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 £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 May 2026.

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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 383 282
Rank change year-on-year +8 -101 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 224 146 661
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.50% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.56% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 209 141 624
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
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 62,398 26,179 65,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 89.37% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 41,327 14,433 47,853
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +14 77 £50,000 +5.26% 8
Midlands +15 67 £45,000 +12.50% 5
Yorkshire 0 55 £60,000 +26.32% 7
East Midlands -1 34 £40,000 - 3
West Midlands +1 33 £55,000 +29.41% 2
South East -22 30 £55,250 +41.67% 9
South West -52 27 £55,000 -8.33%
East of England -5 23 £25,000 -23.08% 2
North West -4 20 £45,000 -7.69%
North East -38 2 £45,000 +16.13% 1
PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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.

1 224 (100.00%) PHP
2 74 (33.04%) Laravel
3 57 (25.45%) Agile
3 57 (25.45%) SQL
4 53 (23.66%) MySQL
5 50 (22.32%) Azure
6 45 (20.09%) C#
6 45 (20.09%) CSS
7 42 (18.75%) JavaScript
8 41 (18.30%) Computer Science
9 33 (14.73%) HTML
10 31 (13.84%) Full-Stack Development
11 25 (11.16%) AWS
12 23 (10.27%) jQuery
13 20 (8.93%) MVC
13 20 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (8.48%) SQL Server
15 18 (8.04%) OO
15 18 (8.04%) SaaS
16 17 (7.59%) Git
17 16 (7.14%) OOP
18 14 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
18 14 (6.25%) Degree
19 13 (5.80%) OO PHP
19 13 (5.80%) Symfony
20 12 (5.36%) C++
20 12 (5.36%) Clean Code
20 12 (5.36%) Java
20 12 (5.36%) React
20 12 (5.36%) Vue

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 6 (2.68%) nginx
2 4 (1.79%) WordPress
3 3 (1.34%) Apache
3 3 (1.34%) CMS
4 2 (0.89%) Drupal
5 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.45%) IIS
5 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 50 (22.32%) Azure
2 25 (11.16%) AWS
3 18 (8.04%) SaaS
4 10 (4.46%) GCP
5 3 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (1.34%) Serverless
6 1 (0.45%) ChatGPT
6 1 (0.45%) DigitalOcean
6 1 (0.45%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.34%) VPN
2 1 (0.45%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (23.66%) MySQL
2 19 (8.48%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.02%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.34%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.34%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (7.59%) Git
2 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.45%) PHPUnit
General
1 40 (17.86%) Finance
2 14 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 9 (4.02%) Marketing
4 8 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.23%) Law
6 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (0.89%) Public Sector
6 2 (0.89%) Retail
6 2 (0.89%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.45%) Back Office
7 1 (0.45%) Games
7 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (33.04%) Laravel
2 45 (20.09%) CSS
3 33 (14.73%) HTML
4 23 (10.27%) jQuery
5 13 (5.80%) Symfony
6 12 (5.36%) React
6 12 (5.36%) Vue
7 10 (4.46%) CSS3
7 10 (4.46%) HTML5
8 7 (3.13%) RESTful
9 6 (2.68%) .NET
9 6 (2.68%) LAMP
9 6 (2.68%) REST
10 5 (2.23%) .NET Framework
10 5 (2.23%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (1.79%) CodeIgniter
11 4 (1.79%) React Native
12 2 (0.89%) CakePHP
12 2 (0.89%) LEMP Stack
12 2 (0.89%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.91%) Virtual Team
2 9 (4.02%) Educational Technology
3 4 (1.79%) NHS
4 3 (1.34%) Legacy Code
4 3 (1.34%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.45%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.23%) Linux
2 3 (1.34%) Windows
2 3 (1.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (25.45%) Agile
2 41 (18.30%) Computer Science
3 31 (13.84%) Full-Stack Development
4 20 (8.93%) MVC
4 20 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (8.04%) OO
6 16 (7.14%) OOP
7 13 (5.80%) OO PHP
8 12 (5.36%) Clean Code
8 12 (5.36%) Web Development
9 11 (4.91%) Mentoring
10 9 (4.02%) E-Commerce
11 8 (3.57%) CI/CD
11 8 (3.57%) Microservices
12 7 (3.13%) API Integration
13 6 (2.68%) DevOps
13 6 (2.68%) Requirements Gathering
13 6 (2.68%) TDD
14 5 (2.23%) Cybersecurity
14 5 (2.23%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 224 (100.00%) PHP
2 57 (25.45%) SQL
3 45 (20.09%) C#
4 42 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.36%) C++
5 12 (5.36%) Java
6 10 (4.46%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.23%) Python
8 3 (1.34%) Rust
9 1 (0.45%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 14 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 14 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.34%) QA
2 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (1.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.89%) cPanel
2 2 (0.89%) Plesk
Vendors
1 5 (2.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.79%) Google
3 1 (0.45%) Adobe
3 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.45%) SAP
3 1 (0.45%) Zend