PHP Job Trends in England

PHP
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 201 140
Rank change year-on-year -62 -61 +30
Permanent jobs citing PHP 557 597 1,679
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 1.63% 2.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.20% 4.88% 6.29%
Number of salaries quoted 491 544 1,524
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,813 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

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 13,277 12,245 26,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.93% 33.51% 33.28%
Number of salaries quoted 9,478 9,354 22,468
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,532
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £64,266 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.13% +8.33% -7.69%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

PHP job vacancy trend in England

PHP
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in England over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

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 10 April 2026. 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
Midlands -5 122 £45,000 +12.50% 29
North of England -81 122 £50,000 -3.85% 38
South East -38 105 £50,000 - 33
London -32 95 £75,000 +30.43% 29
West Midlands +18 77 £50,000 -9.09% 15
South West -66 67 £55,000 -8.33% 29
Yorkshire -35 60 £50,000 +5.26% 20
North West -51 57 £50,000 -4.76% 12
East Midlands -38 46 £37,500 +7.14% 14
East of England -48 43 £27,500 -25.68% 22
North East -41 5 £70,000 +27.27% 6
PHP
UK

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 37 (6.64%) WordPress
2 20 (3.59%) CMS
3 13 (2.33%) nginx
4 8 (1.44%) Apache
5 7 (1.26%) ColdFusion
6 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.54%) IIS
7 3 (0.54%) Liferay
8 2 (0.36%) Confluence
8 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.18%) Drupal
9 1 (0.18%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.18%) Moodle
Applications
1 6 (1.08%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.90%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (2.51%) Infor M3
2 12 (2.15%) Magento
2 12 (2.15%) Shopify
3 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) Line 50
4 1 (0.18%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 132 (23.70%) AWS
2 96 (17.24%) Azure
3 67 (12.03%) SaaS
4 27 (4.85%) GCP
5 21 (3.77%) Figma
6 17 (3.05%) GitHub
7 12 (2.15%) Stripe
8 10 (1.80%) Serverless
9 8 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.08%) Amazon S3
11 5 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (0.72%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (0.72%) DigitalOcean
12 4 (0.72%) Firebase
12 4 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (0.72%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.54%) Apigee
13 3 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.51%) DNS
2 12 (2.15%) HTTP
2 12 (2.15%) Internet
3 7 (1.26%) VPN
4 5 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.72%) DHCP
5 4 (0.72%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.54%) Network Security
7 1 (0.18%) Intranet
7 1 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (25.49%) MySQL
2 53 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 25 (4.49%) Relational Database
4 22 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (2.51%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.44%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.08%) MariaDB
9 5 (0.90%) Redis
10 4 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.54%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.36%) Power BI
13 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.18%) FileMaker
13 1 (0.18%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 58 (10.41%) Git
2 16 (2.87%) JIRA
3 12 (2.15%) PHPUnit
4 10 (1.80%) Postman
5 6 (1.08%) Selenium
6 5 (0.90%) Vite
7 4 (0.72%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.72%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.36%) webpack
9 1 (0.18%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.18%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.18%) Gatling
9 1 (0.18%) GitLab
9 1 (0.18%) JMeter
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 87 (15.62%) Social Skills
2 70 (12.57%) Finance
3 23 (4.13%) Marketing
4 13 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (1.97%) Health Technology
6 9 (1.62%) Games
6 9 (1.62%) Law
6 9 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.26%) Tech for Good
8 6 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.08%) Public Sector
9 5 (0.90%) Retail
10 4 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.72%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.54%) Back Office
11 3 (0.54%) Legal
12 2 (0.36%) Advertising
13 1 (0.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 370 (66.43%) Developer
2 212 (38.06%) PHP Developer
3 123 (22.08%) Senior
4 98 (17.59%) Senior Developer
5 89 (15.98%) Software Developer
6 56 (10.05%) Graduate
7 55 (9.87%) Full-Stack Developer
8 53 (9.52%) Software Engineer
9 52 (9.34%) Graduate Developer
10 51 (9.16%) Graduate Software Developer
11 47 (8.44%) C# Developer
11 47 (8.44%) C# Software Developer
11 47 (8.44%) Graduate C# Developer
11 47 (8.44%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 46 (8.26%) Senior PHP Developer
13 43 (7.72%) Graduate SQL Developer
13 43 (7.72%) SQL Developer
14 41 (7.36%) Graduate PHP Developer
14 41 (7.36%) Lead
14 41 (7.36%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (27.65%) Laravel
2 140 (25.13%) CSS
3 116 (20.83%) HTML
4 74 (13.29%) React
5 56 (10.05%) Vue
6 47 (8.44%) jQuery
7 35 (6.28%) .NET
8 34 (6.10%) Symfony
9 28 (5.03%) RESTful
10 27 (4.85%) Node.js
11 21 (3.77%) REST
12 20 (3.59%) Tailwind CSS
13 14 (2.51%) LAMP
13 14 (2.51%) Next.js
14 12 (2.15%) HTML5
15 11 (1.97%) React Native
16 10 (1.80%) CSS3
17 9 (1.62%) RabbitMQ
18 8 (1.44%) CodeIgniter
18 8 (1.44%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
2 18 (3.23%) CCTV
2 18 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 16 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (2.69%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.33%) Educational Technology
6 12 (2.15%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.15%) Virtual Team
7 8 (1.44%) IoT
7 8 (1.44%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.08%) Driving Licence
9 5 (0.90%) Robotics
10 4 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.72%) Mobile Games
10 4 (0.72%) NHS
10 4 (0.72%) Social Media
11 3 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.54%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.54%) Web Conferencing
12 2 (0.36%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.82%) Linux
2 14 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (2.15%) Windows
4 11 (1.97%) CentOS
5 7 (1.26%) Android
5 7 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.90%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.72%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.18%) Unix
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (20.11%) Agile
2 86 (15.44%) Full-Stack Development
3 82 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (14.36%) Software Engineering
5 71 (12.75%) Computer Science
6 58 (10.41%) Web Development
7 48 (8.62%) CI/CD
8 46 (8.26%) OOP
9 42 (7.54%) Microservices
9 42 (7.54%) MVC
10 41 (7.36%) DevOps
11 40 (7.18%) E-Commerce
11 40 (7.18%) Mentoring
12 36 (6.46%) User Experience
13 35 (6.28%) Clean Code
14 32 (5.75%) TDD
15 30 (5.39%) AI
16 28 (5.03%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (5.03%) Migration
17 26 (4.67%) OO
Programming Languages
1 159 (28.55%) JavaScript
2 106 (19.03%) SQL
3 70 (12.57%) C#
4 61 (10.95%) Python
5 50 (8.98%) TypeScript
6 41 (7.36%) Java
7 22 (3.95%) C++
8 18 (3.23%) Go
9 10 (1.80%) Perl
10 9 (1.62%) Bash
11 7 (1.26%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.26%) VBA
12 5 (0.90%) Delphi
13 4 (0.72%) C
13 4 (0.72%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.72%) Pascal
14 3 (0.54%) Rust
15 1 (0.18%) CFML
15 1 (0.18%) VB
15 1 (0.18%) VB6
Qualifications
1 55 (9.87%) Degree
2 49 (8.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.54%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.36%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.18%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.18%) MySQL Certification
5 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.41%) Accessibility
2 16 (2.87%) QA
3 5 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.72%) GDPR
4 4 (0.72%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.54%) SLA
6 1 (0.18%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 44 (7.90%) Docker
2 3 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (4.13%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.72%) Plesk
3 3 (0.54%) cPanel
3 3 (0.54%) Terraform
4 2 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Consul
5 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.18%) Grafana
5 1 (0.18%) Kibana
5 1 (0.18%) Nagios
5 1 (0.18%) Packer
5 1 (0.18%) Podman
5 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.18%) Puppet
5 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (4.31%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.69%) Adobe
3 12 (2.15%) Google
4 10 (1.80%) HubSpot
5 4 (0.72%) OpenAI
5 4 (0.72%) Zend
6 3 (0.54%) Apple
6 3 (0.54%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.54%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.54%) WooCommerce
7 2 (0.36%) BT
7 2 (0.36%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle
7 2 (0.36%) PayPal
7 2 (0.36%) Sage
8 1 (0.18%) Cisco
8 1 (0.18%) New Relic
8 1 (0.18%) SAP
8 1 (0.18%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.18%) TOWER Software