PHP Jobs in the Thames Valley

PHP
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 146 157 164
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -61
Permanent jobs citing PHP 32 96 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.05% 1.42% 1.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.08% 4.89% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 31 92 64
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,100 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,125 £76,875 £75,938
90th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +3.09%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 784 1,965 2,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.79% 29.13% 40.06%
Number of salaries quoted 530 1,605 1,432
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,350 £34,324
25th Percentile £47,125 £42,500 £44,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the Thames Valley

PHP
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for PHP in the Thames Valley

PHP
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for PHP in the Thames Valley

PHP
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Thames Valley 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
Oxfordshire +36 16 £60,000 - 11
Berkshire +13 11 £77,500 +19.23% 14
Buckinghamshire +30 5 £45,000 -10.00% 34
PHP
South East

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (6.25%) WordPress
2 1 (3.13%) CMS
2 1 (3.13%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) AWS
2 10 (31.25%) GCP
3 2 (6.25%) Serverless
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.13%) Azure
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.13%) Figma
4 1 (3.13%) Squarespace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (53.13%) MySQL
2 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (62.50%) Git
2 7 (21.88%) Selenium
3 6 (18.75%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.13%) git-flow
4 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (31.25%) Retail
2 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Games
4 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.13%) Marketing
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (62.50%) Senior
2 15 (46.88%) Developer
3 9 (28.13%) Senior Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (18.75%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (9.38%) PHP Developer
5 3 (9.38%) PHP Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Lead
7 1 (3.13%) Architect
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Digital Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Lead Python Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Node.js Developer
7 1 (3.13%) PHP Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (62.50%) CSS
2 19 (59.38%) HTML
3 14 (43.75%) Laravel
4 10 (31.25%) LAMP
4 10 (31.25%) Web Services
5 7 (21.88%) React
6 6 (18.75%) CSS3
6 6 (18.75%) HTML5
6 6 (18.75%) Jest
7 4 (12.50%) Symfony
8 2 (6.25%) CodeIgniter
8 2 (6.25%) REST
9 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
9 1 (3.13%) Bootstrap
9 1 (3.13%) Django
9 1 (3.13%) Flask
9 1 (3.13%) jQuery
9 1 (3.13%) Node.js
9 1 (3.13%) Twig
9 1 (3.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) IoT
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (43.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (34.38%) E-Commerce
4 10 (31.25%) Design Patterns
4 10 (31.25%) MVC
4 10 (31.25%) OOP
5 9 (28.13%) Agile
6 7 (21.88%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (18.75%) Computer Science
7 6 (18.75%) Front End Development
7 6 (18.75%) Propensity Modelling
8 3 (9.38%) CI/CD
8 3 (9.38%) Event-Driven
8 3 (9.38%) Fintech
8 3 (9.38%) Microservices
8 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (9.38%) Roadmaps
9 2 (6.25%) CRM
9 2 (6.25%) DevOps
9 2 (6.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 23 (71.88%) JavaScript
2 7 (21.88%) TypeScript
3 6 (18.75%) C#
4 4 (12.50%) Go
5 2 (6.25%) Python
6 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) WCAG
2 1 (3.13%) GMP
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft