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 £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 237 343
Rank change year-on-year -38 +106 -183
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 574 716 777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.88% 1.49% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 1.66% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 499 299 692
10th Percentile £30,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +23.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £62,650 £62,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +22.22%

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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 0 176 £47,500 +5.56% 19
Midlands -47 117 £40,000 -20.00% 7
South East -51 108 £52,500 +5.00% 10
North West +23 102 £52,500 +5.00% 12
South West -18 75 £45,000 -5.26% 4
Yorkshire +32 66 £45,000 - 6
East of England +31 65 £45,000 -25.00% 10
West Midlands -5 65 £38,750 -8.82% 4
East Midlands -57 51 £42,500 -22.73% 3
Scotland -73 19 £45,000 -
Wales +25 11 £32,500 -27.78%
North East -28 8 £38,750 +3.33% 1
Northern Ireland +3 3 £33,500 -4.29% 6
PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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.

1 574 (100.00%) PHP
2 359 (62.54%) JavaScript
3 310 (54.01%) Laravel
4 308 (53.66%) MySQL
5 282 (49.13%) HTML
6 260 (45.30%) CSS
7 164 (28.57%) Git
8 154 (26.83%) AWS
9 145 (25.26%) React
9 145 (25.26%) Full Stack Development
10 141 (24.56%) Web Development
11 123 (21.43%) Social Skills
12 121 (21.08%) Symfony
13 118 (20.56%) Vue
14 112 (19.51%) OOP
15 105 (18.29%) Agile
16 101 (17.60%) OO
17 95 (16.55%) jQuery
18 84 (14.63%) E-Commerce
18 84 (14.63%) MVC
19 83 (14.46%) Linux
20 79 (13.76%) SaaS
20 79 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
21 73 (12.72%) Docker
22 67 (11.67%) WordPress
22 67 (11.67%) SQL
23 60 (10.45%) Software Engineering
24 57 (9.93%) RESTful
25 56 (9.76%) TDD
26 54 (9.41%) User Experience

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 67 (11.67%) WordPress
2 41 (7.14%) CMS
3 22 (3.83%) nginx
4 16 (2.79%) Apache
5 12 (2.09%) Totara
6 10 (1.74%) Drupal
6 10 (1.74%) Moodle
7 6 (1.05%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.70%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.35%) Confluence
10 1 (0.17%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.17%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 19 (3.31%) Magento
2 5 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.87%) Shopify
3 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 154 (26.83%) AWS
2 79 (13.76%) SaaS
3 30 (5.23%) GCP
4 24 (4.18%) GitHub
5 11 (1.92%) npm
6 10 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (1.22%) Azure
8 6 (1.05%) Datadog
8 6 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (1.05%) Serverless
9 5 (0.87%) Stripe
10 4 (0.70%) DigitalOcean
11 2 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.35%) Figma
12 1 (0.17%) BigCommerce
12 1 (0.17%) Discord
12 1 (0.17%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.17%) Slack
12 1 (0.17%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.17%) Wix.com
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (0.52%) HTTP
3 2 (0.35%) FTP
3 2 (0.35%) SSH
4 1 (0.17%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 308 (53.66%) MySQL
2 31 (5.40%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (5.40%) Relational Database
3 17 (2.96%) MariaDB
4 13 (2.26%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.05%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (0.87%) Redis
7 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 164 (28.57%) Git
2 23 (4.01%) JIRA
3 17 (2.96%) webpack
4 13 (2.26%) PHPUnit
5 11 (1.92%) GitLab
6 7 (1.22%) Grunt
7 6 (1.05%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.87%) Selenium
9 3 (0.52%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.52%) Subversion
10 2 (0.35%) git-flow
11 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.17%) gulp
11 1 (0.17%) Storybook
General
1 123 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 44 (7.67%) Marketing
3 30 (5.23%) Finance
4 25 (4.36%) Games
5 24 (4.18%) Retail
6 13 (2.26%) Law
7 11 (1.92%) Tech for Good
8 9 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (1.39%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.22%) Health Technology
10 7 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.70%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.17%) Automotive
13 1 (0.17%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (54.01%) Laravel
2 282 (49.13%) HTML
3 260 (45.30%) CSS
4 145 (25.26%) React
5 121 (21.08%) Symfony
6 118 (20.56%) Vue
7 95 (16.55%) jQuery
8 57 (9.93%) RESTful
9 53 (9.23%) LAMP
10 52 (9.06%) HTML5
11 47 (8.19%) Node.js
12 44 (7.67%) AngularJS
13 35 (6.10%) CSS3
14 34 (5.92%) REST
15 33 (5.75%) Sass
16 31 (5.40%) Web Services
17 25 (4.36%) CakePHP
18 21 (3.66%) SOAP
18 21 (3.66%) Tailwind CSS
19 18 (3.14%) CodeIgniter
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.53%) Mobile App
2 23 (4.01%) Greenfield Project
3 20 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (2.44%) Legacy Code
5 12 (2.09%) PropTech
6 11 (1.92%) e-Learning
7 10 (1.74%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.39%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.05%) Cybercrime
9 6 (1.05%) IoT
9 6 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.87%) Educational Technology
11 3 (0.52%) Digital Media
11 3 (0.52%) Smartphone
12 2 (0.35%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.35%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.35%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 83 (14.46%) Linux
2 6 (1.05%) Windows
3 5 (0.87%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.70%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (0.35%) Unix
6 1 (0.17%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (25.26%) Full Stack Development
2 141 (24.56%) Web Development
3 112 (19.51%) OOP
4 105 (18.29%) Agile
5 101 (17.60%) OO
6 84 (14.63%) E-Commerce
6 84 (14.63%) MVC
7 79 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (10.45%) Software Engineering
9 56 (9.76%) TDD
10 54 (9.41%) User Experience
11 52 (9.06%) Clean Code
12 46 (8.01%) DevOps
13 44 (7.67%) OO PHP
14 41 (7.14%) Front End Development
15 34 (5.92%) Collaborative Working
15 34 (5.92%) Computer Science
16 26 (4.53%) Mentoring
17 25 (4.36%) Test Automation
18 24 (4.18%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 574 (100.00%) PHP
2 359 (62.54%) JavaScript
3 67 (11.67%) SQL
4 29 (5.05%) TypeScript
5 15 (2.61%) Go
6 8 (1.39%) Python
7 6 (1.05%) Java
8 4 (0.70%) Ruby
8 4 (0.70%) Rust
8 4 (0.70%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.70%) VB
9 3 (0.52%) Ada
10 2 (0.35%) C#
11 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.17%) RPG
Qualifications
1 32 (5.57%) Degree
2 25 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.01%) QA
2 11 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 73 (12.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) GlusterFS
Systems Management
1 13 (2.26%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.22%) Terraform
3 1 (0.17%) Ansible
3 1 (0.17%) cPanel
3 1 (0.17%) Plesk
Vendors
1 13 (2.26%) Zend
2 12 (2.09%) Google
3 6 (1.05%) Adobe
4 5 (0.87%) OpenAI
5 4 (0.70%) HP
5 4 (0.70%) Twitter
5 4 (0.70%) WooCommerce
6 3 (0.52%) Actuate
6 3 (0.52%) Oracle
7 2 (0.35%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.17%) Progress