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 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 313 390
Rank change year-on-year -30 +77 -204
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 672 986 1,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.78% 1.09% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 1.19% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 629 525 1,070
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £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 81,072 82,732 127,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,480 52,417 75,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,669 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,519 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +44 219 £45,000 - 52
North West +39 115 £50,000 -9.09% 33
South East -93 109 £50,000 - 22
Midlands -43 108 £42,500 -5.56% 17
South West -44 103 £45,000 -5.26% 13
Yorkshire +71 91 £42,500 +6.25% 16
East of England +34 71 £43,500 -33.08% 14
West Midlands -1 62 £42,500 - 8
London +14 60 £54,500 -9.17% 25
East Midlands -49 45 £40,000 -21.95% 9
North East -20 13 £46,500 +29.17% 3
PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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.

1 672 (100.00%) PHP
2 442 (65.77%) Laravel
3 391 (58.18%) JavaScript
4 354 (52.68%) MySQL
5 300 (44.64%) HTML
6 281 (41.82%) CSS
7 201 (29.91%) AWS
8 189 (28.13%) Git
9 161 (23.96%) React
10 160 (23.81%) Full Stack Development
11 155 (23.07%) Vue
12 150 (22.32%) Web Development
13 149 (22.17%) Social Skills
14 134 (19.94%) OOP
15 129 (19.20%) Agile
16 128 (19.05%) Symfony
17 119 (17.71%) jQuery
18 110 (16.37%) MVC
19 99 (14.73%) SaaS
20 97 (14.43%) OO
21 90 (13.39%) Linux
22 89 (13.24%) Docker
23 88 (13.10%) E-Commerce
24 85 (12.65%) SQL
25 84 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
26 79 (11.76%) TDD
27 76 (11.31%) Software Engineering
28 70 (10.42%) LAMP
28 70 (10.42%) HTML5
29 67 (9.97%) 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 67 (9.97%) WordPress
2 27 (4.02%) CMS
3 23 (3.42%) Apache
4 20 (2.98%) nginx
5 6 (0.89%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.60%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.60%) ColdFusion
6 4 (0.60%) IIS
7 3 (0.45%) Drupal
7 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.30%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.15%) Confluence
9 1 (0.15%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 5 (0.74%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.60%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 25 (3.72%) Magento
2 13 (1.93%) Shopify
3 3 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.30%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 201 (29.91%) AWS
2 99 (14.73%) SaaS
3 26 (3.87%) GCP
4 17 (2.53%) Azure
4 17 (2.53%) GitHub
5 15 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (1.49%) npm
6 10 (1.49%) Stripe
7 8 (1.19%) Figma
7 8 (1.19%) Serverless
8 6 (0.89%) DigitalOcean
9 5 (0.74%) Power Platform
10 4 (0.60%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.45%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.45%) Google Tag Manager
12 2 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 2 (0.30%) BigCommerce
12 2 (0.30%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.30%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.89%) VoIP
1 6 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (0.60%) SSH
3 2 (0.30%) FTP
3 2 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (52.68%) MySQL
2 31 (4.61%) Relational Database
3 26 (3.87%) MariaDB
4 24 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 23 (3.42%) SQL Server
6 18 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.79%) Redis
8 8 (1.19%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.89%) GIS
11 5 (0.74%) Power BI
12 4 (0.60%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.45%) Looker
14 2 (0.30%) phpMyAdmin
15 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 189 (28.13%) Git
2 28 (4.17%) JIRA
3 13 (1.93%) Subversion
3 13 (1.93%) webpack
4 9 (1.34%) GitLab
5 6 (0.89%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.60%) PHPUnit
7 2 (0.30%) git-flow
7 2 (0.30%) Grunt
7 2 (0.30%) gulp
7 2 (0.30%) Selenium
8 1 (0.15%) Appium
8 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.15%) Storybook
8 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.15%) WiX
General
1 149 (22.17%) Social Skills
2 47 (6.99%) Marketing
3 38 (5.65%) Finance
4 29 (4.32%) Retail
5 23 (3.42%) Games
6 14 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.08%) Telecoms
7 10 (1.49%) Manufacturing
7 10 (1.49%) Tech for Good
8 9 (1.34%) Turkish Language
9 7 (1.04%) Law
10 4 (0.60%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.45%) Legal
12 2 (0.30%) Aviation
12 2 (0.30%) Banking
13 1 (0.15%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.15%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.15%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 442 (65.77%) Laravel
2 300 (44.64%) HTML
3 281 (41.82%) CSS
4 161 (23.96%) React
5 155 (23.07%) Vue
6 128 (19.05%) Symfony
7 119 (17.71%) jQuery
8 70 (10.42%) HTML5
8 70 (10.42%) LAMP
9 64 (9.52%) RESTful
10 46 (6.85%) REST
11 45 (6.70%) Node.js
12 44 (6.55%) CSS3
13 43 (6.40%) AngularJS
14 38 (5.65%) SOAP
15 34 (5.06%) Web Services
16 30 (4.46%) Sass
17 29 (4.32%) Tailwind CSS
18 28 (4.17%) Doctrine
19 22 (3.27%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.59%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (4.46%) Mobile App
3 23 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (1.93%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.64%) PropTech
7 10 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.34%) Animation
9 7 (1.04%) Video Editing
10 6 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.74%) Educational Technology
12 4 (0.60%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.60%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.60%) Legacy Code
13 3 (0.45%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.45%) Digital Media
13 3 (0.45%) Photography
13 3 (0.45%) Solar Energy
14 2 (0.30%) Data Structures
14 2 (0.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 90 (13.39%) Linux
2 10 (1.49%) Windows
3 9 (1.34%) Ubuntu
4 6 (0.89%) Alpine Linux
5 5 (0.74%) Unix
6 2 (0.30%) AIX
7 1 (0.15%) Android
7 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (23.81%) Full Stack Development
2 150 (22.32%) Web Development
3 134 (19.94%) OOP
4 129 (19.20%) Agile
5 110 (16.37%) MVC
6 97 (14.43%) OO
7 88 (13.10%) E-Commerce
8 84 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 79 (11.76%) TDD
10 76 (11.31%) Software Engineering
11 58 (8.63%) Clean Code
12 57 (8.48%) User Experience
13 55 (8.18%) Computer Science
13 55 (8.18%) Unit Testing
14 52 (7.74%) OO PHP
15 51 (7.59%) DevOps
16 46 (6.85%) Front End Development
17 44 (6.55%) Test Automation
18 39 (5.80%) Roadmaps
19 36 (5.36%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 672 (100.00%) PHP
2 391 (58.18%) JavaScript
3 85 (12.65%) SQL
4 33 (4.91%) TypeScript
5 18 (2.68%) Java
6 15 (2.23%) Python
7 12 (1.79%) Ada
7 12 (1.79%) Go
8 9 (1.34%) VB
9 7 (1.04%) C#
9 7 (1.04%) Kotlin
10 6 (0.89%) Rust
11 4 (0.60%) CFML
11 4 (0.60%) Ruby
11 4 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) Bash
12 1 (0.15%) RPG
Qualifications
1 60 (8.93%) Degree
2 50 (7.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.02%) QA
2 6 (0.89%) GDPR
3 5 (0.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 89 (13.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (2.23%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.19%) Terraform
3 2 (0.30%) cPanel
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (1.93%) Google
2 12 (1.79%) Adobe
2 12 (1.79%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.19%) Twitter
3 8 (1.19%) WooCommerce
4 6 (0.89%) Actuate
4 6 (0.89%) Zend
5 5 (0.74%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.60%) HP
7 3 (0.45%) Facebook
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle
8 2 (0.30%) Progress
9 1 (0.15%) Apple
9 1 (0.15%) Panasonic
9 1 (0.15%) Sony