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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 133 158
Rank change year-on-year +9 +25 +6
Permanent jobs citing PHP 12 41 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.61% 1.24% 1.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.32% 2.71% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12 38 57
10th Percentile £34,750 £33,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,688 £52,500 £51,589
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.85%
75th Percentile £97,500 £81,250 £90,000
90th Percentile - £87,500 -
Central London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +1.89%

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 907 1,514 2,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 46.23% 45.67% 51.07%
Number of salaries quoted 751 1,193 2,041
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -0.64% +4.00%
75th Percentile £109,375 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £75,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +9.27% -2.58% +3.33%

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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 6 July 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 4 (33.33%) CMS
1 4 (33.33%) WordPress
2 1 (8.33%) Drupal
2 1 (8.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) npm
2 1 (8.33%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Jasmine
2 3 (25.00%) Mocha
2 3 (25.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Marketing
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Games
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Engineering Manager
2 3 (25.00%) PHP Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Software Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Web Developer
3 2 (16.67%) PHP Web Developer
3 2 (16.67%) PHP WordPress Developer
3 2 (16.67%) WordPress Developer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Head of Development
4 1 (8.33%) Head of Software Development
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 4 (33.33%) CSS
1 4 (33.33%) HTML
1 4 (33.33%) Node.js
1 4 (33.33%) React
1 4 (33.33%) Sass
1 4 (33.33%) Vue
1 4 (33.33%) Web Services
2 3 (25.00%) Ajax
2 3 (25.00%) CSS3
2 3 (25.00%) HTML5
2 3 (25.00%) Jest
2 3 (25.00%) jQuery
2 3 (25.00%) JSON
2 3 (25.00%) LESS
3 1 (8.33%) Laravel
3 1 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) Symfony
3 1 (8.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) New Media
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) VMS
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Content Management
3 3 (25.00%) SEO
3 3 (25.00%) SOLID
3 3 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 3 (25.00%) TDD
3 3 (25.00%) Web Development
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (8.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
5 1 (8.33%) Service-Level Objective
5 1 (8.33%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 3 (25.00%) Scala
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Apex Code
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) SOQL
4 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Salesforce