PHP Developer Jobs in the South East

PHP Developer
England > South East

The median PHP Developer salary in the South East is £39,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 289 196
Rank change year-on-year +32 -93 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 31 108 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.37% 0.65% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.69% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 30 107 169
10th Percentile £25,800 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% - -
75th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £65,250 £62,500 £62,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 7,275 15,664 13,569
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.95% 93.87% 90.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,427 11,342 8,523
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the South East

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in the South East.

Salary trend for PHP Developer in the South East

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the South East

PHP Developer
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 PHP Developer within the South East 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
Kent +52 18 £30,000 -25.00%
East Sussex +14 6 £46,250 -11.90% 2
Thames Valley +54 3 £40,000 -20.00% 3
Buckinghamshire +37 3 £40,000 -13.51% 3
Hampshire +39 2 £50,000 - 1
Surrey +61 1 £65,000 +18.18% 1
PHP Developer
England

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 South East region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) PHP
2 25 (80.65%) JavaScript
2 25 (80.65%) CSS
3 23 (74.19%) HTML
4 20 (64.52%) MySQL
5 17 (54.84%) Laravel
6 12 (38.71%) Git
7 10 (32.26%) CakePHP
8 9 (29.03%) E-Commerce
8 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (22.58%) RESTful
10 6 (19.35%) Vue
10 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
10 6 (19.35%) Clean Code
11 5 (16.13%) React
11 5 (16.13%) SQL
12 4 (12.90%) CRM
12 4 (12.90%) Web Services
12 4 (12.90%) OOP
12 4 (12.90%) MVC
12 4 (12.90%) LAMP
12 4 (12.90%) TDD
12 4 (12.90%) Retail
12 4 (12.90%) Microservices
12 4 (12.90%) AngularJS
12 4 (12.90%) AWS
12 4 (12.90%) Symfony
13 3 (9.68%) CI/CD
13 3 (9.68%) Code Quality
13 3 (9.68%) CodeIgniter

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (6.45%) CMS
2 1 (3.23%) ColdFusion
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) Azure
2 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (64.52%) MySQL
2 3 (9.68%) MariaDB
2 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (38.71%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) git-flow
General
1 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Retail
3 2 (6.45%) Games
4 1 (3.23%) Advertising
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (80.65%) CSS
2 23 (74.19%) HTML
3 17 (54.84%) Laravel
4 10 (32.26%) CakePHP
5 7 (22.58%) RESTful
6 6 (19.35%) Vue
7 5 (16.13%) React
8 4 (12.90%) AngularJS
8 4 (12.90%) LAMP
8 4 (12.90%) Symfony
8 4 (12.90%) Web Services
9 3 (9.68%) CodeIgniter
10 2 (6.45%) REST
11 1 (3.23%) .NET
11 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
11 1 (3.23%) jQuery
11 1 (3.23%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) E-Commerce
1 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (19.35%) Clean Code
3 4 (12.90%) CRM
3 4 (12.90%) Microservices
3 4 (12.90%) MVC
3 4 (12.90%) OOP
3 4 (12.90%) TDD
4 3 (9.68%) Agile
4 3 (9.68%) CI/CD
4 3 (9.68%) Code Quality
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (6.45%) Roadmaps
6 1 (3.23%) Data Management
6 1 (3.23%) Database Optimisation
6 1 (3.23%) Event-Driven
6 1 (3.23%) Software Engineering
6 1 (3.23%) Trunk-Based Development
6 1 (3.23%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) PHP
2 25 (80.65%) JavaScript
3 5 (16.13%) SQL
4 3 (9.68%) C
4 3 (9.68%) C#
5 1 (3.23%) Go
5 1 (3.23%) Python
5 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Twitter
2 1 (3.23%) Adobe
2 1 (3.23%) Apple
2 1 (3.23%) Spotify