PHP Jobs in Essex

PHP
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 37 60
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 +4
Permanent jobs citing PHP 11 37 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 3.01% 4.23% 3.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.57% 15.74% 11.67%
Number of salaries quoted 11 33 22
10th Percentile - £33,550 -
25th Percentile - £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £44,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.18% -12.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile - £60,000 £64,375
90th Percentile £33,750 £63,750 £66,250
East of England median annual salary £35,000 £43,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -19.54% -33.08% +44.44%

All Programming Languages
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 115 235 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 31.42% 26.86% 30.16%
Number of salaries quoted 88 206 161
10th Percentile £25,875 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,188 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £77,813 £68,438 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £75,000 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +14.29%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Essex

PHP
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for PHP in Essex

PHP
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 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 +18 2 £32,500 -26.14%
PHP
East of England

PHP
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 (18.18%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) MySQL
2 9 (81.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) Vite
1 2 (18.18%) webpack
General
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
2 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (81.82%) Graduate
2 9 (81.82%) Graduate Developer
2 9 (81.82%) IT Graduate
3 4 (36.36%) PHP Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Agile C# Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Agile Developer
4 2 (18.18%) C# Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Graduate C# Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Graduate PHP Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Junior
4 2 (18.18%) Junior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Junior Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Junior PHP Developer
4 2 (18.18%) PHP Laravel Developer
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) CSS
1 11 (100.00%) jQuery
2 9 (81.82%) .NET
2 9 (81.82%) ASP.NET
3 2 (18.18%) Bootstrap
3 2 (18.18%) CSS3
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) HTML5
3 2 (18.18%) Laravel
3 2 (18.18%) Node.js
3 2 (18.18%) Sass
3 2 (18.18%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) MVC
2 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 9 (81.82%) Computer Science
2 9 (81.82%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (81.82%) OO
3 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (45.45%) OOP
5 2 (18.18%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
5 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (18.18%) Mobile First
5 2 (18.18%) Responsive Web Design
5 2 (18.18%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) C#
1 9 (81.82%) C++
1 9 (81.82%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (81.82%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe