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 £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 November 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 271 357
Rank change year-on-year -201 +86 +65
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 62 406 212
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.85% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.89% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 57 268 198
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £58,438
90th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £46,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% -7.50% -9.09%

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 31,482 45,448 29,487
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.02% 95.02% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 18,857 24,632 22,260
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £37,860
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -

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 3 November 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 3 November 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
North of England -84 18 £37,500 -16.67% 23
Midlands +12 15 £40,000 -15.79% 13
East Midlands +26 14 £40,000 -33.33% 8
South East -21 11 £37,500 -33.92% 13
North West -55 10 £60,000 +20.00% 12
South West -18 8 £48,750 +8.33% 9
East of England -25 7 £25,000 -47.37% 8
Yorkshire -13 6 £38,750 -3.13% 10
North East +2 2 £25,000 -31.03% 1
Scotland -22 2 £60,000 +26.32% 4
West Midlands +6 1 £60,000 +60.00% 5
Northern Ireland -1 1 £60,000 -
PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, 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 62 (100.00%) PHP
2 39 (62.90%) CSS
3 37 (59.68%) JavaScript
3 37 (59.68%) Laravel
4 33 (53.23%) HTML
5 31 (50.00%) MySQL
6 28 (45.16%) Agile
6 28 (45.16%) OO
7 23 (37.10%) SQL
8 22 (35.48%) MVC
9 20 (32.26%) Symfony
10 17 (27.42%) jQuery
10 17 (27.42%) OOP
11 16 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (24.19%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (20.97%) Git
14 12 (19.35%) OO PHP
15 11 (17.74%) AWS
15 11 (17.74%) SQL Server
15 11 (17.74%) TypeScript
16 10 (16.13%) Azure
16 10 (16.13%) CakePHP
17 9 (14.52%) C#
17 9 (14.52%) CodeIgniter
18 8 (12.90%) Clean Code
18 8 (12.90%) React
18 8 (12.90%) RESTful
19 7 (11.29%) .NET
19 7 (11.29%) ASP.NET
19 7 (11.29%) 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 5 (8.06%) WordPress
2 3 (4.84%) Apache
3 2 (3.23%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.61%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.61%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.61%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (4.84%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.74%) AWS
2 10 (16.13%) Azure
3 5 (8.06%) GCP
4 3 (4.84%) ChatGPT
4 3 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.84%) Cloudflare
4 3 (4.84%) GitHub
5 1 (1.61%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.61%) SaaS
5 1 (1.61%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (50.00%) MySQL
2 11 (17.74%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.61%) Power BI
4 1 (1.61%) Redis
4 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (20.97%) Git
2 2 (3.23%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.61%) git-flow
General
1 12 (19.35%) Law
2 11 (17.74%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Games
5 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (1.61%) Advertising
6 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.61%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Marketing
6 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.61%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (62.90%) CSS
2 37 (59.68%) Laravel
3 33 (53.23%) HTML
4 20 (32.26%) Symfony
5 17 (27.42%) jQuery
6 10 (16.13%) CakePHP
7 9 (14.52%) CodeIgniter
8 8 (12.90%) React
8 8 (12.90%) RESTful
9 7 (11.29%) .NET
9 7 (11.29%) ASP.NET
10 6 (9.68%) HTML5
11 5 (8.06%) CSS3
12 4 (6.45%) REST
12 4 (6.45%) Vue
12 4 (6.45%) Web Services
13 3 (4.84%) LAMP
13 3 (4.84%) Playwright
13 3 (4.84%) Yii
14 2 (3.23%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.84%) Legacy Code
1 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
1 3 (4.84%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.61%) Animation
2 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) Linux
2 3 (4.84%) Windows
2 3 (4.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.16%) Agile
1 28 (45.16%) OO
2 22 (35.48%) MVC
3 17 (27.42%) OOP
4 16 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (24.19%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (19.35%) OO PHP
7 8 (12.90%) Clean Code
8 7 (11.29%) Computer Science
9 6 (9.68%) E-Commerce
9 6 (9.68%) User Experience
10 5 (8.06%) AI
10 5 (8.06%) Web Development
11 4 (6.45%) API Integration
11 4 (6.45%) Containerisation
11 4 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (6.45%) Front End Development
12 3 (4.84%) Customer Experience
12 3 (4.84%) Performance Optimisation
12 3 (4.84%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 62 (100.00%) PHP
2 37 (59.68%) JavaScript
3 23 (37.10%) SQL
4 11 (17.74%) TypeScript
5 9 (14.52%) C#
6 7 (11.29%) C++
6 7 (11.29%) Java
7 2 (3.23%) Go
8 1 (1.61%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (11.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (11.29%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.61%) cPanel
1 1 (1.61%) Plesk
Vendors
1 3 (4.84%) OpenAI
1 3 (4.84%) SAP
2 2 (3.23%) Google
2 2 (3.23%) Twitter
3 1 (1.61%) Adobe
3 1 (1.61%) HubSpot