PHP Jobs in the Midlands

PHP
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 134 135
Rank change year-on-year -35 +1 -24
Permanent jobs citing PHP 79 197 247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.22% 1.96% 2.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.24% 6.85% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 65 156 112
10th Percentile £26,600 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,000 £66,875 £68,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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 1,508 2,875 3,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.33% 28.53% 38.64%
Number of salaries quoted 995 2,482 2,119
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the Midlands

PHP
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for PHP in the Midlands

PHP
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 March 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 19 March 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 -8 44 £55,000 +22.22% 24
East Midlands -20 34 £35,000 -22.22% 19
PHP
England

PHP
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 23 (29.11%) WordPress
2 20 (25.32%) CMS
3 1 (1.27%) Apache
Business Applications
1 20 (25.32%) Shopify
2 2 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.53%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.32%) GitHub
1 20 (25.32%) Slack
1 20 (25.32%) Zapier
2 11 (13.92%) AWS
3 9 (11.39%) Azure
4 6 (7.59%) Amazon S3
5 5 (6.33%) GCP
6 4 (5.06%) SaaS
6 4 (5.06%) Serverless
7 3 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.27%) Firebase
8 1 (1.27%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.27%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.27%) PaaS
8 1 (1.27%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.27%) Internet
1 1 (1.27%) tcpdump
1 1 (1.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (64.56%) MySQL
2 9 (11.39%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.80%) Big Data
4 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.53%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (50.63%) Git
2 6 (7.59%) JIRA
3 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.27%) GDB
3 1 (1.27%) GitLab
3 1 (1.27%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.27%) Subversion
3 1 (1.27%) WinDbg
General
1 11 (13.92%) Finance
1 11 (13.92%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.13%) Games
3 5 (6.33%) Law
4 3 (3.80%) Back Office
5 2 (2.53%) Automotive
5 2 (2.53%) Marketing
5 2 (2.53%) Retail
5 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (75.95%) Developer
2 22 (27.85%) PHP Developer
3 9 (11.39%) Lead
4 7 (8.86%) Graduate
4 7 (8.86%) Graduate Developer
4 7 (8.86%) IT Graduate
4 7 (8.86%) Senior
4 7 (8.86%) Senior Developer
5 6 (7.59%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (7.59%) IT Manager
5 6 (7.59%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Development Manager
6 5 (6.33%) IT Development Manager
6 5 (6.33%) PHP Software Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) PHP Symfony Developer
6 5 (6.33%) Symfony Developer
6 5 (6.33%) Systems Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Lead Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Lead PHP Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (65.82%) CSS
1 52 (65.82%) HTML
2 45 (56.96%) Laravel
3 15 (18.99%) React
4 13 (16.46%) Symfony
5 12 (15.19%) jQuery
6 11 (13.92%) .NET
7 10 (12.66%) Node.js
8 8 (10.13%) ASP.NET
8 8 (10.13%) Vue
9 7 (8.86%) CodeIgniter
9 7 (8.86%) Next.js
9 7 (8.86%) RESTful
10 5 (6.33%) LAMP
11 4 (5.06%) AngularJS
11 4 (5.06%) Playwright
12 3 (3.80%) GraphQL
13 2 (2.53%) Bootstrap
13 2 (2.53%) Ember.js
13 2 (2.53%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Mobile App
2 5 (6.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.80%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.27%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.27%) Clustering
4 1 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.27%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.27%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (1.27%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.59%) Android
1 6 (7.59%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.53%) Linux
3 1 (1.27%) Unix
3 1 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (43.04%) Problem-Solving
1 34 (43.04%) Web Development
2 33 (41.77%) E-Commerce
3 30 (37.97%) Front End Development
4 29 (36.71%) Computer Science
5 28 (35.44%) Agile
5 28 (35.44%) Full-Stack Development
6 23 (29.11%) User Experience
7 22 (27.85%) Project Management
7 22 (27.85%) SEO
8 21 (26.58%) MVC
8 21 (26.58%) Responsive Web Design
8 21 (26.58%) Server Management
9 20 (25.32%) Content Management
9 20 (25.32%) OO
9 20 (25.32%) UX Design
10 14 (17.72%) Mentoring
10 14 (17.72%) Software Engineering
11 12 (15.19%) OOP
12 9 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 35 (44.30%) JavaScript
2 28 (35.44%) Java
3 25 (31.65%) Python
4 11 (13.92%) SQL
5 9 (11.39%) C#
6 8 (10.13%) C++
7 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.53%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.27%) C
8 1 (1.27%) CodeQL
8 1 (1.27%) Dart
8 1 (1.27%) Go
8 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 32 (40.51%) Degree
2 29 (36.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.27%) Postgraduate
3 1 (1.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.13%) GDPR
2 5 (6.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.33%) QA
3 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (5.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.27%) Firmware
2 1 (1.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (26.58%) WooCommerce
2 5 (6.33%) OpenAI
3 3 (3.80%) Google
4 2 (2.53%) HubSpot
4 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.53%) Twitter
4 2 (2.53%) Zend
4 2 (2.53%) Zoho