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 £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 478 268
Rank change year-on-year -62 -210 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 140 60 444
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.17% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.19% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 128 57 300
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -10.00%

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 80,470 31,061 49,429
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 89.52% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 55,562 17,295 27,523
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,125 £39,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,566 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.11% -6.87% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,589 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% -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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -37 44 £50,000 +33.33% 8
South East -11 42 £55,000 +57.14% 17
Yorkshire -8 30 £45,000 +20.00% 4
Midlands -49 21 £37,500 -6.25% 9
East of England -21 15 £33,000 +32.00% 7
South West -72 13 £55,000 -2.22% 3
North West -28 11 £52,500 +7.69% 3
East Midlands -33 11 £24,000 -40.00% 6
West Midlands -25 10 £48,750 -18.75% 3
North East -64 3 £31,000 +24.00% 1
Scotland - 3 £40,000 - 2
Wales - 2 £45,000 - 5
PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 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.

1 140 (100.00%) PHP
2 71 (50.71%) Laravel
3 46 (32.86%) MySQL
4 45 (32.14%) CSS
5 44 (31.43%) JavaScript
6 41 (29.29%) HTML
7 31 (22.14%) Agile
8 27 (19.29%) Azure
8 27 (19.29%) SQL
9 25 (17.86%) AWS
10 21 (15.00%) Git
10 21 (15.00%) Vue
11 20 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
12 19 (13.57%) C#
12 19 (13.57%) Computer Science
12 19 (13.57%) Web Development
13 16 (11.43%) OOP
13 16 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (10.00%) Clean Code
14 14 (10.00%) Docker
14 14 (10.00%) HTML5
14 14 (10.00%) MVC
15 13 (9.29%) CI/CD
15 13 (9.29%) Symfony
16 12 (8.57%) Linux
17 11 (7.86%) CRM
18 10 (7.14%) DevOps
18 10 (7.14%) jQuery
18 10 (7.14%) Microservices
18 10 (7.14%) Test Automation

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 (5.00%) WordPress
2 4 (2.86%) CMS
3 3 (2.14%) Apache
4 2 (1.43%) Drupal
5 1 (0.71%) IIS
5 1 (0.71%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Magento
1 1 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (19.29%) Azure
2 25 (17.86%) AWS
3 3 (2.14%) SaaS
3 3 (2.14%) Stripe
4 2 (1.43%) GitHub
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.71%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.71%) Azure AI
5 1 (0.71%) Cloudflare
5 1 (0.71%) GCP
5 1 (0.71%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (0.71%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.71%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.71%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (32.86%) MySQL
2 8 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.29%) MariaDB
5 3 (2.14%) Redis
6 2 (1.43%) ClickHouse
6 2 (1.43%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (15.00%) Git
2 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.71%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.71%) gulp
2 1 (0.71%) JIRA
2 1 (0.71%) PHPUnit
2 1 (0.71%) Postman
2 1 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 20 (14.29%) Finance
2 19 (13.57%) Social Skills
3 6 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.14%) Publishing
6 2 (1.43%) Marketing
6 2 (1.43%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (50.71%) Laravel
2 45 (32.14%) CSS
3 41 (29.29%) HTML
4 21 (15.00%) Vue
5 14 (10.00%) HTML5
6 13 (9.29%) Symfony
7 10 (7.14%) jQuery
8 8 (5.71%) LAMP
8 8 (5.71%) RESTful
9 7 (5.00%) CakePHP
9 7 (5.00%) Nuxt
10 6 (4.29%) React
10 6 (4.29%) REST
11 5 (3.57%) CSS3
11 5 (3.57%) Node.js
12 4 (2.86%) JSON
12 4 (2.86%) React Native
13 3 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (2.14%) Semantic HTML
14 2 (1.43%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.86%) Virtual Team
2 4 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.43%) PMI
4 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.57%) Linux
2 3 (2.14%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Debian
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (22.14%) Agile
2 20 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 19 (13.57%) Computer Science
3 19 (13.57%) Web Development
4 16 (11.43%) OOP
4 16 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (10.00%) Clean Code
5 14 (10.00%) MVC
6 13 (9.29%) CI/CD
7 11 (7.86%) CRM
8 10 (7.14%) DevOps
8 10 (7.14%) Microservices
8 10 (7.14%) Test Automation
9 8 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (5.71%) E-Commerce
9 8 (5.71%) Scrum
9 8 (5.71%) Software Engineering
10 7 (5.00%) AI
10 7 (5.00%) OO
10 7 (5.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 140 (100.00%) PHP
2 44 (31.43%) JavaScript
3 27 (19.29%) SQL
4 19 (13.57%) C#
5 7 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.57%) Java
7 4 (2.86%) C++
8 3 (2.14%) Python
9 1 (0.71%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (5.00%) Degree
2 2 (1.43%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (0.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.71%) QA
2 5 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.14%) WCAG
4 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (3.57%) Google
2 3 (2.14%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft