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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 94 130
Rank change year-on-year -8 +36 -64
Permanent jobs citing PHP 19 2 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.83% 0.17% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.08% 0.82% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 19 2 6
10th Percentile £31,000 £48,375 £46,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,688 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +15.00%
75th Percentile £55,625 £57,188 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,250 £58,125 £94,375
South East median annual salary £51,250 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.89% -18.18% +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 466 245 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 20.47% 21.14% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 399 194 399
10th Percentile £43,200 £37,500 £38,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,875 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -6.78%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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
Guildford -18 6 £36,250 -36.96% 2
Redhill - 6 £56,250 -
Staines - 6 £47,500 -
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 (15.79%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (21.05%) SaaS
3 2 (10.53%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) VoIP
2 4 (21.05%) DNS
2 4 (21.05%) HTTP
2 4 (21.05%) LAN
2 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
2 4 (21.05%) WAN
3 2 (10.53%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) MySQL
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Bitbucket
2 5 (26.32%) Git
2 5 (26.32%) JIRA
3 4 (21.05%) Cypress.io
4 2 (10.53%) GitLab
4 2 (10.53%) Terragrunt
5 1 (5.26%) Postman
5 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Software Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Linux Support
3 4 (21.05%) Linux Support Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Support Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Graduate
5 2 (10.53%) PHP Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Systems Developer
6 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.26%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (5.26%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Graduate Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Graduate Software Developer
6 1 (5.26%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) React
2 6 (31.58%) CSS
3 5 (26.32%) HTML
3 5 (26.32%) Laravel
3 5 (26.32%) Node.js
4 4 (21.05%) FastAPI
4 4 (21.05%) Jest
4 4 (21.05%) pytest
4 4 (21.05%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (21.05%) Vue
5 3 (15.79%) LAMP
6 1 (5.26%) jQuery
6 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 12 (63.16%) Linux
2 6 (31.58%) Debian
3 5 (26.32%) Ubuntu
4 4 (21.05%) CentOS
4 4 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Agile
2 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 11 (57.89%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (26.32%) Scrum
4 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) AI
5 4 (21.05%) Backlog Management
5 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
5 4 (21.05%) Conversational AI
5 4 (21.05%) Conversational UI
5 4 (21.05%) Human-Centred Design
5 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
5 4 (21.05%) Migration
5 4 (21.05%) Natural Language Processing
5 4 (21.05%) Product Backlog
5 4 (21.05%) Technical Debt
6 3 (15.79%) High Availability
6 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) Perl
3 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
4 4 (21.05%) Bash
5 2 (10.53%) C#
5 2 (10.53%) SQL
6 1 (5.26%) C++
6 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) HNC
3 1 (5.26%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes