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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 314 281
Rank change year-on-year +6 -33 -59
Permanent jobs citing PHP 75 127 202
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.64% 0.71% 0.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.68% 1.66% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 50 80 187
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,563 £49,688 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +2.08% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,125 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -5.66% +0.95%

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 4,463 7,673 9,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.05% 42.85% 45.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,985 5,061 8,073
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 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
West London - 11 - - 2
East London -3 3 - - 3
Central London +41 1 £75,000 +20.00% 7
South London +19 1 £57,500 -28.13% 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 6 (8.00%) WordPress
2 4 (5.33%) CMS
3 3 (4.00%) Apache Solr
3 3 (4.00%) Headless CMS
4 2 (2.67%) Apache
4 2 (2.67%) nginx
5 1 (1.33%) Drupal
5 1 (1.33%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Magento
1 1 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (29.33%) AWS
2 12 (16.00%) SaaS
3 11 (14.67%) Azure
4 3 (4.00%) DigitalOcean
4 3 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.67%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (2.67%) Figma
5 2 (2.67%) GCP
5 2 (2.67%) Supabase
5 2 (2.67%) Vercel
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.33%) Pulumi
6 1 (1.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.33%) Internet
2 1 (1.33%) Broadband
2 1 (1.33%) DNS
2 1 (1.33%) FTP
2 1 (1.33%) Intranet
2 1 (1.33%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (32.00%) MySQL
2 6 (8.00%) MariaDB
3 5 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.00%) Redis
5 2 (2.67%) Mixpanel
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.33%) PostHog
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (17.33%) Git
2 3 (4.00%) PHPUnit
3 2 (2.67%) JIRA
4 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.33%) GitLab
4 1 (1.33%) PhpStorm
4 1 (1.33%) Postman
4 1 (1.33%) Selenium
4 1 (1.33%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.33%) Vite
General
1 24 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.33%) Finance
5 6 (8.00%) Automotive
6 4 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.33%) Games
7 2 (2.67%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.67%) Marketing
8 1 (1.33%) Banking
8 1 (1.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (56.00%) Developer
2 18 (24.00%) PHP Developer
3 12 (16.00%) Lead
4 11 (14.67%) Senior
4 11 (14.67%) Senior Developer
5 10 (13.33%) Lead Developer
6 7 (9.33%) SaaS Developer
7 6 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (8.00%) Senior PHP Developer
7 6 (8.00%) Support Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Technical Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Technical Support
7 6 (8.00%) Technical Support Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Lead PHP Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Backend Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Integration Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Web Developer
9 3 (4.00%) WordPress Developer
10 2 (2.67%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.00%) Laravel
2 15 (20.00%) Vue
3 12 (16.00%) React
4 11 (14.67%) Symfony
5 8 (10.67%) HTML
5 8 (10.67%) Node.js
5 8 (10.67%) REST
6 7 (9.33%) CSS
6 7 (9.33%) Tailwind CSS
7 6 (8.00%) Alpine.js
8 4 (5.33%) RESTful
9 3 (4.00%) GraphQL
9 3 (4.00%) HTML5
9 3 (4.00%) jQuery
9 3 (4.00%) LAMP
9 3 (4.00%) Next.js
9 3 (4.00%) Sass
10 2 (2.67%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.67%) AWS CDK
10 2 (2.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.33%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (17.33%) CCTV
3 11 (14.67%) Driving Licence
4 7 (9.33%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (5.33%) e-Learning
6 3 (4.00%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.67%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.67%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.67%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.67%) Mobile Games
7 2 (2.67%) NHS
7 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.33%) IoT
8 1 (1.33%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.33%) Smart Home
8 1 (1.33%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.67%) Linux
2 4 (5.33%) Android
2 4 (5.33%) Apple iOS
2 4 (5.33%) Windows
2 4 (5.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (24.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (24.00%) Test Automation
3 17 (22.67%) Software Engineering
4 16 (21.33%) Agile
5 14 (18.67%) TDD
6 12 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (14.67%) DevOps
8 10 (13.33%) Roadmaps
8 10 (13.33%) Web Development
9 9 (12.00%) User Experience
10 8 (10.67%) AI
10 8 (10.67%) Machine Learning
10 8 (10.67%) Mentoring
10 8 (10.67%) Product Roadmap
11 6 (8.00%) Clean Code
11 6 (8.00%) Cost Control
11 6 (8.00%) Customer Service
11 6 (8.00%) MVC
11 6 (8.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.00%) JavaScript
2 18 (24.00%) SQL
3 11 (14.67%) Python
4 9 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.33%) Kotlin
6 3 (4.00%) Go
6 3 (4.00%) Ruby
7 2 (2.67%) Bash
7 2 (2.67%) Java
7 2 (2.67%) Perl
7 2 (2.67%) Rust
8 1 (1.33%) C
8 1 (1.33%) C#
8 1 (1.33%) C++
8 1 (1.33%) Dart
8 1 (1.33%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.33%) R
8 1 (1.33%) Scala
8 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (5.33%) Degree
2 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.00%) QA
1 6 (8.00%) SLA
2 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.33%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (14.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.33%) Ansible
3 3 (4.00%) Terraform
4 1 (1.33%) Grafana
4 1 (1.33%) Opsgenie
4 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (10.67%) ServiceNow
2 6 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.00%) Adobe
4 1 (1.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.33%) Twitter