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 £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 February 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 327 284
Rank change year-on-year -73 -43 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 135 232 469
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.72% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.78% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 125 150 455
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,625 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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 44,049 29,556 47,666
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 91.48% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 27,551 14,399 36,952
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,966 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 18 February 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 18 February 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 46 £50,000 +5.26% 16
Midlands +22 32 £42,500 -8.11% 12
Yorkshire -10 27 £60,000 +26.32% 9
South East +6 22 £55,000 +37.50% 4
East Midlands +1 21 £40,000 -5.88% 3
North West -13 19 £45,000 -12.20% 2
South West -25 19 £55,000 -6.38% 9
East of England +8 12 £25,000 -61.54% 2
West Midlands +10 11 £55,000 -18.52% 9
Scotland -28 4 £60,000 +9.09% 1
PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 February 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.

1 135 (100.00%) PHP
2 61 (45.19%) Laravel
3 40 (29.63%) MySQL
4 38 (28.15%) Agile
4 38 (28.15%) JavaScript
5 34 (25.19%) CSS
6 27 (20.00%) HTML
7 25 (18.52%) Azure
8 22 (16.30%) AWS
8 22 (16.30%) SQL
9 21 (15.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 21 (15.56%) MVC
10 20 (14.81%) Symfony
11 19 (14.07%) C#
12 16 (11.85%) Computer Science
12 16 (11.85%) jQuery
12 16 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (11.85%) SaaS
13 15 (11.11%) React
14 14 (10.37%) Git
14 14 (10.37%) OO
15 13 (9.63%) GCP
15 13 (9.63%) OOP
15 13 (9.63%) SQL Server
16 11 (8.15%) TypeScript
17 10 (7.41%) OO PHP
17 10 (7.41%) Web Development
18 9 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
18 9 (6.67%) Degree
18 9 (6.67%) User Experience

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 8 (5.93%) nginx
2 4 (2.96%) Apache
2 4 (2.96%) WordPress
3 2 (1.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.74%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.52%) Azure
2 22 (16.30%) AWS
3 16 (11.85%) SaaS
4 13 (9.63%) GCP
5 3 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.22%) ChatGPT
5 3 (2.22%) Serverless
6 2 (1.48%) GitHub
6 2 (1.48%) Stripe
7 1 (0.74%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (0.74%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.22%) Intranet
1 3 (2.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (29.63%) MySQL
2 13 (9.63%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.19%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.96%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.22%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (10.37%) Git
2 4 (2.96%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.74%) JIRA
General
1 15 (11.11%) Finance
2 7 (5.19%) Law
3 6 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.44%) Marketing
4 4 (2.96%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.48%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.74%) Back Office
7 1 (0.74%) Games
7 1 (0.74%) Retail
7 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (45.19%) Laravel
2 34 (25.19%) CSS
3 27 (20.00%) HTML
4 20 (14.81%) Symfony
5 16 (11.85%) jQuery
6 15 (11.11%) React
7 8 (5.93%) CodeIgniter
8 7 (5.19%) CakePHP
8 7 (5.19%) REST
8 7 (5.19%) Vue
9 5 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (3.70%) RESTful
10 4 (2.96%) CSS3
10 4 (2.96%) HTML5
11 3 (2.22%) .NET
11 3 (2.22%) Web Services
12 2 (1.48%) .NET Framework
12 2 (1.48%) Ajax
12 2 (1.48%) ASP.NET
12 2 (1.48%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.93%) Educational Technology
2 5 (3.70%) Legacy Code
3 4 (2.96%) NHS
4 3 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.74%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.44%) Linux
2 4 (2.96%) Windows
2 4 (2.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (28.15%) Agile
2 21 (15.56%) Full-Stack Development
2 21 (15.56%) MVC
3 16 (11.85%) Computer Science
3 16 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (10.37%) OO
5 13 (9.63%) OOP
6 10 (7.41%) OO PHP
6 10 (7.41%) Web Development
7 9 (6.67%) User Experience
8 8 (5.93%) Clean Code
9 7 (5.19%) E-Commerce
10 6 (4.44%) Mentoring
11 5 (3.70%) API Integration
11 5 (3.70%) Integrated Marketing
11 5 (3.70%) Migration
11 5 (3.70%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (3.70%) TDD
12 4 (2.96%) AI
12 4 (2.96%) Client Onboarding
Programming Languages
1 135 (100.00%) PHP
2 38 (28.15%) JavaScript
3 22 (16.30%) SQL
4 19 (14.07%) C#
5 11 (8.15%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.19%) C++
6 7 (5.19%) Java
7 2 (1.48%) Go
8 1 (0.74%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 9 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (0.74%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.48%) QA
2 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (5.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.96%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.22%) cPanel
2 3 (2.22%) Plesk
Vendors
1 4 (2.96%) Google
2 3 (2.22%) OpenAI
2 3 (2.22%) SAP
3 2 (1.48%) HubSpot
3 2 (1.48%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.48%) Zend
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe