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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 295 269
Rank change year-on-year -21 -26 -5
Permanent jobs citing PHP 97 102 280
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.45% 0.84% 1.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.82% 2.01% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 78 87 246
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £36,875
25th Percentile £48,025 £47,500 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £63,218
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.09% +5.36%
75th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,875 £89,750 £93,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -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 5,341 5,073 9,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.72% 41.67% 39.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,768 3,522 7,707
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -14 14 £60,000 -7.69% 3
North London - 4 £80,000 - 2
East London - 3 £24,000 - 2
West London -19 1 - - 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 18 (18.56%) WordPress
2 11 (11.34%) CMS
3 5 (5.15%) Drupal
4 4 (4.12%) Apache
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (2.06%) Moodle
6 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.03%) Liferay
6 1 (1.03%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Infor M3
1 4 (4.12%) Shopify
2 2 (2.06%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (28.87%) AWS
2 22 (22.68%) SaaS
3 9 (9.28%) Azure
4 6 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.15%) GCP
5 5 (5.15%) Serverless
6 4 (4.12%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.09%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (3.09%) Anthos
7 3 (3.09%) Apigee
7 3 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.09%) ClickUp
7 3 (3.09%) Contentful
8 2 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.06%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.06%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.19%) DNS
2 5 (5.15%) VPN
3 4 (4.12%) DHCP
3 4 (4.12%) Network Security
3 4 (4.12%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.12%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.03%) BGP
4 1 (1.03%) Broadband
4 1 (1.03%) IPsec
4 1 (1.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.43%) MySQL
2 7 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.19%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.06%) Redis
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.03%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.03%) Big Data
6 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.03%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.03%) HBase
6 1 (1.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (8.25%) Git
2 5 (5.15%) Postman
3 3 (3.09%) JIRA
4 1 (1.03%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (1.03%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.03%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.03%) webpack
General
1 24 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.37%) Finance
3 7 (7.22%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Marketing
5 5 (5.15%) Advertising
5 5 (5.15%) Retail
5 5 (5.15%) Tech for Good
6 3 (3.09%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.09%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.06%) Back Office
8 1 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.03%) Military
8 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (29.90%) Developer
2 23 (23.71%) Senior
3 17 (17.53%) Lead
4 16 (16.49%) PHP Developer
5 14 (14.43%) Head of Engineering
6 11 (11.34%) Senior Developer
7 9 (9.28%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (9.28%) Software Engineer
8 8 (8.25%) Lead Developer
9 7 (7.22%) Lead PHP Developer
9 7 (7.22%) PHP Software Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Administrator
10 6 (6.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 5 (5.15%) Analyst
11 5 (5.15%) AWS Developer
11 5 (5.15%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (4.12%) IT Support
12 4 (4.12%) IT Support Analyst
12 4 (4.12%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.62%) Laravel
2 18 (18.56%) CSS
3 17 (17.53%) HTML
4 14 (14.43%) Vue
5 9 (9.28%) JSON
5 9 (9.28%) React
6 8 (8.25%) Node.js
6 8 (8.25%) REST
7 7 (7.22%) RESTful
8 6 (6.19%) Ajax
8 6 (6.19%) CSS3
9 5 (5.15%) Express.js
9 5 (5.15%) HTML5
9 5 (5.15%) Redux
10 4 (4.12%) Middleware
10 4 (4.12%) OAuth
10 4 (4.12%) SAML
10 4 (4.12%) Spring
10 4 (4.12%) Spring Boot
11 3 (3.09%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.28%) Onboarding
2 8 (8.25%) CCTV
3 7 (7.22%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.12%) Driving Licence
4 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.09%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.06%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.03%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.03%) NHS
7 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.03%) Social Media
7 1 (1.03%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.22%) Linux
2 4 (4.12%) Windows
2 4 (4.12%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.03%) Android
4 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (21.65%) Software Engineering
2 20 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (18.56%) Full-Stack Development
4 17 (17.53%) Agile
5 14 (14.43%) Microservices
6 13 (13.40%) DevOps
6 13 (13.40%) Mentoring
7 12 (12.37%) AI
8 10 (10.31%) CI/CD
9 9 (9.28%) Line Management
9 9 (9.28%) Web Development
10 8 (8.25%) Content Management
10 8 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (8.25%) Fintech
10 8 (8.25%) Open Source
11 7 (7.22%) Performance Optimisation
11 7 (7.22%) Roadmaps
11 7 (7.22%) User Experience
12 6 (6.19%) Code Quality
12 6 (6.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (32.99%) JavaScript
2 17 (17.53%) SQL
3 16 (16.49%) Go
4 14 (14.43%) Python
5 9 (9.28%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.25%) Java
7 5 (5.15%) Bash
8 4 (4.12%) C#
8 4 (4.12%) Delphi
8 4 (4.12%) Pascal
8 4 (4.12%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.09%) Ruby
10 2 (2.06%) Perl
11 1 (1.03%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (5.15%) Degree
2 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (2.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.28%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.15%) WCAG
3 2 (2.06%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.06%) SLA
4 1 (1.03%) GDPR
4 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.06%) Terraform
3 1 (1.03%) Grafana
3 1 (1.03%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (1.03%) Kibana
3 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (9.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.25%) Google
3 3 (3.09%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.06%) Apple
4 2 (2.06%) BT
4 2 (2.06%) PayPal
5 1 (1.03%) HP
5 1 (1.03%) IBM
5 1 (1.03%) New Relic
5 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle
5 1 (1.03%) SAP
5 1 (1.03%) WooCommerce