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 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 437 271
Rank change year-on-year -4 -166 -74
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 196 124 688
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.37% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.41% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 180 120 614
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,938 £31,063 £35,000
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 £56,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £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 67,627 30,197 69,498
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 89.36% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 46,831 17,274 49,258
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,100 £64,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 13 July 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 13 July 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
Midlands +10 62 £45,000 +12.50%
North of England -4 59 £45,000 -5.26% 5
Yorkshire +3 46 £45,000 +2.27%
West Midlands 0 32 £55,000 +51.72%
East Midlands -9 30 £40,000 -
South East -19 30 £56,250 +60.71% 3
South West -62 21 £50,000 -16.67% 3
East of England -11 20 £25,000 -13.04%
North West -30 8 £50,000 -4.76% 2
North East -49 5 £45,000 +80.00% 3
Scotland +6 2 £36,250 -39.58% 2
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 13 July 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.

1 196 (100.00%) PHP
2 69 (35.20%) Laravel
3 52 (26.53%) MySQL
3 52 (26.53%) SQL
4 51 (26.02%) CSS
5 46 (23.47%) Agile
6 43 (21.94%) JavaScript
7 39 (19.90%) HTML
8 37 (18.88%) Azure
9 36 (18.37%) C#
9 36 (18.37%) Computer Science
10 32 (16.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 26 (13.27%) jQuery
12 25 (12.76%) AWS
13 20 (10.20%) MVC
13 20 (10.20%) OOP
14 19 (9.69%) Git
14 19 (9.69%) OO
15 18 (9.18%) SQL Server
16 16 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
16 16 (8.16%) Degree
17 13 (6.63%) OO PHP
17 13 (6.63%) Problem-Solving
18 12 (6.12%) C++
18 12 (6.12%) HTML5
18 12 (6.12%) Java
18 12 (6.12%) Web Development
19 11 (5.61%) Clean Code
19 11 (5.61%) Vue
20 10 (5.10%) 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 5 (2.55%) WordPress
2 4 (2.04%) Apache
2 4 (2.04%) CMS
3 2 (1.02%) Drupal
4 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.51%) IIS
4 1 (0.51%) nginx
4 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Magento
1 1 (0.51%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 37 (18.88%) Azure
2 25 (12.76%) AWS
3 7 (3.57%) SaaS
4 2 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (1.02%) GCP
4 2 (1.02%) GitHub
4 2 (1.02%) Serverless
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.51%) ChatGPT
5 1 (0.51%) DigitalOcean
5 1 (0.51%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.02%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (26.53%) MySQL
2 18 (9.18%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.59%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.04%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.53%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.53%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (9.69%) Git
2 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.51%) gulp
2 1 (0.51%) JIRA
2 1 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 34 (17.35%) Finance
2 17 (8.67%) Social Skills
3 7 (3.57%) Marketing
4 4 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.53%) Law
5 3 (1.53%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.02%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.51%) Back Office
7 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.51%) Publishing
7 1 (0.51%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (35.20%) Laravel
2 51 (26.02%) CSS
3 39 (19.90%) HTML
4 26 (13.27%) jQuery
5 12 (6.12%) HTML5
6 11 (5.61%) Vue
7 10 (5.10%) CSS3
8 9 (4.59%) React
9 8 (4.08%) LAMP
10 7 (3.57%) REST
11 6 (3.06%) RESTful
12 5 (2.55%) Symfony
13 4 (2.04%) JSON
13 4 (2.04%) Node.js
13 4 (2.04%) React Native
14 3 (1.53%) .NET
14 3 (1.53%) .NET Framework
15 2 (1.02%) Ajax
15 2 (1.02%) Bootstrap
15 2 (1.02%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.14%) Virtual Team
2 5 (2.55%) Educational Technology
3 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.02%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.04%) Linux
1 4 (2.04%) Windows
2 2 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (23.47%) Agile
2 36 (18.37%) Computer Science
3 32 (16.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 20 (10.20%) MVC
4 20 (10.20%) OOP
5 19 (9.69%) OO
6 13 (6.63%) OO PHP
6 13 (6.63%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (6.12%) Web Development
8 11 (5.61%) Clean Code
9 9 (4.59%) CI/CD
10 7 (3.57%) API Integration
10 7 (3.57%) E-Commerce
10 7 (3.57%) Mentoring
10 7 (3.57%) Microservices
11 6 (3.06%) Requirements Gathering
12 5 (2.55%) CRM
12 5 (2.55%) Data Collection
12 5 (2.55%) Front End Development
12 5 (2.55%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 196 (100.00%) PHP
2 52 (26.53%) SQL
3 43 (21.94%) JavaScript
4 36 (18.37%) C#
5 12 (6.12%) C++
5 12 (6.12%) Java
6 7 (3.57%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.55%) Python
8 3 (1.53%) Rust
9 1 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
1 16 (8.16%) Degree
2 1 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (0.51%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.02%) QA
3 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.53%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (1.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.51%) Google
2 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
2 1 (0.51%) SAP