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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 97 125
Rank change year-on-year -14 +28 -70
Permanent jobs citing PHP 15 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.64% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.28% 0.93% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 15 2 2
10th Percentile £32,500 £48,375 £42,625
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,688 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,750 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +10.26% +2.63%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,188 £52,188
90th Percentile £75,750 £58,125 £53,875
South East median annual salary £52,500 £37,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +40.00% -28.57% +5.00%

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 458 216 540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 19.41% 18.34% 29.16%
Number of salaries quoted 393 168 363
10th Percentile £43,400 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% +6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
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 9 September 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 9 September 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
Redhill - 6 £56,250 -
Guildford -20 5 £37,500 -34.78%
Staines - 3 £50,000 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) VoIP
2 4 (26.67%) LAN
2 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (26.67%) WAN
3 2 (13.33%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (6.67%) DNS
4 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) MySQL
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Bitbucket
2 5 (33.33%) Git
2 5 (33.33%) JIRA
3 4 (26.67%) Cypress.io
4 2 (13.33%) GitLab
4 2 (13.33%) Terragrunt
5 1 (6.67%) Postman
5 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Systems Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Graduate
6 1 (6.67%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Lead
6 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Linux Support
6 1 (6.67%) Linux Support Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) PHP Developer
6 1 (6.67%) PHP Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) React
2 6 (40.00%) CSS
2 6 (40.00%) Terraform
3 5 (33.33%) HTML
3 5 (33.33%) Laravel
3 5 (33.33%) Node.js
4 4 (26.67%) FastAPI
4 4 (26.67%) Jest
4 4 (26.67%) pytest
4 4 (26.67%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (26.67%) Vue
5 3 (20.00%) LAMP
6 1 (6.67%) jQuery
6 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Debian
3 5 (33.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (6.67%) CentOS
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile
2 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (33.33%) Scrum
4 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) AI
5 4 (26.67%) Backlog Management
5 4 (26.67%) Conversational AI
5 4 (26.67%) Conversational UI
5 4 (26.67%) Human-Centred Design
5 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
5 4 (26.67%) Natural Language Processing
5 4 (26.67%) Product Backlog
5 4 (26.67%) Technical Debt
6 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (20.00%) High Availability
6 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (13.33%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 4 (26.67%) Bash
4 3 (20.00%) Perl
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) C++
5 1 (6.67%) Java
5 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) HNC
3 1 (6.67%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes