Senior PHP Developer Jobs in Scotland

Senior PHP Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior PHP Developer salary in Scotland is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 January 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 209 208
Rank change year-on-year +28 -1 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 11 3 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.23% 0.081% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.084% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 3
10th Percentile - £47,750 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,625
90th Percentile £62,500 - £58,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 4,371 3,587 4,181
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.59% 96.71% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,287 1,937 2,498
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £43,375 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -12.28% +14.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,548 £85,000
UK median annual salary £58,033 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.93% -4.17% -

Senior PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Senior PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Senior PHP Developer in Scotland

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Senior PHP Developer in Scotland

Senior PHP Developer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior PHP Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 January 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 +26 9 £55,000 +4.76%
Glasgow +81 2 £55,000 +10.00%
Senior PHP Developer
UK

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 18 January 2025, Senior PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Senior PHP Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) PHP
1 11 (100.00%) MySQL
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (81.82%) Laravel
3 8 (72.73%) AngularJS
3 8 (72.73%) DevOps
3 8 (72.73%) React
4 6 (54.55%) Mentoring
4 6 (54.55%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (54.55%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (54.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (54.55%) TypeScript
4 6 (54.55%) Process Improvement
4 6 (54.55%) Node.js
4 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
5 5 (45.45%) HTML
5 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
5 5 (45.45%) CSS
6 3 (27.27%) OOP
6 3 (27.27%) E-Commerce
6 3 (27.27%) MVC
6 3 (27.27%) Finance
6 3 (27.27%) LAMP
6 3 (27.27%) Games
6 3 (27.27%) Git
6 3 (27.27%) Web Development
6 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
6 3 (27.27%) GCP
7 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
7 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) MySQL
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
General
1 6 (54.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) Laravel
2 8 (72.73%) AngularJS
2 8 (72.73%) React
3 6 (54.55%) Node.js
4 5 (45.45%) CSS
4 5 (45.45%) HTML
5 3 (27.27%) LAMP
6 2 (18.18%) RESTful
6 2 (18.18%) Symfony
6 2 (18.18%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Mentoring
2 6 (54.55%) Process Improvement
2 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (27.27%) E-Commerce
3 3 (27.27%) MVC
3 3 (27.27%) OOP
3 3 (27.27%) Web Development
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) PHP
2 6 (54.55%) TypeScript
3 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Twitter