Laravel Job Trends in the South East

Laravel PHP Framework
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Laravel skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 244 225
Rank change year-on-year -8 -19 +26
Permanent jobs citing Laravel 21 52 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.20% 0.58% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.22% 2.60% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12 47 65
10th Percentile £50,500 £44,400 £33,000
25th Percentile - £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,625 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £62,700 £74,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% -2.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

Laravel falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 945 1,997 1,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.12% 22.29% 21.17%
Number of salaries quoted 758 1,131 1,510
10th Percentile £33,450 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +0.39% -3.70%

Laravel
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Laravel relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Laravel job vacancy trend in the South East

Laravel
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Laravel.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Laravel

Laravel
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Laravel in the South East over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Laravel in the South East

Laravel
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Laravel within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
East Sussex +15 10 £55,000 - 4
Thames Valley +7 6 £60,000 - 6
Kent -15 5 £60,000 - 3
Oxfordshire +15 4 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Buckinghamshire +7 2 £43,750 -23.91% 2
Laravel
England

Laravel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (42.86%) Stripe
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) PHPUnit
2 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (66.67%) Developer
1 14 (66.67%) Senior
2 8 (38.10%) Software Developer
3 7 (33.33%) PHP Developer
3 7 (33.33%) PHP Software Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 7 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
3 7 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) React
2 5 (23.81%) Vue
3 3 (14.29%) Symfony
4 2 (9.52%) CSS
4 2 (9.52%) CSS3
4 2 (9.52%) HTML
4 2 (9.52%) HTML5
5 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.76%) Ember.js
5 1 (4.76%) jQuery
5 1 (4.76%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (47.62%) User Experience
2 9 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (9.52%) Clean Code
4 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
4 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
5 1 (4.76%) MVC
5 1 (4.76%) OO
5 1 (4.76%) OO PHP
5 1 (4.76%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) PHP
2 12 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) HubSpot
2 1 (4.76%) Zend