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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 293 328
Rank change year-on-year -53 +35 -63
Permanent jobs citing PHP 92 95 153
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.38% 0.78% 0.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.65% 1.91% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 63 68 127
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £50,250 £47,500 £48,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +54.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £74,375
90th Percentile £113,000 £80,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £49,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -6.54%

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 5,583 4,981 7,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.36% 40.82% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,835 3,415 5,734
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,500
25th Percentile £64,250 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £61,305
% change year-on-year +3.81% +2.14% -5.68%

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 August 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 August 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 +3 9 £67,500 +8.00% 6
East London -8 3 £24,000 - 5
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 14 (15.22%) WordPress
2 8 (8.70%) CMS
3 6 (6.52%) Apache Spark
4 5 (5.43%) Drupal
5 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (2.17%) Moodle
6 1 (1.09%) Apache
6 1 (1.09%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Shopify
2 1 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (53.26%) AWS
2 22 (23.91%) Serverless
3 18 (19.57%) SaaS
4 15 (16.30%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (16.30%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (15.22%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (15.22%) Amazon EventBridge
5 14 (15.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (15.22%) AWS Control Tower
5 14 (15.22%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (7.61%) Azure
7 6 (6.52%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.26%) ClickUp
9 3 (3.26%) Contentful
9 3 (3.26%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.17%) Datadog
10 2 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.30%) Network Security
2 9 (9.78%) DNS
3 8 (8.70%) VPN
4 6 (6.52%) BGP
4 6 (6.52%) IPsec
5 2 (2.17%) Broadband
5 2 (2.17%) DHCP
5 2 (2.17%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (22.83%) MySQL
2 9 (9.78%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.52%) Apache Hive
3 6 (6.52%) Big Data
3 6 (6.52%) Hadoop
3 6 (6.52%) HBase
4 4 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (6.52%) Git
2 4 (4.35%) JIRA
3 2 (2.17%) Postman
4 1 (1.09%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.09%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.09%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.09%) webpack
General
1 36 (39.13%) Finance
2 26 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.30%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.96%) Marketing
5 6 (6.52%) Military
5 6 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (5.43%) Advertising
6 5 (5.43%) Retail
7 2 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Back Office
8 1 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (32.61%) Senior
2 22 (23.91%) Developer
3 17 (18.48%) Lead
4 14 (15.22%) Consultant
4 14 (15.22%) Head of Engineering
4 14 (15.22%) Security Consultant
4 14 (15.22%) Senior Consultant
4 14 (15.22%) Senior Security Consultant
5 11 (11.96%) PHP Developer
6 10 (10.87%) Lead Developer
6 10 (10.87%) Lead PHP Developer
7 8 (8.70%) Senior Developer
8 7 (7.61%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) PHP Software Engineer
10 5 (5.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Analyst
12 3 (3.26%) DevOps Manager
12 3 (3.26%) Graduate
12 3 (3.26%) IT Support
12 3 (3.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (26.09%) CSS
2 23 (25.00%) HTML
3 19 (20.65%) Laravel
4 15 (16.30%) Vue
5 14 (15.22%) AWS CDK
6 13 (14.13%) Node.js
6 13 (14.13%) React
7 10 (10.87%) CodeIgniter
7 10 (10.87%) Symfony
8 7 (7.61%) Kafka
8 7 (7.61%) RESTful
9 6 (6.52%) Ajax
9 6 (6.52%) CSS3
9 6 (6.52%) JSON
10 5 (5.43%) Express.js
10 5 (5.43%) HTML5
10 5 (5.43%) Redux
11 4 (4.35%) Model Context Protocol
11 4 (4.35%) REST
12 3 (3.26%) Nuxt
Miscellaneous
1 25 (27.17%) Onboarding
2 14 (15.22%) Enterprise Cloud
3 9 (9.78%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.43%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.17%) CCTV
6 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.17%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.17%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (2.17%) Social Media
7 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.09%) NHS
7 1 (1.09%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.78%) Linux
2 2 (2.17%) Windows
2 2 (2.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (28.26%) AI
2 20 (21.74%) Generative AI
3 19 (20.65%) Software Engineering
4 18 (19.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 18 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (18.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (17.39%) Agile
6 16 (17.39%) Cloud Security
6 16 (17.39%) Threat Modelling
6 16 (17.39%) Web Development
7 14 (15.22%) Architectural Patterns
7 14 (15.22%) Cryptography
7 14 (15.22%) Customer Engagement
7 14 (15.22%) Data Protection
7 14 (15.22%) Identity Access Management
7 14 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (15.22%) Security Architecture
8 11 (11.96%) Line Management
8 11 (11.96%) Microservices
9 10 (10.87%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 35 (38.04%) JavaScript
2 29 (31.52%) Python
3 27 (29.35%) SQL
4 21 (22.83%) Java
5 20 (21.74%) Ruby
6 18 (19.57%) Go
7 17 (18.48%) Bash
8 14 (15.22%) Perl
9 9 (9.78%) C#
10 6 (6.52%) C
11 3 (3.26%) TypeScript
12 2 (2.17%) Delphi
12 2 (2.17%) Pascal
12 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (15.22%) AWS Certification
1 14 (15.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 14 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.87%) Degree
3 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.78%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.43%) WCAG
3 2 (2.17%) SLA
4 1 (1.09%) GDPR
4 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (15.22%) Terraform
2 6 (6.52%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (3.26%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.17%) Kibana
5 1 (1.09%) Grafana
5 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.52%) HP
2 6 (6.52%) IBM
2 6 (6.52%) Oracle
2 6 (6.52%) SAP
3 5 (5.43%) Google
4 2 (2.17%) Apple
4 2 (2.17%) BT
5 1 (1.09%) New Relic
5 1 (1.09%) PayPal