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 £41,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 July 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 270 223
Rank change year-on-year -198 -47 +97
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 124 745 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.96% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 1.01% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 120 670 342
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £63,625
UK median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -

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 38,150 73,926 47,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.29% 94.94% 88.99%
Number of salaries quoted 20,400 51,424 29,147
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -119 35 £47,500 +5.56% 88
South East -36 29 £36,750 -26.50% 21
North West -98 24 £52,500 +5.00% 59
South West +6 21 £60,000 +33.33% 27
Midlands -22 20 £40,000 -5.88% 22
East of England -37 13 £32,500 -26.97% 12
West Midlands +2 11 £36,250 -14.71% 8
East Midlands -5 9 £40,000 -5.88% 14
Yorkshire -37 8 £45,750 +7.65% 22
Scotland +70 4 £60,000 +33.33% 1
North East +36 3 £25,000 -42.86% 8
Northern Ireland +40 2 £60,000 +79.10% 5
PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 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.

1 124 (100.00%) PHP
2 83 (66.94%) CSS
3 80 (64.52%) JavaScript
4 67 (54.03%) MySQL
5 64 (51.61%) HTML
6 47 (37.90%) OOP
7 44 (35.48%) Laravel
8 40 (32.26%) Agile
8 40 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (29.03%) E-Commerce
10 35 (28.23%) OO
10 35 (28.23%) SQL
11 32 (25.81%) Symfony
11 32 (25.81%) Git
12 30 (24.19%) AWS
12 30 (24.19%) MVC
13 28 (22.58%) Social Skills
13 28 (22.58%) React
14 25 (20.16%) jQuery
15 24 (19.35%) Web Development
15 24 (19.35%) Finance
16 22 (17.74%) Computer Science
16 22 (17.74%) Azure
17 21 (16.94%) LAMP
17 21 (16.94%) C#
18 20 (16.13%) Degree
18 20 (16.13%) Computer Science Degree
19 19 (15.32%) Games
20 18 (14.52%) .NET
20 18 (14.52%) SQL Server

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 (5.65%) Apache
2 6 (4.84%) WordPress
3 2 (1.61%) CMS
3 2 (1.61%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.81%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.81%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.61%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 30 (24.19%) AWS
2 22 (17.74%) Azure
3 14 (11.29%) GCP
4 7 (5.65%) SaaS
5 5 (4.03%) GitHub
6 4 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.23%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.23%) Serverless
7 3 (2.42%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.61%) DigitalOcean
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.81%) Datadog
9 1 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.81%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (54.03%) MySQL
2 18 (14.52%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.42%) MariaDB
5 3 (2.42%) Power BI
5 3 (2.42%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.81%) Big Data
6 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (25.81%) Git
2 3 (2.42%) git-flow
3 2 (1.61%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.61%) Vite
3 2 (1.61%) webpack
4 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.81%) PHPUnit
4 1 (0.81%) Subversion
General
1 28 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.35%) Finance
3 19 (15.32%) Games
4 14 (11.29%) Law
5 7 (5.65%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.03%) Retail
7 2 (1.61%) Advertising
8 1 (0.81%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.81%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.81%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (66.94%) CSS
2 64 (51.61%) HTML
3 44 (35.48%) Laravel
4 32 (25.81%) Symfony
5 28 (22.58%) React
6 25 (20.16%) jQuery
7 21 (16.94%) LAMP
8 18 (14.52%) .NET
9 17 (13.71%) ASP.NET
9 17 (13.71%) Vue
10 14 (11.29%) RESTful
11 12 (9.68%) Playwright
12 10 (8.06%) REST
13 9 (7.26%) AngularJS
13 9 (7.26%) Tailwind CSS
14 8 (6.45%) CakePHP
15 7 (5.65%) HTML5
16 6 (4.84%) Bootstrap
16 6 (4.84%) CSS3
16 6 (4.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.06%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.03%) Virtual Team
3 3 (2.42%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.42%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.81%) Animation
5 1 (0.81%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.48%) Linux
2 6 (4.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (37.90%) OOP
2 40 (32.26%) Agile
2 40 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (29.03%) E-Commerce
4 35 (28.23%) OO
5 30 (24.19%) MVC
6 24 (19.35%) Web Development
7 22 (17.74%) Computer Science
8 17 (13.71%) Front End Development
8 17 (13.71%) Test Automation
9 13 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (8.06%) Clean Code
10 10 (8.06%) Code Quality
10 10 (8.06%) Full-Stack Development
11 8 (6.45%) Software Engineering
11 8 (6.45%) SOLID
12 7 (5.65%) Microservices
13 6 (4.84%) CI/CD
13 6 (4.84%) CRM
13 6 (4.84%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 124 (100.00%) PHP
2 80 (64.52%) JavaScript
3 35 (28.23%) SQL
4 21 (16.94%) C#
5 17 (13.71%) Java
6 15 (12.10%) C++
7 8 (6.45%) Python
8 6 (4.84%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.42%) C
9 3 (2.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (16.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 20 (16.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 5 (4.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (6.45%) Twitter
2 6 (4.84%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.42%) Adobe
4 2 (1.61%) Sage
4 2 (1.61%) SAP
5 1 (0.81%) Apple
5 1 (0.81%) Google
5 1 (0.81%) Spotify
5 1 (0.81%) Zend