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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 315 238
Rank change year-on-year +28 -77 +67
Permanent jobs citing PHP 80 109 238
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.56% 0.70% 1.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.85% 1.71% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 52 71 213
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £44,800
25th Percentile £49,404 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £97,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -6.82%

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 4,330 6,373 8,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.36% 41.07% 43.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,048 4,089 7,216
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 18 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 18 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 +8 6 - - 2
Central London +23 5 £60,000 -11.11% 9
North London +10 3 £80,000 - 3
South London - 1 £57,500 - 4
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
2 3 (3.75%) Liferay
3 2 (2.50%) Apache
3 2 (2.50%) CMS
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.25%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (15.00%) Infor M3
2 3 (3.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (27.50%) AWS
2 15 (18.75%) SaaS
3 12 (15.00%) Azure
4 8 (10.00%) GCP
5 5 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (3.75%) Anthos
6 3 (3.75%) Apigee
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.25%) dbt
7 1 (1.25%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.25%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.25%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Internet
2 1 (1.25%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (27.50%) MySQL
2 6 (7.50%) MariaDB
3 5 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.50%) Redis
7 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.25%) PostHog
7 1 (1.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (12.50%) Git
2 4 (5.00%) 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 12 (15.00%) Finance
3 7 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (7.50%) Automotive
5 5 (6.25%) Games
5 5 (6.25%) Marketing
6 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Tech for Good
6 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 32 (40.00%) Developer
2 15 (18.75%) Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (17.50%) Lead
4 13 (16.25%) PHP Developer
5 12 (15.00%) Senior
6 10 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 7 (8.75%) Lead Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Senior PHP Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Support Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Technical Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Technical Support
8 6 (7.50%) Technical Support Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Chief Technology Officer
9 5 (6.25%) Data Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Graduate
10 4 (5.00%) Graduate Developer
10 4 (5.00%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 4 (5.00%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.25%) React
2 14 (17.50%) Laravel
3 11 (13.75%) Vue
4 9 (11.25%) HTML
4 9 (11.25%) REST
5 8 (10.00%) Symfony
6 6 (7.50%) PyTorch
6 6 (7.50%) Spring
6 6 (7.50%) Spring Boot
6 6 (7.50%) TensorFlow
7 5 (6.25%) LangChain
7 5 (6.25%) Next.js
7 5 (6.25%) Node.js
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%) OAuth
8 4 (5.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.75%) CCTV
2 6 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.25%) Educational Technology
3 5 (6.25%) Mobile Games
4 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.75%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.75%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.25%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.25%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.25%) NHS
7 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
4 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.25%) AI
2 23 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (27.50%) Machine Learning
4 19 (23.75%) CI/CD
4 19 (23.75%) Test Automation
5 18 (22.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (21.25%) Agile
7 15 (18.75%) DevOps
8 14 (17.50%) Software Engineering
9 11 (13.75%) User Experience
10 10 (12.50%) LLM
11 9 (11.25%) Mentoring
12 7 (8.75%) Analytics
12 7 (8.75%) Data Science
12 7 (8.75%) Roadmaps
12 7 (8.75%) TDD
12 7 (8.75%) Web Development
13 6 (7.50%) Data Pipeline
13 6 (7.50%) Product Roadmap
13 6 (7.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.50%) JavaScript
1 18 (22.50%) Python
2 13 (16.25%) SQL
3 12 (15.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (8.75%) Java
4 7 (8.75%) Kotlin
5 5 (6.25%) Go
6 3 (3.75%) C#
7 2 (2.50%) Perl
8 1 (1.25%) Rust
8 1 (1.25%) Scala
8 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (3.75%) Degree
2 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) SLA
2 5 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (23.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.75%) 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 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (5.00%) OpenAI
2 3 (3.75%) Google
2 3 (3.75%) WooCommerce
3 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.25%) Red Hat