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 20 October 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 483 273
Rank change year-on-year -45 -210 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 134 56 419
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.16% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.18% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 121 51 276
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,125 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -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.

6 months to
20 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 81,370 30,503 46,585
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 89.61% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 55,914 17,516 25,456
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £52,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +12.38% -6.25% -6.67%

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 20 October 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 20 October 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
South East -12 48 £55,000 +46.67% 11
North of England -49 37 £47,500 +26.67% 10
Yorkshire -16 23 £45,000 +24.14% 4
Midlands -51 15 £37,500 -6.25% 9
East of England -34 14 £47,500 +90.00% 9
South West -75 14 £50,000 -9.09% 3
North West -43 11 £52,500 +7.69% 4
West Midlands -50 8 £37,500 -37.50% 4
East Midlands -48 7 £25,000 -37.50% 5
Scotland - 4 £40,000 -
North East -72 3 £31,000 +24.00% 2
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 20 October 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.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1PHP100.0%134
2Laravel53.7%72
3JavaScript34.3%46
4MySQL33.6%45
5CSS32.8%44
6HTML31.3%42
7Agile17.2%23
7AWS17.2%23
7Git17.2%23
10Vue16.4%22
10Web Development16.4%22
12SQL15.7%21
13Azure14.2%19
14Docker11.9%16
14Full-Stack Development11.9%16
14Problem-Solving11.9%16
17CI/CD10.4%14
17Clean Code10.4%14
17HTML510.4%14
17OOP10.4%14
21CRM9.7%13
21Symfony9.7%13
23E-Commerce9.0%12
23Linux9.0%12
23MVC9.0%12
26DevOps8.2%11
26Software Engineering8.2%11
26Test Automation8.2%11
29C#7.5%10
29Computer Science7.5%10

PHP Developer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1PHP Laravel Developer23.1%31
2Senior PHP Developer20.9%28
3Software Developer13.4%18
4PHP Web Developer10.4%14
5Full-Stack PHP Developer9.7%13
6Graduate C# Software Developer6.7%9
6Graduate PHP Developer6.7%9
6Graduate SQL Developer6.7%9
9Azure Developer3.7%5
10JavaScript Developer2.2%3
10Junior PHP Developer2.2%3
10Senior Full-Stack Developer2.2%3
13PHP WordPress Developer1.5%2
14Full-Stack JavaScript Developer0.7%1
14Senior JavaScript Developer0.7%1
14Senior React Developer0.7%1
44 PHP Developer jobs in the UK excluding London