5 (55.56%) MongoDB
2 5 (55.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) Jasmine
2 2 (22.22%) Mocha
2 2 (22.22%) PHPUnit
General
1 5 (55.56%) Turkish Language
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Laravel
1 5 (55.56%) Memcached
2 4 (44.44%) CSS
2 4 (44.44%) HTML
3 3 (33.33%) React
3 3 (33.33%) Vue
4 2 (22.22%) Ajax
4 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 2 (22.22%) CSS3
4 2 (22.22%) HTML5
4 2 (22.22%) Jest
4 2 (22.22%) jQuery
4 2 (22.22%) JSON
4 2 (22.22%) LESS
4 2 (22.22%) Node.js
4 2 (22.22%) Sass
4 2 (22.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (55.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Fintech
1 5 (55.56%) MVC
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Content Management
2 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) SEO
2 2 (22.22%) SOLID
2 2 (22.22%) TDD
2 2 (22.22%) Web Development
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
3 1 (11.11%) OO
3 1 (11.11%) OOP
3 1 (11.11%) PLM
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) WooCommerce