Senior PHP Developer Job Trends in London

Senior PHP Developer
England > London

The median Senior PHP Developer salary in London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 421 445
Rank change year-on-year +53 +24 +206
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 6 12 7
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.043% 0.078% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.084% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 6
10th Percentile £55,500 - £57,500
25th Percentile - £45,651 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £48,825 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +22.89% -33.80% +13.46%
75th Percentile - £56,186 £83,438
90th Percentile £75,750 £63,724 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -16.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,668 14,309 17,494
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.10% 92.69% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8,385 8,261 14,080
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,216
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -5.75%

Senior PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior PHP Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior PHP Developer job vacancy trend in London

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Senior PHP Developer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior PHP Developer job vacancies in London

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior PHP Developer in London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior PHP Developer in London

Senior PHP Developer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior PHP Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London - 3 £60,000 -
Senior PHP Developer
England

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, Senior PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior PHP Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) PHP
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (50.00%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) MySQL
2 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (50.00%) SaaS
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 2 (33.33%) Database Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Go
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) React
3 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (16.67%) Database Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) DigitalOcean
4 1 (16.67%) Docker

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) DigitalOcean
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) React
3 1 (16.67%) JWT
3 1 (16.67%) Laravel
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth
3 1 (16.67%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (50.00%) High Availability
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) BDD
2 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 2 (33.33%) Database Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Database Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) Go
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes