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 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 403 264
Rank change year-on-year +13 -139 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 201 133 758
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.45% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.50% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 186 129 683
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -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 63,411 26,495 74,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 88.99% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 43,940 14,354 53,488
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,274 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +6 69 £45,000 -5.26% 7
Midlands +28 62 £45,000 +12.50% 2
Yorkshire +10 54 £50,000 +5.26% 4
West Midlands -1 32 £55,000 +29.41% 1
East Midlands -2 30 £40,000 - 1
South East -21 30 £55,000 +42.86% 4
South West -55 21 £55,000 -8.33% 2
East of England -11 18 £25,000 -23.08% 2
North West -7 12 £45,000 -14.29% 1
North East -44 3 £45,000 +80.00% 2
Wales -47 1 £45,000 +38.46% 1
PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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.

1 201 (100.00%) PHP
2 68 (33.83%) Laravel
3 52 (25.87%) SQL
4 46 (22.89%) Agile
5 45 (22.39%) MySQL
6 42 (20.90%) CSS
7 39 (19.40%) JavaScript
8 37 (18.41%) Azure
9 36 (17.91%) C#
9 36 (17.91%) Computer Science
10 30 (14.93%) HTML
11 29 (14.43%) Full-Stack Development
12 23 (11.44%) jQuery
13 22 (10.95%) AWS
14 18 (8.96%) SQL Server
15 17 (8.46%) Git
16 16 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
16 16 (7.96%) Degree
16 16 (7.96%) MVC
16 16 (7.96%) OO
17 15 (7.46%) OOP
18 13 (6.47%) Problem-Solving
19 12 (5.97%) C++
19 12 (5.97%) Java
20 11 (5.47%) Clean Code
20 11 (5.47%) OO PHP
20 11 (5.47%) SaaS
20 11 (5.47%) Vue
21 10 (4.98%) HTML5
21 10 (4.98%) Web Development

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 3 (1.49%) CMS
1 3 (1.49%) WordPress
2 2 (1.00%) Apache
2 2 (1.00%) Drupal
2 2 (1.00%) nginx
3 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.50%) IIS
3 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Magento
1 1 (0.50%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 37 (18.41%) Azure
2 22 (10.95%) AWS
3 11 (5.47%) SaaS
4 3 (1.49%) GCP
5 2 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.00%) Serverless
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.50%) ChatGPT
6 1 (0.50%) DigitalOcean
6 1 (0.50%) Firebase
6 1 (0.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.50%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (22.39%) MySQL
2 18 (8.96%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.98%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.49%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.49%) MariaDB
6 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (8.46%) Git
2 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.50%) gulp
2 1 (0.50%) JIRA
2 1 (0.50%) webpack
General
1 34 (16.92%) Finance
2 16 (7.96%) Social Skills
3 9 (4.48%) Marketing
4 5 (2.49%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.49%) Law
6 2 (1.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.00%) Retail
6 2 (1.00%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.50%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (33.83%) Laravel
2 42 (20.90%) CSS
3 30 (14.93%) HTML
4 23 (11.44%) jQuery
5 11 (5.47%) Vue
6 10 (4.98%) HTML5
7 9 (4.48%) CSS3
8 8 (3.98%) React
9 6 (2.99%) LAMP
9 6 (2.99%) REST
9 6 (2.99%) RESTful
9 6 (2.99%) Symfony
10 4 (1.99%) React Native
11 3 (1.49%) .NET
11 3 (1.49%) .NET Framework
12 2 (1.00%) CodeIgniter
12 2 (1.00%) JSON
12 2 (1.00%) Node.js
12 2 (1.00%) Sass
13 1 (0.50%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.97%) Virtual Team
2 8 (3.98%) Educational Technology
3 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.00%) Legacy Code
3 2 (1.00%) NHS
4 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.00%) Linux
1 2 (1.00%) Windows
1 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (22.89%) Agile
2 36 (17.91%) Computer Science
3 29 (14.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (7.96%) MVC
4 16 (7.96%) OO
5 15 (7.46%) OOP
6 13 (6.47%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (5.47%) Clean Code
7 11 (5.47%) OO PHP
8 10 (4.98%) Web Development
9 8 (3.98%) CI/CD
9 8 (3.98%) Mentoring
10 7 (3.48%) API Integration
10 7 (3.48%) E-Commerce
10 7 (3.48%) Microservices
11 6 (2.99%) Requirements Gathering
12 5 (2.49%) Data Collection
12 5 (2.49%) DevOps
12 5 (2.49%) Front End Development
12 5 (2.49%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 201 (100.00%) PHP
2 52 (25.87%) SQL
3 39 (19.40%) JavaScript
4 36 (17.91%) C#
5 12 (5.97%) C++
5 12 (5.97%) Java
6 7 (3.48%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.49%) Python
8 3 (1.49%) Rust
9 1 (0.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
1 16 (7.96%) Degree
2 1 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.00%) QA
2 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (1.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (1.49%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.00%) Google
3 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.50%) SAP