PHP Developer Jobs in England

PHP Developer
UK > England

The median PHP Developer salary in England is £46,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 349 322
Rank change year-on-year -153 -27 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 156 671 990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.79% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.83% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 148 628 528
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,925 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,188 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,313 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £69,500 £62,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +5.00%

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 42,114 80,514 84,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 94.48% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,536 60,209 53,453
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,464 £38,125 £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 £71,915 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,822 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

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 5 May 2025.

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 5 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
North of England -92 38 £47,500 +5.56% 43
South East +25 31 £39,000 -22.00% 25
North West -62 30 £48,750 -1.02% 27
London +73 28 £55,000 +1.85% 41
South West +38 23 £60,000 +33.33% 14
Midlands -23 23 £41,250 -2.94% 7
West Midlands +10 15 £42,500 - 3
East of England -10 12 £34,750 -20.11% 5
East Midlands +7 8 £40,000 - 4
Yorkshire -6 6 £47,500 +11.76% 15
North East +38 2 £38,750 -16.67% 2
PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, 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.

1 156 (100.00%) PHP
2 100 (64.10%) JavaScript
3 98 (62.82%) CSS
4 94 (60.26%) MySQL
5 81 (51.92%) HTML
6 74 (47.44%) Laravel
7 50 (32.05%) OOP
8 46 (29.49%) AWS
9 44 (28.21%) Git
9 44 (28.21%) React
10 43 (27.56%) E-Commerce
11 42 (26.92%) MVC
11 42 (26.92%) Agile
11 42 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (21.79%) Web Development
12 34 (21.79%) Social Skills
13 33 (21.15%) OO
14 32 (20.51%) Vue
15 31 (19.87%) Symfony
16 27 (17.31%) jQuery
16 27 (17.31%) SQL
17 24 (15.38%) LAMP
17 24 (15.38%) Games
18 23 (14.74%) Finance
19 20 (12.82%) Computer Science
20 19 (12.18%) GCP
21 18 (11.54%) AngularJS
21 18 (11.54%) Degree
21 18 (11.54%) TDD
21 18 (11.54%) Test Automation

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 10 (6.41%) WordPress
2 7 (4.49%) Apache
3 5 (3.21%) CMS
4 2 (1.28%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.64%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.64%) Confluence
5 1 (0.64%) Drupal
5 1 (0.64%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.28%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.64%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.64%) InVision
3 1 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Magento
1 1 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (29.49%) AWS
2 19 (12.18%) GCP
3 18 (11.54%) Azure
4 11 (7.05%) SaaS
5 8 (5.13%) GitHub
6 4 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (2.56%) Serverless
7 3 (1.92%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.28%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.28%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (1.28%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.28%) DigitalOcean
9 1 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.64%) Datadog
9 1 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.64%) Figma
9 1 (0.64%) npm
9 1 (0.64%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (60.26%) MySQL
2 15 (9.62%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.77%) Redis
5 8 (5.13%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.49%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.56%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.92%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.28%) OLTP
9 2 (1.28%) Power BI
10 1 (0.64%) Big Data
10 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (28.21%) Git
2 5 (3.21%) PHPUnit
3 4 (2.56%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.92%) git-flow
5 2 (1.28%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.28%) JIRA
5 2 (1.28%) Mocha
5 2 (1.28%) Vite
5 2 (1.28%) webpack
6 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.64%) Subversion
General
1 34 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.38%) Games
3 23 (14.74%) Finance
4 10 (6.41%) Law
5 8 (5.13%) Marketing
6 7 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (4.49%) Turkish Language
7 6 (3.85%) Retail
8 2 (1.28%) Advertising
8 2 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.28%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.64%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Automotive
9 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Publishing
9 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (62.82%) CSS
2 81 (51.92%) HTML
3 74 (47.44%) Laravel
4 44 (28.21%) React
5 32 (20.51%) Vue
6 31 (19.87%) Symfony
7 27 (17.31%) jQuery
8 24 (15.38%) LAMP
9 18 (11.54%) AngularJS
10 15 (9.62%) .NET
10 15 (9.62%) RESTful
11 14 (8.97%) Tailwind CSS
12 13 (8.33%) ASP.NET
13 12 (7.69%) Node.js
14 11 (7.05%) CSS3
14 11 (7.05%) HTML5
14 11 (7.05%) REST
15 10 (6.41%) CakePHP
16 9 (5.77%) Playwright
16 9 (5.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.62%) Mobile App
2 9 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.85%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.28%) Online Games
7 1 (0.64%) BBC
7 1 (0.64%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.64%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.64%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.64%) NHS
7 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.69%) Linux
2 6 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (32.05%) OOP
2 43 (27.56%) E-Commerce
3 42 (26.92%) Agile
3 42 (26.92%) MVC
3 42 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (21.79%) Web Development
5 33 (21.15%) OO
6 20 (12.82%) Computer Science
7 18 (11.54%) TDD
7 18 (11.54%) Test Automation
8 17 (10.90%) SOLID
9 15 (9.62%) Front End Development
9 15 (9.62%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (8.33%) Clean Code
10 13 (8.33%) Code Quality
11 12 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (7.69%) Software Engineering
12 11 (7.05%) Design Patterns
12 11 (7.05%) Mentoring
13 10 (6.41%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 156 (100.00%) PHP
2 100 (64.10%) JavaScript
3 27 (17.31%) SQL
4 16 (10.26%) C#
5 14 (8.97%) Java
6 11 (7.05%) C++
7 9 (5.77%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.13%) Python
9 3 (1.92%) C
9 3 (1.92%) Go
10 1 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (11.54%) Degree
2 17 (10.90%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.56%) QA
2 2 (1.28%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (7.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (6.41%) Twitter
2 6 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.56%) Adobe
4 3 (1.92%) Google
4 3 (1.92%) Sage
4 3 (1.92%) SAP
5 2 (1.28%) Apple
6 1 (0.64%) Spotify
6 1 (0.64%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.64%) Zend