PHP Software Engineer Job Trends in Edinburgh

PHP Software Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median PHP Software Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Software Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - -
75th Percentile £78,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £77,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 638 1,196 1,090
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 84.17% 94.85% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 270 678 876
10th Percentile £25,452 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,928 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +0.80% +2.63%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,080 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%

PHP Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured PHP Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Software Engineer in Edinburgh

PHP Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for PHP Software Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Salary distribution trend for PHP Software Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh

PHP Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 8 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, PHP Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring PHP Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven

PHP Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) PHP