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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 148 163
Rank change year-on-year -99 +15 -58
Permanent jobs citing PHP 565 1,708 2,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.23% 2.00% 2.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.05% 6.18% 5.21%
Number of salaries quoted 507 1,540 1,457
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 £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,625 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +8.10%

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 13,967 27,633 40,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.35% 32.42% 43.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10,266 22,507 25,735
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,250 £40,000
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 2 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 2 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 -94 137 £52,500 +10.53% 189
South East +11 114 £50,000 -9.09% 132
London -39 113 £60,000 -5.09% 191
South West -3 82 £60,000 +33.33% 49
North West -91 79 £52,500 +5.00% 126
Midlands -61 69 £40,000 -11.11% 93
East of England -44 46 £35,000 -19.54% 41
Yorkshire -52 42 £47,500 +1.06% 55
West Midlands -23 39 £55,500 +23.33% 42
East Midlands -27 29 £35,000 -22.22% 44
North East +38 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 (12.57%) WordPress
2 41 (7.26%) CMS
3 15 (2.65%) Apache
4 14 (2.48%) nginx
5 13 (2.30%) Drupal
6 9 (1.59%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.71%) Joomla!
8 3 (0.53%) ColdFusion
8 3 (0.53%) IIS
8 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.35%) Confluence
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 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.77%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.88%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.71%) Adobe Premiere
4 4 (0.71%) 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 (3.36%) Shopify
2 10 (1.77%) Magento
2 10 (1.77%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (1.59%) 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
1 181 (32.04%) AWS
2 77 (13.63%) Azure
3 65 (11.50%) GCP
4 52 (9.20%) GitHub
5 35 (6.19%) SaaS
6 30 (5.31%) Serverless
7 21 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (2.65%) Slack
9 14 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (2.30%) Amazon S3
10 13 (2.30%) Zapier
11 12 (2.12%) Google Analytics
12 10 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.59%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 8 (1.42%) Stripe
15 7 (1.24%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (1.24%) Figma
16 6 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
16 6 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
16 6 (1.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.65%) Internet
2 13 (2.30%) DNS
3 12 (2.12%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.95%) HTTPS
5 9 (1.59%) IPsec
6 5 (0.88%) VoIP
7 4 (0.71%) HTTP
7 4 (0.71%) MPLS
8 3 (0.53%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.35%) FTP
9 2 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.35%) LoRaWAN
9 2 (0.35%) SSH
9 2 (0.35%) SSL
9 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.18%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.18%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.18%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (51.86%) MySQL
2 77 (13.63%) SQL Server
3 33 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (3.89%) MongoDB
5 20 (3.54%) Relational Database
6 17 (3.01%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (1.95%) SQLite
9 10 (1.77%) Redis
10 9 (1.59%) Couchbase
11 5 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.88%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.71%) Big Data
12 4 (0.71%) Power BI
12 4 (0.71%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.71%) TimescaleDB
13 3 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.35%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.35%) OLTP
14 2 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 163 (28.85%) Git
2 17 (3.01%) JIRA
3 15 (2.65%) Selenium
4 12 (2.12%) PHPUnit
5 11 (1.95%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.59%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.24%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.24%) Postman
8 5 (0.88%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.88%) SoapUI
9 4 (0.71%) 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%) CMake
General
1 150 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 96 (16.99%) Finance
3 71 (12.57%) Games
4 33 (5.84%) Marketing
5 27 (4.78%) Retail
6 25 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (2.65%) Legal
9 14 (2.48%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (2.12%) Law
12 11 (1.95%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.59%) Back Office
14 8 (1.42%) Public Sector
15 7 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.24%) Turkish Language
16 4 (0.71%) Automotive
17 3 (0.53%) Advertising
17 3 (0.53%) French Language
17 3 (0.53%) German Language
Job Titles
1 343 (60.71%) Developer
2 158 (27.96%) PHP Developer
3 145 (25.66%) Senior
4 92 (16.28%) Senior Developer
5 58 (10.27%) Software Engineer
6 51 (9.03%) Web Developer
7 47 (8.32%) Lead
8 45 (7.96%) Full-Stack Developer
9 40 (7.08%) Senior PHP Developer
10 34 (6.02%) Graduate
10 34 (6.02%) Graduate Developer
11 32 (5.66%) IT Graduate
11 32 (5.66%) PHP Software Engineer
12 30 (5.31%) Junior
13 29 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 25 (4.42%) Junior Developer
15 20 (3.54%) Senior Software Engineer
16 18 (3.19%) Junior PHP Developer
16 18 (3.19%) PHP Laravel Developer
17 17 (3.01%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (49.56%) CSS
2 246 (43.54%) HTML
3 234 (41.42%) Laravel
4 121 (21.42%) React
5 95 (16.81%) Vue
6 79 (13.98%) LAMP
7 74 (13.10%) .NET
8 68 (12.04%) jQuery
9 60 (10.62%) AngularJS
10 52 (9.20%) Node.js
11 48 (8.50%) RESTful
11 48 (8.50%) Symfony
12 41 (7.26%) ASP.NET
13 40 (7.08%) HTML5
14 33 (5.84%) CSS3
14 33 (5.84%) Web Services
15 20 (3.54%) Tailwind CSS
16 19 (3.36%) REST
16 19 (3.36%) XML
17 16 (2.83%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.26%) Mobile App
2 23 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (3.01%) Onboarding
4 15 (2.65%) IoT
5 13 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.95%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
9 8 (1.42%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.24%) 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 (0.71%) CCTV
13 4 (0.71%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.71%) Online Games
14 3 (0.53%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.79%) Linux
2 23 (4.07%) Windows
3 15 (2.65%) Android
3 15 (2.65%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.88%) CentOS
5 4 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.53%) Unix
7 2 (0.35%) AIX
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.18%) Debian
8 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (28.32%) Agile
2 158 (27.96%) E-Commerce
3 142 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
4 129 (22.83%) Web Development
5 128 (22.65%) Software Engineering
6 116 (20.53%) MVC
7 115 (20.35%) OOP
8 91 (16.11%) Full-Stack Development
9 86 (15.22%) Computer Science
10 80 (14.16%) User Experience
11 67 (11.86%) Front End Development
12 66 (11.68%) OO
13 61 (10.80%) CI/CD
13 61 (10.80%) TDD
14 60 (10.62%) DevOps
14 60 (10.62%) Mentoring
15 57 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 49 (8.67%) Microservices
17 46 (8.14%) Test Automation
18 42 (7.43%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 305 (53.98%) JavaScript
2 101 (17.88%) SQL
3 80 (14.16%) Python
4 76 (13.45%) Java
5 62 (10.97%) C#
6 58 (10.27%) TypeScript
7 47 (8.32%) C++
8 37 (6.55%) Go
9 15 (2.65%) C
10 11 (1.95%) Perl
11 8 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.88%) Objective-C
12 5 (0.88%) Scala
13 4 (0.71%) Bash
13 4 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.71%) VB
14 3 (0.53%) R
15 2 (0.35%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.35%) AWK
15 2 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (16.64%) Degree
2 65 (11.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.06%) Security Cleared
4 5 (0.88%) DBS Check
4 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (0.71%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.53%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.35%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.08%) QA
2 34 (6.02%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.83%) WCAG
4 13 (2.30%) GDPR
5 8 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.71%) GMP
7 3 (0.53%) SLA
8 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 60 (10.62%) 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 30 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.89%) Terraform
3 12 (2.12%) Ansible
4 4 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
4 4 (0.71%) 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 (7.43%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.07%) Google
3 22 (3.89%) Adobe
4 19 (3.36%) Twitter
5 16 (2.83%) WooCommerce
6 9 (1.59%) Cisco
6 9 (1.59%) New Relic
7 8 (1.42%) 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 (0.71%) Apple
10 4 (0.71%) HubSpot
11 3 (0.53%) Oracle
11 3 (0.53%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.53%) Sage
12 2 (0.35%) IBM