PHP Job Trends in Kent

PHP
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 35 79
Rank change year-on-year -40 +44 -16
Permanent jobs citing PHP 11 33 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.74% 4.50% 1.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.82% 23.24% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 9 28 18
10th Percentile - £24,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £24,000 £29,563 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £30,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -47.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile - £31,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £25,750 £33,750 -
South East median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% +10.00%

All Programming Languages
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 288 142 376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 19.29% 19.37% 24.92%
Number of salaries quoted 183 112 304
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £30,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £41,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -25.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,790 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.55% +1.44% -8.33%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Kent.

PHP job vacancy trend in Kent

PHP
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing PHP

PHP
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Kent region over the 6 months to 18 July 2026. 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
Maidstone -10 6 £24,500 -18.33%
PHP
South East

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) MySQL
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) PHPUnit
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Graduate
2 6 (54.55%) Developer
3 5 (45.45%) PHP Developer
4 4 (36.36%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (36.36%) Azure Software Engineer
4 4 (36.36%) C# Developer
4 4 (36.36%) C# Software Developer
4 4 (36.36%) C# Software Engineer
4 4 (36.36%) Graduate C# Developer
4 4 (36.36%) Graduate C# Software Developer
4 4 (36.36%) Graduate Developer
4 4 (36.36%) Graduate Software Developer
4 4 (36.36%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 4 (36.36%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 4 (36.36%) PHP Software Engineer
4 4 (36.36%) Software Developer
4 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
4 4 (36.36%) SQL Developer
5 3 (27.27%) Graduate PHP Developer
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) CSS
2 4 (36.36%) jQuery
3 1 (9.09%) CakePHP
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
1 8 (72.73%) Computer Science
2 4 (36.36%) MVC
2 4 (36.36%) OOP
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) E-Commerce
4 1 (9.09%) Clean Code
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) Functional Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) OO
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) C#
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) C++
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft