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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 297 263
Rank change year-on-year -21 -34 0
Permanent jobs citing PHP 105 101 266
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.48% 0.81% 1.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.96% 1.95% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 78 82 236
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,025 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £60,000 £63,218
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -5.09% +5.36%
75th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £80,313
90th Percentile £115,000 £86,000 £93,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.26%

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 5,357 5,177 9,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.34% 41.58% 40.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,790 3,609 7,516
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,850 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £132,500
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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -2 12 £75,000 +11.11% 3
East London 0 3 £24,000 - 5
North London - 3 £80,000 - 1
West London -21 1 - - 6
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 (17.14%) WordPress
2 11 (10.48%) CMS
3 5 (4.76%) Drupal
4 4 (3.81%) Apache
4 4 (3.81%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.90%) Moodle
6 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.95%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Infor M3
1 3 (2.86%) Shopify
2 2 (1.90%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (40.95%) AWS
2 20 (19.05%) SaaS
3 16 (15.24%) Serverless
4 11 (10.48%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (9.52%) Amazon EventBridge
5 10 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (9.52%) AWS Control Tower
5 10 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (8.57%) Azure
7 6 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.81%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (3.81%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.86%) ClickUp
9 3 (2.86%) Contentful
9 3 (2.86%) GCP
10 2 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.90%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.43%) Network Security
2 9 (8.57%) DNS
3 8 (7.62%) VPN
4 4 (3.81%) BGP
4 4 (3.81%) DHCP
4 4 (3.81%) IPsec
4 4 (3.81%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.81%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.90%) Broadband
6 1 (0.95%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.19%) MySQL
2 7 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 7 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.81%) Apache Hive
4 4 (3.81%) Big Data
4 4 (3.81%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.81%) HBase
5 2 (1.90%) Redis
6 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.95%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Git
2 3 (2.86%) JIRA
2 3 (2.86%) Postman
3 1 (0.95%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.95%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.95%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.95%) webpack
General
1 28 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 27 (25.71%) Finance
3 11 (10.48%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.57%) Marketing
5 6 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.76%) Advertising
6 5 (4.76%) Retail
7 4 (3.81%) Military
7 4 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.81%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.90%) Back Office
9 1 (0.95%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.95%) Publishing
9 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (27.62%) Developer
2 28 (26.67%) Senior
3 20 (19.05%) Lead
4 17 (16.19%) PHP Developer
5 14 (13.33%) Head of Engineering
6 11 (10.48%) Lead Developer
7 10 (9.52%) Consultant
7 10 (9.52%) Lead PHP Developer
7 10 (9.52%) Security Consultant
7 10 (9.52%) Senior Consultant
7 10 (9.52%) Senior Security Consultant
8 9 (8.57%) Software Engineer
9 8 (7.62%) Senior Developer
10 7 (6.67%) PHP Software Engineer
11 6 (5.71%) Administrator
11 6 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (5.71%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 5 (4.76%) Analyst
12 5 (4.76%) AWS Developer
12 5 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (21.90%) Laravel
2 21 (20.00%) CSS
3 20 (19.05%) HTML
4 16 (15.24%) Vue
5 12 (11.43%) React
6 11 (10.48%) Node.js
7 10 (9.52%) AWS CDK
8 8 (7.62%) RESTful
9 7 (6.67%) JSON
10 6 (5.71%) Ajax
10 6 (5.71%) CodeIgniter
10 6 (5.71%) CSS3
10 6 (5.71%) Kafka
10 6 (5.71%) REST
10 6 (5.71%) Symfony
11 5 (4.76%) Express.js
11 5 (4.76%) HTML5
11 5 (4.76%) Redux
12 4 (3.81%) Middleware
12 4 (3.81%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.05%) Onboarding
2 10 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.52%) Enterprise Cloud
3 7 (6.67%) CCTV
4 6 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.76%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.81%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.90%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.90%) Social Media
8 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.95%) NHS
8 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.95%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.52%) Linux
2 4 (3.81%) Windows
2 4 (3.81%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (21.90%) AI
2 22 (20.95%) Software Engineering
3 20 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (18.10%) Agile
5 18 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (13.33%) Generative AI
6 14 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (12.38%) Microservices
7 13 (12.38%) Web Development
8 12 (11.43%) CI/CD
8 12 (11.43%) Cloud Security
8 12 (11.43%) DevOps
8 12 (11.43%) Line Management
8 12 (11.43%) Threat Modelling
9 11 (10.48%) Mentoring
10 10 (9.52%) Cryptography
10 10 (9.52%) Customer Engagement
10 10 (9.52%) Data Protection
10 10 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
10 10 (9.52%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 34 (32.38%) JavaScript
2 26 (24.76%) Python
3 24 (22.86%) SQL
4 18 (17.14%) Go
5 16 (15.24%) Java
6 14 (13.33%) Ruby
7 13 (12.38%) Bash
8 10 (9.52%) Perl
9 7 (6.67%) C#
9 7 (6.67%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.81%) C
10 4 (3.81%) Delphi
10 4 (3.81%) Pascal
10 4 (3.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (9.52%) AWS Certification
1 10 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 10 (9.52%) Degree
1 10 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.57%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.76%) WCAG
3 2 (1.90%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.90%) SLA
4 1 (0.95%) GDPR
4 1 (0.95%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (9.52%) Terraform
2 4 (3.81%) Hadoop YARN
2 4 (3.81%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.95%) Grafana
3 1 (0.95%) Kibana
3 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.71%) Google
3 4 (3.81%) HP
3 4 (3.81%) IBM
3 4 (3.81%) Oracle
3 4 (3.81%) SAP
4 3 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.90%) Apple
5 2 (1.90%) BT
5 2 (1.90%) PayPal
6 1 (0.95%) New Relic
6 1 (0.95%) OpenAI