PHP Job Trends in London

PHP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 302 265
Rank change year-on-year -25 -37 +1
Permanent jobs citing PHP 99 100 268
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.45% 0.82% 1.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.85% 1.98% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 78 84 238
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,025 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £60,000 £64,109
Median % change year-on-year +27.08% -6.41% +6.85%
75th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £85,500 £93,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,079 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.16% +0.16% -8.26%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,352 5,060 9,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.56% 41.42% 40.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,784 3,515 7,583
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,100 £47,500
25th Percentile £64,250 £61,375 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

PHP job vacancy trend in London

PHP
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in London over the 6 months to 28 June 2026.

Salary histogram for PHP in London

PHP
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the London region over the 6 months to 28 June 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
Central London -11 13 £67,500 +1.89% 1
North London - 4 £80,000 - 1
East London - 3 £24,000 - 3
West London -19 1 - - 3
PHP
England

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (18.18%) WordPress
2 11 (11.11%) CMS
3 5 (5.05%) Drupal
4 4 (4.04%) Apache
4 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (2.02%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.02%) Moodle
6 1 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.01%) Liferay
6 1 (1.01%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Infor M3
1 3 (3.03%) Shopify
2 2 (2.02%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (33.33%) AWS
2 21 (21.21%) SaaS
3 9 (9.09%) Azure
4 8 (8.08%) Serverless
5 6 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.04%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.04%) Amazon EventBridge
7 4 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.04%) AWS Control Tower
7 4 (4.04%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (4.04%) GCP
7 4 (4.04%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.03%) ClickUp
8 3 (3.03%) Contentful
9 2 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.02%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (2.02%) Anthos
9 2 (2.02%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.07%) DNS
2 6 (6.06%) Network Security
2 6 (6.06%) VPN
3 4 (4.04%) DHCP
3 4 (4.04%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.04%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (2.02%) BGP
4 2 (2.02%) Broadband
4 2 (2.02%) IPsec
5 1 (1.01%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.15%) MySQL
2 7 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.05%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.02%) Apache Hive
5 2 (2.02%) Big Data
5 2 (2.02%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.02%) HBase
5 2 (2.02%) Redis
6 1 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.01%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Git
2 4 (4.04%) Postman
3 3 (3.03%) JIRA
4 1 (1.01%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.01%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.01%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.01%) webpack
General
1 26 (26.26%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.17%) Finance
3 7 (7.07%) Marketing
3 7 (7.07%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (5.05%) Advertising
4 5 (5.05%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.05%) Retail
4 5 (5.05%) Tech for Good
5 2 (2.02%) Back Office
5 2 (2.02%) Military
5 2 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.02%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.01%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (30.30%) Developer
2 23 (23.23%) Senior
3 19 (19.19%) Lead
4 17 (17.17%) PHP Developer
5 14 (14.14%) Head of Engineering
6 10 (10.10%) Lead Developer
7 9 (9.09%) Lead PHP Developer
7 9 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 9 (9.09%) Software Engineer
8 7 (7.07%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (7.07%) PHP Software Engineer
9 6 (6.06%) Administrator
9 6 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (6.06%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 5 (5.05%) Analyst
10 5 (5.05%) AWS Developer
11 4 (4.04%) DevOps Manager
11 4 (4.04%) IT Analyst
11 4 (4.04%) IT Support
11 4 (4.04%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.21%) Laravel
2 20 (20.20%) CSS
3 19 (19.19%) HTML
4 14 (14.14%) Vue
5 11 (11.11%) React
6 9 (9.09%) Node.js
7 8 (8.08%) JSON
7 8 (8.08%) RESTful
8 7 (7.07%) REST
9 6 (6.06%) Ajax
9 6 (6.06%) CSS3
10 5 (5.05%) Express.js
10 5 (5.05%) HTML5
10 5 (5.05%) Redux
11 4 (4.04%) AWS CDK
11 4 (4.04%) CodeIgniter
11 4 (4.04%) Kafka
11 4 (4.04%) Middleware
11 4 (4.04%) Model Context Protocol
11 4 (4.04%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.12%) Onboarding
2 10 (10.10%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.07%) CCTV
4 6 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.05%) Virtual Team
6 4 (4.04%) Driving Licence
6 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.02%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (2.02%) Social Media
8 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.01%) NHS
8 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.01%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.08%) Linux
2 4 (4.04%) Windows
2 4 (4.04%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (22.22%) Software Engineering
2 21 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (19.19%) Agile
4 18 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 16 (16.16%) AI
6 15 (15.15%) Microservices
7 14 (14.14%) DevOps
8 12 (12.12%) Mentoring
9 11 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 11 (11.11%) Web Development
10 10 (10.10%) Line Management
11 8 (8.08%) Content Management
11 8 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (8.08%) Fintech
11 8 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (8.08%) Open Source
11 8 (8.08%) Roadmaps
12 7 (7.07%) Data Science
13 6 (6.06%) Cloud Security
13 6 (6.06%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 34 (34.34%) JavaScript
2 20 (20.20%) SQL
3 18 (18.18%) Go
3 18 (18.18%) Python
4 10 (10.10%) Java
5 8 (8.08%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.07%) Bash
7 6 (6.06%) Ruby
8 5 (5.05%) C#
9 4 (4.04%) Delphi
9 4 (4.04%) Pascal
9 4 (4.04%) Perl
9 4 (4.04%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.02%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (8.08%) Degree
2 4 (4.04%) AWS Certification
2 4 (4.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (4.04%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.05%) WCAG
3 2 (2.02%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.02%) SLA
4 1 (1.01%) GDPR
4 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.04%) Terraform
3 2 (2.02%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (1.01%) Grafana
4 1 (1.01%) Kibana
4 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.07%) Google
3 3 (3.03%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.02%) Apple
4 2 (2.02%) BT
4 2 (2.02%) HP
4 2 (2.02%) IBM
4 2 (2.02%) Oracle
4 2 (2.02%) PayPal
4 2 (2.02%) SAP
5 1 (1.01%) New Relic
5 1 (1.01%) OpenAI