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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 138 121
Rank change year-on-year -1 -17 +17
Permanent jobs citing PHP 109 71 204
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.04% 1.46% 1.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.69% 5.70% 7.01%
Number of salaries quoted 102 64 162
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,563 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,813 £53,750
90th Percentile £69,725 £74,250 £67,500
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 1,418 1,245 2,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.57% 25.63% 28.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,062 949 2,536
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +30 71 £47,500 -13.64% 15
East Midlands -35 39 £40,000 +14.29% 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 12 (11.01%) WordPress
2 7 (6.42%) CMS
3 5 (4.59%) Apache
3 5 (4.59%) nginx
4 3 (2.75%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (4.59%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.92%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Shopify
2 2 (1.83%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.92%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.76%) AWS
2 14 (12.84%) Azure
3 12 (11.01%) Figma
4 8 (7.34%) SaaS
5 5 (4.59%) GitHub
6 3 (2.75%) Firebase
7 2 (1.83%) ChatGPT
7 2 (1.83%) GCP
8 1 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.92%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) HTTP
1 2 (1.83%) Intranet
2 1 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (26.61%) MySQL
2 11 (10.09%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.59%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.83%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.83%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (18.35%) Git
2 6 (5.50%) JIRA
3 5 (4.59%) Vite
4 1 (0.92%) git-flow
4 1 (0.92%) PHPUnit
4 1 (0.92%) webpack
General
1 15 (13.76%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.17%) Finance
3 6 (5.50%) Health Technology
3 6 (5.50%) Law
3 6 (5.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.83%) Games
6 2 (1.83%) Marketing
7 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.92%) Electronics
7 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (66.97%) Developer
2 46 (42.20%) PHP Developer
3 22 (20.18%) Software Developer
4 11 (10.09%) Designer
4 11 (10.09%) HTML CSS Designer
4 11 (10.09%) Software Engineer
4 11 (10.09%) Web Designer
5 10 (9.17%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 8 (7.34%) Graduate
6 8 (7.34%) Senior
6 8 (7.34%) Senior Developer
7 7 (6.42%) C# Developer
7 7 (6.42%) C# Software Developer
7 7 (6.42%) Graduate C# Developer
7 7 (6.42%) Graduate C# Software Developer
7 7 (6.42%) Graduate Developer
7 7 (6.42%) Graduate Software Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 6 (5.50%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (36.70%) CSS
2 37 (33.94%) HTML
3 35 (32.11%) Laravel
4 16 (14.68%) Vue
5 9 (8.26%) jQuery
6 7 (6.42%) Tailwind CSS
7 6 (5.50%) LAMP
7 6 (5.50%) RESTful
8 5 (4.59%) LEMP Stack
8 5 (4.59%) Node.js
8 5 (4.59%) React
8 5 (4.59%) Symfony
8 5 (4.59%) YAML
9 4 (3.67%) HTML5
9 4 (3.67%) Next.js
10 3 (2.75%) CakePHP
10 3 (2.75%) CodeIgniter
10 3 (2.75%) CSS3
10 3 (2.75%) REST
10 3 (2.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (2.75%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.75%) Web Conferencing
4 2 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.83%) Legacy Code
4 2 (1.83%) Robotics
5 1 (0.92%) CCTV
5 1 (0.92%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.92%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.92%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.09%) Linux
2 2 (1.83%) Windows
2 2 (1.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (21.10%) Agile
2 17 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (13.76%) Full-Stack Development
4 13 (11.93%) Software Engineering
5 12 (11.01%) Computer Science
6 10 (9.17%) MVC
6 10 (9.17%) User Experience
7 9 (8.26%) E-Commerce
8 8 (7.34%) OO
9 7 (6.42%) Mentoring
10 6 (5.50%) CI/CD
10 6 (5.50%) Clean Code
10 6 (5.50%) OOP
10 6 (5.50%) Web Development
11 5 (4.59%) Business Strategy
11 5 (4.59%) Customer Experience
11 5 (4.59%) Data Collection
11 5 (4.59%) Software Testing
11 5 (4.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 5 (4.59%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 32 (29.36%) JavaScript
2 22 (20.18%) SQL
3 8 (7.34%) C#
3 8 (7.34%) Python
3 8 (7.34%) TypeScript
4 7 (6.42%) Java
5 6 (5.50%) VBA
6 5 (4.59%) Bash
7 4 (3.67%) C
8 3 (2.75%) C++
9 2 (1.83%) Rust
10 1 (0.92%) VB
10 1 (0.92%) VB6
Qualifications
1 8 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (7.34%) Degree
2 1 (0.92%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) QA
2 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.92%) Ansible
1 1 (0.92%) Argo
1 1 (0.92%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (6.42%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.75%) Oracle
2 3 (2.75%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.75%) Zend
3 2 (1.83%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.83%) SAP
4 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow