PHP Jobs in the UK excluding London

PHP
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 120 107
Rank change year-on-year -19 -13 -55
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,219 1,340 2,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.87% 2.78% 3.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.69% 7.63% 7.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,023 844 2,009
10th Percentile £30,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.68% -0.45% +22.22%

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 18,228 17,552 34,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.93% 36.46% 43.53%
Number of salaries quoted 12,662 11,914 21,248
10th Percentile £33,250 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,850
Median % change year-on-year - +2.14% +7.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,231 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +23 360 £50,000 - 47
South East -66 256 £55,000 +10.00% 40
Midlands -8 218 £42,500 -19.05% 41
North West +30 188 £51,000 -2.86% 28
South West -7 180 £45,000 -10.00% 17
Yorkshire +31 151 £47,500 +5.56% 13
East of England +41 127 £47,500 - 23
West Midlands +8 117 £45,000 -12.20% 35
East Midlands -19 100 £42,500 -22.73% 6
Scotland -80 37 £45,000 -10.00% 3
Wales +38 31 £35,000 -22.22% 1
North East -26 21 £42,500 -19.05% 6
Northern Ireland -9 10 £33,500 -41.74% 12
PHP
UK

PHP
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
1 166 (13.62%) WordPress
2 77 (6.32%) CMS
3 30 (2.46%) nginx
4 28 (2.30%) Apache
5 24 (1.97%) Drupal
6 15 (1.23%) Confluence
7 12 (0.98%) Totara
8 11 (0.90%) Moodle
9 8 (0.66%) Headless CMS
10 7 (0.57%) SharePoint
11 5 (0.41%) ColdFusion
12 4 (0.33%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
12 4 (0.33%) SAS
13 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
14 1 (0.082%) Joomla!
14 1 (0.082%) PrestaShop
14 1 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.082%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.66%) Simulink
4 6 (0.49%) Adobe XD
5 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.082%) InDesign
8 1 (0.082%) Sketch
8 1 (0.082%) SketchUp
8 1 (0.082%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 55 (4.51%) Magento
2 24 (1.97%) Shopify
3 14 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.49%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.49%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.082%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 346 (28.38%) AWS
2 136 (11.16%) SaaS
3 69 (5.66%) GitHub
4 62 (5.09%) GCP
5 61 (5.00%) Azure
6 28 (2.30%) Amazon S3
7 24 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
9 20 (1.64%) npm
10 16 (1.31%) Serverless
11 14 (1.15%) Figma
12 13 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (0.74%) Stripe
16 8 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
16 8 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
16 8 (0.66%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
2 16 (1.31%) Internet
3 10 (0.82%) LAN
3 10 (0.82%) WAN
4 8 (0.66%) Wireless
5 5 (0.41%) HTTP
6 4 (0.33%) Modbus
6 4 (0.33%) SNMP
7 3 (0.25%) DNS
7 3 (0.25%) FTP
7 3 (0.25%) SMS
7 3 (0.25%) SSH
8 1 (0.082%) AMQP
8 1 (0.082%) Intranet
8 1 (0.082%) SSL
8 1 (0.082%) VoIP
8 1 (0.082%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 549 (45.04%) MySQL
2 76 (6.23%) SQL Server
3 70 (5.74%) Relational Database
4 50 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
5 31 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
6 26 (2.13%) MariaDB
7 24 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (1.97%) MongoDB
8 23 (1.89%) RDBMS
9 21 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (1.72%) NoSQL
10 13 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (0.82%) DynamoDB
12 9 (0.74%) SQLite
13 8 (0.66%) Power BI
14 7 (0.57%) Redis
15 5 (0.41%) Big Data
15 5 (0.41%) Tableau
16 4 (0.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 362 (29.70%) Git
2 51 (4.18%) JIRA
3 41 (3.36%) Selenium
4 30 (2.46%) GitLab
5 28 (2.30%) Cypress.io
6 22 (1.80%) Postman
7 20 (1.64%) PHPUnit
8 19 (1.56%) webpack
9 18 (1.48%) Jenkins
10 15 (1.23%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.66%) Subversion
12 7 (0.57%) Grunt
13 6 (0.49%) gulp
14 4 (0.33%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.25%) git-flow
15 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio
16 2 (0.16%) Appium
17 1 (0.082%) Cucumber
17 1 (0.082%) Mocha
17 1 (0.082%) WebDriver
General
1 265 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 129 (10.58%) Marketing
3 78 (6.40%) Retail
4 74 (6.07%) Finance
5 56 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (3.45%) Tech for Good
7 41 (3.36%) Games
8 27 (2.21%) Law
9 21 (1.72%) Automotive
10 16 (1.31%) Health Technology
11 14 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.15%) Telecoms
12 12 (0.98%) Electronics
12 12 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (0.90%) Legal
14 10 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.49%) Banking
17 4 (0.33%) Public Sector
18 3 (0.25%) German Language
Job Titles
1 943 (77.36%) Developer
2 574 (47.09%) PHP Developer
3 271 (22.23%) Senior
4 224 (18.38%) Senior Developer
5 180 (14.77%) Full Stack Developer
6 132 (10.83%) Senior PHP Developer
7 129 (10.58%) Web Developer
8 97 (7.96%) Lead
9 79 (6.48%) Full Stack PHP Developer
10 69 (5.66%) Software Engineer
11 63 (5.17%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 62 (5.09%) WordPress Developer
13 60 (4.92%) Software Developer
14 55 (4.51%) PHP Web Developer
15 47 (3.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 42 (3.45%) Technical Leader
17 39 (3.20%) Junior
17 39 (3.20%) Junior Developer
18 33 (2.71%) Magento Developer
19 29 (2.38%) Senior Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 573 (47.01%) HTML
2 531 (43.56%) CSS
3 530 (43.48%) Laravel
4 328 (26.91%) React
5 232 (19.03%) Vue
6 161 (13.21%) jQuery
6 161 (13.21%) Symfony
7 123 (10.09%) HTML5
8 113 (9.27%) LAMP
9 101 (8.29%) RESTful
10 100 (8.20%) Node.js
11 89 (7.30%) AngularJS
12 84 (6.89%) CSS3
13 62 (5.09%) Web Services
14 57 (4.68%) REST
15 56 (4.59%) .NET
16 48 (3.94%) Sass
17 45 (3.69%) JSON
18 35 (2.87%) Tailwind CSS
19 32 (2.63%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 55 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
2 46 (3.77%) Mobile App
3 31 (2.54%) Cloud Native
4 29 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 27 (2.21%) IoT
6 22 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 21 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.31%) Cybercrime
10 15 (1.23%) Legacy Code
11 13 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
12 12 (0.98%) Algorithms
12 12 (0.98%) PropTech
12 12 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (0.90%) e-Learning
14 10 (0.82%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
16 6 (0.49%) Digital Media
16 6 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
16 6 (0.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 152 (12.47%) Linux
2 31 (2.54%) Windows
3 12 (0.98%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.82%) Android
4 10 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.82%) Ubuntu
5 9 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.41%) Unix
7 4 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.33%) CentOS
8 1 (0.082%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.082%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (26.25%) Full Stack Development
2 291 (23.87%) Web Development
3 284 (23.30%) Agile
4 227 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
5 188 (15.42%) Software Engineering
6 181 (14.85%) E-Commerce
7 179 (14.68%) OOP
8 151 (12.39%) User Experience
9 144 (11.81%) DevOps
10 141 (11.57%) MVC
11 134 (10.99%) OO
12 115 (9.43%) Computer Science
13 112 (9.19%) Front End Development
14 92 (7.55%) TDD
15 87 (7.14%) Clean Code
16 78 (6.40%) Roadmaps
17 74 (6.07%) Mentoring
18 72 (5.91%) CI/CD
19 70 (5.74%) UX Design
20 58 (4.76%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 712 (58.41%) JavaScript
2 175 (14.36%) SQL
3 101 (8.29%) TypeScript
4 86 (7.05%) C#
5 69 (5.66%) Java
6 65 (5.33%) Python
7 22 (1.80%) Go
8 21 (1.72%) C
9 15 (1.23%) C++
10 10 (0.82%) Bash
11 9 (0.74%) Rust
11 9 (0.74%) VB
12 8 (0.66%) MATLAB
12 8 (0.66%) Perl
12 8 (0.66%) Ruby
13 7 (0.57%) VB.NET
13 7 (0.57%) VBA
14 6 (0.49%) Ada
14 6 (0.49%) Bicep
14 6 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 169 (13.86%) Degree
2 70 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (0.98%) Security Cleared
4 9 (0.74%) Azure Certification
5 7 (0.57%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.33%) CTC Cleared
6 4 (0.33%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.33%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.082%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.082%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (2.71%) Accessibility
1 33 (2.71%) QA
2 27 (2.21%) WCAG
3 12 (0.98%) GDPR
4 4 (0.33%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.16%) SLA
6 1 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.082%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 144 (11.81%) Docker
2 8 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.082%) Firmware
4 1 (0.082%) GlusterFS
Systems Management
1 63 (5.17%) Kubernetes
2 50 (4.10%) Terraform
3 5 (0.41%) Ansible
3 5 (0.41%) Grafana
4 4 (0.33%) Cacti
4 4 (0.33%) Nagios
4 4 (0.33%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.25%) Galera Cluster
5 3 (0.25%) Plesk
6 2 (0.16%) cPanel
6 2 (0.16%) Rancher
7 1 (0.082%) Argo
7 1 (0.082%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.082%) Puppet
7 1 (0.082%) systemd
Vendors
1 50 (4.10%) Google
2 33 (2.71%) WooCommerce
3 19 (1.56%) Microsoft
4 18 (1.48%) Zend
5 17 (1.39%) Adobe
6 12 (0.98%) Salesforce
7 11 (0.90%) VMware
8 10 (0.82%) Twitter
9 9 (0.74%) Oracle
9 9 (0.74%) SAP
10 8 (0.66%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.57%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.41%) F5
12 5 (0.41%) New Relic
13 4 (0.33%) HP
14 3 (0.25%) Actuate
14 3 (0.25%) HubSpot
15 2 (0.16%) Sage
15 2 (0.16%) YouTube
16 1 (0.082%) Progress