Lead PHP Developer Jobs in England

Lead PHP Developer
UK > England

The median Lead PHP Developer salary in England is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

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

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 821 904
Rank change year-on-year +165 +83 +171
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead PHP Developer 5 20 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.023% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.025% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 5 20 19
10th Percentile - £48,750 £58,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -14.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,000 £70,875 £84,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +17.39% -14.81% +3.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 42,028 80,606 84,581
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 94.48% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,667 60,286 53,585
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,435 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Lead PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Lead PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Lead PHP Developer in England

Lead PHP Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead PHP Developer in England.

Salary trend for Lead PHP Developer in England

Lead PHP Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead PHP Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 2025. 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
Midlands - 4 £67,500 -
West Midlands - 4 £67,500 -
Lead PHP Developer
UK

Lead PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Lead PHP Developer 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 England region featuring Lead PHP Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) SOLID
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (80.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (80.00%) Line Management
2 4 (80.00%) QA
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Games
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Symfony
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (20.00%) Confluence
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) Laravel
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership

Lead PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Laravel
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (80.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (80.00%) Line Management
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) SOLID
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker