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 8 January 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 318 335
Rank change year-on-year -86 +17 +94
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 114 276 235
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.75% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.81% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 105 185 224
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £61,500 £67,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £48,825 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -2.35% -

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 38,350 33,985 31,530
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 92.95% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,323 16,721 23,831
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,760
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £79,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -18 42 £46,250 - 14
Midlands +13 24 £40,000 -31.91% 12
Yorkshire -1 21 £50,000 +5.26% 9
North West -10 20 £45,000 -2.70% 5
South East +6 19 £55,000 - 5
East Midlands +16 18 £40,000 -5.88% 5
East of England +9 14 £25,000 -47.37% 1
South West -31 11 £55,000 -4.35% 7
West Midlands +7 6 £51,250 -24.07% 7
Scotland -20 4 £60,000 +9.09% 1
North East -4 1 £25,000 -44.44%
PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 January 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.

1 114 (100.00%) PHP
2 54 (47.37%) Laravel
3 44 (38.60%) MySQL
4 39 (34.21%) Agile
4 39 (34.21%) CSS
5 35 (30.70%) JavaScript
6 29 (25.44%) HTML
7 28 (24.56%) Azure
8 27 (23.68%) MVC
9 26 (22.81%) SQL
10 23 (20.18%) C#
10 23 (20.18%) Symfony
11 20 (17.54%) AWS
11 20 (17.54%) jQuery
12 19 (16.67%) Computer Science
12 19 (16.67%) OO
13 18 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (14.91%) Full-Stack Development
15 16 (14.04%) OOP
15 16 (14.04%) SQL Server
16 13 (11.40%) GCP
16 13 (11.40%) Git
16 13 (11.40%) OO PHP
16 13 (11.40%) React
17 12 (10.53%) TypeScript
18 11 (9.65%) CodeIgniter
18 11 (9.65%) Computer Science Degree
18 11 (9.65%) Degree
18 11 (9.65%) SaaS
19 10 (8.77%) C++

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 (6.14%) nginx
2 5 (4.39%) WordPress
3 4 (3.51%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.88%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.88%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 28 (24.56%) Azure
2 20 (17.54%) AWS
3 13 (11.40%) GCP
4 11 (9.65%) SaaS
5 3 (2.63%) ChatGPT
5 3 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.75%) Cloudflare
6 2 (1.75%) GitHub
6 2 (1.75%) Serverless
6 2 (1.75%) Stripe
7 1 (0.88%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) Intranet
1 3 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (38.60%) MySQL
2 16 (14.04%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.51%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.75%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.75%) Redis
7 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 13 (11.40%) Git
2 4 (3.51%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.88%) git-flow
3 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 19 (16.67%) Finance
2 10 (8.77%) Law
3 7 (6.14%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.39%) Marketing
6 3 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.75%) Games
7 2 (1.75%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (0.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (47.37%) Laravel
2 39 (34.21%) CSS
3 29 (25.44%) HTML
4 23 (20.18%) Symfony
5 20 (17.54%) jQuery
6 13 (11.40%) React
7 11 (9.65%) CodeIgniter
8 10 (8.77%) CakePHP
9 6 (5.26%) .NET
9 6 (5.26%) REST
10 5 (4.39%) ASP.NET
10 5 (4.39%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (4.39%) Vue
11 4 (3.51%) CSS3
11 4 (3.51%) HTML5
11 4 (3.51%) RESTful
12 2 (1.75%) Alpine.js
12 2 (1.75%) Tailwind CSS
12 2 (1.75%) Web Services
12 2 (1.75%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.51%) Legacy Code
1 4 (3.51%) NHS
2 3 (2.63%) Educational Technology
2 3 (2.63%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.63%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.88%) e-Learning
4 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.39%) Linux
2 4 (3.51%) Windows
2 4 (3.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (34.21%) Agile
2 27 (23.68%) MVC
3 19 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 19 (16.67%) OO
4 18 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (14.91%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (14.04%) OOP
7 13 (11.40%) OO PHP
8 9 (7.89%) Clean Code
8 9 (7.89%) User Experience
8 9 (7.89%) Web Development
9 6 (5.26%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (4.39%) API Integration
10 5 (4.39%) E-Commerce
10 5 (4.39%) Integrated Marketing
10 5 (4.39%) Mentoring
10 5 (4.39%) TDD
11 4 (3.51%) Client Onboarding
11 4 (3.51%) DevOps
11 4 (3.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 114 (100.00%) PHP
2 35 (30.70%) JavaScript
3 26 (22.81%) SQL
4 23 (20.18%) C#
5 12 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 10 (8.77%) C++
6 10 (8.77%) Java
7 2 (1.75%) Go
8 1 (0.88%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 11 (9.65%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (9.65%) Degree
2 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (0.88%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 7 (6.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.63%) cPanel
2 3 (2.63%) Plesk
Vendors
1 6 (5.26%) Google
2 3 (2.63%) HubSpot
2 3 (2.63%) OpenAI
2 3 (2.63%) SAP
3 2 (1.75%) Adobe
3 2 (1.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.75%) Zend