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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 81 94
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 -13
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1 8 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.13% 0.63% 0.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.44% 1.65% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £38,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £76,250 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £55,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% +26.44% -20.91%
75th Percentile £78,750 £57,500 £48,750
90th Percentile - £59,000 £50,100
Scotland median annual salary £71,250 £46,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year +54.05% +2.78% -18.18%

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 226 486 497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 29.82% 38.54% 43.33%
Number of salaries quoted 106 292 400
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,454
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,914 £60,000 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.48% -2.83% +2.92%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,886 £76,284
90th Percentile £91,250 £88,750 £88,860
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for PHP 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 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
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