Senior PHP Developer Jobs in England

Senior PHP Developer
UK > England

The median Senior PHP Developer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 607 685 495
Rank change year-on-year +78 -190 +471
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 41 137 536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.089% 0.16% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.17% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 39 132 115
10th Percentile £43,250 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £48,125 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £65,500 £78,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Senior PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior PHP Developer in England

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior PHP Developer in England.

Salary trend for Senior PHP Developer in England

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior PHP Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior PHP Developer in England

Senior PHP Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior PHP Developer 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 +45 15 £52,500 - 2
South West +91 14 £60,000 +9.09% 3
North West +1 10 £52,500 -
South East +93 8 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Yorkshire +67 5 £47,500 -13.64% 2
Midlands +76 3 £50,000 +17.65%
West Midlands +49 2 £50,000 -16.67%
London +100 1 £60,000 -20.00% 5
East Midlands +45 1 £50,000 +17.65%
Senior PHP Developer
UK

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior PHP Developer in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) PHP
2 29 (70.73%) MySQL
3 28 (68.29%) JavaScript
4 27 (65.85%) HTML
4 27 (65.85%) CSS
5 25 (60.98%) E-Commerce
6 22 (53.66%) Git
6 22 (53.66%) AWS
6 22 (53.66%) Laravel
7 20 (48.78%) OOP
8 19 (46.34%) LAMP
8 19 (46.34%) GCP
9 17 (41.46%) Games
10 16 (39.02%) Finance
11 13 (31.71%) MVC
11 13 (31.71%) Web Development
11 13 (31.71%) React
12 11 (26.83%) Mobile App
13 10 (24.39%) Twitter
13 10 (24.39%) Agile
14 9 (21.95%) jQuery
15 8 (19.51%) Symfony
15 8 (19.51%) Vue
16 7 (17.07%) AngularJS
16 7 (17.07%) Code Quality
16 7 (17.07%) Test Automation
17 6 (14.63%) Regression Testing
17 6 (14.63%) Project Delivery
17 6 (14.63%) SOLID
17 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
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 1 (2.44%) Apache
1 1 (2.44%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Magento
1 1 (2.44%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (53.66%) AWS
2 19 (46.34%) GCP
3 4 (9.76%) Azure
3 4 (9.76%) SaaS
4 3 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (7.32%) Serverless
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) Datadog
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (70.73%) MySQL
2 3 (7.32%) RDBMS
2 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.44%) Big Data
3 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.44%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (53.66%) Git
2 2 (4.88%) PHPUnit
3 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.44%) git-flow
3 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 17 (41.46%) Games
2 16 (39.02%) Finance
3 4 (9.76%) Retail
3 4 (9.76%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Advertising
5 1 (2.44%) Automotive
5 1 (2.44%) Law
5 1 (2.44%) Marketing
5 1 (2.44%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (65.85%) CSS
1 27 (65.85%) HTML
2 22 (53.66%) Laravel
3 19 (46.34%) LAMP
4 13 (31.71%) React
5 9 (21.95%) jQuery
6 8 (19.51%) Symfony
6 8 (19.51%) Vue
7 7 (17.07%) AngularJS
8 5 (12.20%) RESTful
9 4 (9.76%) REST
10 3 (7.32%) Web Services
11 2 (4.88%) CakePHP
11 2 (4.88%) LEMP Stack
11 2 (4.88%) Next.js
11 2 (4.88%) Tailwind CSS
12 1 (2.44%) Flutter
12 1 (2.44%) Playwright
12 1 (2.44%) React Native
12 1 (2.44%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.83%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (60.98%) E-Commerce
2 20 (48.78%) OOP
3 13 (31.71%) MVC
3 13 (31.71%) Web Development
4 10 (24.39%) Agile
5 7 (17.07%) Code Quality
5 7 (17.07%) Test Automation
6 6 (14.63%) Microservices
6 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (14.63%) Project Delivery
6 6 (14.63%) Regression Testing
6 6 (14.63%) SOLID
7 3 (7.32%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (7.32%) OO
8 2 (4.88%) API Integration
8 2 (4.88%) CI/CD
8 2 (4.88%) Clean Code
8 2 (4.88%) Front End Development
8 2 (4.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) PHP
2 28 (68.29%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.32%) SQL
4 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.44%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Twitter
2 1 (2.44%) Apple
2 1 (2.44%) Google
2 1 (2.44%) Spotify
2 1 (2.44%) Zend