PHP Job Trends in Surrey

PHP
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 87 128
Rank change year-on-year -11 +41 -28
Permanent jobs citing PHP 12 5 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.59% 0.49% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.20% 1.83% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 12 5 18
10th Percentile - - £25,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £49,688 £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £61,500 £67,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%

All Programming Languages
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 375 273 697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 18.50% 26.66% 28.87%
Number of salaries quoted 300 221 536
10th Percentile £36,125 £37,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

PHP job vacancy trend in Surrey

PHP
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in Surrey over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for PHP in Surrey

PHP
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Staines - 10 £47,500 - 1
Guildford -28 2 £39,500 -4.82% 2
PHP
South East

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 8 (66.67%) SaaS
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) DNS
1 8 (66.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) Linux Support
1 8 (66.67%) Linux Support Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Developer
4 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
4 1 (8.33%) C# Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Graduate
4 1 (8.33%) Graduate C# Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Graduate C# Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Graduate Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Graduate PHP Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Graduate Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 1 (8.33%) PHP Developer
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) Laravel
1 1 (8.33%) React
1 1 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 8 (66.67%) CentOS
2 8 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (66.67%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (16.67%) High Availability
5 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Backlog Management
6 1 (8.33%) Conversational UI
6 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (8.33%) Human-Centred Design
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (8.33%) Product Backlog
6 1 (8.33%) Product Requirements
6 1 (8.33%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (8.33%) Technical Debt
6 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 10 (83.33%) Perl
3 2 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes