PHP Developer Jobs in the South East

PHP Developer
England > South East

The median PHP Developer salary in the South East is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 246 195 279
Rank change year-on-year -51 +84 -93
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 108 180 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.72% 1.55% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 1.70% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 100 110 235
10th Percentile £34,875 £33,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,938 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -0.94% +17.78%

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 14,224 10,599 21,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 91.47% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 7,232 12,510
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
Hampshire -85 29 £50,000 +5.26% 2
East Sussex +13 26 £52,500 +5.00% 2
Kent -11 17 £60,000 +14.29%
West Sussex +22 13 £40,000 +6.67% 2
Thames Valley +18 13 £60,000 +9.09%
Buckinghamshire +15 10 £51,250 -22.64%
Surrey -18 5 £55,000 +10.00%
Sussex - 5 £35,000 - 2
Berkshire +6 3 £80,000 +77.78%
PHP Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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.

1 108 (100.00%) PHP
2 70 (64.81%) JavaScript
3 66 (61.11%) MySQL
4 62 (57.41%) CSS
4 62 (57.41%) HTML
4 62 (57.41%) Laravel
5 55 (50.93%) Git
6 37 (34.26%) OOP
6 37 (34.26%) AWS
7 32 (29.63%) Web Development
7 32 (29.63%) Symfony
7 32 (29.63%) jQuery
8 29 (26.85%) E-Commerce
9 27 (25.00%) Linux
9 27 (25.00%) Docker
10 24 (22.22%) MVC
11 22 (20.37%) OO
12 19 (17.59%) Agile
12 19 (17.59%) Vue
12 19 (17.59%) HTML5
13 18 (16.67%) TDD
14 17 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (14.81%) Software Engineering
15 16 (14.81%) SaaS
15 16 (14.81%) React
16 15 (13.89%) Go
16 15 (13.89%) Social Skills
16 15 (13.89%) Full Stack Development
17 14 (12.96%) Legacy Systems
17 14 (12.96%) CSS3

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 9 (8.33%) Drupal
1 9 (8.33%) Moodle
1 9 (8.33%) Totara
2 5 (4.63%) Apache
2 5 (4.63%) CMS
2 5 (4.63%) nginx
3 4 (3.70%) Apache Solr
3 4 (3.70%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Magento
2 1 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.26%) AWS
2 16 (14.81%) SaaS
3 14 (12.96%) GCP
4 11 (10.19%) GitHub
5 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.93%) Cloudflare
5 1 (0.93%) Discord
5 1 (0.93%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (61.11%) MySQL
2 10 (9.26%) Relational Database
3 9 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.48%) MariaDB
5 5 (4.63%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (50.93%) Git
2 13 (12.04%) JIRA
3 4 (3.70%) PHPUnit
3 4 (3.70%) Selenium
4 2 (1.85%) git-flow
General
1 15 (13.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.56%) Finance
3 3 (2.78%) Marketing
4 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.93%) Games
5 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.93%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (57.41%) CSS
1 62 (57.41%) HTML
1 62 (57.41%) Laravel
2 32 (29.63%) jQuery
2 32 (29.63%) Symfony
3 19 (17.59%) HTML5
3 19 (17.59%) Vue
4 16 (14.81%) React
5 14 (12.96%) CSS3
5 14 (12.96%) REST
5 14 (12.96%) SOAP
6 13 (12.04%) RESTful
7 12 (11.11%) LAMP
7 12 (11.11%) Web Services
8 11 (10.19%) AngularJS
8 11 (10.19%) CakePHP
9 9 (8.33%) OAuth
10 7 (6.48%) Sass
11 4 (3.70%) LEMP Stack
11 4 (3.70%) Zurb Foundation
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.96%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (8.33%) e-Learning
3 6 (5.56%) Cybercrime
4 3 (2.78%) Digital Media
4 3 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.85%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (34.26%) OOP
2 32 (29.63%) Web Development
3 29 (26.85%) E-Commerce
4 24 (22.22%) MVC
5 22 (20.37%) OO
6 19 (17.59%) Agile
7 18 (16.67%) TDD
8 17 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (14.81%) Software Engineering
10 15 (13.89%) Full Stack Development
11 14 (12.96%) Unit Testing
11 14 (12.96%) User Experience
12 13 (12.04%) DevOps
13 12 (11.11%) Clean Code
14 10 (9.26%) Test Automation
15 9 (8.33%) Code Quality
15 9 (8.33%) Deadline-Driven
15 9 (8.33%) High Availability
15 9 (8.33%) Integration Testing
15 9 (8.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (100.00%) PHP
2 70 (64.81%) JavaScript
3 15 (13.89%) Go
4 7 (6.48%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) Ansible
2 1 (0.93%) cPanel
2 1 (0.93%) Plesk
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (0.93%) Adobe
1 1 (0.93%) Zend