PHP Job Trends in Edinburgh

PHP
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 79 93
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 0
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1 15 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.13% 1.20% 1.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.40% 3.12% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 9
10th Percentile - £35,125 £38,000
25th Percentile £76,250 £40,938 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £57,500 £50,000
90th Percentile - £59,750 £50,200
Scotland median annual salary £71,250 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +29.55% +15.79% -5.00%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 249 481 471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 32.63% 38.51% 44.43%
Number of salaries quoted 105 243 384
10th Percentile £25,750 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £63,250
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -5.14% +5.42%
75th Percentile £77,750 £73,500 £75,313
90th Percentile £93,000 £80,000 £87,625
Scotland median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% +0.88%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

PHP job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

PHP
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PHP

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
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