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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 301 227
Rank change year-on-year 0 -74 +64
Permanent jobs citing PHP 92 124 295
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.58% 0.84% 1.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.03% 2.06% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 67 86 266
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,375 £41,875
25th Percentile £47,617 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £64,109
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -10.31% +6.85%
75th Percentile £80,625 £76,875 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,875
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 4,521 6,010 8,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.70% 40.90% 42.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,172 3,942 7,779
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,800 £49,560
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 £101,250
90th Percentile £127,500 £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 23 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 23 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 +4 7 £60,000 -9.43% 11
North London +8 4 £80,000 - 4
West London -7 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 (9.78%) WordPress
2 4 (4.35%) Apache
2 4 (4.35%) CMS
3 3 (3.26%) Liferay
3 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.17%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (14.13%) Infor M3
2 3 (3.26%) Shopify
3 1 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.43%) AWS
2 14 (15.22%) SaaS
3 12 (13.04%) Azure
4 8 (8.70%) GCP
5 5 (5.43%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (3.26%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (3.26%) Anthos
6 3 (3.26%) Apigee
6 3 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.09%) dbt
8 1 (1.09%) DigitalOcean
8 1 (1.09%) GitHub
8 1 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.09%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.09%) Serverless
8 1 (1.09%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) DHCP
1 3 (3.26%) DNS
1 3 (3.26%) TCP/IP
1 3 (3.26%) VPN
1 3 (3.26%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.09%) FTP
2 1 (1.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.91%) MySQL
2 6 (6.52%) MariaDB
2 6 (6.52%) Relational Database
3 5 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.09%) Power BI
6 1 (1.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (10.87%) Git
2 4 (4.35%) Postman
3 2 (2.17%) JIRA
4 1 (1.09%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.09%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.09%) Selenium
4 1 (1.09%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.09%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.09%) webpack
General
1 17 (18.48%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.13%) Finance
3 6 (6.52%) Automotive
4 5 (5.43%) Games
4 5 (5.43%) Marketing
4 5 (5.43%) Tech for Good
5 4 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Back Office
8 1 (1.09%) Banking
8 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.09%) Publishing
8 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (40.22%) Developer
2 20 (21.74%) PHP Developer
3 17 (18.48%) Lead
4 16 (17.39%) Senior
5 15 (16.30%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (10.87%) Senior Developer
7 9 (9.78%) Lead Developer
8 6 (6.52%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 6 (6.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.52%) Support Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Technical Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Technical Support
8 6 (6.52%) Technical Support Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) AWS Developer
9 5 (5.43%) Chief Technology Officer
9 5 (5.43%) Data Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
9 5 (5.43%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Lead PHP Developer
9 5 (5.43%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.65%) Laravel
2 17 (18.48%) React
3 15 (16.30%) Vue
4 11 (11.96%) HTML
5 9 (9.78%) REST
6 7 (7.61%) Symfony
7 6 (6.52%) Next.js
7 6 (6.52%) Spring
7 6 (6.52%) Spring Boot
8 5 (5.43%) CSS
8 5 (5.43%) LangChain
8 5 (5.43%) Pandas
8 5 (5.43%) PyTorch
8 5 (5.43%) scikit-learn
8 5 (5.43%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (5.43%) TensorFlow
8 5 (5.43%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 5 (5.43%) WebGL
9 4 (4.35%) JSON
9 4 (4.35%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.39%) CCTV
2 6 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.43%) Educational Technology
3 5 (5.43%) Mobile Games
3 5 (5.43%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.26%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.26%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.17%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.09%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.70%) Android
1 8 (8.70%) Apple iOS
2 6 (6.52%) Linux
3 5 (5.43%) Windows
4 3 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.26%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (26.09%) AI
2 23 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (22.83%) Machine Learning
4 19 (20.65%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (18.48%) Agile
5 17 (18.48%) CI/CD
6 16 (17.39%) Test Automation
7 15 (16.30%) Software Engineering
8 14 (15.22%) DevOps
9 10 (10.87%) LLM
9 10 (10.87%) User Experience
10 8 (8.70%) Mentoring
10 8 (8.70%) Microservices
10 8 (8.70%) Roadmaps
10 8 (8.70%) Web Development
11 7 (7.61%) Analytics
12 6 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (6.52%) Data Engineering
12 6 (6.52%) Performance Optimisation
12 6 (6.52%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.57%) JavaScript
2 17 (18.48%) Python
3 16 (17.39%) SQL
3 16 (17.39%) TypeScript
4 7 (7.61%) Java
5 5 (5.43%) Kotlin
6 4 (4.35%) Go
7 3 (3.26%) C#
7 3 (3.26%) Delphi
7 3 (3.26%) Pascal
7 3 (3.26%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.17%) Perl
9 1 (1.09%) Bash
9 1 (1.09%) Scala
9 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (3.26%) Degree
2 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) SLA
2 2 (2.17%) QA
3 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.09%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (18.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.17%) Ansible
3 1 (1.09%) Grafana
3 1 (1.09%) Kibana
3 1 (1.09%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 6 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.35%) OpenAI
3 3 (3.26%) Google
3 3 (3.26%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.26%) WooCommerce
4 2 (2.17%) Apple
5 1 (1.09%) New Relic
5 1 (1.09%) PayPal