PHP Job Trends in Scotland

PHP
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 107 130
Rank change year-on-year -32 +23 +1
Permanent jobs citing PHP 5 39 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.18% 1.20% 1.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.77% 3.71% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5 27 26
10th Percentile - £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile - £39,375 £37,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £74,250 £68,500 £55,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -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 649 1,050 914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 23.90% 32.32% 38.86%
Number of salaries quoted 233 556 753
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,375 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%
75th Percentile £78,312 £67,906 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.36%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

PHP job vacancy trend in Scotland

PHP
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in Scotland over the 6 months to 6 November 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 6 November 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
Edinburgh -11 4 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Glasgow -19 1 £65,000 +44.44% 3
PHP
UK

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Snyk
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) PHP Developer
1 3 (60.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) PHP Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Laravel
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Blazor
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Vue
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) API Management
1 1 (20.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (20.00%) Fintech
1 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (20.00%) Line Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microservices
1 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Go
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle