PHP Job Trends in the South East

PHP
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 174 148
Rank change year-on-year -3 -26 -70
Permanent jobs citing PHP 153 118 283
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.98% 1.38% 1.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.43% 5.95% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 141 91 255
10th Percentile £36,250 £27,000 £34,700
25th Percentile £46,250 £30,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £75,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.41%

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 2,820 1,982 4,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 18.01% 23.20% 29.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,190 1,340 3,945
10th Percentile £36,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,938 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,533 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.04% +0.97% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

PHP job vacancy trend in the South East

PHP
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in the South East over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

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 11 July 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 +9 47 £47,500 +5.56% 2
Hampshire -27 38 £60,000 -0.41% 3
Thames Valley +6 29 £60,000 - 4
Surrey -2 20 £48,750 -15.22% 2
Kent -41 14 £25,000 -16.67%
Buckinghamshire -19 11 £60,000 +50.00% 2
Berkshire +19 9 £37,500 -37.50% 1
Oxfordshire -9 9 £60,000 - 1
West Sussex - 5 £60,000 - 2
PHP
England

PHP
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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (10.46%) ColdFusion
2 5 (3.27%) Confluence
2 5 (3.27%) WordPress
3 4 (2.61%) Apache
3 4 (2.61%) CMS
4 1 (0.65%) IIS
4 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (24.18%) AWS
2 20 (13.07%) Azure
3 12 (7.84%) SaaS
4 11 (7.19%) GCP
5 6 (3.92%) GitHub
6 5 (3.27%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (3.27%) Azure Stack
7 4 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.31%) Cloudflare
9 2 (1.31%) Figma
9 2 (1.31%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.31%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (1.31%) Stripe
10 1 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.65%) Firebase
10 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (16.34%) Internet
2 8 (5.23%) DNS
3 6 (3.92%) HTTP
3 6 (3.92%) VoIP
4 4 (2.61%) LAN
4 4 (2.61%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.61%) WAN
5 2 (1.31%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (1.31%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (22.22%) MySQL
2 30 (19.61%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.31%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 24 (15.69%) Git
2 14 (9.15%) JIRA
3 10 (6.54%) GitLab
4 7 (4.58%) Bitbucket
5 5 (3.27%) PHPUnit
6 4 (2.61%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.96%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.31%) Selenium
8 2 (1.31%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 41 (26.80%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.15%) Finance
3 10 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.65%) Back Office
6 1 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 123 (80.39%) Developer
2 46 (30.07%) Senior
3 41 (26.80%) Senior Developer
4 34 (22.22%) Web Developer
5 30 (19.61%) PHP Developer
6 24 (15.69%) Software Developer
7 22 (14.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 18 (11.76%) E-Commerce Developer
9 16 (10.46%) Backend Developer
10 13 (8.50%) Senior PHP Developer
11 11 (7.19%) Graduate
11 11 (7.19%) Software Engineer
12 10 (6.54%) PHP Software Engineer
12 10 (6.54%) Senior Backend Developer
13 9 (5.88%) Full-Stack Web Developer
13 9 (5.88%) PHP Laravel Developer
14 7 (4.58%) E-Commerce Web Developer
15 6 (3.92%) Graduate C# Software Developer
15 6 (3.92%) Graduate SQL Developer
15 6 (3.92%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (35.29%) CSS
2 48 (31.37%) HTML
3 44 (28.76%) Laravel
4 43 (28.10%) .NET
5 34 (22.22%) jQuery
6 21 (13.73%) React
7 13 (8.50%) LAMP
8 8 (5.23%) ARM Templates
9 6 (3.92%) Tailwind CSS
10 5 (3.27%) Node.js
10 5 (3.27%) Vue
11 4 (2.61%) FastAPI
11 4 (2.61%) Jest
11 4 (2.61%) pytest
11 4 (2.61%) RESTful
12 2 (1.31%) CSS3
12 2 (1.31%) HTML5
12 2 (1.31%) Next.js
12 2 (1.31%) REST
12 2 (1.31%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.61%) Virtual Team
3 3 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.31%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.31%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.69%) Linux
2 11 (7.19%) CentOS
2 11 (7.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (6.54%) Ubuntu
4 9 (5.88%) Windows
5 8 (5.23%) Debian
6 6 (3.92%) Windows Server
7 5 (3.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (26.80%) Agile
2 40 (26.14%) Web Development
3 37 (24.18%) Computer Science
4 27 (17.65%) E-Commerce
4 27 (17.65%) OOP
4 27 (17.65%) SEO
5 26 (16.99%) CI/CD
6 25 (16.34%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (13.07%) Software Engineering
8 16 (10.46%) Migration
9 15 (9.80%) DevOps
10 13 (8.50%) TDD
11 11 (7.19%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (6.54%) Scrum
13 9 (5.88%) AI
14 8 (5.23%) OO
15 7 (4.58%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (4.58%) Observability
16 6 (3.92%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 53 (34.64%) JavaScript
2 40 (26.14%) SQL
3 27 (17.65%) Python
4 12 (7.84%) Bash
4 12 (7.84%) C#
5 8 (5.23%) Perl
5 8 (5.23%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.92%) Java
7 5 (3.27%) C++
7 5 (3.27%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.96%) CFML
9 2 (1.31%) Go
Qualifications
1 31 (20.26%) Degree
2 30 (19.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (7.84%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.27%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.31%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.65%) HNC
6 1 (0.65%) HND
6 1 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (16.34%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.27%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.96%) QA
4 1 (0.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (13.07%) Kubernetes
2 18 (11.76%) Terraform
3 10 (6.54%) Ansible
4 5 (3.27%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (3.27%) Nagios
4 5 (3.27%) Podman
5 2 (1.31%) Argo
5 2 (1.31%) Grafana
5 2 (1.31%) Istio
5 2 (1.31%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.31%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (4.58%) Google
2 5 (3.27%) Splunk
3 3 (1.96%) Adobe
4 2 (1.31%) HubSpot
4 2 (1.31%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.31%) WooCommerce