Senior PHP Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior PHP Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior PHP Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 635 347
Rank change year-on-year +123 -288 +363
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 50 135 543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.19% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.20% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 48 129 77
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £46,700
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 34,463 66,724 54,732
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.80% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,670 47,232 31,095
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Senior PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior PHP Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior PHP Developer
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 Senior PHP Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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 +23 14 £52,500 - 1
South West +94 13 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Scotland +132 11 £60,000 +14.29%
North West -18 10 £52,500 -
South East +82 8 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Yorkshire +66 4 £47,500 -13.64% 1
Midlands +49 3 £50,000 +17.65%
West Midlands +49 2 £50,000 -16.67%
East Midlands +39 1 £50,000 +17.65%
Wales +32 1 £65,000 +5.69%
Senior PHP Developer
UK

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Senior PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior PHP Developer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) PHP
2 36 (72.00%) MySQL
3 32 (64.00%) CSS
3 32 (64.00%) HTML
3 32 (64.00%) JavaScript
4 30 (60.00%) E-Commerce
5 29 (58.00%) AWS
5 29 (58.00%) Laravel
6 27 (54.00%) Git
7 24 (48.00%) OOP
8 23 (46.00%) LAMP
9 22 (44.00%) Games
9 22 (44.00%) GCP
10 21 (42.00%) Finance
11 18 (36.00%) Web Development
12 17 (34.00%) MVC
13 16 (32.00%) React
14 15 (30.00%) Mobile App
15 11 (22.00%) AngularJS
16 10 (20.00%) Twitter
17 9 (18.00%) Agile
17 9 (18.00%) jQuery
18 8 (16.00%) Vue
19 7 (14.00%) Test Automation
19 7 (14.00%) Symfony
19 7 (14.00%) Code Quality
20 6 (12.00%) Software Engineering
20 6 (12.00%) Regression Testing
20 6 (12.00%) SOLID
20 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
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 1 (2.00%) Apache
1 1 (2.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Magento
1 1 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (58.00%) AWS
2 22 (44.00%) GCP
3 3 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (6.00%) Azure
3 3 (6.00%) SaaS
3 3 (6.00%) Serverless
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.00%) Datadog
4 1 (2.00%) GitHub
4 1 (2.00%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (72.00%) MySQL
2 2 (4.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.00%) Big Data
3 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.00%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (54.00%) Git
2 2 (4.00%) PHPUnit
3 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.00%) git-flow
3 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 22 (44.00%) Games
2 21 (42.00%) Finance
3 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (8.00%) Retail
3 4 (8.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Advertising
5 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Automotive
5 1 (2.00%) Law
5 1 (2.00%) Marketing
5 1 (2.00%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (64.00%) CSS
1 32 (64.00%) HTML
2 29 (58.00%) Laravel
3 23 (46.00%) LAMP
4 16 (32.00%) React
5 11 (22.00%) AngularJS
6 9 (18.00%) jQuery
7 8 (16.00%) Vue
8 7 (14.00%) Symfony
9 5 (10.00%) RESTful
10 4 (8.00%) Node.js
11 3 (6.00%) REST
11 3 (6.00%) Web Services
12 2 (4.00%) CakePHP
12 2 (4.00%) LEMP Stack
12 2 (4.00%) Next.js
12 2 (4.00%) Tailwind CSS
13 1 (2.00%) Bootstrap
13 1 (2.00%) Flutter
13 1 (2.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (60.00%) E-Commerce
2 24 (48.00%) OOP
3 18 (36.00%) Web Development
4 17 (34.00%) MVC
5 9 (18.00%) Agile
6 7 (14.00%) Code Quality
6 7 (14.00%) Test Automation
7 6 (12.00%) DevOps
7 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (12.00%) Project Delivery
7 6 (12.00%) Regression Testing
7 6 (12.00%) Software Engineering
7 6 (12.00%) SOLID
8 5 (10.00%) Microservices
9 4 (8.00%) Mentoring
9 4 (8.00%) Process Improvement
9 4 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
10 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 3 (6.00%) OO
11 2 (4.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 50 (100.00%) PHP
2 32 (64.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.00%) SQL
5 1 (2.00%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Twitter
2 1 (2.00%) Apple
2 1 (2.00%) Google
2 1 (2.00%) Spotify
2 1 (2.00%) Zend