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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 301 217
Rank change year-on-year +7 -84 +77
Permanent jobs citing PHP 93 120 290
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.59% 0.81% 1.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.03% 1.98% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 67 82 262
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,125 £41,775
25th Percentile £47,617 £49,140 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £63,218
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.09% +5.36%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,000 £96,250 £96,250
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 4,574 6,064 8,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.12% 40.72% 42.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,223 3,962 7,699
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,592
90th Percentile £130,000 £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 19 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 19 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 +13 7 £60,000 -15.79% 7
North London +8 4 £80,000 - 4
West London -6 4 - - 5
South London - 1 £57,500 -
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 9 (9.68%) WordPress
2 4 (4.30%) Apache
2 4 (4.30%) CMS
3 3 (3.23%) Liferay
3 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.15%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (13.98%) Infor M3
2 3 (3.23%) Shopify
3 1 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.11%) AWS
2 16 (17.20%) SaaS
3 12 (12.90%) Azure
4 8 (8.60%) GCP
5 5 (5.38%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (3.23%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (3.23%) Anthos
6 3 (3.23%) Apigee
6 3 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.08%) dbt
8 1 (1.08%) DigitalOcean
8 1 (1.08%) GitHub
8 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.08%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.08%) Serverless
8 1 (1.08%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) DHCP
1 3 (3.23%) DNS
1 3 (3.23%) TCP/IP
1 3 (3.23%) VPN
1 3 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.08%) FTP
2 1 (1.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (24.73%) MySQL
2 7 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.53%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.45%) MariaDB
4 3 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.23%) Redis
5 2 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (10.75%) Git
2 4 (4.30%) Postman
3 2 (2.15%) JIRA
4 1 (1.08%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.08%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.08%) Selenium
4 1 (1.08%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.08%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.08%) webpack
General
1 19 (20.43%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.98%) Finance
3 6 (6.45%) Automotive
4 5 (5.38%) Games
4 5 (5.38%) Marketing
4 5 (5.38%) Tech for Good
5 4 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.15%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Back Office
8 1 (1.08%) Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.08%) Publishing
8 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (39.78%) Developer
2 20 (21.51%) PHP Developer
3 17 (18.28%) Lead
3 17 (18.28%) Senior
4 15 (16.13%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (11.83%) Senior Developer
6 9 (9.68%) Lead Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Senior PHP Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Support Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Technical Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Technical Support
7 6 (6.45%) Technical Support Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Chief Technology Officer
8 5 (5.38%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
8 5 (5.38%) Lead Data Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Lead PHP Developer
8 5 (5.38%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 4 (4.30%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.51%) Laravel
2 18 (19.35%) React
3 14 (15.05%) Vue
4 11 (11.83%) HTML
5 9 (9.68%) REST
6 7 (7.53%) Symfony
7 6 (6.45%) Next.js
7 6 (6.45%) Spring
7 6 (6.45%) Spring Boot
8 5 (5.38%) CSS
8 5 (5.38%) LangChain
8 5 (5.38%) Pandas
8 5 (5.38%) PyTorch
8 5 (5.38%) RESTful
8 5 (5.38%) scikit-learn
8 5 (5.38%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (5.38%) TensorFlow
8 5 (5.38%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 5 (5.38%) WebGL
9 4 (4.30%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.20%) CCTV
2 6 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.38%) Educational Technology
3 5 (5.38%) Mobile Games
3 5 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.23%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.15%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.75%) Android
1 10 (10.75%) Apple iOS
2 6 (6.45%) Linux
3 5 (5.38%) Windows
4 3 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (25.81%) AI
3 21 (22.58%) Machine Learning
4 19 (20.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (19.35%) Agile
5 18 (19.35%) CI/CD
6 17 (18.28%) Software Engineering
6 17 (18.28%) Test Automation
7 14 (15.05%) DevOps
8 11 (11.83%) Mentoring
9 10 (10.75%) LLM
9 10 (10.75%) User Experience
10 9 (9.68%) Roadmaps
11 8 (8.60%) Microservices
11 8 (8.60%) Web Development
12 7 (7.53%) Analytics
12 7 (7.53%) Performance Optimisation
12 7 (7.53%) Product Roadmap
12 7 (7.53%) TDD
13 6 (6.45%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.43%) JavaScript
2 18 (19.35%) Python
3 16 (17.20%) SQL
3 16 (17.20%) TypeScript
4 7 (7.53%) Java
4 7 (7.53%) Kotlin
5 5 (5.38%) Go
6 3 (3.23%) C#
6 3 (3.23%) Delphi
6 3 (3.23%) Pascal
6 3 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.15%) Perl
8 1 (1.08%) Bash
8 1 (1.08%) Scala
8 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (3.23%) Degree
2 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.45%) SLA
2 4 (4.30%) QA
3 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.08%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (18.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.15%) Ansible
3 1 (1.08%) Grafana
3 1 (1.08%) Kibana
3 1 (1.08%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 6 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.30%) OpenAI
3 3 (3.23%) Google
3 3 (3.23%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.23%) WooCommerce
4 2 (2.15%) Apple
5 1 (1.08%) New Relic
5 1 (1.08%) PayPal