PHP Developer Jobs in the Midlands

PHP Developer
England > Midlands

The median PHP Developer salary in the Midlands is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 206 156
Rank change year-on-year -24 -50 +155
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 20 133 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.30% 0.95% 1.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 1.01% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 19 103 36
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,750 £28,625
25th Percentile £27,000 £33,125 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £49,750 £57,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,197 13,136 7,469
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.79% 94.28% 89.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,989 9,184 4,512
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £34,500 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the Midlands

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for PHP Developer in the Midlands

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the Midlands

PHP Developer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
West Midlands +3 11 £36,250 -14.71% 6
East Midlands 0 9 £40,000 -5.88% 8
PHP Developer
England

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 30 June 2025, PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) PHP
2 16 (80.00%) Agile
2 16 (80.00%) CSS
2 16 (80.00%) OO
3 13 (65.00%) OOP
4 12 (60.00%) HTML
5 11 (55.00%) JavaScript
5 11 (55.00%) Symfony
6 10 (50.00%) React
7 9 (45.00%) Front End Development
7 9 (45.00%) Test Automation
7 9 (45.00%) Law
7 9 (45.00%) Playwright
8 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (30.00%) MVC
8 6 (30.00%) Degree
8 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
8 6 (30.00%) SQL
8 6 (30.00%) MySQL
8 6 (30.00%) jQuery
8 6 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (25.00%) Azure
9 5 (25.00%) Laravel
9 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
9 5 (25.00%) ASP.NET
9 5 (25.00%) .NET
9 5 (25.00%) Java
9 5 (25.00%) C#
9 5 (25.00%) C++
9 5 (25.00%) Social Skills

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (5.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) MySQL
2 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) Big Data
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.00%) Subversion
General
1 9 (45.00%) Law
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (80.00%) CSS
2 12 (60.00%) HTML
3 11 (55.00%) Symfony
4 10 (50.00%) React
5 9 (45.00%) Playwright
6 6 (30.00%) jQuery
7 5 (25.00%) .NET
7 5 (25.00%) ASP.NET
7 5 (25.00%) Laravel
8 1 (5.00%) Bootstrap
8 1 (5.00%) Next.js
8 1 (5.00%) RESTful
8 1 (5.00%) Vue
8 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Agile
1 16 (80.00%) OO
2 13 (65.00%) OOP
3 9 (45.00%) Front End Development
3 9 (45.00%) Test Automation
4 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
4 6 (30.00%) MVC
4 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
6 2 (10.00%) OO PHP
6 2 (10.00%) Web Development
7 1 (5.00%) Line Management
7 1 (5.00%) Machine Learning
7 1 (5.00%) Mentoring
7 1 (5.00%) Responsive Web Design
7 1 (5.00%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.00%) TDD
7 1 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (5.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) PHP
2 11 (55.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
4 5 (25.00%) C#
4 5 (25.00%) C++
4 5 (25.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA