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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 146 150
Rank change year-on-year -151 +4 -24
Permanent jobs citing PHP 528 1,771 1,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.04% 1.88% 2.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.53% 6.12% 5.63%
Number of salaries quoted 433 1,533 1,254
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year - -7.83% +3.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

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 14,969 28,923 33,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.46% 30.74% 41.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,593 22,677 23,030
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £82,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
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 July 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 July 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 -129 123 £48,000 +1.05% 340
South East -43 116 £45,000 -18.18% 324
London -34 99 £60,000 -5.09% 590
Midlands -60 72 £40,000 -11.11% 127
North West -112 69 £52,500 +5.00% 226
South West -25 63 £58,750 +30.56% 136
East of England -58 50 £35,000 -20.45% 129
Yorkshire -68 41 £37,500 -16.67% 102
West Midlands -19 40 £54,250 +20.56% 68
East Midlands -32 31 £40,000 -11.11% 59
North East +26 13 £26,750 -37.06% 15
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 60 (11.36%) WordPress
2 30 (5.68%) CMS
3 23 (4.36%) Apache
4 10 (1.89%) Drupal
5 9 (1.70%) nginx
6 4 (0.76%) Confluence
6 4 (0.76%) IIS
6 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.57%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.57%) ColdFusion
7 3 (0.57%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.57%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.38%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.19%) Kentico
9 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
1 15 (2.84%) Photoshop
2 9 (1.70%) Adobe Illustrator
3 8 (1.52%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.76%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.57%) Elementor
5 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.38%) Sketch
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.19%) SPSS
7 1 (0.19%) Trello
7 1 (0.19%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 11 (2.08%) Magento
2 8 (1.52%) NetSuite
2 8 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (1.52%) Shopify
3 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.38%) Odoo
4 1 (0.19%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 130 (24.62%) AWS
2 79 (14.96%) Azure
3 41 (7.77%) GCP
4 24 (4.55%) Serverless
5 21 (3.98%) GitHub
6 18 (3.41%) SaaS
7 16 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (2.27%) Google Analytics
8 12 (2.27%) Power Platform
9 9 (1.70%) Cloudflare
9 9 (1.70%) Figma
10 7 (1.33%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.33%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (1.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 7 (1.33%) Vercel
11 6 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.14%) Slack
12 5 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (0.95%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.89%) Internet
2 9 (1.70%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.95%) DNS
4 5 (0.95%) VoIP
5 4 (0.76%) MPLS
6 3 (0.57%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.57%) IPsec
6 3 (0.57%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.38%) HTTP
7 2 (0.38%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.19%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.19%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.19%) Intranet
8 1 (0.19%) RFID
8 1 (0.19%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (42.23%) MySQL
2 61 (11.55%) SQL Server
3 32 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.60%) Relational Database
5 12 (2.27%) MongoDB
6 10 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.52%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.33%) Redis
9 6 (1.14%) Power BI
10 5 (0.95%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.76%) GIS
11 4 (0.76%) TimescaleDB
12 3 (0.57%) Couchbase
12 3 (0.57%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.57%) SQLite
13 2 (0.38%) Big Data
13 2 (0.38%) Mixpanel
14 1 (0.19%) Hadoop
14 1 (0.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 111 (21.02%) Git
2 16 (3.03%) JIRA
3 15 (2.84%) PHPUnit
4 10 (1.89%) Selenium
5 9 (1.70%) Postman
6 7 (1.33%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.33%) SoapUI
7 4 (0.76%) Mocha
8 3 (0.57%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.57%) git-flow
8 3 (0.57%) GitLab
8 3 (0.57%) Jasmine
8 3 (0.57%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.57%) Subversion
8 3 (0.57%) Vite
8 3 (0.57%) webpack
9 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.19%) GDB
10 1 (0.19%) WinDbg
10 1 (0.19%) WiX
General
1 140 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 80 (15.15%) Finance
3 41 (7.77%) Games
4 23 (4.36%) Marketing
5 22 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.22%) Law
7 15 (2.84%) Retail
8 14 (2.65%) Legal
8 14 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.08%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.33%) Back Office
13 6 (1.14%) Public Sector
14 4 (0.76%) Automotive
14 4 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.57%) Electronics
15 3 (0.57%) French Language
15 3 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 301 (57.01%) Developer
2 145 (27.46%) PHP Developer
3 94 (17.80%) Senior
4 67 (12.69%) Senior Developer
5 50 (9.47%) Web Developer
6 43 (8.14%) Graduate
6 43 (8.14%) Graduate Developer
6 43 (8.14%) Lead
7 41 (7.77%) IT Graduate
8 33 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
9 32 (6.06%) Software Engineer
10 29 (5.49%) Senior PHP Developer
11 28 (5.30%) Junior
12 23 (4.36%) Junior Developer
13 22 (4.17%) SQL Developer
14 19 (3.60%) PHP Software Engineer
15 17 (3.22%) Junior PHP Developer
15 17 (3.22%) PHP Web Developer
16 16 (3.03%) C# Developer
16 16 (3.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (44.51%) HTML
2 226 (42.80%) CSS
3 158 (29.92%) Laravel
4 86 (16.29%) React
5 74 (14.02%) jQuery
6 70 (13.26%) .NET
7 67 (12.69%) Vue
8 52 (9.85%) Symfony
9 49 (9.28%) LAMP
10 46 (8.71%) ASP.NET
11 42 (7.95%) RESTful
12 41 (7.77%) AngularJS
12 41 (7.77%) Node.js
13 32 (6.06%) HTML5
14 29 (5.49%) REST
15 27 (5.11%) CSS3
16 22 (4.17%) Web Services
17 18 (3.41%) Tailwind CSS
18 15 (2.84%) Playwright
19 13 (2.46%) CakePHP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.11%) Mobile App
2 20 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (2.27%) IoT
3 12 (2.27%) Virtual Team
4 10 (1.89%) Onboarding
4 10 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.70%) e-Learning
5 9 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.52%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.14%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.95%) Blog
9 5 (0.95%) CCTV
9 5 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.76%) Educational Technology
10 4 (0.76%) Legacy Code
10 4 (0.76%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 50 (9.47%) Linux
2 25 (4.73%) Windows
3 12 (2.27%) CentOS
4 11 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.89%) Android
5 10 (1.89%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.19%) Debian
7 1 (0.19%) Unix
7 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (25.95%) Agile
2 124 (23.48%) Computer Science
3 123 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
4 108 (20.45%) Web Development
5 106 (20.08%) OOP
6 96 (18.18%) E-Commerce
7 92 (17.42%) MVC
8 83 (15.72%) Software Engineering
9 81 (15.34%) OO
10 63 (11.93%) Artificial Intelligence
11 62 (11.74%) CI/CD
12 60 (11.36%) Full-Stack Development
13 59 (11.17%) Machine Learning
14 53 (10.04%) Data Privacy
14 53 (10.04%) User Experience
15 52 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
15 52 (9.85%) DevOps
16 49 (9.28%) Front End Development
17 47 (8.90%) Test Automation
18 44 (8.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 297 (56.25%) JavaScript
2 160 (30.30%) SQL
3 120 (22.73%) Python
4 116 (21.97%) Java
5 113 (21.40%) C#
6 103 (19.51%) TypeScript
7 99 (18.75%) C++
8 59 (11.17%) C
9 50 (9.47%) Dart
9 50 (9.47%) MATLAB
9 50 (9.47%) R
9 50 (9.47%) Ruby
10 49 (9.28%) Rust
11 37 (7.01%) Go
12 7 (1.33%) Perl
13 5 (0.95%) Scala
14 4 (0.76%) Bash
14 4 (0.76%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.57%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 133 (25.19%) Degree
2 112 (21.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (2.84%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.89%) DV Cleared
5 4 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.76%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.38%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.25%) QA
2 25 (4.73%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.65%) GDPR
4 9 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.95%) WCAG
6 3 (0.57%) SLA
7 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.19%) GMP
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 49 (9.28%) Docker
2 3 (0.57%) Samba
3 2 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.38%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (3.41%) Terraform
2 17 (3.22%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.03%) Ansible
4 4 (0.76%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (0.57%) Puppet
6 2 (0.38%) Grafana
6 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.38%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.19%) WMI
Vendors
1 31 (5.87%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.55%) Adobe
3 23 (4.36%) Google
4 11 (2.08%) Twitter
5 10 (1.89%) Cisco
5 10 (1.89%) WooCommerce
6 8 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.33%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.14%) Meraki
8 6 (1.14%) New Relic
9 5 (0.95%) Ahrefs
9 5 (0.95%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.95%) SAP
9 5 (0.95%) Screaming Frog
10 2 (0.38%) Apple
10 2 (0.38%) Netlify
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle
10 2 (0.38%) Sage
10 2 (0.38%) Zoho
11 1 (0.19%) Atlassian