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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 350 289
Rank change year-on-year +46 -61 -106
Permanent jobs citing PHP 80 120 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.68% 0.63% 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.72% 1.52% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 53 88 221
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,375 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.24% +2.29% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% -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 4,639 7,875 10,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.16% 41.43% 46.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,122 5,305 9,092
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £136,250 £125,000
England median annual salary £63,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.60% -3.85% +1.69%

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

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 15 September 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 15 September 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
West London - 11 - - 6
East London -4 3 - - 5
Central London +44 1 £75,000 +20.00% 8
South London +15 1 £57,500 -28.13% 4
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 12 (15.00%) WordPress
2 7 (8.75%) CMS
3 4 (5.00%) Drupal
4 3 (3.75%) Headless CMS
5 2 (2.50%) Apache
5 2 (2.50%) nginx
6 1 (1.25%) Apache Solr
6 1 (1.25%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.25%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Magento
1 1 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (32.50%) AWS
2 11 (13.75%) SaaS
3 9 (11.25%) Azure
4 4 (5.00%) Google Analytics
5 3 (3.75%) GCP
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.75%) Power Automate
5 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.75%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.50%) DigitalOcean
6 2 (2.50%) Figma
6 2 (2.50%) Supabase
6 2 (2.50%) Vercel
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.25%) Pulumi
7 1 (1.25%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (1.25%) Broadband
2 1 (1.25%) DNS
2 1 (1.25%) FTP
2 1 (1.25%) Intranet
2 1 (1.25%) RFID
2 1 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (30.00%) MySQL
2 6 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.75%) MariaDB
4 3 (3.75%) Redis
5 2 (2.50%) Mixpanel
6 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.25%) PostHog
6 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (15.00%) Git
2 3 (3.75%) PHPUnit
3 2 (2.50%) GitLab
3 2 (2.50%) Postman
4 1 (1.25%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.25%) JIRA
4 1 (1.25%) PhpStorm
4 1 (1.25%) Selenium
4 1 (1.25%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.25%) Vite
4 1 (1.25%) Xcode
General
1 26 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 17 (21.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.75%) Finance
5 6 (7.50%) Games
6 4 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Automotive
8 2 (2.50%) iGaming
8 2 (2.50%) Marketing
9 1 (1.25%) Banking
9 1 (1.25%) French Language
9 1 (1.25%) German Language
9 1 (1.25%) Greek Language
9 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.25%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Publishing
9 1 (1.25%) Romanian Language
9 1 (1.25%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 47 (58.75%) Developer
2 21 (26.25%) PHP Developer
3 14 (17.50%) Senior
4 12 (15.00%) Lead
4 12 (15.00%) Senior Developer
5 10 (12.50%) Lead Developer
6 8 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (8.75%) SaaS Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Lead PHP Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior PHP Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Web Developer
8 4 (5.00%) WordPress Developer
9 3 (3.75%) PHP Web Developer
9 3 (3.75%) SEO Manager
9 3 (3.75%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Technical Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Technical Support
9 3 (3.75%) Technical Support Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (36.25%) Laravel
2 16 (20.00%) HTML
2 16 (20.00%) Vue
3 15 (18.75%) CSS
3 15 (18.75%) React
4 10 (12.50%) Symfony
5 8 (10.00%) HTML5
5 8 (10.00%) REST
6 7 (8.75%) CSS3
6 7 (8.75%) Node.js
6 7 (8.75%) Tailwind CSS
7 6 (7.50%) Alpine.js
8 4 (5.00%) jQuery
8 4 (5.00%) RESTful
9 3 (3.75%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.75%) GraphQL
9 3 (3.75%) JSON
9 3 (3.75%) LAMP
9 3 (3.75%) Next.js
9 3 (3.75%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.25%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (16.25%) CCTV
3 11 (13.75%) Driving Licence
4 5 (6.25%) Mobile App
5 4 (5.00%) e-Learning
5 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.75%) Blog
6 3 (3.75%) Legacy Code
6 3 (3.75%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.50%) NHS
7 2 (2.50%) Online Games
7 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.25%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.25%) Sports Betting
8 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Android
1 4 (5.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.75%) Linux
3 2 (2.50%) Windows
3 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.75%) Agile
2 17 (21.25%) CI/CD
3 15 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 15 (18.75%) Software Engineering
3 15 (18.75%) Web Development
4 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (17.50%) TDD
5 12 (15.00%) Mentoring
6 11 (13.75%) DevOps
6 11 (13.75%) Test Automation
7 9 (11.25%) Microservices
7 9 (11.25%) MVC
8 8 (10.00%) OO
8 8 (10.00%) Roadmaps
8 8 (10.00%) User Experience
9 7 (8.75%) Analytics
9 7 (8.75%) Clean Code
9 7 (8.75%) OOP
9 7 (8.75%) Product Roadmap
10 6 (7.50%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 29 (36.25%) JavaScript
2 17 (21.25%) SQL
3 12 (15.00%) TypeScript
4 10 (12.50%) Python
5 4 (5.00%) Kotlin
6 3 (3.75%) C++
6 3 (3.75%) Go
6 3 (3.75%) Java
6 3 (3.75%) Ruby
7 2 (2.50%) Bash
7 2 (2.50%) C#
7 2 (2.50%) Rust
7 2 (2.50%) Scala
8 1 (1.25%) C
8 1 (1.25%) Dart
8 1 (1.25%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.25%) Perl
8 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.25%) R
8 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.75%) SLA
3 2 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (8.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.00%) Terraform
3 2 (2.50%) Ansible
3 2 (2.50%) Grafana
3 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.25%) Opsgenie
4 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (6.25%) Google
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.75%) Adobe
4 3 (3.75%) Ahrefs
4 3 (3.75%) Screaming Frog
5 1 (1.25%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.25%) Twitter