PHP Jobs in the South East

PHP
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 179 91
Rank change year-on-year +4 -88 -21
Permanent jobs citing PHP 114 251 518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.35% 1.50% 3.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.74% 5.03% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 109 242 404
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,344 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,125
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Programming Languages
South East

PHP falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,406 4,995 5,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.43% 29.93% 40.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,786 4,034 3,935
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £34,589
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the South East

PHP
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for PHP in the South East

PHP
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for PHP in the South East

PHP
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 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
Thames Valley +11 32 £60,000 - 30
Kent +59 30 £30,000 -40.00% 3
Hampshire +31 26 £50,000 - 5
East Sussex +15 18 £47,500 -9.52% 23
Oxfordshire +36 16 £60,000 - 5
Berkshire +13 11 £77,500 +19.23% 3
Surrey +55 5 £45,000 -18.18% 2
Buckinghamshire +30 5 £45,000 -10.00% 22
West Sussex +20 1 £30,000 -25.00% 3
PHP
England

PHP
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 (7.89%) WordPress
2 5 (4.39%) Apache Solr
2 5 (4.39%) CMS
2 5 (4.39%) nginx
3 4 (3.51%) Apache
4 2 (1.75%) ColdFusion
4 2 (1.75%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.88%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.88%) IIS
5 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (32.46%) AWS
2 12 (10.53%) GCP
2 12 (10.53%) SaaS
3 10 (8.77%) GitHub
4 3 (2.63%) Azure
4 3 (2.63%) Serverless
5 2 (1.75%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Service Fabric
6 1 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.88%) Figma
6 1 (0.88%) Squarespace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.39%) DNS
1 5 (4.39%) HTTPS
1 5 (4.39%) IPsec
1 5 (4.39%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (55.26%) MySQL
2 17 (14.91%) SQL Server
3 9 (7.89%) SQLite
4 8 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.39%) Couchbase
7 3 (2.63%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (1.75%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (34.21%) Git
2 9 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.89%) Selenium
3 6 (5.26%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.39%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.75%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.75%) Postman
5 2 (1.75%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.88%) git-flow
6 1 (0.88%) JIRA
6 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.04%) Retail
3 10 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.77%) Pharmaceutical
4 6 (5.26%) Finance
5 5 (4.39%) Legal
6 2 (1.75%) Games
6 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.75%) Marketing
6 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Advertising
7 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 68 (59.65%) Developer
2 32 (28.07%) Senior
3 31 (27.19%) PHP Developer
4 19 (16.67%) Junior
4 19 (16.67%) Junior Developer
5 16 (14.04%) Junior PHP Developer
5 16 (14.04%) Senior Developer
6 14 (12.28%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (7.02%) Senior PHP Developer
7 8 (7.02%) Web Developer
8 7 (6.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) 1st Line Support
9 6 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (5.26%) IT Support
9 6 (5.26%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 5 (4.39%) PHP Software Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.51%) Lead
11 4 (3.51%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 4 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (55.26%) CSS
2 59 (51.75%) HTML
3 50 (43.86%) Laravel
4 23 (20.18%) LAMP
5 21 (18.42%) Vue
6 18 (15.79%) React
6 18 (15.79%) Web Services
7 14 (12.28%) CakePHP
8 12 (10.53%) RESTful
9 11 (9.65%) AngularJS
10 9 (7.89%) .NET
11 8 (7.02%) jQuery
12 7 (6.14%) Jest
13 6 (5.26%) CSS3
13 6 (5.26%) HTML5
14 5 (4.39%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (4.39%) Symfony
15 4 (3.51%) REST
16 3 (2.63%) CodeIgniter
17 2 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.40%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (4.39%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.75%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.88%) IoT
4 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.28%) Linux
2 6 (5.26%) Windows
3 2 (1.75%) CentOS
3 2 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (28.07%) E-Commerce
2 31 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
4 24 (21.05%) Software Engineering
5 21 (18.42%) OOP
6 20 (17.54%) TDD
7 16 (14.04%) MVC
8 14 (12.28%) Computer Science
8 14 (12.28%) DevOps
9 13 (11.40%) CI/CD
10 12 (10.53%) Microservices
11 11 (9.65%) Agile
11 11 (9.65%) Design Patterns
12 10 (8.77%) User Experience
13 9 (7.89%) Progressive Web App
13 9 (7.89%) Roadmaps
14 8 (7.02%) Fintech
14 8 (7.02%) Web Development
15 7 (6.14%) Artificial Intelligence
15 7 (6.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 69 (60.53%) JavaScript
2 25 (21.93%) SQL
3 11 (9.65%) Go
4 10 (8.77%) C#
4 10 (8.77%) TypeScript
5 7 (6.14%) Python
6 4 (3.51%) C
7 3 (2.63%) Java
8 2 (1.75%) R
9 1 (0.88%) Perl
9 1 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (1.75%) DBS Check
2 2 (1.75%) DV Cleared
2 2 (1.75%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.02%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.26%) QA
2 6 (5.26%) WCAG
3 5 (4.39%) GDPR
4 2 (1.75%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.88%) GMP
System Software
1 20 (17.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.02%) Ansible
3 6 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (4.39%) Cisco
1 5 (4.39%) Meraki
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.63%) Twitter
3 2 (1.75%) Adobe
3 2 (1.75%) Google
4 1 (0.88%) Apple
4 1 (0.88%) Progress
4 1 (0.88%) Spotify