PHP Developer Job Trends in the East Midlands

PHP Developer
England > East Midlands

The median PHP Developer salary in the East Midlands is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 126 104
Rank change year-on-year +11 -22 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 18 5 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.70% 0.22% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.23% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 18 2 15
10th Percentile £34,625 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £36,563 £38,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -34.62% +48.57%
75th Percentile £45,313 £48,125 £66,250
90th Percentile £47,500 £50,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,360 2,221 1,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 96.19% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,571 1,000 1,237
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'PHP Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

PHP Developer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for PHP Developer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for PHP Developer job vacancies in the East Midlands

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the East Midlands

PHP Developer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 December 2025. 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
Lincolnshire - 11 £40,000 - 4
Nottinghamshire +19 4 £40,000 -
Leicestershire +12 3 £35,000 - 5
PHP Developer
England

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 28 December 2025, PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East Midlands region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) PHP
2 12 (66.67%) Agile
2 12 (66.67%) CSS
2 12 (66.67%) HTML
2 12 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 12 (66.67%) Laravel
2 12 (66.67%) OO
3 11 (61.11%) MVC
4 9 (50.00%) MySQL
4 9 (50.00%) OO PHP
5 8 (44.44%) CakePHP
5 8 (44.44%) CodeIgniter
5 8 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (44.44%) Symfony
5 8 (44.44%) TypeScript
6 4 (22.22%) jQuery
7 3 (16.67%) AI
7 3 (16.67%) Apache
7 3 (16.67%) API Integration
7 3 (16.67%) ChatGPT
7 3 (16.67%) Git
7 3 (16.67%) Intranet
7 3 (16.67%) Migration
7 3 (16.67%) OOP
7 3 (16.67%) OpenAI
7 3 (16.67%) RESTful
7 3 (16.67%) SAP
7 3 (16.67%) SAP Business One
7 3 (16.67%) Secure Coding
7 3 (16.67%) SQL Server

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) ChatGPT
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) MySQL
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
General
1 8 (44.44%) Law
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (66.67%) CSS
1 12 (66.67%) HTML
1 12 (66.67%) Laravel
2 8 (44.44%) CakePHP
2 8 (44.44%) CodeIgniter
2 8 (44.44%) Symfony
3 4 (22.22%) jQuery
4 3 (16.67%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) CSS3
5 1 (5.56%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
1 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Agile
1 12 (66.67%) OO
2 11 (61.11%) MVC
3 9 (50.00%) OO PHP
4 8 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (16.67%) AI
5 3 (16.67%) API Integration
5 3 (16.67%) Migration
5 3 (16.67%) OOP
5 3 (16.67%) Secure Coding
5 3 (16.67%) User Experience
6 1 (5.56%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) PHP
2 12 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 8 (44.44%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) C#
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) OpenAI
1 3 (16.67%) SAP