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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 85 88
Rank change year-on-year -39 +3 +22
Permanent jobs citing PHP 37 103 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.89% 2.94% 2.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.76% 9.17% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 36 65 54
10th Percentile £24,500 £37,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £25,000 £43,750 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% -25.86%
75th Percentile £76,563 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -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 547 1,123 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.10% 32.02% 31.83%
Number of salaries quoted 430 511 576
10th Percentile £29,975 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £64,688 £76,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 9 January 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 9 January 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 -1 14 £25,000 - 4
Hertfordshire -4 11 £90,000 +33.33% 4
Cambridgeshire +2 9 £50,000 -28.57% 6
Suffolk - 2 £30,000 - 10
Norfolk +4 1 £33,000 -22.35% 8
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 2 (5.41%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.70%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) Azure
2 13 (35.14%) AWS
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (48.65%) MySQL
2 9 (24.32%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.70%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Git
General
1 13 (35.14%) Finance
2 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (70.27%) Developer
2 14 (37.84%) PHP Developer
2 14 (37.84%) Software Developer
3 13 (35.14%) Graduate
3 13 (35.14%) Graduate Developer
4 9 (24.32%) C# Developer
4 9 (24.32%) Graduate C# Developer
4 9 (24.32%) Graduate PHP Developer
5 8 (21.62%) C# Software Developer
5 8 (21.62%) Graduate C# Software Developer
5 8 (21.62%) Graduate Software Developer
5 8 (21.62%) Graduate SQL Developer
5 8 (21.62%) SQL Developer
6 6 (16.22%) Azure Developer
6 6 (16.22%) Lead
7 5 (13.51%) IT Graduate
8 4 (10.81%) Architect
8 4 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (8.11%) Backend Developer
10 2 (5.41%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (29.73%) CSS
2 9 (24.32%) jQuery
2 9 (24.32%) React
3 6 (16.22%) Laravel
4 5 (13.51%) .NET
4 5 (13.51%) ASP.NET
5 2 (5.41%) HTML
5 2 (5.41%) Node.js
5 2 (5.41%) Symfony
6 1 (2.70%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
1 3 (8.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) IoT
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
1 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Agile
2 12 (32.43%) Computer Science
3 10 (27.03%) OOP
4 9 (24.32%) MVC
5 7 (18.92%) OO
5 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (16.22%) Architecture Roadmap
6 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
7 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
7 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.51%) DevOps
8 4 (10.81%) API Development
8 4 (10.81%) Prototyping
8 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (10.81%) Strategic Thinking
9 3 (8.11%) API Design
9 3 (8.11%) Microservices
9 3 (8.11%) Migration
9 3 (8.11%) Software Engineering
9 3 (8.11%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 17 (45.95%) C#
2 14 (37.84%) JavaScript
3 10 (27.03%) SQL
4 9 (24.32%) C++
4 9 (24.32%) Java
5 7 (18.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (24.32%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft