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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 273 259
Rank change year-on-year -41 -14 -9
Permanent jobs citing PHP 99 110 276
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.48% 0.89% 1.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.89% 2.19% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 79 91 251
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £49,175
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £75,625 £81,250
90th Percentile £112,000 £96,250 £93,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

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 5,242 5,024 9,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.47% 40.54% 40.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,712 3,738 7,577
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -20 14 £60,000 -7.69% 4
North London - 4 £80,000 - 2
West London -16 3 - - 2
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 17 (17.17%) WordPress
2 10 (10.10%) CMS
3 5 (5.05%) Drupal
4 4 (4.04%) Apache
4 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (3.03%) Liferay
6 1 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.01%) Moodle
6 1 (1.01%) nginx
Business Applications
1 6 (6.06%) Infor M3
2 5 (5.05%) Shopify
3 2 (2.02%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (27.27%) AWS
2 23 (23.23%) SaaS
3 8 (8.08%) Azure
3 8 (8.08%) GCP
4 6 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.03%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (3.03%) Anthos
5 3 (3.03%) Apigee
5 3 (3.03%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.02%) ClickUp
6 2 (2.02%) Contentful
6 2 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.02%) Stripe
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.01%) Datadog
7 1 (1.01%) Route 53
7 1 (1.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) DNS
2 4 (4.04%) DHCP
2 4 (4.04%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.04%) VPN
2 4 (4.04%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.02%) Network Security
4 1 (1.01%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.18%) MySQL
2 6 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.05%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
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 5 (5.05%) 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 18 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.08%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (7.07%) Finance
3 7 (7.07%) Marketing
4 5 (5.05%) Retail
4 5 (5.05%) Tech for Good
5 4 (4.04%) Advertising
6 3 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.03%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.02%) Back Office
8 1 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (37.37%) Developer
2 23 (23.23%) Senior
3 20 (20.20%) Lead
3 20 (20.20%) PHP Developer
4 16 (16.16%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (14.14%) Senior Developer
6 13 (13.13%) Head of Engineering
7 10 (10.10%) Lead Developer
8 8 (8.08%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (7.07%) Lead PHP Developer
10 6 (6.06%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 5 (5.05%) Administrator
11 5 (5.05%) Analyst
11 5 (5.05%) AWS Developer
11 5 (5.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (5.05%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
12 4 (4.04%) Graduate
12 4 (4.04%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (4.04%) Software Engineer
12 4 (4.04%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.23%) Laravel
2 20 (20.20%) HTML
3 18 (18.18%) CSS
3 18 (18.18%) Vue
4 10 (10.10%) React
5 9 (9.09%) JSON
6 6 (6.06%) REST
6 6 (6.06%) RESTful
6 6 (6.06%) Spring
6 6 (6.06%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.05%) Ajax
7 5 (5.05%) CSS3
7 5 (5.05%) HTML5
7 5 (5.05%) Next.js
7 5 (5.05%) Node.js
8 4 (4.04%) Express.js
8 4 (4.04%) React Native
8 4 (4.04%) Redux
8 4 (4.04%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (3.03%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.10%) CCTV
2 6 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.05%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.04%) Driving Licence
4 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.03%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.02%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.01%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.05%) Linux
2 4 (4.04%) Windows
2 4 (4.04%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.03%) Android
3 3 (3.03%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (24.24%) Full-Stack Development
2 20 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (19.19%) Agile
4 16 (16.16%) AI
4 16 (16.16%) DevOps
4 16 (16.16%) Microservices
5 13 (13.13%) Mentoring
5 13 (13.13%) Software Engineering
6 12 (12.12%) Web Development
7 11 (11.11%) Machine Learning
8 9 (9.09%) CI/CD
9 8 (8.08%) Content Management
9 8 (8.08%) Line Management
9 8 (8.08%) Roadmaps
10 7 (7.07%) LLM
10 7 (7.07%) Product Roadmap
11 6 (6.06%) Containerisation
11 6 (6.06%) Data Science
11 6 (6.06%) Performance Optimisation
11 6 (6.06%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 30 (30.30%) JavaScript
2 15 (15.15%) Go
2 15 (15.15%) SQL
3 12 (12.12%) Python
3 12 (12.12%) TypeScript
4 7 (7.07%) Java
5 4 (4.04%) Delphi
5 4 (4.04%) Pascal
5 4 (4.04%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.03%) Bash
6 3 (3.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (4.04%) Degree
2 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.05%) WCAG
3 2 (2.02%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.02%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (10.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.01%) Grafana
2 1 (1.01%) Kibana
2 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (7.07%) Google
1 7 (7.07%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.03%) OpenAI
2 3 (3.03%) Red Hat
2 3 (3.03%) WooCommerce
3 2 (2.02%) Apple
3 2 (2.02%) BT
3 2 (2.02%) PayPal
4 1 (1.01%) New Relic