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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 128 73
Rank change year-on-year -17 -55 +55
Permanent jobs citing PHP 42 44 177
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.67% 1.52% 2.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.21% 5.84% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41 44 165
10th Percentile - - £28,500
25th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £35,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -20.45% -26.67%
75th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £55,325 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,157 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.31% +0.31% -9.09%

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 806 753 1,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.79% 25.95% 27.47%
Number of salaries quoted 541 603 1,460
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,254 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 30 May 2026.

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 30 May 2026. 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
Essex -19 22 £24,500 -2.00% 5
Norfolk -22 7 £40,000 +8.11% 2
Cambridgeshire -33 6 £47,500 +40.74% 2
Hertfordshire -33 4 £47,500 +31.03% 2
Suffolk - 3 £40,000 - 1
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 8 (19.05%) WordPress
2 2 (4.76%) CMS
2 2 (4.76%) Drupal
3 1 (2.38%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 23 (54.76%) Azure
2 12 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (2.38%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) SQL Server
2 10 (23.81%) MySQL
3 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.76%) MariaDB
4 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) Claude Code
General
1 15 (35.71%) Finance
2 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Games
4 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (88.10%) Developer
2 23 (54.76%) Software Developer
3 22 (52.38%) Graduate
3 22 (52.38%) Graduate Developer
3 22 (52.38%) Graduate Software Developer
4 20 (47.62%) PHP Developer
5 17 (40.48%) C# Developer
5 17 (40.48%) C# Software Developer
5 17 (40.48%) Graduate C# Developer
5 17 (40.48%) Graduate C# Software Developer
5 17 (40.48%) Graduate SQL Developer
5 17 (40.48%) SQL Developer
6 15 (35.71%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 9 (21.43%) Azure Developer
8 4 (9.52%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) IT Graduate
9 2 (4.76%) Senior
9 2 (4.76%) Web Developer
10 1 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (38.10%) CSS
2 12 (28.57%) Laravel
3 9 (21.43%) jQuery
4 7 (16.67%) HTML
5 5 (11.90%) React
6 4 (9.52%) Node.js
6 4 (9.52%) Vue
7 2 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (2.38%) .NET
8 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.38%) RESTful
8 1 (2.38%) Sass
8 1 (2.38%) Svelte
8 1 (2.38%) Symfony
8 1 (2.38%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (9.52%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.38%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) Computer Science
2 19 (45.24%) Agile
3 14 (33.33%) MVC
4 12 (28.57%) Clean Code
5 10 (23.81%) OOP
6 4 (9.52%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (9.52%) Mentoring
6 4 (9.52%) OO
6 4 (9.52%) Software Engineering
6 4 (9.52%) Web Development
7 3 (7.14%) CI/CD
7 3 (7.14%) DevOps
7 3 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (4.76%) AI
8 2 (4.76%) API Development
8 2 (4.76%) Code Quality
8 2 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (4.76%) Fintech
8 2 (4.76%) Workflow
9 1 (2.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) C#
1 24 (57.14%) SQL
2 10 (23.81%) Java
3 9 (21.43%) C++
4 8 (19.05%) JavaScript
5 7 (16.67%) Python
6 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (38.10%) Computer Science Degree
1 16 (38.10%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft