PHP Jobs in England

PHP
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 167 102
Rank change year-on-year +28 -65 -36
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,707 2,111 4,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.01% 2.25% 3.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.19% 5.17% 6.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,542 1,474 2,780
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,375 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,625 £86,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
England

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,578 40,867 69,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.47% 43.63% 53.36%
Number of salaries quoted 22,515 26,102 39,551
10th Percentile £35,050 £39,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +39 482 £47,500 -5.00% 114
London +9 290 £63,218 +5.36% 87
South West -3 266 £45,000 -5.26% 53
South East -89 253 £55,000 +10.00% 50
North West +47 237 £50,000 -9.09% 59
Midlands +13 233 £45,000 -14.29% 51
Yorkshire +69 220 £47,000 +4.44% 45
East of England +53 167 £43,500 -33.08% 29
East Midlands +1 119 £46,250 -7.50% 24
West Midlands +11 113 £45,000 -14.29% 27
North East -43 25 £45,000 -21.74% 11
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
1 243 (14.24%) WordPress
2 102 (5.98%) CMS
3 74 (4.34%) Drupal
4 57 (3.34%) Apache
5 48 (2.81%) nginx
6 19 (1.11%) Confluence
7 11 (0.64%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.59%) Headless CMS
8 10 (0.59%) IIS
9 8 (0.47%) Moodle
10 6 (0.35%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.29%) ColdFusion
11 5 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
12 4 (0.23%) SAS
13 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.12%) Joomla!
13 2 (0.12%) Liferay
13 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.70%) Adobe XD
3 12 (0.70%) Photoshop
4 11 (0.64%) Simulink
5 8 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.12%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.059%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 73 (4.28%) Magento
2 46 (2.69%) Shopify
3 21 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.23%) CiviCRM
4 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.059%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 515 (30.17%) AWS
2 201 (11.78%) SaaS
3 109 (6.39%) Azure
4 84 (4.92%) GitHub
5 62 (3.63%) GCP
6 36 (2.11%) Amazon S3
7 35 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (1.46%) Amazon Kinesis
10 24 (1.41%) Power Platform
11 23 (1.35%) Figma
12 22 (1.29%) Serverless
13 21 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
13 21 (1.23%) npm
14 14 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (0.82%) Stripe
15 12 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (0.64%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.34%) HTTP
2 27 (1.58%) Internet
3 25 (1.46%) DNS
3 25 (1.46%) LAN
3 25 (1.46%) WAN
4 13 (0.76%) Firewall
5 12 (0.70%) SSL
6 8 (0.47%) VoIP
7 6 (0.35%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.29%) FTP
8 5 (0.29%) SSH
9 2 (0.12%) 2G
9 2 (0.12%) 3G
9 2 (0.12%) 4G
9 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.12%) IPsec
9 2 (0.12%) IPv6
9 2 (0.12%) VPN
9 2 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 690 (40.42%) MySQL
2 97 (5.68%) SQL Server
3 84 (4.92%) Relational Database
4 72 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
5 50 (2.93%) MongoDB
6 44 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
7 42 (2.46%) MariaDB
8 31 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (1.82%) NoSQL
9 27 (1.58%) RDBMS
10 25 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 24 (1.41%) Redis
12 19 (1.11%) Power BI
13 17 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
14 15 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (0.76%) DynamoDB
16 9 (0.53%) SQLite
17 8 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 8 (0.47%) Tableau
18 7 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 448 (26.24%) Git
2 76 (4.45%) JIRA
3 41 (2.40%) Selenium
4 40 (2.34%) Jenkins
5 37 (2.17%) Cypress.io
6 34 (1.99%) GitLab
7 26 (1.52%) Postman
8 24 (1.41%) Subversion
9 18 (1.05%) webpack
10 13 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
10 13 (0.76%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.70%) gulp
11 12 (0.70%) PHPUnit
12 9 (0.53%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.47%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.23%) git-flow
14 4 (0.23%) Grunt
15 2 (0.12%) Appium
15 2 (0.12%) Bower
15 2 (0.12%) MSBuild
General
1 348 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 170 (9.96%) Marketing
3 129 (7.56%) Retail
4 93 (5.45%) Finance
5 62 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (2.52%) Games
7 33 (1.93%) Telecoms
8 32 (1.87%) Tech for Good
9 30 (1.76%) Manufacturing
10 27 (1.58%) Public Sector
11 20 (1.17%) Electronics
12 18 (1.05%) Banking
12 18 (1.05%) Law
12 18 (1.05%) Legal
13 17 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (0.76%) Health Technology
15 11 (0.64%) German Language
16 10 (0.59%) Retail Banking
17 9 (0.53%) Turkish Language
18 8 (0.47%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 1,269 (74.34%) Developer
2 665 (38.96%) PHP Developer
3 329 (19.27%) Senior
4 287 (16.81%) Senior Developer
5 220 (12.89%) Full Stack Developer
6 179 (10.49%) Lead
7 157 (9.20%) Web Developer
8 133 (7.79%) Senior PHP Developer
9 116 (6.80%) Software Engineer
10 112 (6.56%) Software Developer
11 89 (5.21%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 86 (5.04%) WordPress Developer
13 82 (4.80%) Full Stack PHP Developer
14 79 (4.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 77 (4.51%) Junior
16 71 (4.16%) Junior Developer
17 66 (3.87%) Lead Developer
18 53 (3.10%) Technical Leader
19 51 (2.99%) PHP Web Developer
20 44 (2.58%) Junior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 773 (45.28%) Laravel
2 721 (42.24%) HTML
3 679 (39.78%) CSS
4 431 (25.25%) React
5 289 (16.93%) Vue
6 220 (12.89%) jQuery
7 197 (11.54%) Symfony
8 187 (10.95%) HTML5
9 172 (10.08%) LAMP
10 158 (9.26%) Node.js
11 137 (8.03%) AngularJS
12 128 (7.50%) CSS3
13 112 (6.56%) RESTful
14 111 (6.50%) REST
15 89 (5.21%) Web Services
16 87 (5.10%) JSON
17 74 (4.34%) Sass
18 69 (4.04%) XML
19 67 (3.93%) .NET
20 53 (3.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 89 (5.21%) Greenfield Project
2 47 (2.75%) Onboarding
3 45 (2.64%) Mobile App
4 35 (2.05%) Cloud Native
5 34 (1.99%) Management Information System
6 29 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (1.52%) Product Ownership
8 25 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (1.41%) IoT
10 22 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
11 19 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
12 15 (0.88%) Algorithms
12 15 (0.88%) Animation
13 13 (0.76%) Virtual Team
14 11 (0.64%) Educational Technology
15 10 (0.59%) Client/Server
15 10 (0.59%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.59%) PropTech
15 10 (0.59%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 191 (11.19%) Linux
2 37 (2.17%) Windows
3 20 (1.17%) Ubuntu
4 11 (0.64%) Unix
5 8 (0.47%) CentOS
5 8 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.41%) Android
7 6 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
7 6 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.18%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.059%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.059%) Rocky
11 1 (0.059%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (25.31%) Full Stack Development
2 402 (23.55%) Web Development
3 381 (22.32%) Agile
4 294 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
5 274 (16.05%) Software Engineering
6 241 (14.12%) OOP
7 229 (13.42%) E-Commerce
8 224 (13.12%) MVC
9 204 (11.95%) DevOps
10 174 (10.19%) User Experience
11 155 (9.08%) Computer Science
12 145 (8.49%) Front End Development
13 140 (8.20%) Mentoring
14 123 (7.21%) CI/CD
15 121 (7.09%) TDD
16 120 (7.03%) OO
17 108 (6.33%) Roadmaps
18 96 (5.62%) Clean Code
19 92 (5.39%) Project Management
20 89 (5.21%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 913 (53.49%) JavaScript
2 270 (15.82%) SQL
3 152 (8.90%) Python
4 143 (8.38%) TypeScript
5 138 (8.08%) C#
6 107 (6.27%) Java
7 40 (2.34%) C
8 38 (2.23%) VB
9 33 (1.93%) Go
10 29 (1.70%) Bash
11 26 (1.52%) Ruby
12 23 (1.35%) C++
12 23 (1.35%) JSX
13 21 (1.23%) Rust
14 18 (1.05%) PowerShell
15 16 (0.94%) T-SQL
16 13 (0.76%) Ada
16 13 (0.76%) Perl
17 11 (0.64%) MATLAB
17 11 (0.64%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 259 (15.17%) Degree
2 99 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (1.35%) Security Cleared
4 16 (0.94%) Azure Certification
5 10 (0.59%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.35%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.18%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.12%) MCSE
10 1 (0.059%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.059%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.059%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.059%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.059%) MCP
10 1 (0.059%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (3.51%) QA
2 44 (2.58%) WCAG
3 36 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.05%) GDPR
5 5 (0.29%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.12%) HL7
7 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.12%) SLA
8 1 (0.059%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.059%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.059%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.059%) NCSC
8 1 (0.059%) PMO
System Software
1 250 (14.65%) Docker
2 5 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.12%) Firmware
4 2 (0.12%) OpenSIPS
4 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.059%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 114 (6.68%) Kubernetes
2 79 (4.63%) Terraform
3 24 (1.41%) Ansible
4 13 (0.76%) Puppet
5 12 (0.70%) Grafana
6 11 (0.64%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.47%) cPanel
7 8 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.23%) Rancher
9 2 (0.12%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.059%) Argo
10 1 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.059%) Kibana
10 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.059%) Plesk
10 1 (0.059%) Podman
10 1 (0.059%) SCCM
10 1 (0.059%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.059%) systemd
Vendors
1 70 (4.10%) Microsoft
2 62 (3.63%) Google
3 44 (2.58%) WooCommerce
4 26 (1.52%) Adobe
5 15 (0.88%) Twitter
6 12 (0.70%) Zend
7 11 (0.64%) Oracle
8 10 (0.59%) New Relic
9 9 (0.53%) SAP
10 7 (0.41%) Facebook
10 7 (0.41%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.41%) SaltStack
11 6 (0.35%) Actuate
11 6 (0.35%) Sitecore
11 6 (0.35%) VMware
12 5 (0.29%) Apple
12 5 (0.29%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.29%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.23%) Rackspace
13 4 (0.23%) YouTube