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 December 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 312 374
Rank change year-on-year -96 +62 +65
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 115 294 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.77% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.83% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 106 201 169
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £41,250
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 £58,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £48,825 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -2.35% -

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 38,344 35,435 28,278
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 93.39% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 23,364 17,758 21,349
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £52,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 December 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 25 December 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 -20 40 £46,250 +2.78% 32
Midlands +23 24 £40,000 -27.27% 16
Yorkshire +2 20 £50,000 +5.26% 22
South East +13 19 £55,000 -8.33% 17
North West -20 19 £45,000 - 9
East Midlands +4 18 £40,000 -5.88% 9
East of England +13 15 £25,000 -47.37% 7
South West -28 12 £57,500 +4.55% 18
West Midlands +16 6 £51,250 -24.07% 7
Scotland -16 4 £60,000 +9.09% 3
North East +6 1 £25,000 -44.44% 1
Northern Ireland -5 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 25 December 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.

1 115 (100.00%) PHP
2 55 (47.83%) Laravel
3 45 (39.13%) MySQL
4 40 (34.78%) CSS
5 39 (33.91%) Agile
6 35 (30.43%) JavaScript
7 30 (26.09%) HTML
8 29 (25.22%) Azure
9 28 (24.35%) MVC
10 27 (23.48%) SQL
11 24 (20.87%) C#
11 24 (20.87%) Symfony
12 20 (17.39%) AWS
12 20 (17.39%) jQuery
12 20 (17.39%) OO
13 19 (16.52%) Computer Science
13 19 (16.52%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (13.91%) OOP
14 16 (13.91%) SQL Server
15 14 (12.17%) OO PHP
16 13 (11.30%) GCP
16 13 (11.30%) Git
16 13 (11.30%) React
16 13 (11.30%) TypeScript
17 12 (10.43%) CodeIgniter
18 11 (9.57%) CakePHP
18 11 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
18 11 (9.57%) Degree
19 10 (8.70%) 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 (6.09%) nginx
2 5 (4.35%) WordPress
3 4 (3.48%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.87%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.87%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.87%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.61%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 29 (25.22%) Azure
2 20 (17.39%) AWS
3 13 (11.30%) GCP
4 10 (8.70%) SaaS
5 3 (2.61%) ChatGPT
5 3 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.74%) Cloudflare
6 2 (1.74%) GitHub
6 2 (1.74%) Serverless
6 2 (1.74%) Stripe
7 1 (0.87%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) Intranet
1 3 (2.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (39.13%) MySQL
2 16 (13.91%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.22%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.48%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.61%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.74%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.74%) Redis
7 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 13 (11.30%) Git
2 4 (3.48%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.87%) git-flow
3 1 (0.87%) JIRA
General
1 21 (18.26%) Finance
2 11 (9.57%) Law
3 8 (6.96%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.35%) Marketing
6 4 (3.48%) Games
7 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.87%) Advertising
9 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.87%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (47.83%) Laravel
2 40 (34.78%) CSS
3 30 (26.09%) HTML
4 24 (20.87%) Symfony
5 20 (17.39%) jQuery
6 13 (11.30%) React
7 12 (10.43%) CodeIgniter
8 11 (9.57%) CakePHP
9 6 (5.22%) .NET
9 6 (5.22%) REST
9 6 (5.22%) Vue
10 5 (4.35%) ASP.NET
10 5 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (3.48%) CSS3
11 4 (3.48%) HTML5
11 4 (3.48%) RESTful
12 2 (1.74%) .NET Framework
12 2 (1.74%) Ajax
12 2 (1.74%) Web Services
12 2 (1.74%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.48%) Legacy Code
1 4 (3.48%) NHS
2 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.61%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.74%) Educational Technology
3 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.87%) e-Learning
4 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.35%) Linux
2 4 (3.48%) Windows
2 4 (3.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (33.91%) Agile
2 28 (24.35%) MVC
3 20 (17.39%) OO
4 19 (16.52%) Computer Science
4 19 (16.52%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (13.91%) OOP
6 14 (12.17%) OO PHP
7 9 (7.83%) Clean Code
7 9 (7.83%) User Experience
7 9 (7.83%) Web Development
8 7 (6.09%) E-Commerce
9 6 (5.22%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (4.35%) API Integration
10 5 (4.35%) Integrated Marketing
10 5 (4.35%) Mentoring
10 5 (4.35%) TDD
11 4 (3.48%) AI
11 4 (3.48%) DevOps
11 4 (3.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 115 (100.00%) PHP
2 35 (30.43%) JavaScript
3 27 (23.48%) SQL
4 24 (20.87%) C#
5 13 (11.30%) TypeScript
6 10 (8.70%) C++
6 10 (8.70%) Java
7 2 (1.74%) Go
8 1 (0.87%) Delphi
8 1 (0.87%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (9.57%) Degree
2 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (0.87%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.74%) QA
System Software
1 7 (6.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.61%) cPanel
2 3 (2.61%) Plesk
Vendors
1 6 (5.22%) Google
2 3 (2.61%) HubSpot
2 3 (2.61%) OpenAI
2 3 (2.61%) SAP
3 2 (1.74%) Adobe
3 2 (1.74%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.74%) Zend