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 11 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 453 266
Rank change year-on-year -3 -187 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 194 109 539
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.32% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.35% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 179 107 456
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,875 £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 £56,875 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £61,000 £62,875
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -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 72,831 30,931 56,883
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 89.45% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 50,336 17,816 37,495
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,498
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% - -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 11 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 11 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 -15 62 £47,500 +3.83% 2
Midlands -17 54 £45,000 +12.50%
Yorkshire +3 44 £45,000 +2.27%
South East -21 35 £55,000 +49.66% 5
East Midlands -9 27 £37,500 -6.25%
West Midlands -20 27 £55,000 +51.72%
East of England -20 21 £25,000 - 2
South West -73 17 £40,000 -31.91%
North West -23 13 £52,500 +5.00% 2
North East -55 5 £45,000 +80.00%
Scotland +11 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 11 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.

1 194 (100.00%) PHP
2 78 (40.21%) Laravel
3 61 (31.44%) CSS
4 60 (30.93%) MySQL
5 55 (28.35%) SQL
6 49 (25.26%) HTML
7 47 (24.23%) Agile
8 46 (23.71%) JavaScript
9 39 (20.10%) Azure
10 37 (19.07%) Computer Science
11 36 (18.56%) C#
12 31 (15.98%) AWS
13 28 (14.43%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (12.89%) jQuery
15 23 (11.86%) OOP
16 22 (11.34%) MVC
17 19 (9.79%) Git
17 19 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
18 18 (9.28%) OO
18 18 (9.28%) SQL Server
19 17 (8.76%) HTML5
20 16 (8.25%) Vue
20 16 (8.25%) Web Development
21 15 (7.73%) Clean Code
21 15 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
21 15 (7.73%) Degree
22 14 (7.22%) OO PHP
23 13 (6.70%) CI/CD
24 12 (6.19%) C++
24 12 (6.19%) CSS3

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 (3.61%) WordPress
2 4 (2.06%) CMS
3 3 (1.55%) Apache
4 2 (1.03%) Drupal
5 1 (0.52%) IIS
5 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Magento
1 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 39 (20.10%) Azure
2 31 (15.98%) AWS
3 3 (1.55%) Stripe
4 2 (1.03%) GitHub
4 2 (1.03%) SaaS
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.52%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.52%) Cloudflare
5 1 (0.52%) GCP
5 1 (0.52%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (0.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.52%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (30.93%) MySQL
2 18 (9.28%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.61%) MariaDB
3 7 (3.61%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.55%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.55%) Redis
6 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (9.79%) Git
2 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.52%) gulp
2 1 (0.52%) JIRA
2 1 (0.52%) PHPUnit
2 1 (0.52%) Postman
2 1 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 36 (18.56%) Finance
2 23 (11.86%) Social Skills
3 6 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (3.09%) Marketing
4 5 (2.58%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.55%) Law
5 3 (1.55%) Publishing
6 2 (1.03%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.52%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (40.21%) Laravel
2 61 (31.44%) CSS
3 49 (25.26%) HTML
4 25 (12.89%) jQuery
5 17 (8.76%) HTML5
6 16 (8.25%) Vue
7 12 (6.19%) CSS3
8 10 (5.15%) LAMP
9 8 (4.12%) React
9 8 (4.12%) Symfony
10 6 (3.09%) REST
10 6 (3.09%) RESTful
11 5 (2.58%) Node.js
12 4 (2.06%) JSON
12 4 (2.06%) React Native
13 3 (1.55%) .NET
13 3 (1.55%) .NET Framework
13 3 (1.55%) Nuxt
13 3 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (1.55%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.22%) Virtual Team
2 3 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.52%) Educational Technology
4 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.61%) Linux
2 3 (1.55%) Windows
3 1 (0.52%) Debian
3 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (24.23%) Agile
2 37 (19.07%) Computer Science
3 28 (14.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 23 (11.86%) OOP
5 22 (11.34%) MVC
6 19 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (9.28%) OO
8 16 (8.25%) Web Development
9 15 (7.73%) Clean Code
10 14 (7.22%) OO PHP
11 13 (6.70%) CI/CD
12 10 (5.15%) DevOps
13 9 (4.64%) Microservices
14 8 (4.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (3.61%) CRM
15 7 (3.61%) E-Commerce
15 7 (3.61%) Test Automation
16 6 (3.09%) Mentoring
16 6 (3.09%) Requirements Gathering
17 5 (2.58%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 194 (100.00%) PHP
2 55 (28.35%) SQL
3 46 (23.71%) JavaScript
4 36 (18.56%) C#
5 12 (6.19%) C++
5 12 (6.19%) Java
6 7 (3.61%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.58%) Python
8 3 (1.55%) Rust
9 1 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
1 15 (7.73%) Degree
2 1 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.58%) Accessibility
1 5 (2.58%) QA
2 3 (1.55%) WCAG
3 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (4.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.52%) Puppet
1 1 (0.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (2.58%) Google
2 3 (1.55%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.55%) OpenAI