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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 131 181
Rank change year-on-year -36 +50 -20
Permanent jobs citing PHP 64 167 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.16% 1.79% 0.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.38% 7.49% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 43 77 43
10th Percentile £31,425 - £30,550
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £46,875 £52,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £58,500 £60,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -6.54% +1.90%

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 1,189 2,230 1,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 21.47% 23.92% 34.73%
Number of salaries quoted 917 1,202 1,490
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £34,450
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 14 October 2025.

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 14 October 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 -23 36 £39,000 -8.24% 23
East Midlands -4 30 £40,000 -5.88% 13
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 16 (25.00%) IIS
2 9 (14.06%) Apache
3 2 (3.13%) WordPress
4 1 (1.56%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.56%) CMS
4 1 (1.56%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.56%) SaaS
2 3 (4.69%) AWS
2 3 (4.69%) Azure
2 3 (4.69%) ChatGPT
3 2 (3.13%) GitHub
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.56%) Firebase
4 1 (1.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) Intranet
2 1 (1.56%) DNS
2 1 (1.56%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.56%) IPsec
2 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (34.38%) SQL Server
2 18 (28.13%) MySQL
3 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.56%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Git
2 4 (6.25%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (4.69%) git-flow
4 1 (1.56%) JIRA
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 23 (35.94%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.63%) Law
3 2 (3.13%) Marketing
3 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (34.38%) Developer
2 14 (21.88%) PHP Developer
3 11 (17.19%) Symfony Developer
4 10 (15.63%) Support Specialist
4 10 (15.63%) Technical Support
5 9 (14.06%) PHP Symfony Developer
6 7 (10.94%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Applications Specialist
7 6 (9.38%) Applications Support
7 6 (9.38%) Applications Support Specialist
7 6 (9.38%) Support Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) Technical Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) Technical Support Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Technical Specialist
8 4 (6.25%) Technical Support Specialist
9 3 (4.69%) DevOps Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Graduate
9 3 (4.69%) Graduate Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (54.69%) HTML
2 18 (28.13%) CSS
3 14 (21.88%) Symfony
4 12 (18.75%) Laravel
5 11 (17.19%) LAMP
6 9 (14.06%) jQuery
7 8 (12.50%) .NET
8 7 (10.94%) REST
9 6 (9.38%) React
10 5 (7.81%) CakePHP
10 5 (7.81%) CodeIgniter
11 4 (6.25%) Playwright
11 4 (6.25%) SOAP
12 3 (4.69%) RESTful
13 2 (3.13%) ASP.NET
13 2 (3.13%) React Native
13 2 (3.13%) Vue
14 1 (1.56%) Doctrine
14 1 (1.56%) Next.js
14 1 (1.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.19%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (4.69%) Legacy Code
3 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.56%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.31%) Linux
2 3 (4.69%) Windows
2 3 (4.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (48.44%) Computer Science
2 22 (34.38%) AI
3 19 (29.69%) Data Privacy
3 19 (29.69%) Machine Learning
3 19 (29.69%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (26.56%) Agile
5 16 (25.00%) CRM
6 15 (23.44%) OO
7 11 (17.19%) Customer Experience
8 10 (15.63%) MVC
8 10 (15.63%) OOP
9 7 (10.94%) Test Automation
10 6 (9.38%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (9.38%) OO PHP
11 5 (7.81%) DevOps
11 5 (7.81%) Software Engineering
12 4 (6.25%) Case Management
12 4 (6.25%) Front End Development
12 4 (6.25%) Proactive Management
12 4 (6.25%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 53 (82.81%) JavaScript
2 37 (57.81%) SQL
3 28 (43.75%) Python
4 27 (42.19%) C#
4 27 (42.19%) Java
5 25 (39.06%) TypeScript
6 21 (32.81%) C++
7 19 (29.69%) C
7 19 (29.69%) Dart
7 19 (29.69%) MATLAB
7 19 (29.69%) R
7 19 (29.69%) Ruby
7 19 (29.69%) Rust
8 2 (3.13%) VBA
9 1 (1.56%) Go
9 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (46.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 30 (46.88%) Degree
2 6 (9.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) Ansible
1 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.13%) Terraform
2 1 (1.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 16 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 16 (25.00%) Oracle
2 10 (15.63%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.25%) HubSpot
4 3 (4.69%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.69%) SAP
5 1 (1.56%) Google