PHP Jobs in the UK excluding London

PHP
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 122 85
Rank change year-on-year -13 -37 -39
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,506 1,738 2,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.15% 2.81% 3.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.69% 6.94% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 1,112 2,133
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,000 £76,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.91% +12.22%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,524 25,038 32,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.12% 40.48% 46.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16,398 14,033 21,485
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,626
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,635 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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 April 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 April 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 +45 482 £47,500 -5.00% 113
South West -3 267 £45,000 -5.26% 49
South East -81 253 £55,000 +10.00% 53
North West +47 237 £50,000 -9.09% 61
Midlands +12 234 £45,000 -14.29% 49
Yorkshire +76 219 £47,250 +5.00% 43
East of England +56 167 £43,500 -33.08% 30
East Midlands +5 119 £46,250 -5.13% 23
West Midlands +22 114 £45,000 -14.29% 26
Scotland -100 52 £47,500 -13.64% 12
Wales +6 43 £50,000 +16.28% 12
North East -39 26 £45,000 -21.74% 10
Northern Ireland -8 9 £45,000 -21.74% 2
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
1 213 (14.14%) WordPress
2 81 (5.38%) CMS
3 52 (3.45%) Apache
4 48 (3.19%) nginx
5 27 (1.79%) Drupal
6 14 (0.93%) Confluence
7 12 (0.80%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.66%) IIS
9 9 (0.60%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.40%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.33%) ColdFusion
11 5 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
12 4 (0.27%) SAS
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.13%) Joomla!
13 2 (0.13%) Liferay
13 2 (0.13%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
14 1 (0.066%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 20 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.80%) Adobe XD
4 11 (0.73%) Simulink
5 10 (0.66%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.13%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.066%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 69 (4.58%) Magento
2 43 (2.86%) Shopify
3 21 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 449 (29.81%) AWS
2 187 (12.42%) SaaS
3 83 (5.51%) Azure
4 62 (4.12%) GitHub
5 49 (3.25%) GCP
6 31 (2.06%) Amazon S3
7 27 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (1.59%) Serverless
10 22 (1.46%) npm
11 21 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
11 21 (1.39%) Figma
12 20 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
13 15 (1.00%) Power Platform
14 13 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
16 11 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (0.73%) Stripe
17 10 (0.66%) Cloudflare
17 10 (0.66%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.59%) LAN
1 24 (1.59%) WAN
2 20 (1.33%) DNS
3 13 (0.86%) Firewall
4 12 (0.80%) SSL
5 8 (0.53%) Internet
5 8 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.46%) HTTP
7 6 (0.40%) VoIP
8 5 (0.33%) FTP
8 5 (0.33%) SSH
9 4 (0.27%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.20%) SMS
11 2 (0.13%) 3G
11 2 (0.13%) DHCP
11 2 (0.13%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.13%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.13%) IPsec
11 2 (0.13%) IPv6
11 2 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 643 (42.70%) MySQL
2 96 (6.37%) SQL Server
3 79 (5.25%) Relational Database
4 70 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 45 (2.99%) MariaDB
6 40 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (2.39%) MongoDB
8 26 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (1.59%) RDBMS
10 23 (1.53%) NoSQL
11 21 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (1.00%) DynamoDB
13 14 (0.93%) Redis
14 13 (0.86%) Power BI
15 12 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (0.53%) SQLite
17 7 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 6 (0.40%) Big Data
18 6 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 402 (26.69%) Git
2 63 (4.18%) JIRA
3 41 (2.72%) Cypress.io
4 39 (2.59%) Selenium
5 30 (1.99%) GitLab
6 23 (1.53%) Jenkins
7 22 (1.46%) Postman
7 22 (1.46%) Subversion
8 17 (1.13%) webpack
9 13 (0.86%) Visual Studio
10 12 (0.80%) PHPUnit
11 11 (0.73%) gulp
11 11 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (0.60%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.53%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.33%) Grunt
15 4 (0.27%) git-flow
16 2 (0.13%) Appium
16 2 (0.13%) Bower
16 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 315 (20.92%) Social Skills
2 166 (11.02%) Marketing
3 132 (8.76%) Retail
4 74 (4.91%) Finance
5 56 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (3.12%) Games
7 31 (2.06%) Tech for Good
8 30 (1.99%) Manufacturing
9 28 (1.86%) Telecoms
10 20 (1.33%) Electronics
11 18 (1.20%) Law
12 16 (1.06%) Banking
12 16 (1.06%) Public Sector
13 14 (0.93%) Legal
14 13 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.73%) Health Technology
16 10 (0.66%) Retail Banking
17 8 (0.53%) German Language
17 8 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 6 (0.40%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,188 (78.88%) Developer
2 648 (43.03%) PHP Developer
3 293 (19.46%) Senior
4 267 (17.73%) Senior Developer
5 207 (13.75%) Full Stack Developer
6 155 (10.29%) Web Developer
7 134 (8.90%) Senior PHP Developer
8 128 (8.50%) Lead
9 121 (8.03%) Software Developer
10 89 (5.91%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 81 (5.38%) Software Engineer
12 79 (5.25%) Full Stack PHP Developer
12 79 (5.25%) WordPress Developer
13 70 (4.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 59 (3.92%) Junior
15 57 (3.78%) Junior Developer
16 53 (3.52%) PHP Web Developer
17 46 (3.05%) Technical Leader
18 41 (2.72%) Lead Developer
19 40 (2.66%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 695 (46.15%) Laravel
2 690 (45.82%) HTML
3 650 (43.16%) CSS
4 398 (26.43%) React
5 284 (18.86%) Vue
6 212 (14.08%) jQuery
7 179 (11.89%) Symfony
8 170 (11.29%) HTML5
9 150 (9.96%) LAMP
10 146 (9.69%) Node.js
11 115 (7.64%) AngularJS
11 115 (7.64%) CSS3
12 107 (7.10%) RESTful
13 79 (5.25%) REST
14 77 (5.11%) Web Services
15 73 (4.85%) JSON
16 66 (4.38%) Sass
17 65 (4.32%) XML
18 59 (3.92%) .NET
19 50 (3.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 72 (4.78%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (2.59%) Mobile App
3 35 (2.32%) Onboarding
4 33 (2.19%) Cloud Native
5 26 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (1.73%) Management Information System
6 25 (1.66%) Product Ownership
7 22 (1.46%) IoT
8 19 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
8 19 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (1.06%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (0.93%) Animation
13 10 (0.66%) PropTech
13 10 (0.66%) Video Editing
14 8 (0.53%) Digital Media
14 8 (0.53%) Driving Licence
14 8 (0.53%) Graphic Design
15 7 (0.46%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 167 (11.09%) Linux
2 31 (2.06%) Windows
3 18 (1.20%) Ubuntu
4 9 (0.60%) Android
4 9 (0.60%) Unix
5 7 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.20%) AIX
8 3 (0.20%) CentOS
8 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.066%) VMS
9 1 (0.066%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (25.30%) Web Development
2 379 (25.17%) Full Stack Development
3 334 (22.18%) Agile
4 285 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
5 214 (14.21%) Software Engineering
6 211 (14.01%) OOP
7 204 (13.55%) MVC
8 199 (13.21%) E-Commerce
9 172 (11.42%) User Experience
10 166 (11.02%) DevOps
11 136 (9.03%) Front End Development
12 124 (8.23%) OO
13 120 (7.97%) Computer Science
14 112 (7.44%) Mentoring
15 102 (6.77%) TDD
16 93 (6.18%) CI/CD
17 82 (5.44%) UX Design
18 81 (5.38%) Unit Testing
19 80 (5.31%) CRM
20 78 (5.18%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 855 (56.77%) JavaScript
2 230 (15.27%) SQL
3 133 (8.83%) TypeScript
4 132 (8.76%) C#
5 124 (8.23%) Python
6 93 (6.18%) Java
7 45 (2.99%) C
8 38 (2.52%) VB
9 31 (2.06%) Go
10 23 (1.53%) JSX
10 23 (1.53%) Ruby
11 20 (1.33%) C++
12 19 (1.26%) Rust
13 18 (1.20%) Bash
14 13 (0.86%) Ada
15 12 (0.80%) PowerShell
15 12 (0.80%) T-SQL
16 11 (0.73%) MATLAB
16 11 (0.73%) VB.NET
17 10 (0.66%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 222 (14.74%) Degree
2 71 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (1.00%) Azure Certification
4 14 (0.93%) Security Cleared
5 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.13%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.13%) MCSE
6 2 (0.13%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.066%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.066%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.066%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.066%) MCP
7 1 (0.066%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.066%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (3.59%) QA
2 36 (2.39%) WCAG
3 33 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.13%) GDPR
5 5 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.13%) HL7
6 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.13%) SLA
7 1 (0.066%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 192 (12.75%) Docker
2 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.13%) Varnish
5 1 (0.066%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 93 (6.18%) Kubernetes
2 59 (3.92%) Terraform
3 13 (0.86%) Ansible
4 12 (0.80%) Progress Chef
5 10 (0.66%) Puppet
6 9 (0.60%) Grafana
7 7 (0.46%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.33%) cPanel
9 4 (0.27%) Rancher
10 3 (0.20%) Galera Cluster
11 1 (0.066%) Argo
11 1 (0.066%) Plesk
11 1 (0.066%) Podman
11 1 (0.066%) systemd
Vendors
1 63 (4.18%) Microsoft
2 53 (3.52%) Google
3 48 (3.19%) WooCommerce
4 31 (2.06%) Adobe
5 15 (1.00%) Twitter
6 9 (0.60%) Oracle
6 9 (0.60%) SAP
7 8 (0.53%) New Relic
7 8 (0.53%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.46%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.46%) Zend
9 6 (0.40%) Actuate
9 6 (0.40%) Facebook
9 6 (0.40%) SaltStack
9 6 (0.40%) Sitecore
10 4 (0.27%) Apple
10 4 (0.27%) HP
10 4 (0.27%) Progress
10 4 (0.27%) VMware
10 4 (0.27%) YouTube