PHP Developer Jobs in England

PHP Developer
UK > England

The median PHP Developer salary in England is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 325 369
Rank change year-on-year -19 +44 -183
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 663 994 1,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.78% 1.07% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 1.16% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 621 530 1,112
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,117 85,349 125,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.55% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 59,992 53,990 75,607
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in England

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for PHP Developer in England

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in England

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 PHP Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
North of England +48 213 £45,000 - 55
North West +43 113 £48,000 -12.73% 34
Midlands -32 109 £42,500 -8.11% 17
South East -79 107 £51,250 +2.50% 17
South West -23 102 £46,250 -2.63% 12
Yorkshire +76 88 £42,500 +6.25% 17
East of England +35 71 £43,500 -33.08% 15
West Midlands +13 62 £42,500 - 10
London +18 58 £52,500 -12.50% 26
East Midlands -48 46 £41,250 -19.51% 7
North East -21 12 £48,250 +34.03% 4
PHP Developer
UK

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 PHP Developer in the job title.

1 663 (100.00%) PHP
2 440 (66.37%) Laravel
3 384 (57.92%) JavaScript
4 350 (52.79%) MySQL
5 293 (44.19%) HTML
6 274 (41.33%) CSS
7 204 (30.77%) AWS
8 182 (27.45%) Git
9 159 (23.98%) Vue
10 156 (23.53%) React
11 154 (23.23%) Full Stack Development
12 149 (22.47%) Web Development
13 148 (22.32%) Social Skills
14 136 (20.51%) OOP
15 130 (19.61%) Agile
16 126 (19.00%) Symfony
17 117 (17.65%) jQuery
18 113 (17.04%) MVC
19 101 (15.23%) SaaS
20 98 (14.78%) OO
21 90 (13.57%) Linux
21 90 (13.57%) Docker
22 87 (13.12%) SQL
23 85 (12.82%) E-Commerce
24 80 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
24 80 (12.07%) TDD
25 74 (11.16%) Software Engineering
26 70 (10.56%) HTML5
27 69 (10.41%) LAMP
28 63 (9.50%) WordPress

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 63 (9.50%) WordPress
2 23 (3.47%) Apache
2 23 (3.47%) CMS
3 20 (3.02%) nginx
4 6 (0.90%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.60%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.60%) ColdFusion
5 4 (0.60%) IIS
6 3 (0.45%) Drupal
6 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.30%) Joomla!
8 1 (0.15%) Confluence
8 1 (0.15%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 5 (0.75%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.60%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 24 (3.62%) Magento
2 13 (1.96%) Shopify
3 3 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.30%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 204 (30.77%) AWS
2 101 (15.23%) SaaS
3 27 (4.07%) GCP
4 19 (2.87%) Azure
5 17 (2.56%) GitHub
6 16 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (1.51%) npm
7 10 (1.51%) Stripe
8 8 (1.21%) Figma
8 8 (1.21%) Serverless
9 6 (0.90%) DigitalOcean
10 5 (0.75%) Power Platform
11 4 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.45%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.45%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.45%) Google Tag Manager
13 2 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 2 (0.30%) BigCommerce
13 2 (0.30%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.30%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.90%) VoIP
1 6 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (0.60%) SSH
3 2 (0.30%) FTP
3 2 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 350 (52.79%) MySQL
2 31 (4.68%) Relational Database
3 28 (4.22%) MariaDB
4 24 (3.62%) MongoDB
4 24 (3.62%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (1.81%) Redis
7 10 (1.51%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (0.90%) GIS
10 5 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.75%) Power BI
11 4 (0.60%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.45%) Looker
13 2 (0.30%) phpMyAdmin
14 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 182 (27.45%) Git
2 29 (4.37%) JIRA
3 13 (1.96%) Subversion
3 13 (1.96%) webpack
4 8 (1.21%) GitLab
5 6 (0.90%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.60%) PHPUnit
7 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.30%) git-flow
8 2 (0.30%) Grunt
8 2 (0.30%) gulp
9 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.15%) Selenium
9 1 (0.15%) Storybook
9 1 (0.15%) WiX
General
1 148 (22.32%) Social Skills
2 45 (6.79%) Marketing
3 37 (5.58%) Finance
4 29 (4.37%) Retail
5 22 (3.32%) Games
6 14 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (1.96%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.51%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.36%) Tech for Good
9 9 (1.36%) Turkish Language
10 7 (1.06%) Law
11 4 (0.60%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.45%) Legal
13 2 (0.30%) Aviation
13 2 (0.30%) Banking
14 1 (0.15%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.15%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.15%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 440 (66.37%) Laravel
2 293 (44.19%) HTML
3 274 (41.33%) CSS
4 159 (23.98%) Vue
5 156 (23.53%) React
6 126 (19.00%) Symfony
7 117 (17.65%) jQuery
8 70 (10.56%) HTML5
9 69 (10.41%) LAMP
10 62 (9.35%) RESTful
11 46 (6.94%) CSS3
11 46 (6.94%) REST
12 45 (6.79%) Node.js
13 44 (6.64%) AngularJS
14 39 (5.88%) SOAP
15 35 (5.28%) Web Services
16 30 (4.52%) Sass
17 29 (4.37%) Tailwind CSS
18 28 (4.22%) Doctrine
19 23 (3.47%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.84%) Greenfield Project
2 29 (4.37%) Mobile App
3 23 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (1.81%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.51%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.51%) PropTech
7 9 (1.36%) Animation
8 7 (1.06%) Video Editing
9 6 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.60%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.60%) Educational Technology
10 4 (0.60%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.45%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.45%) Digital Media
11 3 (0.45%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.45%) IoT
11 3 (0.45%) Photography
11 3 (0.45%) Solar Energy
12 2 (0.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 90 (13.57%) Linux
2 10 (1.51%) Ubuntu
2 10 (1.51%) Windows
3 6 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
4 5 (0.75%) Unix
5 2 (0.30%) AIX
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (23.23%) Full Stack Development
2 149 (22.47%) Web Development
3 136 (20.51%) OOP
4 130 (19.61%) Agile
5 113 (17.04%) MVC
6 98 (14.78%) OO
7 85 (12.82%) E-Commerce
8 80 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
8 80 (12.07%) TDD
9 74 (11.16%) Software Engineering
10 59 (8.90%) Unit Testing
11 57 (8.60%) User Experience
12 55 (8.30%) Clean Code
13 54 (8.14%) Computer Science
14 53 (7.99%) OO PHP
15 51 (7.69%) DevOps
16 45 (6.79%) Front End Development
17 43 (6.49%) Test Automation
18 39 (5.88%) Roadmaps
19 36 (5.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 663 (100.00%) PHP
2 384 (57.92%) JavaScript
3 87 (13.12%) SQL
4 31 (4.68%) TypeScript
5 17 (2.56%) Java
6 14 (2.11%) Python
7 12 (1.81%) Ada
7 12 (1.81%) Go
8 9 (1.36%) VB
9 7 (1.06%) C#
9 7 (1.06%) Kotlin
10 6 (0.90%) Rust
11 4 (0.60%) CFML
11 4 (0.60%) Ruby
11 4 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) Bash
Qualifications
1 59 (8.90%) Degree
2 50 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.30%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.30%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.07%) QA
2 6 (0.90%) GDPR
3 5 (0.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 90 (13.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (2.26%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.51%) Terraform
3 2 (0.30%) cPanel
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (1.96%) Google
2 12 (1.81%) Adobe
3 11 (1.66%) Microsoft
4 8 (1.21%) Twitter
4 8 (1.21%) WooCommerce
5 6 (0.90%) Actuate
6 5 (0.75%) OpenAI
6 5 (0.75%) Zend
7 4 (0.60%) HP
8 3 (0.45%) Facebook
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle
9 2 (0.30%) Progress