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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 159 136
Rank change year-on-year -1 -23 -67
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,337 1,593 4,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.71% 2.24% 3.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.73% 5.56% 5.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,128 1,132 2,574
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63,218 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.68% -0.45% +22.22%

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 23,314 28,657 75,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.75% 40.31% 51.29%
Number of salaries quoted 17,627 21,657 38,997
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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 +23 360 £50,000 - 47
South East -66 256 £55,000 +10.00% 40
Midlands -8 218 £42,500 -19.05% 41
North West +30 188 £51,000 -2.86% 28
London -30 183 £63,218 +5.36% 34
South West -7 180 £45,000 -10.00% 17
Yorkshire +31 151 £47,500 +5.56% 13
East of England +41 127 £47,500 - 23
West Midlands +8 117 £45,000 -12.20% 35
East Midlands -19 100 £42,500 -22.73% 6
North East -26 21 £42,500 -19.05% 6
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
1 176 (13.16%) WordPress
2 84 (6.28%) CMS
3 47 (3.52%) Drupal
4 31 (2.32%) Apache
5 29 (2.17%) nginx
6 15 (1.12%) Confluence
6 15 (1.12%) Moodle
7 12 (0.90%) Totara
8 8 (0.60%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.37%) ColdFusion
10 4 (0.30%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
10 4 (0.30%) SAS
10 4 (0.30%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.075%) IIS
12 1 (0.075%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.075%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.075%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.60%) Simulink
4 6 (0.45%) Adobe XD
5 5 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.22%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.075%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.075%) InDesign
8 1 (0.075%) Sketch
8 1 (0.075%) SketchUp
8 1 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 61 (4.56%) Magento
2 28 (2.09%) Shopify
3 15 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.45%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.45%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.30%) CiviCRM
5 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.075%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.075%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 387 (28.95%) AWS
2 147 (10.99%) SaaS
3 79 (5.91%) GitHub
4 70 (5.24%) Azure
5 64 (4.79%) GCP
6 32 (2.39%) Amazon S3
7 27 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (1.87%) Amazon Kinesis
9 14 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (1.05%) Figma
9 14 (1.05%) npm
10 13 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (0.97%) Stripe
11 12 (0.90%) Power Platform
11 12 (0.90%) Serverless
12 11 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (0.60%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.42%) Internet
2 15 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (0.90%) HTTP
4 11 (0.82%) LAN
4 11 (0.82%) WAN
5 8 (0.60%) Wireless
6 4 (0.30%) DNS
6 4 (0.30%) Modbus
6 4 (0.30%) SNMP
7 3 (0.22%) FTP
7 3 (0.22%) SSH
8 2 (0.15%) VPN
9 1 (0.075%) AMQP
9 1 (0.075%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.075%) IPv4
9 1 (0.075%) IPv6
9 1 (0.075%) SSL
9 1 (0.075%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 569 (42.56%) MySQL
2 79 (5.91%) SQL Server
3 76 (5.68%) Relational Database
4 57 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (2.54%) MongoDB
7 30 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (2.02%) RDBMS
9 25 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
10 23 (1.72%) MariaDB
11 22 (1.65%) NoSQL
12 15 (1.12%) Redis
13 14 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.90%) Power BI
15 10 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (0.75%) SQLite
16 8 (0.60%) DynamoDB
17 5 (0.37%) Big Data
17 5 (0.37%) Tableau
18 4 (0.30%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 389 (29.09%) Git
2 52 (3.89%) JIRA
3 43 (3.22%) Selenium
4 32 (2.39%) GitLab
5 27 (2.02%) Cypress.io
6 26 (1.94%) Postman
7 23 (1.72%) Jenkins
8 22 (1.65%) PHPUnit
9 15 (1.12%) Bitbucket
10 13 (0.97%) webpack
11 8 (0.60%) Subversion
12 6 (0.45%) gulp
13 4 (0.30%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.30%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.22%) Appium
14 3 (0.22%) git-flow
15 1 (0.075%) Babel
15 1 (0.075%) Grunt
15 1 (0.075%) rollup.js
15 1 (0.075%) Storybook
General
1 269 (20.12%) Social Skills
2 136 (10.17%) Marketing
3 96 (7.18%) Finance
4 80 (5.98%) Retail
5 61 (4.56%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (3.14%) Tech for Good
7 41 (3.07%) Games
8 27 (2.02%) Law
9 21 (1.57%) Automotive
10 18 (1.35%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.27%) Health Technology
11 17 (1.27%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.12%) Electronics
13 12 (0.90%) Legal
13 12 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (0.67%) Banking
15 8 (0.60%) Turkish Language
16 7 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.45%) Advertising
17 6 (0.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1,016 (75.99%) Developer
2 587 (43.90%) PHP Developer
3 313 (23.41%) Senior
4 256 (19.15%) Senior Developer
5 207 (15.48%) Full Stack Developer
6 138 (10.32%) Senior PHP Developer
7 128 (9.57%) Web Developer
8 113 (8.45%) Lead
9 88 (6.58%) Software Engineer
10 84 (6.28%) Full Stack PHP Developer
11 70 (5.24%) WordPress Developer
12 68 (5.09%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 55 (4.11%) Software Developer
14 52 (3.89%) PHP Web Developer
15 49 (3.66%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 49 (3.66%) Junior
16 48 (3.59%) Junior Developer
17 43 (3.22%) Senior Full Stack Developer
17 43 (3.22%) Technical Leader
18 40 (2.99%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 586 (43.83%) Laravel
2 580 (43.38%) HTML
3 542 (40.54%) CSS
4 353 (26.40%) React
5 221 (16.53%) Vue
6 178 (13.31%) Symfony
7 152 (11.37%) jQuery
8 132 (9.87%) HTML5
9 124 (9.27%) LAMP
10 109 (8.15%) Node.js
11 105 (7.85%) RESTful
12 91 (6.81%) CSS3
13 87 (6.51%) AngularJS
14 68 (5.09%) REST
14 68 (5.09%) Web Services
15 63 (4.71%) .NET
16 52 (3.89%) JSON
17 50 (3.74%) Sass
18 42 (3.14%) React Native
19 39 (2.92%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 67 (5.01%) Greenfield Project
2 51 (3.81%) Mobile App
3 37 (2.77%) Management Information System
4 35 (2.62%) Cloud Native
5 32 (2.39%) IoT
6 27 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 26 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (1.80%) Product Ownership
9 16 (1.20%) Cybercrime
9 16 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
11 13 (0.97%) e-Learning
11 13 (0.97%) Virtual Team
12 11 (0.82%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.67%) Legacy Code
13 9 (0.67%) PropTech
14 8 (0.60%) Social Media
15 7 (0.52%) Digital Media
15 7 (0.52%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 157 (11.74%) Linux
2 35 (2.62%) Windows
3 13 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.82%) Ubuntu
5 10 (0.75%) Android
6 9 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
8 5 (0.37%) CentOS
9 4 (0.30%) Unix
10 1 (0.075%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.075%) Rocky
10 1 (0.075%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (26.55%) Full Stack Development
2 302 (22.59%) Agile
3 287 (21.47%) Web Development
4 239 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
5 233 (17.43%) Software Engineering
6 208 (15.56%) E-Commerce
7 196 (14.66%) OOP
8 161 (12.04%) DevOps
9 158 (11.82%) MVC
10 146 (10.92%) User Experience
11 139 (10.40%) Computer Science
12 134 (10.02%) OO
13 115 (8.60%) Front End Development
14 108 (8.08%) TDD
15 102 (7.63%) Roadmaps
16 98 (7.33%) Clean Code
17 87 (6.51%) CI/CD
18 85 (6.36%) Mentoring
19 75 (5.61%) Project Management
20 63 (4.71%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 733 (54.82%) JavaScript
2 199 (14.88%) SQL
3 113 (8.45%) TypeScript
4 90 (6.73%) C#
5 87 (6.51%) Python
6 80 (5.98%) Java
7 30 (2.24%) Go
8 23 (1.72%) C
8 23 (1.72%) C++
9 14 (1.05%) Bash
10 11 (0.82%) Rust
11 10 (0.75%) Ruby
12 9 (0.67%) VB
13 8 (0.60%) MATLAB
13 8 (0.60%) Perl
13 8 (0.60%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.52%) VB.NET
14 7 (0.52%) VBA
15 6 (0.45%) Ada
15 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 193 (14.44%) Degree
2 93 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (0.90%) Security Cleared
4 9 (0.67%) Azure Certification
5 7 (0.52%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
6 4 (0.30%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.30%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.075%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.075%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.075%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.075%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.69%) Accessibility
2 31 (2.32%) QA
2 31 (2.32%) WCAG
3 12 (0.90%) GDPR
4 4 (0.30%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.15%) SLA
6 1 (0.075%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.075%) PMO
6 1 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 180 (13.46%) Docker
2 9 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.15%) Firmware
3 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.075%) GlusterFS
4 1 (0.075%) PowerDNS
4 1 (0.075%) Varnish
4 1 (0.075%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.075%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 71 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 53 (3.96%) Terraform
3 9 (0.67%) Ansible
4 6 (0.45%) cPanel
5 5 (0.37%) Grafana
5 5 (0.37%) Plesk
5 5 (0.37%) Puppet
6 4 (0.30%) Cacti
6 4 (0.30%) Nagios
6 4 (0.30%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.15%) Rancher
8 1 (0.075%) Argo
8 1 (0.075%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.075%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.075%) SCCM
8 1 (0.075%) systemd
Vendors
1 56 (4.19%) Google
2 31 (2.32%) WooCommerce
3 21 (1.57%) Microsoft
3 21 (1.57%) Zend
4 16 (1.20%) Adobe
5 13 (0.97%) VMware
6 12 (0.90%) Salesforce
6 12 (0.90%) SAP
7 11 (0.82%) Twitter
8 9 (0.67%) Oracle
9 8 (0.60%) F5
10 7 (0.52%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.45%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.37%) New Relic
13 4 (0.30%) HP
14 3 (0.22%) Actuate
14 3 (0.22%) HubSpot
15 2 (0.15%) Panasonic
15 2 (0.15%) Sage
15 2 (0.15%) YouTube