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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 281 221
Rank change year-on-year -23 -60 +51
Permanent jobs citing PHP 92 118 313
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.52% 0.91% 1.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.91% 2.18% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 67 103 283
10th Percentile £31,100 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £48,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £63,218
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -9.04% +5.36%
75th Percentile £95,000 £73,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 4,822 5,410 9,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.41% 41.91% 40.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,387 3,933 7,611
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,506 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £126,250 £125,000
England median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -8 11 £60,000 -7.69% 7
North London - 4 £80,000 - 1
West London -16 3 - - 2
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%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.26%) Apache
3 3 (3.26%) CMS
3 3 (3.26%) Liferay
4 2 (2.17%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.09%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 13 (14.13%) Infor M3
2 3 (3.26%) Shopify
3 2 (2.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (28.26%) AWS
2 18 (19.57%) SaaS
3 12 (13.04%) Azure
4 8 (8.70%) GCP
5 4 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.26%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (3.26%) Anthos
6 3 (3.26%) Apigee
7 2 (2.17%) Stripe
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.09%) Datadog
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
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.35%) DHCP
1 4 (4.35%) DNS
1 4 (4.35%) TCP/IP
1 4 (4.35%) VPN
1 4 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (2.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.39%) MySQL
2 6 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.52%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.17%) Redis
5 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.09%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (9.78%) Git
2 6 (6.52%) Postman
3 3 (3.26%) 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 12 (13.04%) Finance
1 12 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.61%) Marketing
3 6 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (5.43%) Tech for Good
5 4 (4.35%) Games
6 3 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.26%) Retail
6 3 (3.26%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Back Office
8 1 (1.09%) Advertising
8 1 (1.09%) Automotive
8 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (34.78%) Developer
2 19 (20.65%) PHP Developer
3 17 (18.48%) Lead
3 17 (18.48%) Senior
4 15 (16.30%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (8.70%) Lead Developer
5 8 (8.70%) Senior Developer
6 6 (6.52%) Analyst
6 6 (6.52%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 6 (6.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.43%) AWS Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Lead Data Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Lead PHP Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Chief Technology Officer
8 4 (4.35%) Graduate Developer
8 4 (4.35%) IT Support Analyst
8 4 (4.35%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.39%) Laravel
2 13 (14.13%) React
2 13 (14.13%) Vue
3 11 (11.96%) HTML
4 10 (10.87%) REST
5 7 (7.61%) CSS
6 6 (6.52%) Spring
6 6 (6.52%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.43%) LangChain
7 5 (5.43%) Next.js
7 5 (5.43%) Pandas
7 5 (5.43%) PyTorch
7 5 (5.43%) RESTful
7 5 (5.43%) scikit-learn
7 5 (5.43%) TensorFlow
8 4 (4.35%) JSON
8 4 (4.35%) JWT
8 4 (4.35%) OAuth
8 4 (4.35%) Symfony
8 4 (4.35%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.48%) CCTV
2 6 (6.52%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.35%) Driving Licence
3 4 (4.35%) Educational Technology
3 4 (4.35%) Mobile Games
4 3 (3.26%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.17%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.09%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.61%) Android
1 7 (7.61%) Apple iOS
1 7 (7.61%) Linux
2 6 (6.52%) Windows
3 4 (4.35%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (23.91%) AI
2 21 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (20.65%) Full-Stack Development
3 19 (20.65%) Machine Learning
4 15 (16.30%) CI/CD
4 15 (16.30%) Software Engineering
5 14 (15.22%) DevOps
6 13 (14.13%) Agile
7 10 (10.87%) Test Automation
8 9 (9.78%) LLM
8 9 (9.78%) Microservices
9 8 (8.70%) Fintech
9 8 (8.70%) Mentoring
10 7 (7.61%) Analytics
10 7 (7.61%) Web Development
11 6 (6.52%) Containerisation
11 6 (6.52%) Data Engineering
11 6 (6.52%) Data Science
11 6 (6.52%) Performance Optimisation
11 6 (6.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.65%) JavaScript
2 18 (19.57%) Python
3 13 (14.13%) TypeScript
4 11 (11.96%) SQL
5 8 (8.70%) Java
6 7 (7.61%) Go
7 4 (4.35%) Delphi
7 4 (4.35%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.35%) Pascal
7 4 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.26%) Bash
8 3 (3.26%) C#
9 1 (1.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (2.17%) Degree
2 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.26%) SLA
2 2 (2.17%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.17%) QA
3 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (17.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (11.96%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.17%) Ansible
3 1 (1.09%) Grafana
3 1 (1.09%) Kibana
3 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (7.61%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.35%) Google
3 3 (3.26%) OpenAI
3 3 (3.26%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.26%) WooCommerce
4 2 (2.17%) Apple
4 2 (2.17%) BT
4 2 (2.17%) PayPal
5 1 (1.09%) New Relic