PHP Jobs in the City of London

PHP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 131 166
Rank change year-on-year +10 +35 -17
Permanent jobs citing PHP 20 51 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.96% 1.52% 1.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.02% 3.27% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 18 47 64
10th Percentile £43,000 £33,750 £43,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £54,375 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +5.66% +1.92%
75th Percentile £97,500 £81,250 £85,313
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,750 £90,000
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +14.58% -7.69%

All Programming Languages
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 989 1,558 2,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 47.66% 46.38% 52.03%
Number of salaries quoted 828 1,283 2,238
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £103,750 £98,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £79,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% -2.52% +6.00%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for PHP in the City of London

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP in the City of London

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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 5 (25.00%) WordPress
2 4 (20.00%) CMS
3 2 (10.00%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) MySQL
2 5 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 5 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) Jasmine
2 3 (15.00%) Mocha
2 3 (15.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 5 (25.00%) Turkish Language
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Games
2 3 (15.00%) Marketing
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Developer
2 9 (45.00%) PHP Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Engineering Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Head of Development
3 3 (15.00%) Head of Software Development
3 3 (15.00%) PHP WordPress Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Software Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Web Developer
3 3 (15.00%) WordPress Developer
4 2 (10.00%) PHP Web Developer
5 1 (5.00%) E-Commerce Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Elixir Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Laravel
2 6 (30.00%) CSS
3 5 (25.00%) HTML
3 5 (25.00%) Memcached
4 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (20.00%) Node.js
4 4 (20.00%) React
4 4 (20.00%) Sass
4 4 (20.00%) Vue
4 4 (20.00%) Web Services
5 3 (15.00%) Ajax
5 3 (15.00%) CSS3
5 3 (15.00%) HTML5
5 3 (15.00%) Jest
5 3 (15.00%) jQuery
5 3 (15.00%) JSON
5 3 (15.00%) LESS
6 1 (5.00%) RESTful
6 1 (5.00%) Symfony
6 1 (5.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) New Media
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Agile
1 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 5 (25.00%) Fintech
2 5 (25.00%) MVC
3 4 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 4 (20.00%) Web Development
4 3 (15.00%) Content Management
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) SDLC
4 3 (15.00%) SEO
4 3 (15.00%) SOLID
4 3 (15.00%) Statistical Modelling
4 3 (15.00%) TDD
5 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.00%) Microservices
5 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.00%) High Availability
6 1 (5.00%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (15.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) Scala
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) Apex Code
5 1 (5.00%) Perl
5 1 (5.00%) SOQL
5 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Google
1 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (5.00%) WooCommerce