PHP Developer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median PHP Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 478 262
Rank change year-on-year -13 -216 +96
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 161 76 485
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.22% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.25% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 146 73 375
10th Percentile £24,000 - £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 76,939 30,578 52,851
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.28% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 53,494 17,429 32,243
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,700 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'PHP Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

PHP Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for PHP Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for PHP Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England -30 54 £46,250 +15.63% 4
Midlands -15 38 £40,000 -
Yorkshire -10 35 £45,000 +16.13% 1
South East -16 35 £55,000 +100.00% 6
West Midlands -18 19 £55,000 +120.00%
East Midlands -27 19 £37,500 -6.25%
East of England -21 16 £25,000 - 2
North West -21 14 £52,500 +31.25% 3
South West -82 13 £40,000 -33.33% 2
North East -60 5 £45,000 +80.00%
Scotland +2 3 £40,000 -38.46%
Wales - 2 £45,000 -
PHP Developer
UK

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 September 2026, PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 161 (100.00%) PHP
2 75 (46.58%) Laravel
3 58 (36.02%) CSS
3 58 (36.02%) MySQL
4 51 (31.68%) HTML
5 49 (30.43%) JavaScript
6 42 (26.09%) SQL
7 36 (22.36%) Agile
8 29 (18.01%) Azure
9 26 (16.15%) AWS
10 24 (14.91%) C#
10 24 (14.91%) Computer Science
11 23 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
12 22 (13.66%) Git
13 20 (12.42%) jQuery
14 19 (11.80%) HTML5
14 19 (11.80%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (11.18%) MVC
15 18 (11.18%) OO
15 18 (11.18%) OOP
16 17 (10.56%) Clean Code
17 16 (9.94%) Vue
17 16 (9.94%) Web Development
18 14 (8.70%) CI/CD
18 14 (8.70%) OO PHP
19 13 (8.07%) SQL Server
20 12 (7.45%) CSS3
21 11 (6.83%) DevOps
22 10 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
22 10 (6.21%) Degree

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (4.35%) WordPress
2 4 (2.48%) CMS
3 3 (1.86%) Apache
4 2 (1.24%) Drupal
5 1 (0.62%) IIS
5 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Magento
1 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (18.01%) Azure
2 26 (16.15%) AWS
3 3 (1.86%) SaaS
3 3 (1.86%) Stripe
4 2 (1.24%) GitHub
5 1 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.62%) Cloudflare
5 1 (0.62%) GCP
5 1 (0.62%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (0.62%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.62%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.62%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (36.02%) MySQL
2 13 (8.07%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.35%) MariaDB
3 7 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.86%) Redis
6 2 (1.24%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.24%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.62%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (13.66%) Git
2 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.62%) gulp
2 1 (0.62%) JIRA
2 1 (0.62%) PHPUnit
2 1 (0.62%) Postman
2 1 (0.62%) webpack
General
1 24 (14.91%) Finance
1 24 (14.91%) Social Skills
2 7 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (3.11%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.48%) Marketing
5 3 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.86%) Publishing
6 2 (1.24%) Law
7 1 (0.62%) Retail
7 1 (0.62%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (46.58%) Laravel
2 58 (36.02%) CSS
3 51 (31.68%) HTML
4 20 (12.42%) jQuery
5 19 (11.80%) HTML5
6 16 (9.94%) Vue
7 12 (7.45%) CSS3
8 10 (6.21%) LAMP
8 10 (6.21%) Symfony
9 7 (4.35%) React
9 7 (4.35%) RESTful
10 6 (3.73%) REST
11 5 (3.11%) CakePHP
11 5 (3.11%) Node.js
11 5 (3.11%) Nuxt
12 4 (2.48%) JSON
12 4 (2.48%) React Native
13 3 (1.86%) .NET
13 3 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (1.86%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.70%) Virtual Team
2 3 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.62%) Educational Technology
4 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.59%) Linux
2 3 (1.86%) Windows
3 1 (0.62%) Debian
3 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (22.36%) Agile
2 24 (14.91%) Computer Science
3 23 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (11.80%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (11.18%) MVC
5 18 (11.18%) OO
5 18 (11.18%) OOP
6 17 (10.56%) Clean Code
7 16 (9.94%) Web Development
8 14 (8.70%) CI/CD
8 14 (8.70%) OO PHP
9 11 (6.83%) DevOps
10 10 (6.21%) Microservices
11 9 (5.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (5.59%) CRM
11 9 (5.59%) Test Automation
12 7 (4.35%) E-Commerce
13 6 (3.73%) Mentoring
13 6 (3.73%) Scrum
14 5 (3.11%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 161 (100.00%) PHP
2 49 (30.43%) JavaScript
3 42 (26.09%) SQL
4 24 (14.91%) C#
5 8 (4.97%) Java
6 7 (4.35%) C++
6 7 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.73%) Python
8 2 (1.24%) Rust
9 1 (0.62%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (6.21%) Degree
2 1 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (0.62%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.62%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.35%) QA
2 5 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.86%) WCAG
4 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (6.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.62%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (3.11%) Google
2 4 (2.48%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.86%) OpenAI