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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 312 245
Rank change year-on-year +30 -67 +66
Permanent jobs citing PHP 83 108 216
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.60% 0.70% 1.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.95% 1.69% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 52 71 191
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,938 £48,320 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,938 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -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 4,265 6,385 7,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.63% 41.29% 43.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,018 4,099 6,852
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,938 £105,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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
West London +4 6 - - 2
Central London +35 5 £60,000 +9.09% 6
North London +9 2 £80,000 - 6
South London - 1 £57,500 - 6
East London - 1 - - 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 5 (6.02%) WordPress
2 3 (3.61%) Apache Solr
2 3 (3.61%) Liferay
3 2 (2.41%) CMS
4 1 (1.20%) Apache
4 1 (1.20%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.20%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (13.25%) Infor M3
2 3 (3.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.71%) AWS
2 14 (16.87%) SaaS
3 12 (14.46%) Azure
4 9 (10.84%) GCP
5 5 (6.02%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (3.61%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (3.61%) Anthos
6 3 (3.61%) Apigee
6 3 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.20%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (1.20%) Figma
7 1 (1.20%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) Internet
2 1 (1.20%) Broadband
2 1 (1.20%) DNS
2 1 (1.20%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (28.92%) MySQL
2 6 (7.23%) MariaDB
3 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.41%) Redis
6 1 (1.20%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 10 (12.05%) Git
2 4 (4.82%) Postman
3 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.20%) GitLab
3 1 (1.20%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) Selenium
3 1 (1.20%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.20%) Vite
General
1 18 (21.69%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.46%) Finance
3 10 (12.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (7.23%) Automotive
5 5 (6.02%) Games
5 5 (6.02%) Marketing
6 3 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.20%) Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (39.76%) Developer
2 15 (18.07%) Full-Stack Developer
3 13 (15.66%) Lead
3 13 (15.66%) PHP Developer
4 11 (13.25%) Senior
5 10 (12.05%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.23%) Lead Developer
6 6 (7.23%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (7.23%) Senior PHP Developer
6 6 (7.23%) Support Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Technical Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Technical Support
6 6 (7.23%) Technical Support Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Chief Technology Officer
7 5 (6.02%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Lead Data Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Architect
9 3 (3.61%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.28%) React
2 13 (15.66%) Laravel
3 11 (13.25%) HTML
4 10 (12.05%) REST
4 10 (12.05%) Vue
5 8 (9.64%) Symfony
6 7 (8.43%) Node.js
7 6 (7.23%) CSS
7 6 (7.23%) PyTorch
7 6 (7.23%) Spring
7 6 (7.23%) Spring Boot
7 6 (7.23%) TensorFlow
8 5 (6.02%) LangChain
8 5 (6.02%) Pandas
8 5 (6.02%) scikit-learn
8 5 (6.02%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 5 (6.02%) WebGL
9 4 (4.82%) JWT
9 4 (4.82%) Next.js
9 4 (4.82%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.89%) CCTV
2 7 (8.43%) Driving Licence
2 7 (8.43%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.02%) Educational Technology
3 5 (6.02%) Mobile Games
4 4 (4.82%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.82%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.20%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.20%) IoT
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.20%) NHS
6 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.20%) Smart Home
6 1 (1.20%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.05%) Android
1 10 (12.05%) Apple iOS
2 5 (6.02%) Linux
3 3 (3.61%) Windows
3 3 (3.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.92%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (27.71%) AI
3 20 (24.10%) Machine Learning
3 20 (24.10%) Test Automation
4 19 (22.89%) CI/CD
5 17 (20.48%) DevOps
5 17 (20.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (18.07%) Agile
6 15 (18.07%) Software Engineering
7 12 (14.46%) User Experience
8 10 (12.05%) Mentoring
9 9 (10.84%) LLM
10 8 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (9.64%) Web Development
11 7 (8.43%) Microservices
11 7 (8.43%) TDD
12 6 (7.23%) Analytics
12 6 (7.23%) Cost Control
12 6 (7.23%) Data Science
12 6 (7.23%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.10%) JavaScript
2 17 (20.48%) Python
3 13 (15.66%) SQL
3 13 (15.66%) TypeScript
4 7 (8.43%) Java
4 7 (8.43%) Kotlin
5 5 (6.02%) Go
6 3 (3.61%) C#
7 2 (2.41%) Perl
8 1 (1.20%) Bash
8 1 (1.20%) Ruby
8 1 (1.20%) Rust
8 1 (1.20%) Scala
8 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (2.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) SLA
2 5 (6.02%) QA
3 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.20%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (22.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (14.46%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.61%) Ansible
3 1 (1.20%) Grafana
3 1 (1.20%) Opsgenie
3 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (4.82%) ServiceNow
2 3 (3.61%) Google
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.61%) OpenAI
2 3 (3.61%) WooCommerce
3 1 (1.20%) Adobe