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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 258 263
Rank change year-on-year -48 +5 -110
Permanent jobs citing PHP 102 278 421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.79% 1.12% 1.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.91% 2.82% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 86 244 354
10th Percentile £36,875 £36,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,109 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% +6.85% -7.69%
75th Percentile £74,688 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £93,750
England median annual salary £50,079 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.16% -9.09% +4.76%

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 5,332 9,847 15,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.41% 39.74% 48.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,517 7,648 11,691
10th Percentile £49,250 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £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 £132,500 £130,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +12 20 £65,000 -3.70% 33
West London +25 3 - - 13
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 (18.63%) WordPress
2 11 (10.78%) CMS
3 6 (5.88%) Drupal
4 4 (3.92%) nginx
5 2 (1.96%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.98%) Apache
6 1 (0.98%) IIS
6 1 (0.98%) Kentico
6 1 (0.98%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.94%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.96%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.98%) Sketch
3 1 (0.98%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Magento
1 1 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.98%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (41.18%) AWS
2 13 (12.75%) Azure
3 9 (8.82%) GCP
4 6 (5.88%) Google Analytics
5 5 (4.90%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.92%) SaaS
7 3 (2.94%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 3 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.94%) Figma
7 3 (2.94%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.94%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.94%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.94%) Serverless
7 3 (2.94%) Vercel
8 2 (1.96%) DigitalOcean
8 2 (1.96%) GitHub
8 2 (1.96%) Supabase
9 1 (0.98%) IaaS
9 1 (0.98%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.96%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.98%) Internet
2 1 (0.98%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (42.16%) MySQL
2 7 (6.86%) Redis
3 6 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.96%) Mixpanel
5 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.98%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.98%) Big Data
6 1 (0.98%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (23.53%) Git
2 6 (5.88%) PHPUnit
3 5 (4.90%) Postman
4 4 (3.92%) Selenium
5 3 (2.94%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.94%) GitLab
5 3 (2.94%) Jasmine
5 3 (2.94%) Mocha
5 3 (2.94%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.96%) JIRA
7 1 (0.98%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.98%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.98%) PhpStorm
7 1 (0.98%) Xcode
General
1 31 (30.39%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (10.78%) Finance
3 11 (10.78%) Games
4 6 (5.88%) Turkish Language
5 5 (4.90%) Marketing
6 3 (2.94%) Back Office
6 3 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.94%) French Language
6 3 (2.94%) German Language
6 3 (2.94%) Greek Language
6 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.94%) Italian Language
6 3 (2.94%) Romanian Language
6 3 (2.94%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.96%) iGaming
8 1 (0.98%) Advertising
8 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (58.82%) Developer
2 28 (27.45%) PHP Developer
3 24 (23.53%) Senior
4 17 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 9 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (8.82%) Lead
6 7 (6.86%) Software Engineer
6 7 (6.86%) Web Developer
7 6 (5.88%) Lead Developer
7 6 (5.88%) WordPress Developer
8 5 (4.90%) PHP Web Developer
8 5 (4.90%) SEO Manager
9 4 (3.92%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 4 (3.92%) PHP Software Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) SaaS Developer
10 3 (2.94%) Head of Digital
10 3 (2.94%) Head of IT
10 3 (2.94%) PHP WordPress Developer
10 3 (2.94%) QA Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (45.10%) Laravel
2 30 (29.41%) CSS
2 30 (29.41%) HTML
3 21 (20.59%) React
4 19 (18.63%) Vue
5 16 (15.69%) HTML5
6 15 (14.71%) CSS3
7 10 (9.80%) Node.js
7 10 (9.80%) RESTful
8 9 (8.82%) Symfony
9 7 (6.86%) AngularJS
9 7 (6.86%) jQuery
9 7 (6.86%) JSON
10 6 (5.88%) Ajax
10 6 (5.88%) Memcached
11 5 (4.90%) LAMP
11 5 (4.90%) REST
11 5 (4.90%) Sass
11 5 (4.90%) Web Services
12 4 (3.92%) LESS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.78%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (7.84%) Mobile App
3 7 (6.86%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.90%) Blog
6 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.94%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.94%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.94%) Legacy Code
7 3 (2.94%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.96%) NHS
8 2 (1.96%) Online Games
9 1 (0.98%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.98%) New Media
9 1 (0.98%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.98%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.90%) Linux
2 4 (3.92%) Windows
3 2 (1.96%) Android
3 2 (1.96%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.98%) VMS
4 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (27.45%) Web Development
2 23 (22.55%) MVC
3 22 (21.57%) Agile
4 21 (20.59%) CI/CD
4 21 (20.59%) Software Engineering
5 16 (15.69%) Fintech
5 16 (15.69%) Microservices
6 15 (14.71%) OOP
7 14 (13.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (13.73%) TDD
8 13 (12.75%) Design Patterns
8 13 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (12.75%) Test Automation
9 11 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (10.78%) Mentoring
10 10 (9.80%) DevOps
10 10 (9.80%) E-Commerce
10 10 (9.80%) OO
11 9 (8.82%) SEO
11 9 (8.82%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 51 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 22 (21.57%) SQL
3 17 (16.67%) Python
4 16 (15.69%) TypeScript
5 13 (12.75%) Go
6 9 (8.82%) Java
7 6 (5.88%) C#
8 5 (4.90%) C++
9 4 (3.92%) Scala
10 3 (2.94%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.94%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.96%) Bash
11 2 (1.96%) C
11 2 (1.96%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.96%) R
11 2 (1.96%) Ruby
12 1 (0.98%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.98%) Dart
12 1 (0.98%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.98%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (9.80%) Degree
2 5 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.98%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.98%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.84%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (11.76%) Docker
2 3 (2.94%) Samba
3 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.90%) Terraform
3 2 (1.96%) Grafana
3 2 (1.96%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.96%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.98%) Ansible
4 1 (0.98%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (8.82%) Google
2 7 (6.86%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.90%) Ahrefs
3 5 (4.90%) Screaming Frog
4 3 (2.94%) Adobe
4 3 (2.94%) Twitter
5 1 (0.98%) Apple
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle
5 1 (0.98%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.98%) Vertica