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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 249 261
Rank change year-on-year -29 +12 -114
Permanent jobs citing PHP 114 288 494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.90% 1.22% 1.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.17% 3.04% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 98 261 400
10th Percentile £37,125 £37,500 £41,925
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,350 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,218 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +5.36% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,750 £93,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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 5,245 9,466 17,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.18% 40.08% 49.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,867 7,634 12,995
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,563 £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 £130,000 £127,500 £120,000
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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -2 22 £65,000 -5.45% 45
West London +47 2 £42,500 -22.73% 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 20 (17.54%) WordPress
2 13 (11.40%) CMS
3 11 (9.65%) Drupal
4 3 (2.63%) nginx
5 1 (0.88%) Kentico
5 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.63%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.75%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.88%) InVision
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.88%) Sketch
4 1 (0.88%) SPSS
4 1 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (38.60%) AWS
2 10 (8.77%) Azure
2 10 (8.77%) GCP
2 10 (8.77%) Google Analytics
3 4 (3.51%) Amazon S3
3 4 (3.51%) Google Tag Manager
4 3 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (2.63%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 3 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (2.63%) Figma
4 3 (2.63%) GitHub
4 3 (2.63%) Serverless
5 2 (1.75%) SaaS
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.88%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 1 (0.88%) IaaS
6 1 (0.88%) PaaS
6 1 (0.88%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (40.35%) MySQL
2 8 (7.02%) Redis
3 7 (6.14%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.51%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.51%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.88%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.88%) Big Data
7 1 (0.88%) FileMaker
7 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.88%) Power Query
7 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (26.32%) Git
2 5 (4.39%) PHPUnit
3 4 (3.51%) GitLab
3 4 (3.51%) Postman
4 3 (2.63%) Jasmine
4 3 (2.63%) Mocha
4 3 (2.63%) Selenium
5 2 (1.75%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.75%) JIRA
5 2 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.75%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.88%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.88%) Xcode
General
1 36 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.16%) Finance
3 13 (11.40%) Games
4 8 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.14%) Marketing
5 7 (6.14%) Turkish Language
6 3 (2.63%) Back Office
6 3 (2.63%) French Language
6 3 (2.63%) German Language
6 3 (2.63%) Greek Language
6 3 (2.63%) Italian Language
6 3 (2.63%) Romanian Language
6 3 (2.63%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.75%) iGaming
7 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (56.14%) Developer
2 29 (25.44%) PHP Developer
3 24 (21.05%) Senior
4 16 (14.04%) Senior Developer
5 14 (12.28%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (9.65%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.14%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 7 (6.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (6.14%) WordPress Developer
8 6 (5.26%) PHP Software Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Web Developer
9 5 (4.39%) Head of Engineering
9 5 (4.39%) Head of Software Engineering
9 5 (4.39%) PHP WordPress Developer
9 5 (4.39%) SEO Manager
10 4 (3.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Lead
10 4 (3.51%) PHP Web Developer
11 3 (2.63%) Graduate Developer
11 3 (2.63%) Head of IT
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (46.49%) Laravel
2 45 (39.47%) CSS
3 40 (35.09%) HTML
4 33 (28.95%) React
5 25 (21.93%) Vue
6 20 (17.54%) HTML5
7 15 (13.16%) CSS3
8 14 (12.28%) jQuery
8 14 (12.28%) Node.js
8 14 (12.28%) RESTful
9 8 (7.02%) AngularJS
9 8 (7.02%) JSON
9 8 (7.02%) Symfony
10 7 (6.14%) LAMP
10 7 (6.14%) Memcached
10 7 (6.14%) Web Services
11 6 (5.26%) Ajax
12 4 (3.51%) .NET
12 4 (3.51%) ASP.NET
12 4 (3.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.89%) Mobile App
2 8 (7.02%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (7.02%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.14%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.39%) Blog
5 5 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.63%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.75%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.75%) NHS
7 2 (1.75%) Online Games
8 1 (0.88%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.88%) New Media
8 1 (0.88%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.39%) Linux
2 3 (2.63%) Windows
3 2 (1.75%) Android
3 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (28.95%) Web Development
2 31 (27.19%) Agile
3 25 (21.93%) Software Engineering
4 24 (21.05%) MVC
5 20 (17.54%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 19 (16.67%) E-Commerce
7 16 (14.04%) Mentoring
7 16 (14.04%) Microservices
7 16 (14.04%) Test Automation
8 15 (13.16%) Fintech
9 14 (12.28%) OOP
9 14 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (12.28%) User Experience
10 13 (11.40%) Front End Development
11 12 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (10.53%) Design Patterns
11 12 (10.53%) DevOps
12 11 (9.65%) Analytics
12 11 (9.65%) OO
Programming Languages
1 68 (59.65%) JavaScript
2 18 (15.79%) Python
2 18 (15.79%) TypeScript
3 16 (14.04%) SQL
4 13 (11.40%) Java
5 12 (10.53%) Go
6 7 (6.14%) C#
7 6 (5.26%) C++
8 5 (4.39%) Perl
9 4 (3.51%) Scala
10 3 (2.63%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.63%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.75%) Ruby
12 1 (0.88%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.88%) Bash
12 1 (0.88%) C
12 1 (0.88%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.88%) R
12 1 (0.88%) SOQL
12 1 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (11.40%) Degree
2 5 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.02%) QA
2 7 (6.14%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (9.65%) Docker
2 3 (2.63%) Samba
Systems Management
1 4 (3.51%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.51%) Terraform
2 2 (1.75%) Grafana
2 2 (1.75%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (11.40%) Google
2 9 (7.89%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.39%) Ahrefs
3 5 (4.39%) Screaming Frog
4 3 (2.63%) Apple
4 3 (2.63%) Twitter
5 2 (1.75%) Adobe
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle
6 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.88%) Vertica
6 1 (0.88%) WooCommerce