PHP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

PHP
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 129 122
Rank change year-on-year -106 -7 +3
Permanent jobs citing PHP 378 678 1,332
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.73% 2.26% 2.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.89% 7.06% 6.96%
Number of salaries quoted 345 518 1,221
10th Percentile £25,100 £31,250 £30,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £71,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

PHP falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 7,724 9,606 19,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.95% 32.05% 34.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,549 5,918 15,054
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

PHP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

PHP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Salary histogram for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 March 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 +3 105 £45,000 +12.50% 33
North of England -68 96 £50,000 -4.76% 52
South East -58 84 £55,000 +10.00% 35
West Midlands +25 71 £45,000 -21.74% 22
South West -52 52 £55,000 -8.33% 42
North West -49 47 £50,000 -4.76% 19
Yorkshire -35 46 £50,000 +5.26% 26
East Midlands -22 36 £40,000 +14.29% 11
East of England -40 33 £50,000 +8.11% 19
Scotland -52 4 £60,000 +9.09% 7
North East -32 3 £70,000 +27.27% 7
Wales -38 3 £35,000 +7.69% 8
Northern Ireland -32 1 £50,000 -41.18% 1
PHP
UK

PHP
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 20 (5.29%) WordPress
2 15 (3.97%) CMS
3 12 (3.17%) nginx
4 10 (2.65%) Apache
4 10 (2.65%) IIS
5 2 (0.53%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.53%) Confluence
5 2 (0.53%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.26%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.26%) Joomla!
Applications
1 5 (1.32%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (1.32%) Photoshop
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (2.91%) Magento
2 9 (2.38%) Shopify
3 2 (0.53%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.26%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 87 (23.02%) AWS
2 68 (17.99%) Azure
3 48 (12.70%) SaaS
4 17 (4.50%) GCP
5 14 (3.70%) GitHub
6 12 (3.17%) Figma
7 10 (2.65%) Stripe
8 6 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (1.59%) Serverless
9 5 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.06%) DigitalOcean
10 4 (1.06%) Firebase
11 3 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.79%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (0.53%) ChatGPT
12 2 (0.53%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.53%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.91%) HTTP
2 9 (2.38%) DNS
3 7 (1.85%) Internet
4 3 (0.79%) VPN
5 2 (0.53%) Intranet
6 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (28.04%) MySQL
2 41 (10.85%) SQL Server
3 19 (5.03%) Relational Database
4 11 (2.91%) NoSQL
5 10 (2.65%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.79%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.53%) Power BI
10 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.26%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.26%) Redis
10 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 43 (11.38%) Git
2 11 (2.91%) JIRA
3 10 (2.65%) PHPUnit
4 5 (1.32%) Vite
5 4 (1.06%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.06%) Postman
5 4 (1.06%) Selenium
5 4 (1.06%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.53%) git-flow
6 2 (0.53%) GitLab
7 1 (0.26%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 61 (16.14%) Social Skills
2 39 (10.32%) Finance
3 12 (3.17%) Marketing
4 9 (2.38%) Health Technology
5 8 (2.12%) Law
6 7 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (1.59%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.06%) Games
9 4 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.26%) Automotive
11 1 (0.26%) Back Office
11 1 (0.26%) Billing
11 1 (0.26%) Legal
11 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.26%) Retail
11 1 (0.26%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 262 (69.31%) Developer
2 159 (42.06%) PHP Developer
3 90 (23.81%) Senior
4 76 (20.11%) Senior Developer
5 67 (17.72%) Software Developer
6 46 (12.17%) Software Engineer
7 39 (10.32%) Senior PHP Developer
8 34 (8.99%) Graduate
9 31 (8.20%) Full-Stack Developer
9 31 (8.20%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 30 (7.94%) Graduate Developer
11 29 (7.67%) Graduate Software Developer
12 28 (7.41%) C# Developer
12 28 (7.41%) C# Software Developer
12 28 (7.41%) Graduate C# Developer
12 28 (7.41%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 28 (7.41%) Graduate PHP Developer
13 26 (6.88%) Graduate SQL Developer
13 26 (6.88%) SQL Developer
14 20 (5.29%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (31.22%) Laravel
2 85 (22.49%) CSS
3 69 (18.25%) HTML
4 52 (13.76%) React
5 34 (8.99%) Vue
6 27 (7.14%) jQuery
6 27 (7.14%) Symfony
7 24 (6.35%) .NET
7 24 (6.35%) Node.js
8 16 (4.23%) RESTful
9 14 (3.70%) Tailwind CSS
10 13 (3.44%) LAMP
11 11 (2.91%) REST
12 9 (2.38%) Next.js
13 8 (2.12%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.12%) LEMP Stack
14 7 (1.85%) CakePHP
14 7 (1.85%) CodeIgniter
15 6 (1.59%) HTML5
15 6 (1.59%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (2.91%) Onboarding
3 9 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (2.38%) IoT
3 9 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 8 (2.12%) Educational Technology
5 7 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.59%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.06%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.06%) NHS
8 3 (0.79%) Robotics
8 3 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
9 2 (0.53%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.26%) CCTV
10 1 (0.26%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.26%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.26%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.05%) Linux
2 10 (2.65%) CentOS
2 10 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.12%) Windows
4 6 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (20.11%) Agile
2 69 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 49 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
5 45 (11.90%) Computer Science
6 31 (8.20%) User Experience
7 30 (7.94%) CI/CD
7 30 (7.94%) OOP
7 30 (7.94%) Web Development
8 27 (7.14%) MVC
9 26 (6.88%) Clean Code
9 26 (6.88%) Microservices
10 25 (6.61%) E-Commerce
11 21 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (5.56%) Mentoring
11 21 (5.56%) Migration
12 20 (5.29%) DevOps
12 20 (5.29%) TDD
13 18 (4.76%) CRM
13 18 (4.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 121 (32.01%) JavaScript
2 73 (19.31%) SQL
3 48 (12.70%) C#
4 40 (10.58%) Python
5 35 (9.26%) TypeScript
6 26 (6.88%) Java
7 12 (3.17%) C++
8 9 (2.38%) Perl
9 8 (2.12%) Go
10 7 (1.85%) VBA
11 6 (1.59%) Bash
12 3 (0.79%) C
13 1 (0.26%) Delphi
13 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.26%) Rust
13 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (8.47%) Degree
2 29 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.79%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.26%) MySQL Certification
4 1 (0.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.97%) QA
2 13 (3.44%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.53%) GDPR
3 2 (0.53%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (7.41%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (2.65%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.06%) Ansible
3 3 (0.79%) cPanel
3 3 (0.79%) Plesk
4 2 (0.53%) Terraform
5 1 (0.26%) Argo
5 1 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.26%) Grafana
5 1 (0.26%) Nagios
5 1 (0.26%) Podman
5 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (5.03%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.17%) Adobe
2 12 (3.17%) HubSpot
3 11 (2.91%) Oracle
4 7 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.32%) Google
6 4 (1.06%) Zend
7 2 (0.53%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.53%) SAP
8 1 (0.26%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.26%) Cisco
8 1 (0.26%) Databricks
8 1 (0.26%) Meraki
8 1 (0.26%) RedGate
8 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.26%) Splunk