PHP Job Trends in the Midlands

PHP
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 139 120
Rank change year-on-year +4 -19 +18
Permanent jobs citing PHP 122 72 220
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.06% 1.50% 2.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.87% 5.88% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 112 66 175
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,938 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,250 £73,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,551 1,224 2,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.53% 25.50% 27.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,120 970 2,605
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £63,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

PHP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

PHP
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Salary histogram for PHP in the Midlands

PHP
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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 April 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 Midlands +17 77 £50,000 -9.09% 15
East Midlands -39 46 £37,500 +7.14% 14
PHP
England

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (10.66%) WordPress
2 7 (5.74%) CMS
3 5 (4.10%) nginx
4 2 (1.64%) Apache
4 2 (1.64%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Photoshop
2 5 (4.10%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.82%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Shopify
2 1 (0.82%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.82%) Line 50
2 1 (0.82%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.11%) AWS
1 16 (13.11%) Azure
2 13 (10.66%) Figma
3 6 (4.92%) SaaS
4 5 (4.10%) GitHub
5 3 (2.46%) Firebase
6 2 (1.64%) GCP
7 1 (0.82%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.82%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.64%) HTTP
2 1 (0.82%) Intranet
2 1 (0.82%) Network Security
2 1 (0.82%) VoIP
2 1 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (27.87%) MySQL
2 10 (8.20%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.10%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.46%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.64%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.82%) FileMaker
7 1 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (14.75%) Git
2 6 (4.92%) JIRA
3 5 (4.10%) Vite
4 1 (0.82%) PHPUnit
4 1 (0.82%) webpack
General
1 17 (13.93%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.84%) Finance
3 6 (4.92%) Health Technology
3 6 (4.92%) Law
3 6 (4.92%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (4.10%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.64%) Games
7 2 (1.64%) Marketing
8 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Electronics
8 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (70.49%) Developer
2 57 (46.72%) PHP Developer
3 24 (19.67%) Software Developer
4 13 (10.66%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 12 (9.84%) Designer
5 12 (9.84%) HTML CSS Designer
5 12 (9.84%) Web Designer
6 11 (9.02%) Software Engineer
7 10 (8.20%) Graduate
8 9 (7.38%) C# Developer
8 9 (7.38%) C# Software Developer
8 9 (7.38%) Graduate C# Developer
8 9 (7.38%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 9 (7.38%) Graduate Developer
8 9 (7.38%) Graduate Software Developer
9 8 (6.56%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 8 (6.56%) Senior
9 8 (6.56%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.56%) SQL Developer
10 7 (5.74%) Graduate PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (39.34%) CSS
2 43 (35.25%) HTML
3 38 (31.15%) Laravel
4 16 (13.11%) Vue
5 11 (9.02%) jQuery
6 7 (5.74%) Tailwind CSS
7 6 (4.92%) HTML5
7 6 (4.92%) LAMP
8 5 (4.10%) CSS3
8 5 (4.10%) LEMP Stack
8 5 (4.10%) Node.js
8 5 (4.10%) React
8 5 (4.10%) RESTful
8 5 (4.10%) YAML
9 4 (3.28%) Next.js
9 4 (3.28%) Symfony
10 3 (2.46%) .NET
10 3 (2.46%) .NET Framework
10 3 (2.46%) CakePHP
10 3 (2.46%) CodeIgniter
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (4.10%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.28%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.46%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.46%) Virtual Team
3 3 (2.46%) Web Conferencing
4 2 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.64%) Robotics
5 1 (0.82%) CCTV
5 1 (0.82%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.82%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.82%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.82%) Social Media
5 1 (0.82%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.38%) Linux
2 3 (2.46%) Windows
3 2 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.82%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (18.85%) Agile
2 17 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (12.30%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (11.48%) Computer Science
5 13 (10.66%) OO
5 13 (10.66%) Software Engineering
6 11 (9.02%) E-Commerce
6 11 (9.02%) MVC
7 9 (7.38%) Mentoring
7 9 (7.38%) OO PHP
7 9 (7.38%) User Experience
8 8 (6.56%) Clean Code
8 8 (6.56%) Web Development
9 6 (4.92%) CI/CD
9 6 (4.92%) OOP
9 6 (4.92%) Software Testing
10 5 (4.10%) Business Strategy
10 5 (4.10%) Data Collection
10 5 (4.10%) Decision-Making
10 5 (4.10%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 33 (27.05%) JavaScript
2 25 (20.49%) SQL
3 10 (8.20%) C#
3 10 (8.20%) Python
4 9 (7.38%) Java
5 8 (6.56%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.74%) VBA
7 5 (4.10%) Bash
7 5 (4.10%) C++
8 4 (3.28%) C
9 3 (2.46%) Rust
10 1 (0.82%) VB
10 1 (0.82%) VB6
Qualifications
1 10 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (8.20%) Degree
2 1 (0.82%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.74%) QA
2 1 (0.82%) ISO 14001
2 1 (0.82%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.82%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (6.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.46%) Zend
3 2 (1.64%) Adobe
4 1 (0.82%) Apple
4 1 (0.82%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle
4 1 (0.82%) Sage
4 1 (0.82%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.82%) SAP
4 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow