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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 134 124
Rank change year-on-year -78 -10 -36
Permanent jobs citing PHP 495 1,509 1,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.32% 2.14% 2.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.00% 6.69% 6.97%
Number of salaries quoted 446 1,356 1,091
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +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 9,908 22,555 24,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.51% 32.03% 40.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,182 16,381 13,866
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +1.85%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 4 May 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 4 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 -106 137 £52,500 +10.53% 172
South East +4 115 £50,000 -9.09% 125
South West -8 82 £60,000 +33.33% 48
North West -89 79 £52,500 +5.00% 109
Midlands -65 69 £40,000 -11.11% 87
East of England -48 46 £35,000 -19.54% 40
Yorkshire -47 42 £47,500 +0.53% 54
West Midlands -18 39 £55,500 +23.33% 40
East Midlands -40 29 £35,000 -22.22% 40
Scotland +107 24 £55,000 +15.79% 13
Wales +15 19 £32,500 -35.00% 9
North East +38 16 £55,000 +22.22% 10
Northern Ireland +33 3 £85,000 +88.89% 3
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 54 (10.91%) WordPress
2 37 (7.47%) CMS
3 15 (3.03%) Apache
4 11 (2.22%) nginx
5 9 (1.82%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.61%) ColdFusion
6 3 (0.61%) IIS
6 3 (0.61%) Joomla!
6 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.61%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.40%) Drupal
8 1 (0.20%) Confluence
8 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.41%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.81%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.81%) Adobe Premiere
4 3 (0.61%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.20%) Trello
5 1 (0.20%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 14 (2.83%) Shopify
2 10 (2.02%) Magento
2 10 (2.02%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (1.82%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.40%) Odoo
4 2 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.20%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 155 (31.31%) AWS
2 71 (14.34%) Azure
3 65 (13.13%) GCP
4 49 (9.90%) GitHub
5 34 (6.87%) SaaS
6 27 (5.45%) Serverless
7 18 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (3.03%) Slack
9 14 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (2.63%) Zapier
11 11 (2.22%) npm
12 9 (1.82%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.82%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 8 (1.62%) Stripe
14 7 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (1.41%) Power Platform
15 6 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (1.21%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
16 5 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.83%) Internet
2 13 (2.63%) DNS
3 12 (2.42%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.22%) HTTPS
5 9 (1.82%) IPsec
6 5 (1.01%) VoIP
7 4 (0.81%) HTTP
7 4 (0.81%) MPLS
7 4 (0.81%) Network Security
8 2 (0.40%) FTP
8 2 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.40%) LoRaWAN
8 2 (0.40%) SSH
8 2 (0.40%) SSL
8 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.20%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.20%) RTP
9 1 (0.20%) RTSP
9 1 (0.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (55.35%) MySQL
2 73 (14.75%) SQL Server
3 32 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (4.04%) Relational Database
5 16 (3.23%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.03%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.22%) SQLite
8 9 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.82%) Couchbase
9 8 (1.62%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.01%) MariaDB
10 5 (1.01%) Power BI
11 4 (0.81%) TimescaleDB
12 3 (0.61%) Big Data
12 3 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.40%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.40%) OLTP
13 2 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 160 (32.32%) Git
2 15 (3.03%) JIRA
3 12 (2.42%) Selenium
3 12 (2.42%) webpack
4 10 (2.02%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 9 (1.82%) Grunt
6 8 (1.62%) PHPUnit
7 7 (1.41%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.81%) Subversion
9 3 (0.61%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.61%) git-flow
9 3 (0.61%) Postman
9 3 (0.61%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.61%) Vite
10 1 (0.20%) Babel
10 1 (0.20%) GDB
10 1 (0.20%) gulp
10 1 (0.20%) IDA Disassembler
10 1 (0.20%) WinDbg
General
1 128 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 91 (18.38%) Finance
3 74 (14.95%) Games
4 27 (5.45%) Retail
5 25 (5.05%) Marketing
6 20 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (3.03%) Legal
9 13 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.42%) Law
10 12 (2.42%) Manufacturing
11 10 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.41%) Public Sector
13 6 (1.21%) Back Office
14 4 (0.81%) Automotive
14 4 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.61%) Electronics
16 2 (0.40%) Advertising
16 2 (0.40%) Banking
Job Titles
1 311 (62.83%) Developer
2 152 (30.71%) PHP Developer
3 145 (29.29%) Senior
4 91 (18.38%) Senior Developer
5 57 (11.52%) Software Engineer
6 51 (10.30%) Senior PHP Developer
7 49 (9.90%) Web Developer
8 42 (8.48%) Lead
9 35 (7.07%) PHP Software Engineer
10 34 (6.87%) Full-Stack Developer
11 31 (6.26%) Graduate
11 31 (6.26%) Graduate Developer
12 29 (5.86%) IT Graduate
13 28 (5.66%) Junior
14 27 (5.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 27 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
15 25 (5.05%) Junior Developer
16 18 (3.64%) Junior PHP Developer
17 17 (3.43%) SQL Developer
18 15 (3.03%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (51.52%) CSS
2 237 (47.88%) HTML
3 197 (39.80%) Laravel
4 96 (19.39%) React
5 83 (16.77%) LAMP
6 80 (16.16%) Vue
7 74 (14.95%) .NET
8 58 (11.72%) AngularJS
9 56 (11.31%) jQuery
10 55 (11.11%) Symfony
11 42 (8.48%) Node.js
12 37 (7.47%) ASP.NET
13 34 (6.87%) RESTful
14 26 (5.25%) Web Services
15 23 (4.65%) CakePHP
15 23 (4.65%) Sass
16 20 (4.04%) HTML5
16 20 (4.04%) Tailwind CSS
17 18 (3.64%) CSS3
18 16 (3.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.28%) Mobile App
2 27 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
3 15 (3.03%) IoT
4 10 (2.02%) Legacy Code
4 10 (2.02%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
6 8 (1.62%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.41%) Learning Management System
7 7 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.21%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.01%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.01%) Educational Technology
9 5 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.81%) CCTV
10 4 (0.81%) e-Learning
10 4 (0.81%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.61%) Robotics
11 3 (0.61%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (0.40%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 45 (9.09%) Linux
2 26 (5.25%) Windows
3 12 (2.42%) Android
3 12 (2.42%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.41%) Unix
5 5 (1.01%) CentOS
6 4 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.40%) AIX
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.20%) Debian
9 1 (0.20%) Rocky
9 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (31.31%) E-Commerce
2 138 (27.88%) Agile
3 133 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
4 119 (24.04%) Software Engineering
5 116 (23.43%) Web Development
6 112 (22.63%) OOP
7 102 (20.61%) MVC
8 79 (15.96%) Computer Science
9 78 (15.76%) Full-Stack Development
10 66 (13.33%) User Experience
11 64 (12.93%) OO
12 57 (11.52%) TDD
13 54 (10.91%) Front End Development
14 53 (10.71%) Mentoring
15 51 (10.30%) DevOps
16 44 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (8.08%) CI/CD
18 34 (6.87%) Project Management
18 34 (6.87%) Roadmaps
19 33 (6.67%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 269 (54.34%) JavaScript
2 89 (17.98%) SQL
3 64 (12.93%) Java
3 64 (12.93%) Python
4 57 (11.52%) C#
5 46 (9.29%) TypeScript
6 42 (8.48%) C++
7 25 (5.05%) Go
8 16 (3.23%) C
9 6 (1.21%) Perl
10 5 (1.01%) Objective-C
10 5 (1.01%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.81%) VB
12 3 (0.61%) Bash
13 2 (0.40%) AWK
13 2 (0.40%) Korn
13 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.40%) R
14 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (16.77%) Degree
2 60 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.21%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.01%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (0.81%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.61%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.40%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.20%) HND
8 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.20%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.47%) QA
2 27 (5.45%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.83%) GDPR
4 13 (2.63%) WCAG
5 8 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.81%) GMP
7 3 (0.61%) SLA
8 2 (0.40%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 58 (11.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.40%) KVM
2 2 (0.40%) Postfix
2 2 (0.40%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 26 (5.25%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.64%) Terraform
3 12 (2.42%) Ansible
4 4 (0.81%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (0.40%) Grafana
5 2 (0.40%) Nagios
5 2 (0.40%) Nessus
5 2 (0.40%) Puppet
6 1 (0.20%) cPanel
Vendors
1 33 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.04%) Adobe
3 18 (3.64%) Twitter
4 16 (3.23%) WooCommerce
5 10 (2.02%) Cisco
5 10 (2.02%) Google
6 9 (1.82%) New Relic
7 7 (1.41%) SAP
8 6 (1.21%) Meraki
9 5 (1.01%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.01%) Xamarin
10 4 (0.81%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.81%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.81%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.61%) Sage
12 2 (0.40%) IBM
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle
12 2 (0.40%) Tenable
12 2 (0.40%) Zoho
13 1 (0.20%) Spotify