PHP Developer Jobs in Essex

PHP Developer
East of England > Essex

The median PHP Developer salary in Essex is £28,750 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 41 64 66
Rank change year-on-year +23 +2 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 4 8 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 1.09% 0.91% 2.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 0.97% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 16
10th Percentile - £34,625 -
25th Percentile £25,000 £35,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% - -
75th Percentile £33,750 £48,438 £65,313
90th Percentile - £58,750 £66,250
East of England median annual salary £34,750 £43,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -20.11% -33.08% +26.21%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Essex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 302 825 675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.51% 94.29% 79.23%
Number of salaries quoted 198 675 376
10th Percentile £24,533 £25,759 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,250 £30,000 £35,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £64,375 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,750 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in Essex

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for PHP Developer in Essex

PHP Developer
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the Essex 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
Basildon - 2 £32,500 -
PHP Developer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Essex region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) C++
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Git
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) HTML5
3 2 (50.00%) Node.js
3 2 (50.00%) CSS3
3 2 (50.00%) Laravel
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (50.00%) Sass
3 2 (50.00%) Bootstrap
3 2 (50.00%) webpack

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Vite
1 2 (50.00%) webpack
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) Bootstrap
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) Laravel
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (50.00%) Sass
2 2 (50.00%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) Mobile First
3 2 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (50.00%) Web Development
4 1 (25.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe