PHP Job Trends in the East of England

PHP
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 69 98
Rank change year-on-year -73 +29 +19
Permanent jobs citing PHP 33 128 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.99% 3.05% 1.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.22% 10.94% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 31 82 39
10th Percentile - £32,750 £33,956
25th Percentile £25,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 632 1,170 678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 18.94% 27.86% 30.54%
Number of salaries quoted 518 542 477
10th Percentile £28,750 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £85,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

PHP job vacancy trend in the East of England

PHP
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in the East of England over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP in the East of England

PHP
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the East of England region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Hertfordshire -11 14 £82,500 +17.86% 4
Essex -7 12 £25,000 -44.44% 4
Cambridgeshire -5 4 £55,000 -21.43% 6
Norfolk +7 2 £32,750 -2.24% 8
Bedfordshire -24 1 £60,000 +26.32% 2
PHP
England

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 6 (18.18%) WordPress
2 2 (6.06%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Adobe XD
2 3 (9.09%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (9.09%) Photoshop
3 1 (3.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (3.03%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Magento
2 1 (3.03%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) Azure
2 3 (9.09%) Cloudflare
2 3 (9.09%) Google Analytics
2 3 (9.09%) Serverless
3 2 (6.06%) AWS
3 2 (6.06%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Alexa
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.03%) BigCommerce
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.03%) Figma
4 1 (3.03%) Firebase
4 1 (3.03%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (51.52%) MySQL
2 10 (30.30%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.03%) MariaDB
4 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 21 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Automotive
3 1 (3.03%) Electronics
3 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (69.70%) Developer
2 12 (36.36%) Graduate
2 12 (36.36%) Graduate Developer
3 10 (30.30%) IT Graduate
4 8 (24.24%) Architect
4 8 (24.24%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (21.21%) PHP Developer
6 4 (12.12%) Azure Developer
6 4 (12.12%) C# Developer
6 4 (12.12%) Graduate C# Developer
6 4 (12.12%) Graduate PHP Developer
6 4 (12.12%) Graduate SQL Developer
6 4 (12.12%) SQL Developer
6 4 (12.12%) WordPress Developer
7 3 (9.09%) Backend Developer
8 2 (6.06%) C# Software Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Graduate Software Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Integration Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (48.48%) CSS
2 11 (33.33%) .NET
3 10 (30.30%) ASP.NET
3 10 (30.30%) jQuery
4 6 (18.18%) HTML
5 5 (15.15%) Laravel
6 3 (9.09%) Node.js
6 3 (9.09%) React
7 1 (3.03%) CSS3
7 1 (3.03%) Django
7 1 (3.03%) HTML5
7 1 (3.03%) REST
7 1 (3.03%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) IoT
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.03%) Home Automation
3 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Windows
1 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Agile
2 15 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (36.36%) OO
4 11 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 11 (33.33%) OOP
5 10 (30.30%) MVC
6 8 (24.24%) API Development
6 8 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (21.21%) Prototyping
7 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (21.21%) Strategic Thinking
8 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
8 6 (18.18%) DevOps
9 4 (12.12%) E-Commerce
9 4 (12.12%) Microservices
9 4 (12.12%) Roadmaps
9 4 (12.12%) Technology Roadmap
9 4 (12.12%) Web Development
10 3 (9.09%) Migration
10 3 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (60.61%) C#
2 12 (36.36%) Python
3 11 (33.33%) C++
3 11 (33.33%) Java
4 10 (30.30%) JavaScript
4 10 (30.30%) SQL
5 1 (3.03%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Degree
2 10 (30.30%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Adobe
1 4 (12.12%) Google
2 3 (9.09%) HubSpot
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) WooCommerce
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle