PHP Developer Jobs in Sheffield

PHP Developer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median PHP Developer salary in Sheffield is £31,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 July 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 68 66
Rank change year-on-year +24 -2 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 2 18 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.53% 1.49% 2.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 1.54% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2 18 8
10th Percentile £25,875 £27,925 £30,125
25th Percentile £27,188 £28,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,250 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £37,188 £60,938 £56,250
90th Percentile £39,625 £61,250 £56,625
South Yorkshire median annual salary £31,250 £42,500 £43,750
% change year-on-year -26.47% -2.86% +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 367 1,166 683
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.35% 96.44% 87.12%
Number of salaries quoted 272 906 416
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,088 £32,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,975 £80,000 £70,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.16% +5.56% -10.00%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in Sheffield

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in Sheffield

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

Salary trend for PHP Developer in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 7 July 2025, 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 Sheffield region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Symfony
2 1 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
2 1 (50.00%) CakePHP
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Laravel
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) OO PHP
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Law
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CakePHP
2 1 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Laravel
2 1 (50.00%) Symfony
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) OO PHP
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree