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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 283 241
Rank change year-on-year -25 -42 +12
Permanent jobs citing PHP 101 113 288
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.50% 0.89% 1.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.96% 2.16% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 75 97 261
10th Percentile £41,860 £37,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £48,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £63,218
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.09% +5.36%
75th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £113,500 £96,250 £93,750
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 5,151 5,230 9,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.68% 41.16% 40.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,634 3,853 7,633
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £131,250 £127,500
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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -10 14 £60,000 -7.69% 7
North London - 4 £80,000 -
West London -27 3 - -
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 13 (12.87%) WordPress
2 5 (4.95%) CMS
3 4 (3.96%) Apache
3 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.97%) Liferay
5 2 (1.98%) Drupal
6 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.99%) Moodle
6 1 (0.99%) nginx
Business Applications
1 12 (11.88%) Infor M3
2 3 (2.97%) Shopify
3 2 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (26.73%) AWS
2 22 (21.78%) SaaS
3 10 (9.90%) GCP
4 8 (7.92%) Azure
5 5 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.97%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (2.97%) Anthos
6 3 (2.97%) Apigee
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.98%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.98%) Stripe
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.99%) dbt
8 1 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.99%) GitHub
8 1 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.99%) Route 53
8 1 (0.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.95%) DNS
2 4 (3.96%) DHCP
2 4 (3.96%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.96%) VPN
2 4 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.98%) Network Security
4 1 (0.99%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.83%) MySQL
2 6 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.94%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.97%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.98%) Redis
5 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (7.92%) Git
2 6 (5.94%) Postman
3 3 (2.97%) JIRA
4 1 (0.99%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.99%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.99%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.99%) Selenium
4 1 (0.99%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.99%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.99%) webpack
General
1 13 (12.87%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.91%) Finance
3 7 (6.93%) Marketing
4 6 (5.94%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.95%) Retail
5 5 (4.95%) Tech for Good
6 3 (2.97%) Advertising
6 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.97%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.98%) Back Office
8 1 (0.99%) Games
8 1 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (34.65%) Developer
2 21 (20.79%) Lead
3 20 (19.80%) PHP Developer
3 20 (19.80%) Senior
4 17 (16.83%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (10.89%) Head of Engineering
5 11 (10.89%) Senior Developer
6 10 (9.90%) Lead Developer
7 8 (7.92%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (6.93%) Lead PHP Developer
9 6 (5.94%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Analyst
10 5 (4.95%) AWS Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Lead Data Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) Graduate
11 4 (3.96%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.96%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (20.79%) Laravel
2 18 (17.82%) Vue
3 17 (16.83%) HTML
4 13 (12.87%) CSS
5 12 (11.88%) React
6 7 (6.93%) REST
7 6 (5.94%) JSON
7 6 (5.94%) RESTful
7 6 (5.94%) Spring
7 6 (5.94%) Spring Boot
8 5 (4.95%) LangChain
8 5 (4.95%) Next.js
8 5 (4.95%) Pandas
8 5 (4.95%) PyTorch
8 5 (4.95%) scikit-learn
8 5 (4.95%) TensorFlow
9 4 (3.96%) Node.js
9 4 (3.96%) React Native
9 4 (3.96%) Tailwind CSS
10 3 (2.97%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.84%) CCTV
2 6 (5.94%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.95%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.96%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.97%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.97%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.98%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.99%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.99%) Mobile Games
7 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.99%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.95%) Linux
2 4 (3.96%) Android
2 4 (3.96%) Apple iOS
2 4 (3.96%) Windows
2 4 (3.96%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (24.75%) Full-Stack Development
2 19 (18.81%) AI
2 19 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (15.84%) Agile
3 16 (15.84%) DevOps
4 14 (13.86%) Machine Learning
5 13 (12.87%) Microservices
5 13 (12.87%) Software Engineering
6 12 (11.88%) CI/CD
7 11 (10.89%) Web Development
8 10 (9.90%) Mentoring
9 9 (8.91%) LLM
10 8 (7.92%) Data Science
10 8 (7.92%) Project Delivery
11 7 (6.93%) Fintech
11 7 (6.93%) Roadmaps
11 7 (6.93%) Test Automation
12 6 (5.94%) Analytics
12 6 (5.94%) Data Engineering
12 6 (5.94%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (24.75%) JavaScript
2 15 (14.85%) Python
2 15 (14.85%) SQL
3 14 (13.86%) Go
4 13 (12.87%) TypeScript
5 8 (7.92%) Java
6 4 (3.96%) Delphi
6 4 (3.96%) Pascal
6 4 (3.96%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.97%) Bash
7 3 (2.97%) C#
8 1 (0.99%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (3.96%) Degree
2 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.97%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.98%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.98%) SLA
2 2 (1.98%) WCAG
3 1 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 13 (12.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (9.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.99%) Grafana
2 1 (0.99%) Kibana
2 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (5.94%) Google
1 6 (5.94%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.97%) OpenAI
2 3 (2.97%) Red Hat
2 3 (2.97%) WooCommerce
3 2 (1.98%) Apple
3 2 (1.98%) BT
3 2 (1.98%) PayPal
4 1 (0.99%) New Relic