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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 315 240
Rank change year-on-year 0 -75 +65
Permanent jobs citing PHP 80 110 214
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.58% 0.70% 1.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.87% 1.67% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 48 73 189
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £44,300
25th Percentile £49,375 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -

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 4,277 6,602 7,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 31.19% 41.80% 44.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,006 4,266 6,766
10th Percentile £44,975 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £102,500 £106,250 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £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 1 January 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 January 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
West London +9 9 - - 3
Central London +36 3 £60,000 +4.35% 7
East London - 3 - - 3
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 5 (6.25%) WordPress
2 3 (3.75%) Apache Solr
3 2 (2.50%) CMS
3 2 (2.50%) Liferay
4 1 (1.25%) Apache
4 1 (1.25%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.25%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (12.50%) Infor M3
2 3 (3.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (28.75%) AWS
2 14 (17.50%) SaaS
3 12 (15.00%) Azure
4 7 (8.75%) GCP
5 5 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.25%) Anthos
7 1 (1.25%) Apigee
7 1 (1.25%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (1.25%) Figma
7 1 (1.25%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.25%) Internet
2 1 (1.25%) Broadband
2 1 (1.25%) DNS
2 1 (1.25%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (30.00%) MySQL
2 6 (7.50%) MariaDB
3 4 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.50%) Redis
6 1 (1.25%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Git
2 2 (2.50%) Postman
3 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.25%) GitLab
3 1 (1.25%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) Selenium
3 1 (1.25%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.25%) Vite
General
1 18 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (15.00%) Finance
4 6 (7.50%) Automotive
5 5 (6.25%) Games
5 5 (6.25%) Marketing
6 2 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.25%) Publishing
7 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (37.50%) Developer
2 13 (16.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 12 (15.00%) Lead
4 10 (12.50%) PHP Developer
5 9 (11.25%) Senior
5 9 (11.25%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Support Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Technical Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Technical Support
6 6 (7.50%) Technical Support Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Chief Technology Officer
7 5 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Lead Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Senior PHP Developer
8 4 (5.00%) SaaS Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Graduate
9 3 (3.75%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.50%) Laravel
1 14 (17.50%) React
2 11 (13.75%) Vue
3 10 (12.50%) HTML
4 8 (10.00%) REST
4 8 (10.00%) Symfony
5 7 (8.75%) Node.js
6 6 (7.50%) PyTorch
6 6 (7.50%) TensorFlow
7 5 (6.25%) CSS
7 5 (6.25%) LangChain
7 5 (6.25%) Pandas
7 5 (6.25%) scikit-learn
7 5 (6.25%) Tailwind CSS
7 5 (6.25%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 5 (6.25%) WebGL
8 4 (5.00%) Alpine.js
9 3 (3.75%) Hugging Face
9 3 (3.75%) RESTful
9 3 (3.75%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.50%) CCTV
2 11 (13.75%) Driving Licence
3 7 (8.75%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (6.25%) Educational Technology
4 5 (6.25%) Mobile Games
5 4 (5.00%) Mobile App
5 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.25%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.25%) IoT
8 1 (1.25%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.25%) NHS
8 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.25%) Smart Home
8 1 (1.25%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.50%) Android
1 10 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 5 (6.25%) Linux
3 3 (3.75%) Windows
3 3 (3.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (27.50%) AI
3 20 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 20 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 17 (21.25%) CI/CD
5 16 (20.00%) Agile
6 15 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (17.50%) DevOps
7 14 (17.50%) Software Engineering
8 10 (12.50%) User Experience
9 9 (11.25%) LLM
10 8 (10.00%) Mentoring
10 8 (10.00%) TDD
10 8 (10.00%) Web Development
11 7 (8.75%) Roadmaps
12 6 (7.50%) Analytics
12 6 (7.50%) Containerisation
12 6 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (7.50%) Customer Service
12 6 (7.50%) Objectives and Key Results
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 16 (20.00%) Python
2 13 (16.25%) SQL
3 12 (15.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (8.75%) Kotlin
5 5 (6.25%) Go
6 4 (5.00%) Java
7 3 (3.75%) C#
8 2 (2.50%) Perl
9 1 (1.25%) Bash
9 1 (1.25%) Ruby
9 1 (1.25%) Rust
9 1 (1.25%) Scala
9 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) SLA
2 5 (6.25%) QA
3 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.25%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (21.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.75%) Ansible
3 1 (1.25%) Grafana
3 1 (1.25%) Opsgenie
3 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.75%) OpenAI
2 3 (3.75%) WooCommerce
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe
3 1 (1.25%) Google