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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 227 126
Rank change year-on-year +106 -101 -16
Permanent jobs citing PHP 24 50 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.85% 0.74% 2.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.59% 1.31% 4.78%
Number of salaries quoted 22 41 56
10th Percentile - £38,750 £43,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £61,250
90th Percentile - £56,250 -
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +7.71%

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 925 3,804 2,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 32.82% 56.47% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 738 1,148 1,156
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +24 12 £60,000 +20.00%
Glasgow +174 10 £55,000 +22.22% 3
Aberdeen +24 1 - -
Fife -8 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 (4.17%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.17%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) AWS
2 10 (41.67%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Multicast
1 1 (4.17%) RTP
1 1 (4.17%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (62.50%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Subversion
General
1 16 (66.67%) Games
2 11 (45.83%) Finance
3 6 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.17%) Electronics
4 1 (4.17%) Military
4 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (87.50%) Senior
2 14 (58.33%) Developer
3 12 (50.00%) PHP Developer
4 11 (45.83%) Senior Developer
4 11 (45.83%) Senior PHP Developer
5 10 (41.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 10 (41.67%) Software Engineer
6 9 (37.50%) PHP Software Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Junior
7 1 (4.17%) Junior Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Systems Developer
7 1 (4.17%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (62.50%) Laravel
2 13 (54.17%) HTML
3 12 (50.00%) CSS
4 10 (41.67%) LAMP
5 6 (25.00%) React
6 5 (20.83%) AngularJS
6 5 (20.83%) Node.js
7 1 (4.17%) jQuery
7 1 (4.17%) Sass
7 1 (4.17%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Mobile App
2 4 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Digital Signage
3 1 (4.17%) IPTV
3 1 (4.17%) MPEG
3 1 (4.17%) PCIe
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 15 (62.50%) Software Engineering
3 11 (45.83%) Web Development
4 10 (41.67%) Mentoring
4 10 (41.67%) MVC
4 10 (41.67%) OOP
5 6 (25.00%) Agile
5 6 (25.00%) Clean Code
6 5 (20.83%) SOLID
6 5 (20.83%) TDD
6 5 (20.83%) Unit Testing
7 4 (16.67%) DevOps
7 4 (16.67%) Process Improvement
7 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (4.17%) Computer Science
8 1 (4.17%) Content Management
8 1 (4.17%) ERP
8 1 (4.17%) Kalman Filter
8 1 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (4.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) JavaScript
2 6 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) C
4 1 (4.17%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) C++
4 1 (4.17%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Twitter
2 1 (4.17%) Epicor
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.17%) WooCommerce