PHP Jobs in Kent

PHP
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 36 95 73
Rank change year-on-year +59 -22 -19
Permanent jobs citing PHP 30 8 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 4.26% 0.54% 2.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.99% 2.14% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 27 8 19
10th Percentile £25,200 - -
25th Percentile - £35,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -9.09% +71.88%
75th Percentile £33,750 £65,000 £57,062
90th Percentile £44,700 £67,250 £57,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +3.09%

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 158 374 303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 22.44% 25.24% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 133 315 164
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £61,563
90th Percentile £68,750 £71,000 £73,375
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Kent

PHP
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for PHP in Kent

PHP
Salary Histogram in Kent

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

Salary histogram for PHP in Kent

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 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
Snodland - 9 £31,000 -
Maidstone - 8 £30,000 - 6
Sittingbourne - 5 £30,000 - 1
Tunbridge Wells - 3 £26,000 -
Canterbury - 1 - - 1
PHP
South East

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 5 (16.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (3.33%) Azure
2 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (70.00%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (46.67%) Git
2 5 (16.67%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (20.00%) Retail
2 5 (16.67%) Legal
3 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (70.00%) Developer
2 18 (60.00%) PHP Developer
3 17 (56.67%) Junior
3 17 (56.67%) Junior Developer
4 15 (50.00%) Junior PHP Developer
5 5 (16.67%) 1st Line Support
5 5 (16.67%) IT Support
5 5 (16.67%) Senior
5 5 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 5 (16.67%) Senior PHP Developer
6 3 (10.00%) HTML CSS Developer
6 3 (10.00%) HTML Developer
6 3 (10.00%) JavaScript Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Junior JavaScript Developer
7 2 (6.67%) QA Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) QA Tester
7 2 (6.67%) Tester
8 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (3.33%) Mid-Level PHP Developer
8 1 (3.33%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (96.67%) CSS
1 29 (96.67%) HTML
2 16 (53.33%) Laravel
3 14 (46.67%) CakePHP
4 9 (30.00%) LAMP
5 8 (26.67%) RESTful
6 6 (20.00%) Web Services
7 2 (6.67%) React
8 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
8 1 (3.33%) CodeIgniter
8 1 (3.33%) Jest
8 1 (3.33%) jQuery
8 1 (3.33%) REST
8 1 (3.33%) Symfony
8 1 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) E-Commerce
2 9 (30.00%) OOP
2 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (20.00%) MVC
4 5 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 5 (16.67%) Workflow
5 4 (13.33%) Test Automation
5 4 (13.33%) Unit Testing
6 3 (10.00%) Functional Testing
6 3 (10.00%) System Testing
6 3 (10.00%) Validation
7 2 (6.67%) Code Quality
8 1 (3.33%) Agile
8 1 (3.33%) CI/CD
8 1 (3.33%) Database Optimisation
8 1 (3.33%) Design Patterns
8 1 (3.33%) Fintech
8 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 1 (3.33%) Scrum
8 1 (3.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 29 (96.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (10.00%) C
2 3 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) GDPR
2 4 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Cisco
1 5 (16.67%) Meraki
2 3 (10.00%) Twitter