PHP Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

PHP Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median PHP Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 741 704
Rank change year-on-year +219 -37 +111
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Software Engineer 35 25 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.095% 0.036% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.038% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 35 25 35
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,000 - £68,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

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 33,156 66,640 54,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 94.78% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,505 47,222 31,088
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

PHP Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

PHP Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for PHP Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

PHP Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

PHP Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +96 14 £55,000 +4.76% 1
Scotland - 9 £55,000 -
North East - 9 £55,000 -
Midlands +68 5 £60,000 +14.29% 3
North West +35 5 £65,000 +36.84% 1
South East - 5 £60,000 -
West Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 2
East of England +57 2 £50,000 +2.56% 3
PHP Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, PHP Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) PHP
1 35 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 22 (62.86%) E-Commerce
2 22 (62.86%) Games
2 22 (62.86%) MySQL
3 17 (48.57%) Laravel
4 16 (45.71%) AWS
5 14 (40.00%) Agile
6 13 (37.14%) Git
6 13 (37.14%) CSS
6 13 (37.14%) OOP
6 13 (37.14%) HTML
6 13 (37.14%) JavaScript
6 13 (37.14%) MVC
7 12 (34.29%) LAMP
7 12 (34.29%) TDD
7 12 (34.29%) Finance
7 12 (34.29%) Web Development
7 12 (34.29%) Mobile App
7 12 (34.29%) GCP
8 11 (31.43%) Unit Testing
9 10 (28.57%) QA
9 10 (28.57%) Mentoring
9 10 (28.57%) Clean Code
9 10 (28.57%) SOLID
10 9 (25.71%) Go
11 7 (20.00%) Fintech
11 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (8.57%) Vue

PHP Software Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) AWS
2 12 (34.29%) GCP
3 2 (5.71%) Azure
4 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (62.86%) MySQL
2 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (37.14%) Git
General
1 22 (62.86%) Games
2 12 (34.29%) Finance
3 1 (2.86%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (48.57%) Laravel
2 13 (37.14%) CSS
2 13 (37.14%) HTML
3 12 (34.29%) LAMP
4 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
4 3 (8.57%) Vue
5 2 (5.71%) .NET
5 2 (5.71%) React
6 1 (2.86%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Android
1 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 22 (62.86%) E-Commerce
3 14 (40.00%) Agile
4 13 (37.14%) MVC
4 13 (37.14%) OOP
5 12 (34.29%) TDD
5 12 (34.29%) Web Development
6 11 (31.43%) Unit Testing
7 10 (28.57%) Clean Code
7 10 (28.57%) Mentoring
7 10 (28.57%) SOLID
8 7 (20.00%) Fintech
8 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (5.71%) BDD
9 2 (5.71%) CI/CD
10 1 (2.86%) Coaching
10 1 (2.86%) CQRS
10 1 (2.86%) DevOps
10 1 (2.86%) High Availability
10 1 (2.86%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 35 (100.00%) PHP
2 13 (37.14%) JavaScript
3 9 (25.71%) Go
4 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.86%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) Twitter