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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 121 87
Rank change year-on-year -17 -34 -40
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,485 1,700 2,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.09% 2.82% 3.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.60% 7.04% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,352 1,076 2,117
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £32,400
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%

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 22,515 24,145 32,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.73% 40.07% 46.16%
Number of salaries quoted 16,386 13,576 21,262
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,244
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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +40 486 £47,500 -5.00% 105
South West +7 268 £45,000 -5.26% 55
South East -91 248 £55,000 +10.00% 53
North West +46 239 £50,000 -9.09% 70
Yorkshire +71 220 £47,500 +5.56% 29
Midlands +5 214 £45,000 -10.00% 56
East of England +50 169 £43,500 -33.08% 31
West Midlands +15 119 £45,000 -12.20% 31
East Midlands -13 94 £45,000 -7.69% 25
Scotland -103 48 £45,000 -18.18% 13
Wales +11 44 £50,000 +19.05% 5
North East -42 27 £45,000 -21.74% 7
Northern Ireland -11 9 £45,000 -21.74% 1
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
1 216 (14.55%) WordPress
2 82 (5.52%) CMS
3 50 (3.37%) Apache
4 49 (3.30%) nginx
5 26 (1.75%) Drupal
6 14 (0.94%) Confluence
7 12 (0.81%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.67%) IIS
9 9 (0.61%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.40%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
12 4 (0.27%) ColdFusion
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 (0.067%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.81%) Adobe XD
4 11 (0.74%) Simulink
5 10 (0.67%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.54%) 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 (0.067%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 70 (4.71%) Magento
2 43 (2.90%) Shopify
3 20 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 448 (30.17%) AWS
2 185 (12.46%) SaaS
3 83 (5.59%) Azure
4 62 (4.18%) GitHub
5 48 (3.23%) GCP
6 32 (2.15%) Amazon S3
7 27 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.55%) Serverless
10 22 (1.48%) npm
11 21 (1.41%) Amazon Kinesis
11 21 (1.41%) Figma
12 19 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
13 15 (1.01%) Power Platform
14 13 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
16 11 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (0.74%) Stripe
17 10 (0.67%) Cloudflare
17 10 (0.67%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.28%) DNS
2 13 (0.88%) SSL
3 12 (0.81%) Firewall
4 8 (0.54%) Internet
4 8 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.40%) VoIP
6 5 (0.34%) FTP
6 5 (0.34%) HTTP
6 5 (0.34%) SSH
7 4 (0.27%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.20%) SMS
9 2 (0.13%) 2G
9 2 (0.13%) 3G
9 2 (0.13%) 4G
9 2 (0.13%) DHCP
9 2 (0.13%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.13%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.13%) IPsec
9 2 (0.13%) IPv6
9 2 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 650 (43.77%) MySQL
2 79 (5.32%) Relational Database
3 71 (4.78%) SQL Server
4 66 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (2.83%) MariaDB
6 40 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (2.42%) MongoDB
8 26 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (1.62%) RDBMS
10 21 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (1.35%) NoSQL
12 15 (1.01%) DynamoDB
13 14 (0.94%) Redis
14 13 (0.88%) Power BI
15 12 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (0.54%) SQLite
17 7 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 6 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
18 6 (0.40%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 406 (27.34%) Git
2 61 (4.11%) JIRA
3 38 (2.56%) Cypress.io
4 37 (2.49%) Selenium
5 29 (1.95%) GitLab
6 23 (1.55%) Jenkins
7 22 (1.48%) Postman
7 22 (1.48%) Subversion
8 17 (1.14%) webpack
9 13 (0.88%) PHPUnit
10 11 (0.74%) gulp
10 11 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.67%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.61%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.54%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.34%) Grunt
15 4 (0.27%) git-flow
16 2 (0.13%) Bower
16 2 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
16 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 317 (21.35%) Social Skills
2 166 (11.18%) Marketing
3 131 (8.82%) Retail
4 77 (5.19%) Finance
5 56 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (3.23%) Games
7 34 (2.29%) Tech for Good
8 29 (1.95%) Manufacturing
9 28 (1.89%) Telecoms
10 20 (1.35%) Electronics
11 18 (1.21%) Law
12 16 (1.08%) Banking
12 16 (1.08%) Public Sector
13 14 (0.94%) Legal
14 13 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.74%) Health Technology
16 10 (0.67%) Retail Banking
17 8 (0.54%) German Language
17 8 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 6 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,162 (78.25%) Developer
2 654 (44.04%) PHP Developer
3 297 (20.00%) Senior
4 268 (18.05%) Senior Developer
5 209 (14.07%) Full Stack Developer
6 154 (10.37%) Web Developer
7 136 (9.16%) Senior PHP Developer
8 132 (8.89%) Lead
9 96 (6.46%) Software Developer
10 88 (5.93%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 82 (5.52%) Software Engineer
11 82 (5.52%) WordPress Developer
12 80 (5.39%) Full Stack PHP Developer
13 66 (4.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 58 (3.91%) Junior
15 57 (3.84%) Junior Developer
16 55 (3.70%) PHP Web Developer
17 47 (3.16%) Technical Leader
18 42 (2.83%) Lead Developer
19 41 (2.76%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 692 (46.60%) Laravel
2 673 (45.32%) HTML
3 633 (42.63%) CSS
4 370 (24.92%) React
5 278 (18.72%) Vue
6 213 (14.34%) jQuery
7 179 (12.05%) Symfony
8 149 (10.03%) LAMP
9 144 (9.70%) HTML5
10 123 (8.28%) Node.js
11 110 (7.41%) CSS3
12 108 (7.27%) RESTful
13 89 (5.99%) AngularJS
14 77 (5.19%) REST
15 75 (5.05%) Web Services
16 73 (4.92%) JSON
17 66 (4.44%) Sass
18 59 (3.97%) .NET
19 49 (3.30%) SOAP
20 47 (3.16%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
2 38 (2.56%) Mobile App
3 34 (2.29%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.15%) Onboarding
5 28 (1.89%) Product Ownership
6 26 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.41%) IoT
8 20 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
10 18 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.08%) Algorithms
12 15 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (0.94%) Animation
14 11 (0.74%) PropTech
15 10 (0.67%) Video Editing
16 8 (0.54%) Digital Media
16 8 (0.54%) Driving Licence
16 8 (0.54%) Graphic Design
17 7 (0.47%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 167 (11.25%) Linux
2 31 (2.09%) Windows
3 18 (1.21%) Ubuntu
4 9 (0.61%) Unix
5 7 (0.47%) Android
6 6 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
7 5 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.20%) AIX
9 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
11 1 (0.067%) VMS
11 1 (0.067%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (24.11%) Full Stack Development
2 356 (23.97%) Web Development
3 332 (22.36%) Agile
4 290 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
5 215 (14.48%) Software Engineering
6 208 (14.01%) OOP
7 202 (13.60%) E-Commerce
8 199 (13.40%) MVC
9 174 (11.72%) User Experience
10 164 (11.04%) DevOps
11 133 (8.96%) Front End Development
12 124 (8.35%) OO
13 116 (7.81%) Computer Science
14 112 (7.54%) Mentoring
15 102 (6.87%) TDD
16 91 (6.13%) CI/CD
17 83 (5.59%) UX Design
18 81 (5.45%) Clean Code
19 77 (5.19%) CRM
20 76 (5.12%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 830 (55.89%) JavaScript
2 203 (13.67%) SQL
3 129 (8.69%) C#
4 128 (8.62%) TypeScript
5 97 (6.53%) Python
6 94 (6.33%) Java
7 45 (3.03%) C
8 32 (2.15%) Go
9 24 (1.62%) Ruby
10 19 (1.28%) C++
10 19 (1.28%) Rust
11 18 (1.21%) Bash
12 16 (1.08%) VB
13 13 (0.88%) Ada
14 12 (0.81%) PowerShell
15 11 (0.74%) MATLAB
15 11 (0.74%) T-SQL
15 11 (0.74%) VB.NET
16 10 (0.67%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 194 (13.06%) Degree
2 70 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (1.01%) Azure Certification
4 12 (0.81%) Security Cleared
5 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.13%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.13%) MCSE
6 2 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.067%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.067%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.067%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.067%) MCP
7 1 (0.067%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (3.64%) QA
2 33 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 33 (2.22%) WCAG
3 17 (1.14%) GDPR
4 5 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.13%) HL7
5 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.13%) SLA
6 1 (0.067%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 185 (12.46%) Docker
2 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.13%) Varnish
5 1 (0.067%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 89 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.84%) Terraform
3 13 (0.88%) Ansible
4 12 (0.81%) Progress Chef
5 11 (0.74%) Puppet
6 8 (0.54%) Grafana
7 7 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.34%) cPanel
9 4 (0.27%) Rancher
10 3 (0.20%) Galera Cluster
11 1 (0.067%) Argo
11 1 (0.067%) Plesk
11 1 (0.067%) Podman
11 1 (0.067%) systemd
Vendors
1 53 (3.57%) Google
2 48 (3.23%) WooCommerce
3 40 (2.69%) Microsoft
4 31 (2.09%) Adobe
5 15 (1.01%) Twitter
6 9 (0.61%) Oracle
6 9 (0.61%) SAP
7 8 (0.54%) New Relic
7 8 (0.54%) OpenAI
7 8 (0.54%) Zend
8 7 (0.47%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.40%) Actuate
9 6 (0.40%) Facebook
9 6 (0.40%) SaltStack
9 6 (0.40%) Sitecore
10 5 (0.34%) F5
11 4 (0.27%) Apple
11 4 (0.27%) HP
11 4 (0.27%) Progress
11 4 (0.27%) VMware