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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 145 167
Rank change year-on-year -92 +22 -63
Permanent jobs citing PHP 568 1,706 2,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.23% 2.00% 2.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.07% 6.17% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 511 1,540 1,464
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,625 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +7.71%

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 13,968 27,641 40,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.33% 32.44% 43.40%
Number of salaries quoted 10,268 22,520 25,798
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £108,750
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 1 May 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 1 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 -91 137 £52,500 +10.53% 178
South East +4 114 £50,000 -9.09% 118
London -29 114 £60,000 -5.09% 168
South West -9 83 £60,000 +33.33% 49
North West -82 79 £52,500 +5.00% 116
Midlands -49 69 £40,000 -11.11% 88
East of England -39 46 £35,000 -19.54% 30
Yorkshire -50 42 £47,500 +1.06% 54
West Midlands -22 39 £55,500 +23.33% 40
East Midlands -32 29 £35,000 -22.22% 42
North East +40 16 £55,000 +22.22% 9
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 71 (12.50%) WordPress
2 41 (7.22%) CMS
3 16 (2.82%) nginx
4 14 (2.46%) Apache
5 13 (2.29%) Drupal
6 11 (1.94%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.70%) Joomla!
8 3 (0.53%) ColdFusion
8 3 (0.53%) IIS
9 2 (0.35%) Confluence
9 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.18%) Kentico
10 1 (0.18%) SAS
10 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.76%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.88%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.70%) Adobe Premiere
4 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.35%) Trello
6 1 (0.18%) InVision
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.18%) Sketch
6 1 (0.18%) SPSS
6 1 (0.18%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 19 (3.35%) Shopify
2 10 (1.76%) Magento
2 10 (1.76%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (1.58%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.35%) Odoo
4 2 (0.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.18%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 182 (32.04%) AWS
2 77 (13.56%) Azure
3 67 (11.80%) GCP
4 52 (9.15%) GitHub
5 35 (6.16%) SaaS
6 30 (5.28%) Serverless
7 21 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (2.64%) Slack
9 14 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (2.29%) Amazon S3
10 13 (2.29%) Zapier
11 12 (2.11%) Google Analytics
12 10 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.58%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 8 (1.41%) Stripe
15 7 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (1.23%) Figma
16 6 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
16 6 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
16 6 (1.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.64%) DNS
1 15 (2.64%) Internet
2 14 (2.46%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.29%) HTTPS
4 11 (1.94%) IPsec
5 5 (0.88%) VoIP
6 4 (0.70%) HTTP
6 4 (0.70%) MPLS
7 3 (0.53%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.35%) FTP
8 2 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.35%) LoRaWAN
8 2 (0.35%) SSH
8 2 (0.35%) SSL
8 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.18%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.18%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (51.94%) MySQL
2 77 (13.56%) SQL Server
3 34 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (3.87%) MongoDB
5 20 (3.52%) Relational Database
6 19 (3.35%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (1.94%) Couchbase
8 11 (1.94%) SQLite
9 10 (1.76%) Redis
10 5 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.88%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.70%) Big Data
11 4 (0.70%) Power BI
11 4 (0.70%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.70%) TimescaleDB
12 3 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.35%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.35%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 164 (28.87%) Git
2 17 (2.99%) JIRA
3 15 (2.64%) Selenium
4 12 (2.11%) PHPUnit
5 11 (1.94%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.58%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.23%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.23%) Postman
8 5 (0.88%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.88%) SoapUI
9 4 (0.70%) GitLab
10 3 (0.53%) git-flow
10 3 (0.53%) Jasmine
10 3 (0.53%) Mocha
10 3 (0.53%) Subversion
10 3 (0.53%) Vite
10 3 (0.53%) webpack
11 2 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.18%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.18%) Babel
General
1 150 (26.41%) Social Skills
2 97 (17.08%) Finance
3 72 (12.68%) Games
4 33 (5.81%) Marketing
5 27 (4.75%) Retail
6 25 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (2.46%) Legal
8 14 (2.46%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (2.11%) Law
11 11 (1.94%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.58%) Back Office
13 8 (1.41%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.23%) Turkish Language
15 4 (0.70%) Automotive
16 3 (0.53%) French Language
16 3 (0.53%) German Language
16 3 (0.53%) Greek Language
Job Titles
1 345 (60.74%) Developer
2 160 (28.17%) PHP Developer
3 147 (25.88%) Senior
4 93 (16.37%) Senior Developer
5 58 (10.21%) Software Engineer
6 51 (8.98%) Web Developer
7 47 (8.27%) Lead
8 45 (7.92%) Full-Stack Developer
9 41 (7.22%) Senior PHP Developer
10 34 (5.99%) Graduate
10 34 (5.99%) Graduate Developer
11 32 (5.63%) IT Graduate
11 32 (5.63%) PHP Software Engineer
12 30 (5.28%) Junior
13 29 (5.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 25 (4.40%) Junior Developer
15 20 (3.52%) Senior Software Engineer
16 18 (3.17%) Junior PHP Developer
16 18 (3.17%) PHP Laravel Developer
17 17 (2.99%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 281 (49.47%) CSS
2 247 (43.49%) HTML
3 235 (41.37%) Laravel
4 121 (21.30%) React
5 96 (16.90%) Vue
6 80 (14.08%) LAMP
7 73 (12.85%) .NET
8 68 (11.97%) jQuery
9 60 (10.56%) AngularJS
10 52 (9.15%) Node.js
11 48 (8.45%) RESTful
11 48 (8.45%) Symfony
12 41 (7.22%) ASP.NET
13 40 (7.04%) HTML5
14 33 (5.81%) CSS3
14 33 (5.81%) Web Services
15 20 (3.52%) Tailwind CSS
16 19 (3.35%) REST
16 19 (3.35%) XML
17 16 (2.82%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.39%) Mobile App
2 23 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 15 (2.64%) IoT
5 12 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.94%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.58%) Renewable Energy
9 8 (1.41%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.23%) Learning Management System
11 6 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.88%) Blog
12 5 (0.88%) Driving Licence
12 5 (0.88%) Educational Technology
12 5 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.70%) CCTV
13 4 (0.70%) NHS
13 4 (0.70%) Online Games
14 3 (0.53%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.57%) Linux
2 22 (3.87%) Windows
3 15 (2.64%) Android
3 15 (2.64%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.88%) CentOS
5 3 (0.53%) Unix
5 3 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.35%) AIX
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Debian
7 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (28.35%) E-Commerce
2 160 (28.17%) Agile
3 144 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
4 130 (22.89%) Web Development
5 128 (22.54%) Software Engineering
6 117 (20.60%) MVC
7 116 (20.42%) OOP
8 91 (16.02%) Full-Stack Development
9 86 (15.14%) Computer Science
10 79 (13.91%) User Experience
11 67 (11.80%) Front End Development
12 65 (11.44%) OO
13 63 (11.09%) CI/CD
14 62 (10.92%) DevOps
14 62 (10.92%) TDD
15 60 (10.56%) Mentoring
16 59 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 49 (8.63%) Microservices
18 46 (8.10%) Test Automation
19 41 (7.22%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 306 (53.87%) JavaScript
2 101 (17.78%) SQL
3 79 (13.91%) Python
4 76 (13.38%) Java
5 62 (10.92%) C#
6 59 (10.39%) TypeScript
7 47 (8.27%) C++
8 37 (6.51%) Go
9 15 (2.64%) C
10 10 (1.76%) Perl
11 8 (1.41%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.88%) Objective-C
12 5 (0.88%) Scala
13 4 (0.70%) Bash
13 4 (0.70%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.70%) VB
14 3 (0.53%) R
15 2 (0.35%) AWK
15 2 (0.35%) Korn
15 2 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 94 (16.55%) Degree
2 65 (11.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (0.88%) DBS Check
3 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (0.88%) Security Cleared
4 4 (0.70%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (0.53%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.35%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.04%) QA
2 34 (5.99%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.82%) WCAG
4 13 (2.29%) GDPR
5 8 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.70%) GMP
7 3 (0.53%) SLA
8 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 60 (10.56%) Docker
2 3 (0.53%) Samba
3 2 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.35%) KVM
3 2 (0.35%) Postfix
3 2 (0.35%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.18%) Firmware
4 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 32 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.23%) Terraform
3 14 (2.46%) Ansible
4 4 (0.70%) Cisco CUCM
4 4 (0.70%) Grafana
5 3 (0.53%) Puppet
6 2 (0.35%) Nagios
6 2 (0.35%) Nessus
6 2 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.18%) cPanel
7 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 42 (7.39%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.05%) Google
3 22 (3.87%) Adobe
4 20 (3.52%) Twitter
5 16 (2.82%) WooCommerce
6 9 (1.58%) Cisco
6 9 (1.58%) New Relic
7 8 (1.41%) SAP
8 6 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.88%) Ahrefs
9 5 (0.88%) Meraki
9 5 (0.88%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.88%) Screaming Frog
9 5 (0.88%) Xamarin
10 4 (0.70%) Apple
10 4 (0.70%) HubSpot
11 3 (0.53%) Oracle
11 3 (0.53%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.53%) Sage
12 2 (0.35%) IBM