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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 121 146
Rank change year-on-year -135 +25 +20
Permanent jobs citing PHP 292 824 661
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.70% 2.20% 2.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.40% 7.16% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 268 539 602
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £34,875 £37,250 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,075 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -

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 6,633 11,510 11,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 30.75% 37.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,983 6,303 8,880
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £69,579 £72,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,968
% change year-on-year -3.85% +3.23% -3.13%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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 -68 80 £50,000 +5.26% 95
Midlands -1 75 £40,000 +14.29% 39
South East -84 62 £55,000 +4.76% 35
West Midlands +10 46 £40,000 -27.27% 24
Yorkshire -2 40 £42,000 -16.00% 45
East of England -41 38 £50,000 +5.26% 17
North West -55 37 £50,000 +11.11% 43
East Midlands -14 32 £40,000 +14.29% 15
South West -76 30 £60,000 +4.35% 34
Scotland -29 5 £60,000 +9.09% 5
North East -9 3 £70,000 +27.27% 8
Northern Ireland -5 1 £50,000 -41.18% 1
Wales -35 1 £52,500 +61.54% 8
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 16 (5.48%) IIS
2 14 (4.79%) WordPress
3 11 (3.77%) Apache
4 9 (3.08%) nginx
5 5 (1.71%) Anypoint
6 4 (1.37%) Apache Solr
7 3 (1.03%) CMS
8 1 (0.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.03%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (1.03%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 7 (2.40%) Magento
2 3 (1.03%) SAP Business One
2 3 (1.03%) Shopify
3 1 (0.34%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 73 (25.00%) AWS
2 64 (21.92%) Azure
3 42 (14.38%) SaaS
4 17 (5.82%) GCP
5 12 (4.11%) GitHub
6 7 (2.40%) Stripe
7 5 (1.71%) Datadog
7 5 (1.71%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.71%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.03%) ChatGPT
8 3 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.03%) Firebase
8 3 (1.03%) Serverless
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (0.68%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (0.68%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.34%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.34%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.71%) HTTP
2 3 (1.03%) DNS
2 3 (1.03%) Intranet
2 3 (1.03%) VPN
3 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (36.30%) MySQL
2 50 (17.12%) SQL Server
3 17 (5.82%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.40%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.37%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.68%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.68%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.68%) Redis
9 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.34%) Power BI
9 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (12.67%) Git
2 11 (3.77%) Postman
3 7 (2.40%) JIRA
4 6 (2.05%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.05%) Selenium
4 6 (2.05%) SoapUI
5 4 (1.37%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (1.37%) PHPUnit
6 3 (1.03%) git-flow
7 2 (0.68%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.68%) Vite
8 1 (0.34%) GitLab
8 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 70 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.36%) Finance
3 19 (6.51%) Law
4 9 (3.08%) Marketing
5 6 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.05%) Health Technology
6 5 (1.71%) Games
6 5 (1.71%) Legal
6 5 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.68%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.68%) Retail
10 1 (0.34%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 193 (66.10%) Developer
2 111 (38.01%) PHP Developer
3 55 (18.84%) Senior
4 54 (18.49%) Software Developer
5 45 (15.41%) Senior Developer
6 36 (12.33%) Graduate
7 33 (11.30%) Software Engineer
8 31 (10.62%) Graduate Developer
9 28 (9.59%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 24 (8.22%) Lead
11 20 (6.85%) Backend Developer
11 20 (6.85%) C# Developer
11 20 (6.85%) Graduate C# Developer
11 20 (6.85%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 19 (6.51%) Senior PHP Developer
13 18 (6.16%) Graduate Software Developer
13 18 (6.16%) Graduate SQL Developer
13 18 (6.16%) SQL Developer
14 17 (5.82%) C# Software Developer
14 17 (5.82%) Graduate C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (31.85%) Laravel
2 80 (27.40%) CSS
3 61 (20.89%) HTML
4 47 (16.10%) React
5 34 (11.64%) Symfony
6 31 (10.62%) .NET
6 31 (10.62%) jQuery
7 17 (5.82%) Node.js
7 17 (5.82%) RESTful
7 17 (5.82%) Vue
8 16 (5.48%) REST
9 15 (5.14%) LAMP
10 14 (4.79%) ASP.NET
10 14 (4.79%) CakePHP
11 13 (4.45%) CodeIgniter
12 10 (3.42%) SOAP
13 6 (2.05%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.05%) HTML5
13 6 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.05%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.11%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.42%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (3.42%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.40%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.05%) Driving Licence
5 6 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.05%) IoT
6 4 (1.37%) Legacy Code
6 4 (1.37%) NHS
6 4 (1.37%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.03%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.03%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.68%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.34%) CCTV
9 1 (0.34%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.34%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.96%) Linux
2 14 (4.79%) Windows
3 8 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.03%) CentOS
4 3 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
2 68 (23.29%) Agile
3 45 (15.41%) Software Engineering
4 41 (14.04%) Computer Science
4 41 (14.04%) MVC
5 39 (13.36%) OOP
6 36 (12.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 34 (11.64%) OO
8 25 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (8.22%) Clean Code
9 24 (8.22%) Web Development
10 22 (7.53%) Mentoring
11 21 (7.19%) CI/CD
12 20 (6.85%) User Experience
13 18 (6.16%) CRM
13 18 (6.16%) Microservices
14 16 (5.48%) DevOps
15 15 (5.14%) OO PHP
15 15 (5.14%) TDD
16 14 (4.79%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 117 (40.07%) JavaScript
2 67 (22.95%) SQL
3 57 (19.52%) C#
4 42 (14.38%) Python
5 40 (13.70%) Java
6 32 (10.96%) TypeScript
7 19 (6.51%) C++
8 10 (3.42%) Go
9 7 (2.40%) VBA
10 5 (1.71%) DataWeave
11 3 (1.03%) C
11 3 (1.03%) Perl
12 2 (0.68%) Bash
12 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.34%) Delphi
13 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (13.01%) Degree
2 32 (10.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.05%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.34%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.77%) QA
2 5 (1.71%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.71%) GDPR
3 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (7.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.71%) Ansible
2 5 (1.71%) CloudHub
3 3 (1.03%) cPanel
3 3 (1.03%) Plesk
4 2 (0.68%) Argo
4 2 (0.68%) Terraform
5 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 28 (9.59%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.82%) Oracle
3 13 (4.45%) HubSpot
4 10 (3.42%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.08%) Adobe
6 7 (2.40%) Google
7 5 (1.71%) Cisco
7 5 (1.71%) Meraki
7 5 (1.71%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.37%) Zend
9 3 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.03%) SAP
10 1 (0.34%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.34%) Databricks
10 1 (0.34%) Progress
10 1 (0.34%) RedGate
10 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.34%) WooCommerce