PHP Jobs in England

PHP
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 156 156
Rank change year-on-year -136 0 -24
Permanent jobs citing PHP 534 1,579 1,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.02% 1.82% 2.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.55% 5.95% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 426 1,350 1,183
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,164 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £79,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +1.10%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15,028 26,559 30,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.62% 30.58% 40.51%
Number of salaries quoted 9,644 20,475 22,365
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in England

PHP
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for PHP in England

PHP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in England over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP in England

PHP
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 18 July 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 -134 126 £48,000 - 118
South East -64 112 £45,000 -18.18% 96
London -3 111 £60,000 -5.09% 161
North West -108 70 £52,500 +5.00% 60
Midlands -62 69 £42,500 -5.56% 66
South West -21 60 £57,500 +27.78% 42
East of England -64 51 £35,000 -22.22% 48
Yorkshire -69 43 £37,500 -21.05% 51
West Midlands -22 39 £53,500 +18.89% 25
East Midlands -40 29 £40,000 -5.88% 41
North East +26 13 £26,750 -37.06% 8
PHP
UK

PHP
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 58 (10.86%) WordPress
2 27 (5.06%) CMS
3 23 (4.31%) Apache
4 10 (1.87%) Drupal
5 6 (1.12%) nginx
6 4 (0.75%) Confluence
6 4 (0.75%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.75%) IIS
6 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.56%) ColdFusion
7 3 (0.56%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.37%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.19%) Kentico
9 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.62%) Photoshop
3 10 (1.87%) Adobe Illustrator
4 8 (1.50%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.75%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.56%) Elementor
7 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
7 2 (0.37%) Sketch
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.19%) SPSS
8 1 (0.19%) Trello
8 1 (0.19%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 9 (1.69%) Magento
2 6 (1.12%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.94%) Shopify
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.37%) Odoo
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 128 (23.97%) AWS
2 81 (15.17%) Azure
3 39 (7.30%) GCP
4 21 (3.93%) Serverless
5 20 (3.75%) SaaS
6 18 (3.37%) GitHub
7 14 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (2.25%) Google Analytics
8 12 (2.25%) Power Platform
9 10 (1.87%) Figma
10 9 (1.69%) Cloudflare
11 7 (1.31%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (1.31%) Vercel
12 6 (1.12%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (0.94%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 4 (0.75%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.62%) Internet
2 9 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (0.94%) VoIP
4 4 (0.75%) DNS
4 4 (0.75%) MPLS
4 4 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.56%) Broadband
5 3 (0.56%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.37%) HTTP
6 2 (0.37%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.19%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.19%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.19%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.19%) Intranet
7 1 (0.19%) IPsec
7 1 (0.19%) RFID
7 1 (0.19%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (40.82%) MySQL
2 60 (11.24%) SQL Server
3 30 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (4.12%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.87%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.12%) Power BI
7 6 (1.12%) Redis
8 5 (0.94%) MariaDB
8 5 (0.94%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.75%) GIS
9 4 (0.75%) TimescaleDB
10 3 (0.56%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.56%) SQLite
11 2 (0.37%) Big Data
11 2 (0.37%) Mixpanel
12 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.19%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.19%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 109 (20.41%) Git
2 15 (2.81%) JIRA
2 15 (2.81%) PHPUnit
3 11 (2.06%) Postman
3 11 (2.06%) Selenium
4 8 (1.50%) Cucumber
4 8 (1.50%) SoapUI
5 4 (0.75%) Mocha
6 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.56%) GitLab
6 3 (0.56%) Jasmine
6 3 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.56%) Subversion
6 3 (0.56%) Vite
6 3 (0.56%) webpack
7 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.37%) git-flow
8 1 (0.19%) GDB
8 1 (0.19%) WinDbg
8 1 (0.19%) WiX
General
1 145 (27.15%) Social Skills
2 77 (14.42%) Finance
3 40 (7.49%) Games
4 21 (3.93%) Law
4 21 (3.93%) Marketing
5 20 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.00%) Legal
7 13 (2.43%) Retail
8 12 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.06%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.50%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.12%) Back Office
11 6 (1.12%) Public Sector
12 4 (0.75%) Automotive
12 4 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.75%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.56%) French Language
13 3 (0.56%) German Language
13 3 (0.56%) Greek Language
Job Titles
1 300 (56.18%) Developer
2 147 (27.53%) PHP Developer
3 86 (16.10%) Senior
4 62 (11.61%) Senior Developer
5 49 (9.18%) Lead
6 45 (8.43%) Web Developer
7 44 (8.24%) Graduate
7 44 (8.24%) Graduate Developer
8 40 (7.49%) IT Graduate
9 34 (6.37%) Full-Stack Developer
10 32 (5.99%) Software Engineer
11 27 (5.06%) Senior PHP Developer
12 26 (4.87%) Junior
13 24 (4.49%) SQL Developer
14 22 (4.12%) Junior Developer
15 19 (3.56%) PHP Software Engineer
16 18 (3.37%) C# Developer
17 17 (3.18%) Graduate C# Developer
17 17 (3.18%) Lead Developer
17 17 (3.18%) PHP Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (44.57%) HTML
2 227 (42.51%) CSS
3 157 (29.40%) Laravel
4 84 (15.73%) React
5 70 (13.11%) jQuery
6 68 (12.73%) .NET
6 68 (12.73%) Vue
7 52 (9.74%) Symfony
8 46 (8.61%) LAMP
9 45 (8.43%) ASP.NET
10 43 (8.05%) Node.js
10 43 (8.05%) RESTful
11 37 (6.93%) AngularJS
12 35 (6.55%) HTML5
13 30 (5.62%) REST
14 29 (5.43%) CSS3
15 20 (3.75%) Web Services
16 19 (3.56%) Tailwind CSS
17 18 (3.37%) CakePHP
18 14 (2.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.62%) Mobile App
2 22 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (3.00%) Driving Licence
4 14 (2.62%) CCTV
5 13 (2.43%) IoT
5 13 (2.43%) Virtual Team
6 11 (2.06%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.06%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.69%) e-Learning
7 9 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.94%) Blog
10 5 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.75%) Educational Technology
11 4 (0.75%) Legacy Code
11 4 (0.75%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 51 (9.55%) Linux
2 26 (4.87%) Windows
3 12 (2.25%) CentOS
4 11 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.69%) Android
5 9 (1.69%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.94%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.19%) Debian
7 1 (0.19%) Unix
7 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (26.59%) Agile
2 126 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
3 120 (22.47%) Computer Science
4 108 (20.22%) OOP
5 105 (19.66%) Web Development
6 91 (17.04%) MVC
7 84 (15.73%) E-Commerce
7 84 (15.73%) OO
8 80 (14.98%) Software Engineering
9 61 (11.42%) Artificial Intelligence
9 61 (11.42%) CI/CD
10 60 (11.24%) Full-Stack Development
11 58 (10.86%) Machine Learning
12 54 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 53 (9.93%) Data Privacy
14 51 (9.55%) DevOps
15 49 (9.18%) Test Automation
16 47 (8.80%) User Experience
17 45 (8.43%) Front End Development
17 45 (8.43%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 302 (56.55%) JavaScript
2 163 (30.52%) SQL
3 118 (22.10%) Python
4 115 (21.54%) C#
5 112 (20.97%) Java
6 107 (20.04%) TypeScript
7 98 (18.35%) C++
8 59 (11.05%) C
9 53 (9.93%) Ruby
10 50 (9.36%) Dart
10 50 (9.36%) MATLAB
10 50 (9.36%) R
11 49 (9.18%) Rust
12 37 (6.93%) Go
13 7 (1.31%) Perl
14 4 (0.75%) Bash
14 4 (0.75%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.56%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.56%) Scala
15 3 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 130 (24.34%) Degree
2 109 (20.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (2.81%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.87%) DV Cleared
5 4 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.75%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (0.56%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.37%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.81%) QA
2 23 (4.31%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.81%) GDPR
4 8 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.56%) SLA
5 3 (0.56%) WCAG
6 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 46 (8.61%) Docker
2 2 (0.37%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.37%) Firmware
2 2 (0.37%) Samba
3 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 16 (3.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.81%) Terraform
3 14 (2.62%) Ansible
4 4 (0.75%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (0.56%) Puppet
6 2 (0.37%) Grafana
6 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.19%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.19%) WMI
Vendors
1 28 (5.24%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.31%) Adobe
2 23 (4.31%) Google
3 12 (2.25%) Cisco
4 9 (1.69%) Twitter
5 8 (1.50%) Meraki
5 8 (1.50%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.50%) WooCommerce
6 7 (1.31%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.12%) ServiceNow
8 5 (0.94%) Ahrefs
8 5 (0.94%) Screaming Frog
9 4 (0.75%) New Relic
9 4 (0.75%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.75%) SAP
10 2 (0.37%) Apple
10 2 (0.37%) Netlify
10 2 (0.37%) Oracle
10 2 (0.37%) Zoho
11 1 (0.19%) Spotify