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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 311 228
Rank change year-on-year +21 -83 +76
Permanent jobs citing PHP 87 118 282
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.59% 0.77% 1.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.97% 1.90% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 61 79 259
10th Percentile £32,500 £42,250 £42,350
25th Percentile £47,617 £49,140 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £63,218
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -9.04% +5.36%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £97,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4,415 6,206 9,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.78% 40.39% 43.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,104 3,960 7,882
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £79,566
Median % change year-on-year - +0.55% +2.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £127,125 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +21 7 £60,000 -26.15% 10
North London +9 4 £80,000 - 4
West London +4 4 - - 6
South London - 1 £57,500 - 1
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 7 (8.05%) WordPress
2 4 (4.60%) Apache
2 4 (4.60%) CMS
3 3 (3.45%) Apache Solr
3 3 (3.45%) Liferay
4 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (14.94%) Infor M3
2 3 (3.45%) Shopify
3 1 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (28.74%) AWS
2 16 (18.39%) SaaS
3 12 (13.79%) Azure
4 8 (9.20%) GCP
5 5 (5.75%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (3.45%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (3.45%) Anthos
6 3 (3.45%) Apigee
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.15%) dbt
7 1 (1.15%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.15%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.15%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) DHCP
1 1 (1.15%) DNS
1 1 (1.15%) FTP
1 1 (1.15%) Network Security
1 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.15%) VPN
1 1 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (26.44%) MySQL
2 6 (6.90%) MariaDB
3 5 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.45%) Redis
5 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.15%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Git
2 4 (4.60%) Postman
3 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.15%) JIRA
3 1 (1.15%) Selenium
3 1 (1.15%) SoapUI
General
1 21 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.94%) Finance
3 6 (6.90%) Automotive
4 5 (5.75%) Games
4 5 (5.75%) Marketing
4 5 (5.75%) Tech for Good
5 4 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Back Office
8 1 (1.15%) Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 35 (40.23%) Developer
2 17 (19.54%) Lead
2 17 (19.54%) PHP Developer
3 16 (18.39%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (17.24%) Senior
5 10 (11.49%) Senior Developer
6 9 (10.34%) Lead Developer
7 6 (6.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (6.90%) Senior PHP Developer
7 6 (6.90%) Support Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Technical Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Technical Support
7 6 (6.90%) Technical Support Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Chief Technology Officer
8 5 (5.75%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
8 5 (5.75%) Lead Data Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Lead PHP Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Graduate Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.69%) Laravel
2 17 (19.54%) React
3 12 (13.79%) Vue
4 10 (11.49%) HTML
5 9 (10.34%) REST
6 8 (9.20%) Symfony
7 6 (6.90%) Next.js
7 6 (6.90%) Spring
7 6 (6.90%) Spring Boot
8 5 (5.75%) LangChain
8 5 (5.75%) Node.js
8 5 (5.75%) Pandas
8 5 (5.75%) PyTorch
8 5 (5.75%) scikit-learn
8 5 (5.75%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (5.75%) TensorFlow
8 5 (5.75%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 5 (5.75%) WebGL
9 4 (4.60%) Hugging Face
9 4 (4.60%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.09%) CCTV
2 6 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.75%) Educational Technology
3 5 (5.75%) Mobile Games
3 5 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.15%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.15%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.15%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.15%) NHS
6 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.49%) Android
1 10 (11.49%) Apple iOS
2 7 (8.05%) Linux
3 4 (4.60%) Windows
4 3 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.74%) AI
2 24 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (25.29%) Machine Learning
4 19 (21.84%) CI/CD
4 19 (21.84%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (21.84%) Test Automation
5 17 (19.54%) Agile
6 16 (18.39%) Software Engineering
7 14 (16.09%) DevOps
8 10 (11.49%) LLM
8 10 (11.49%) Mentoring
8 10 (11.49%) User Experience
9 9 (10.34%) Roadmaps
10 7 (8.05%) Analytics
10 7 (8.05%) Data Science
10 7 (8.05%) Microservices
10 7 (8.05%) Product Roadmap
10 7 (8.05%) TDD
10 7 (8.05%) Web Development
11 6 (6.90%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.84%) JavaScript
2 18 (20.69%) Python
3 14 (16.09%) SQL
4 12 (13.79%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.05%) Java
5 7 (8.05%) Kotlin
6 5 (5.75%) Go
7 3 (3.45%) C#
8 2 (2.30%) Perl
9 1 (1.15%) Delphi
9 1 (1.15%) Pascal
9 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.15%) Scala
9 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (3.45%) Degree
2 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) SLA
2 5 (5.75%) QA
3 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.15%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (20.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (1.15%) Grafana
3 1 (1.15%) Opsgenie
3 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (5.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.60%) OpenAI
3 3 (3.45%) Google
3 3 (3.45%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.45%) WooCommerce
4 1 (1.15%) PayPal