PHP Jobs in London

PHP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 269 258
Rank change year-on-year -37 -11 -97
Permanent jobs citing PHP 100 267 397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.77% 1.10% 1.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.86% 2.73% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 83 237 335
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,218 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +5.36% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,750 £93,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £54,250
% change year-on-year - -7.83% +3.33%

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 5,380 9,789 14,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.45% 40.20% 47.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,584 7,566 11,359
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,438 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £131,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in London

PHP
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP in London.

Salary trend for PHP in London

PHP
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 2025. 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 +9 15 £67,500 - 75
West London +22 4 - - 37
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (19.00%) WordPress
2 11 (11.00%) CMS
3 6 (6.00%) Drupal
4 4 (4.00%) nginx
5 2 (2.00%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.00%) Apache
6 1 (1.00%) IIS
6 1 (1.00%) Kentico
6 1 (1.00%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.00%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.00%) Sketch
3 1 (1.00%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Magento
1 1 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (38.00%) AWS
2 12 (12.00%) Azure
3 8 (8.00%) GCP
4 6 (6.00%) Google Analytics
5 5 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 5 (5.00%) SaaS
6 4 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 3 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.00%) Figma
7 3 (3.00%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.00%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.00%) Serverless
7 3 (3.00%) Vercel
8 2 (2.00%) DigitalOcean
8 2 (2.00%) GitHub
8 2 (2.00%) Supabase
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) Internet
1 2 (2.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.00%) Intranet
2 1 (1.00%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (37.00%) MySQL
2 6 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.00%) Mixpanel
4 2 (2.00%) Redis
5 1 (1.00%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.00%) Big Data
5 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (23.00%) Git
2 6 (6.00%) PHPUnit
3 5 (5.00%) Postman
4 4 (4.00%) Selenium
5 3 (3.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.00%) GitLab
5 3 (3.00%) Jasmine
5 3 (3.00%) Mocha
5 3 (3.00%) SoapUI
6 2 (2.00%) JIRA
7 1 (1.00%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.00%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.00%) PhpStorm
7 1 (1.00%) Xcode
General
1 32 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.00%) Finance
4 10 (10.00%) Games
5 5 (5.00%) Marketing
6 4 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.00%) Back Office
7 3 (3.00%) French Language
7 3 (3.00%) German Language
7 3 (3.00%) Greek Language
7 3 (3.00%) Italian Language
7 3 (3.00%) Romanian Language
7 3 (3.00%) Spanish Language
8 2 (2.00%) iGaming
9 1 (1.00%) Advertising
9 1 (1.00%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.00%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 59 (59.00%) Developer
2 27 (27.00%) PHP Developer
3 25 (25.00%) Senior
4 18 (18.00%) Senior Developer
5 11 (11.00%) Lead
6 9 (9.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (8.00%) Lead Developer
7 8 (8.00%) Web Developer
8 6 (6.00%) PHP Web Developer
8 6 (6.00%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) WordPress Developer
9 5 (5.00%) SaaS Developer
9 5 (5.00%) SEO Manager
10 4 (4.00%) Lead PHP Developer
10 4 (4.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 4 (4.00%) Senior PHP Developer
11 3 (3.00%) Head of Digital
11 3 (3.00%) PHP Software Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) PHP WordPress Developer
11 3 (3.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (42.00%) Laravel
2 30 (30.00%) HTML
3 29 (29.00%) CSS
4 22 (22.00%) React
5 21 (21.00%) Vue
6 16 (16.00%) HTML5
7 15 (15.00%) CSS3
8 11 (11.00%) Symfony
9 10 (10.00%) Node.js
9 10 (10.00%) RESTful
10 7 (7.00%) AngularJS
10 7 (7.00%) JSON
11 6 (6.00%) Ajax
11 6 (6.00%) jQuery
12 5 (5.00%) REST
12 5 (5.00%) Sass
12 5 (5.00%) Web Services
13 4 (4.00%) LAMP
13 4 (4.00%) LESS
13 4 (4.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.00%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (7.00%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.00%) Blog
4 4 (4.00%) e-Learning
4 4 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.00%) Legacy Code
5 3 (3.00%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.00%) NHS
6 2 (2.00%) Online Games
7 1 (1.00%) CCTV
7 1 (1.00%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.00%) New Media
7 1 (1.00%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.00%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.00%) Linux
2 4 (4.00%) Windows
3 2 (2.00%) Android
3 2 (2.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.00%) VMS
4 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.00%) Web Development
2 22 (22.00%) Agile
2 22 (22.00%) CI/CD
3 20 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 17 (17.00%) Microservices
4 17 (17.00%) MVC
5 15 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (15.00%) TDD
6 14 (14.00%) OOP
7 13 (13.00%) Design Patterns
7 13 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (13.00%) Test Automation
8 11 (11.00%) Fintech
8 11 (11.00%) Mentoring
9 10 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (10.00%) DevOps
10 9 (9.00%) Analytics
10 9 (9.00%) Front End Development
10 9 (9.00%) OO
10 9 (9.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 51 (51.00%) JavaScript
2 24 (24.00%) SQL
3 17 (17.00%) Python
4 16 (16.00%) TypeScript
5 13 (13.00%) Go
6 8 (8.00%) Java
7 5 (5.00%) C#
8 4 (4.00%) C++
8 4 (4.00%) Scala
9 3 (3.00%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.00%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.00%) Bash
10 2 (2.00%) C
10 2 (2.00%) MATLAB
10 2 (2.00%) R
10 2 (2.00%) Ruby
11 1 (1.00%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.00%) Dart
11 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.00%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.00%) Degree
2 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) QA
2 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (12.00%) Docker
2 3 (3.00%) Samba
3 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.00%) Terraform
3 2 (2.00%) Grafana
3 2 (2.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.00%) Ansible
4 1 (1.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (9.00%) Google
2 7 (7.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.00%) Ahrefs
3 5 (5.00%) Screaming Frog
4 3 (3.00%) Adobe
5 2 (2.00%) Twitter
6 1 (1.00%) Apple
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle
6 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.00%) Vertica