PHP Job Trends in the City of London

PHP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring PHP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 165 153
Rank change year-on-year +33 -12 +46
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1 6 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.058% 0.21% 0.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.14% 0.45% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 25
10th Percentile - £57,000 £46,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £58,125 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,313 £78,750
90th Percentile - £87,125 £90,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year +20.00% -5.66% -1.85%

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 718 1,319 1,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 41.77% 46.10% 51.63%
Number of salaries quoted 602 929 1,645
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.94% +3.33%
75th Percentile £110,938 £97,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £115,000 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%

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

PHP
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PHP

PHP
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 1 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform