PHP Developer Jobs 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 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 291 234
Rank change year-on-year -110 -57 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 152 652 903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.93% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.98% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 147 620 403
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £66,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +5.00%

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 33,611 66,718 54,815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.80% 89.24%
Number of salaries quoted 18,667 47,265 31,119
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.21% +5.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for PHP Developer 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -87 39 £47,500 +5.56% 39
South East +23 31 £39,000 -22.00% 25
North West -56 30 £48,750 -1.02% 26
South West +37 23 £60,000 +33.33% 14
Midlands -16 23 £41,250 -2.94% 9
West Midlands +4 15 £42,500 - 4
Scotland +120 12 £60,000 +33.33% 2
East of England -8 12 £34,750 -20.11% 7
Wales +32 11 £32,500 -31.58% 3
East Midlands +12 8 £40,000 - 4
Yorkshire -8 7 £47,500 +11.76% 12
North East +39 2 £38,750 -19.69% 1
Northern Ireland +31 1 - - 1
PHP Developer
UK

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 152 (100.00%) PHP
2 102 (67.11%) JavaScript
3 98 (64.47%) MySQL
4 92 (60.53%) CSS
5 84 (55.26%) HTML
6 67 (44.08%) Laravel
7 52 (34.21%) Git
8 50 (32.89%) OOP
9 48 (31.58%) E-Commerce
10 46 (30.26%) AWS
11 42 (27.63%) React
12 39 (25.66%) Social Skills
13 38 (25.00%) Agile
14 37 (24.34%) Symfony
14 37 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (23.68%) OO
16 35 (23.03%) MVC
17 31 (20.39%) Web Development
18 30 (19.74%) Games
18 30 (19.74%) Vue
19 29 (19.08%) LAMP
20 28 (18.42%) Finance
21 25 (16.45%) SQL
21 25 (16.45%) GCP
22 23 (15.13%) jQuery
23 20 (13.16%) AngularJS
23 20 (13.16%) Mobile App
24 19 (12.50%) CakePHP
24 19 (12.50%) Azure
25 18 (11.84%) Computer Science

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (7.89%) CMS
2 7 (4.61%) Apache
3 6 (3.95%) WordPress
4 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.66%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.66%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.32%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Magento
1 1 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (30.26%) AWS
2 25 (16.45%) GCP
3 19 (12.50%) Azure
4 11 (7.24%) SaaS
5 9 (5.92%) npm
6 6 (3.95%) GitHub
7 4 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.63%) Serverless
8 3 (1.97%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (1.32%) Cloudflare
9 2 (1.32%) DigitalOcean
10 1 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.66%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.66%) Datadog
10 1 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.66%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (64.47%) MySQL
2 15 (9.87%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.63%) MariaDB
5 4 (2.63%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.32%) OLTP
6 2 (1.32%) Power BI
7 1 (0.66%) Big Data
7 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.66%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (34.21%) Git
2 11 (7.24%) webpack
3 9 (5.92%) Grunt
4 4 (2.63%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.97%) git-flow
6 2 (1.32%) PHPUnit
6 2 (1.32%) Vite
7 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.66%) JIRA
7 1 (0.66%) Subversion
General
1 39 (25.66%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.74%) Games
3 28 (18.42%) Finance
4 10 (6.58%) Law
5 7 (4.61%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.95%) Retail
7 5 (3.29%) Marketing
8 2 (1.32%) Advertising
8 2 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Automotive
9 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.66%) Publishing
9 1 (0.66%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (60.53%) CSS
2 84 (55.26%) HTML
3 67 (44.08%) Laravel
4 42 (27.63%) React
5 37 (24.34%) Symfony
6 30 (19.74%) Vue
7 29 (19.08%) LAMP
8 23 (15.13%) jQuery
9 20 (13.16%) AngularJS
10 19 (12.50%) CakePHP
11 15 (9.87%) .NET
12 14 (9.21%) Tailwind CSS
13 13 (8.55%) ASP.NET
13 13 (8.55%) RESTful
14 12 (7.89%) Sass
15 10 (6.58%) Node.js
15 10 (6.58%) REST
16 9 (5.92%) Doctrine
16 9 (5.92%) Playwright
16 9 (5.92%) Pyjs
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.16%) Mobile App
2 9 (5.92%) Legacy Code
3 7 (4.61%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.95%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.97%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.32%) Online Games
7 1 (0.66%) BBC
7 1 (0.66%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.24%) Linux
2 6 (3.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (32.89%) OOP
2 48 (31.58%) E-Commerce
3 38 (25.00%) Agile
4 37 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (23.68%) OO
6 35 (23.03%) MVC
7 31 (20.39%) Web Development
8 18 (11.84%) Computer Science
9 17 (11.18%) Test Automation
10 16 (10.53%) Software Engineering
11 15 (9.87%) CRM
12 14 (9.21%) Clean Code
12 14 (9.21%) Front End Development
12 14 (9.21%) SOLID
13 12 (7.89%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (7.89%) TDD
14 11 (7.24%) Code Quality
14 11 (7.24%) Collaborative Working
14 11 (7.24%) OO PHP
15 10 (6.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 152 (100.00%) PHP
2 102 (67.11%) JavaScript
3 25 (16.45%) SQL
4 16 (10.53%) C#
5 14 (9.21%) Java
6 12 (7.89%) TypeScript
7 11 (7.24%) C++
8 8 (5.26%) Python
9 3 (1.97%) C
9 3 (1.97%) Go
10 1 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 16 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.63%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (11.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.66%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (7.24%) Twitter
2 6 (3.95%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.97%) Adobe
3 3 (1.97%) Sage
3 3 (1.97%) SAP
4 2 (1.32%) Google
5 1 (0.66%) Apple
5 1 (0.66%) Spotify
5 1 (0.66%) Zend