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 £46,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 464 269
Rank change year-on-year -56 -195 +73
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 153 70 467
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.21% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.23% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 138 67 337
10th Percentile £24,700 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,125 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £63,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -10.00%

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 79,433 30,469 51,513
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 89.29% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 55,031 17,322 29,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
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 £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 22 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 22 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 -42 47 £47,500 +18.75% 5
South East -16 41 £55,000 +77.42% 13
Midlands -26 34 £37,500 -6.25% 6
Yorkshire -18 31 £45,000 +20.00% 4
East Midlands -23 18 £37,500 -6.25% 3
West Midlands -35 16 £55,000 +29.41% 3
East of England -19 15 £25,000 - 3
North West -39 13 £52,500 +31.25% 1
South West -79 11 £35,000 -41.67% 5
North East -63 3 £31,000 +24.00%
Scotland - 3 £40,000 -
Wales - 2 £45,000 - 2
PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 153 (100.00%) PHP
2 77 (50.33%) Laravel
3 57 (37.25%) CSS
4 55 (35.95%) MySQL
5 50 (32.68%) HTML
6 48 (31.37%) JavaScript
7 38 (24.84%) SQL
8 34 (22.22%) Agile
9 29 (18.95%) Azure
10 26 (16.99%) AWS
11 22 (14.38%) C#
11 22 (14.38%) Computer Science
12 21 (13.73%) Git
12 21 (13.73%) HTML5
13 20 (13.07%) Full-Stack Development
13 20 (13.07%) jQuery
14 19 (12.42%) OO
14 19 (12.42%) Vue
15 18 (11.76%) OOP
16 17 (11.11%) Clean Code
16 17 (11.11%) MVC
16 17 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
17 16 (10.46%) Web Development
18 14 (9.15%) CI/CD
18 14 (9.15%) OO PHP
19 13 (8.50%) Docker
20 12 (7.84%) CSS3
20 12 (7.84%) Symfony
21 11 (7.19%) CRM
21 11 (7.19%) DevOps

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 (4.58%) WordPress
2 4 (2.61%) CMS
3 3 (1.96%) Apache
4 2 (1.31%) Drupal
5 1 (0.65%) IIS
5 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Magento
1 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (18.95%) Azure
2 26 (16.99%) AWS
3 3 (1.96%) Stripe
4 2 (1.31%) GitHub
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.65%) Cloudflare
5 1 (0.65%) GCP
5 1 (0.65%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (0.65%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.65%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.65%) SaaS
5 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (35.95%) MySQL
2 11 (7.19%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.92%) MariaDB
3 6 (3.92%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.96%) Redis
6 2 (1.31%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.65%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (13.73%) Git
2 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.65%) gulp
2 1 (0.65%) JIRA
2 1 (0.65%) PHPUnit
2 1 (0.65%) Postman
2 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 23 (15.03%) Finance
2 21 (13.73%) Social Skills
3 6 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.27%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.96%) Marketing
5 3 (1.96%) Publishing
6 1 (0.65%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (50.33%) Laravel
2 57 (37.25%) CSS
3 50 (32.68%) HTML
4 21 (13.73%) HTML5
5 20 (13.07%) jQuery
6 19 (12.42%) Vue
7 12 (7.84%) CSS3
7 12 (7.84%) Symfony
8 9 (5.88%) LAMP
9 8 (5.23%) RESTful
10 7 (4.58%) CakePHP
10 7 (4.58%) Nuxt
11 6 (3.92%) REST
12 5 (3.27%) Node.js
12 5 (3.27%) React
13 4 (2.61%) JSON
13 4 (2.61%) React Native
14 3 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
14 3 (1.96%) Semantic HTML
15 2 (1.31%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.15%) Virtual Team
2 4 (2.61%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.65%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.19%) Linux
2 3 (1.96%) Windows
3 1 (0.65%) Debian
3 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (22.22%) Agile
2 22 (14.38%) Computer Science
3 20 (13.07%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (12.42%) OO
5 18 (11.76%) OOP
6 17 (11.11%) Clean Code
6 17 (11.11%) MVC
6 17 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (10.46%) Web Development
8 14 (9.15%) CI/CD
8 14 (9.15%) OO PHP
9 11 (7.19%) CRM
9 11 (7.19%) DevOps
9 11 (7.19%) Microservices
10 10 (6.54%) Test Automation
11 8 (5.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (5.23%) Scrum
12 7 (4.58%) Technical Debt
13 5 (3.27%) Mentoring
13 5 (3.27%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 153 (100.00%) PHP
2 48 (31.37%) JavaScript
3 38 (24.84%) SQL
4 22 (14.38%) C#
5 8 (5.23%) Java
6 7 (4.58%) C++
6 7 (4.58%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.92%) Python
8 1 (0.65%) Go
8 1 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (6.54%) Degree
2 1 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
2 1 (0.65%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.23%) QA
2 5 (3.27%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.96%) WCAG
4 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (8.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (3.27%) Google
2 4 (2.61%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.96%) OpenAI