PHP Jobs in Scotland

PHP
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 216 125
Rank change year-on-year +58 -91 -5
Permanent jobs citing PHP 12 50 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.76% 2.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 1.54% 5.75%
Number of salaries quoted 10 36 51
10th Percentile £51,875 £38,750 £38,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £46,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% -11.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £51,875 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,250 £59,375 -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 998 3,252 1,651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 30.85% 49.54% 39.74%
Number of salaries quoted 565 1,128 965
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £36,504
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,720 £84,622
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Scotland

PHP
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for PHP in Scotland

PHP
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP in Scotland

PHP
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Glasgow +119 6 £55,000 +22.22% 2
Edinburgh +31 4 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Aberdeen +31 1 - - 1
Fife -7 1 - - 1
PHP
UK

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (8.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (8.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Multicast
1 1 (8.33%) RTP
1 1 (8.33%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Snyk
2 1 (8.33%) Subversion
General
1 8 (66.67%) Games
2 7 (58.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Electronics
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Senior
2 6 (50.00%) Developer
3 5 (41.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 5 (41.67%) Software Engineer
4 4 (33.33%) PHP Developer
4 4 (33.33%) PHP Software Engineer
4 4 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 4 (33.33%) Senior PHP Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Junior
5 1 (8.33%) Junior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Systems Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
5 1 (8.33%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) HTML
2 8 (66.67%) CSS
3 5 (41.67%) LAMP
3 5 (41.67%) Laravel
4 1 (8.33%) .NET
4 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (8.33%) Blazor
4 1 (8.33%) jQuery
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (8.33%) Node.js
4 1 (8.33%) React
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
4 1 (8.33%) Sass
4 1 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (8.33%) Vue
4 1 (8.33%) YAML
4 1 (8.33%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Digital Signage
2 1 (8.33%) IPTV
2 1 (8.33%) MPEG
2 1 (8.33%) PCIe
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) Web Development
3 5 (41.67%) MVC
3 5 (41.67%) OOP
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) SOLID
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
5 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
6 1 (8.33%) Content Management
6 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) ERP
6 1 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (8.33%) Scrum
6 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) C
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) C++
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Epicor
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (8.33%) Twitter
1 1 (8.33%) WooCommerce