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 25 August 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 446 270
Rank change year-on-year -23 -176 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 178 101 532
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.29% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.33% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 163 99 435
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,100
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £64,500 £60,500 £65,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -14.29%

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 74,850 31,070 57,020
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 89.40% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 51,898 17,899 36,723
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,520 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -4.96% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -21 58 £46,250 +15.63% 2
Midlands -9 45 £42,500 +6.25%
Yorkshire -11 39 £45,000 +12.50%
South East -24 34 £55,000 +66.67% 5
West Midlands -22 24 £55,000 +83.33%
East Midlands -16 21 £37,500 -6.25%
East of England -13 20 £25,000 - 2
South West -69 16 £40,000 -33.33%
North West -20 14 £52,500 +31.25% 2
North East -53 5 £45,000 +80.00%
Scotland +5 3 £40,000 -36.00%
Wales - 2 £45,000 -
PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 August 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.

1 178 (100.00%) PHP
2 73 (41.01%) Laravel
3 60 (33.71%) CSS
3 60 (33.71%) MySQL
4 52 (29.21%) SQL
5 51 (28.65%) HTML
6 49 (27.53%) JavaScript
7 45 (25.28%) Agile
8 38 (21.35%) Azure
9 33 (18.54%) C#
9 33 (18.54%) Computer Science
10 28 (15.73%) AWS
11 25 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
12 22 (12.36%) Git
12 22 (12.36%) jQuery
13 20 (11.24%) MVC
13 20 (11.24%) OOP
13 20 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (10.67%) HTML5
15 18 (10.11%) OO
16 17 (9.55%) Clean Code
17 16 (8.99%) Vue
17 16 (8.99%) Web Development
18 15 (8.43%) CI/CD
18 15 (8.43%) SQL Server
19 14 (7.87%) OO PHP
20 12 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
20 12 (6.74%) CSS3
20 12 (6.74%) Degree
20 12 (6.74%) DevOps

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 (3.93%) WordPress
2 4 (2.25%) CMS
3 3 (1.69%) Apache
4 2 (1.12%) Drupal
5 1 (0.56%) IIS
5 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Magento
1 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (21.35%) Azure
2 28 (15.73%) AWS
3 3 (1.69%) SaaS
3 3 (1.69%) Stripe
4 2 (1.12%) GitHub
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.56%) Cloudflare
5 1 (0.56%) GCP
5 1 (0.56%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (0.56%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.56%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (33.71%) MySQL
2 15 (8.43%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.93%) MariaDB
3 7 (3.93%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.69%) Redis
6 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (12.36%) Git
2 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.56%) gulp
2 1 (0.56%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) PHPUnit
2 1 (0.56%) Postman
2 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 33 (18.54%) Finance
2 24 (13.48%) Social Skills
3 7 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.37%) Marketing
5 5 (2.81%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.69%) Law
6 3 (1.69%) Publishing
7 1 (0.56%) Retail
7 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (41.01%) Laravel
2 60 (33.71%) CSS
3 51 (28.65%) HTML
4 22 (12.36%) jQuery
5 19 (10.67%) HTML5
6 16 (8.99%) Vue
7 12 (6.74%) CSS3
8 10 (5.62%) LAMP
8 10 (5.62%) Symfony
9 7 (3.93%) React
9 7 (3.93%) RESTful
10 6 (3.37%) REST
11 5 (2.81%) CakePHP
11 5 (2.81%) Node.js
11 5 (2.81%) Nuxt
12 4 (2.25%) .NET
12 4 (2.25%) JSON
12 4 (2.25%) React Native
13 3 (1.69%) .NET Framework
13 3 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.87%) Virtual Team
2 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.56%) Educational Technology
4 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.06%) Linux
2 3 (1.69%) Windows
3 1 (0.56%) Debian
3 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (25.28%) Agile
2 33 (18.54%) Computer Science
3 25 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
4 20 (11.24%) MVC
4 20 (11.24%) OOP
4 20 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (10.11%) OO
6 17 (9.55%) Clean Code
7 16 (8.99%) Web Development
8 15 (8.43%) CI/CD
9 14 (7.87%) OO PHP
10 12 (6.74%) DevOps
11 11 (6.18%) Microservices
12 9 (5.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (5.06%) CRM
12 9 (5.06%) Test Automation
13 7 (3.93%) E-Commerce
14 6 (3.37%) Mentoring
14 6 (3.37%) Requirements Gathering
14 6 (3.37%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 178 (100.00%) PHP
2 52 (29.21%) SQL
3 49 (27.53%) JavaScript
4 33 (18.54%) C#
5 10 (5.62%) Java
6 9 (5.06%) C++
7 7 (3.93%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.37%) Python
9 3 (1.69%) Rust
10 1 (0.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (6.74%) Degree
2 1 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.93%) QA
2 5 (2.81%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.69%) WCAG
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (5.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (2.81%) Google
2 4 (2.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.69%) OpenAI