PHP Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median PHP Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 267 225
Rank change year-on-year -188 -42 +70
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 133 758 866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.94% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.99% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 129 683 363
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £63,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 35,626 76,889 48,606
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.51% 94.89% 88.78%
Number of salaries quoted 18,374 53,611 29,048
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,627
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for PHP Developer 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 2025.

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 2025. 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 -6 34 £38,500 -23.00% 106
North of England -112 34 £47,500 +5.56% 138
North West -83 24 £52,500 +5.00% 81
Midlands -27 22 £40,000 -5.88% 75
South West +28 21 £60,000 +33.33% 58
West Midlands +6 12 £42,500 - 38
East of England -35 12 £32,500 -25.29% 57
East Midlands +7 10 £40,000 -5.88% 37
Yorkshire -25 7 £47,500 +11.76% 48
Scotland +89 5 £60,000 +33.33% 16
Wales +37 4 £32,500 -27.78% 21
North East +39 3 £25,000 -47.37% 11
Northern Ireland +37 1 - - 9
PHP Developer
UK

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 June 2025, PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 133 (100.00%) PHP
2 91 (68.42%) JavaScript
2 91 (68.42%) CSS
3 78 (58.65%) MySQL
4 75 (56.39%) HTML
5 51 (38.35%) Laravel
6 50 (37.59%) OOP
7 42 (31.58%) Git
8 41 (30.83%) E-Commerce
9 40 (30.08%) Agile
10 39 (29.32%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (27.07%) OO
12 34 (25.56%) Symfony
12 34 (25.56%) SQL
13 33 (24.81%) MVC
14 32 (24.06%) AWS
14 32 (24.06%) Social Skills
15 28 (21.05%) React
16 27 (20.30%) Web Development
17 26 (19.55%) jQuery
17 26 (19.55%) Finance
18 25 (18.80%) LAMP
19 22 (16.54%) Computer Science
20 21 (15.79%) Azure
20 21 (15.79%) Games
21 20 (15.04%) C#
21 20 (15.04%) Degree
21 20 (15.04%) Computer Science Degree
22 19 (14.29%) Vue
23 18 (13.53%) .NET

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.26%) Apache
2 6 (4.51%) WordPress
3 5 (3.76%) CMS
4 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.75%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.75%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.50%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.06%) AWS
2 21 (15.79%) Azure
3 17 (12.78%) GCP
4 7 (5.26%) SaaS
5 4 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.01%) GitHub
5 4 (3.01%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.01%) Serverless
6 3 (2.26%) Cloudflare
6 3 (2.26%) npm
7 2 (1.50%) DigitalOcean
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.75%) Datadog
8 1 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.75%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (58.65%) MySQL
2 18 (13.53%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.01%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.26%) MariaDB
5 3 (2.26%) Power BI
5 3 (2.26%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.75%) Big Data
6 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (31.58%) Git
2 5 (3.76%) webpack
3 3 (2.26%) git-flow
3 3 (2.26%) Grunt
4 2 (1.50%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.50%) PHPUnit
4 2 (1.50%) Vite
5 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.75%) Subversion
General
1 32 (24.06%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.55%) Finance
3 21 (15.79%) Games
4 13 (9.77%) Law
5 7 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.51%) Retail
7 2 (1.50%) Advertising
7 2 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.75%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (68.42%) CSS
2 75 (56.39%) HTML
3 51 (38.35%) Laravel
4 34 (25.56%) Symfony
5 28 (21.05%) React
6 26 (19.55%) jQuery
7 25 (18.80%) LAMP
8 19 (14.29%) Vue
9 18 (13.53%) .NET
10 17 (12.78%) ASP.NET
11 15 (11.28%) RESTful
12 14 (10.53%) CakePHP
13 12 (9.02%) Playwright
14 10 (7.52%) REST
14 10 (7.52%) Tailwind CSS
15 9 (6.77%) AngularJS
16 7 (5.26%) Bootstrap
16 7 (5.26%) Web Services
17 6 (4.51%) HTML5
18 5 (3.76%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.77%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.76%) Virtual Team
3 3 (2.26%) Legacy Code
3 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.26%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.75%) Animation
5 1 (0.75%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.77%) Linux
2 6 (4.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (37.59%) OOP
2 41 (30.83%) E-Commerce
3 40 (30.08%) Agile
4 39 (29.32%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (27.07%) OO
6 33 (24.81%) MVC
7 27 (20.30%) Web Development
8 22 (16.54%) Computer Science
9 17 (12.78%) Front End Development
9 17 (12.78%) Test Automation
10 13 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (8.27%) Clean Code
12 10 (7.52%) Code Quality
13 9 (6.77%) CRM
13 9 (6.77%) Software Engineering
13 9 (6.77%) SOLID
14 8 (6.02%) Full-Stack Development
15 7 (5.26%) Microservices
16 6 (4.51%) CI/CD
16 6 (4.51%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 133 (100.00%) PHP
2 91 (68.42%) JavaScript
3 34 (25.56%) SQL
4 20 (15.04%) C#
5 17 (12.78%) Java
6 15 (11.28%) C++
7 7 (5.26%) Python
8 5 (3.76%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.26%) C
9 3 (2.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (15.04%) Computer Science Degree
1 20 (15.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.50%) QA
2 1 (0.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (6.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (6.77%) Twitter
2 6 (4.51%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.26%) Adobe
4 2 (1.50%) Sage
4 2 (1.50%) SAP
5 1 (0.75%) Apple
5 1 (0.75%) Google
5 1 (0.75%) Spotify
5 1 (0.75%) Zend