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 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 629 340
Rank change year-on-year +96 -289 +366
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 46 134 544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.19% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.20% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 44 128 78
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,625 £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 35,324 67,152 53,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 94.79% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,511 47,504 30,595
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -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 14 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 14 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 +9 13 £52,500 - 4
South West +91 12 £60,000 +9.09% 4
North West -26 10 £52,500 - 2
Scotland +126 9 £60,000 +14.29%
South East +85 8 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Yorkshire +64 3 £47,500 -13.64% 2
Midlands +55 3 £50,000 +17.65%
West Midlands +54 2 £50,000 -28.57%
Wales +35 1 £65,000 +5.69%
East Midlands +27 1 £50,000 +17.65%
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 14 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 46 (100.00%) PHP
2 32 (69.57%) MySQL
3 31 (67.39%) CSS
3 31 (67.39%) HTML
3 31 (67.39%) JavaScript
4 29 (63.04%) E-Commerce
5 26 (56.52%) Git
5 26 (56.52%) AWS
6 25 (54.35%) Laravel
7 23 (50.00%) OOP
8 22 (47.83%) LAMP
9 21 (45.65%) Games
9 21 (45.65%) GCP
10 20 (43.48%) Finance
11 17 (36.96%) Web Development
12 16 (34.78%) MVC
13 14 (30.43%) Mobile App
14 13 (28.26%) React
15 9 (19.57%) Twitter
15 9 (19.57%) jQuery
16 8 (17.39%) Agile
16 8 (17.39%) AngularJS
17 7 (15.22%) Vue
17 7 (15.22%) Symfony
17 7 (15.22%) Test Automation
17 7 (15.22%) Code Quality
18 6 (13.04%) Regression Testing
18 6 (13.04%) SOLID
18 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
18 6 (13.04%) Project Delivery

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 (2.17%) Apache
1 1 (2.17%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Magento
1 1 (2.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (56.52%) AWS
2 21 (45.65%) GCP
3 3 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (6.52%) SaaS
3 3 (6.52%) Serverless
4 2 (4.35%) Azure
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.17%) Datadog
5 1 (2.17%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (69.57%) MySQL
2 2 (4.35%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.17%) Big Data
3 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.17%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (56.52%) Git
2 2 (4.35%) PHPUnit
3 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.17%) git-flow
3 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 21 (45.65%) Games
2 20 (43.48%) Finance
3 4 (8.70%) Retail
4 3 (6.52%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Advertising
5 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Automotive
6 1 (2.17%) Law
6 1 (2.17%) Marketing
6 1 (2.17%) Tech for Good
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (67.39%) CSS
1 31 (67.39%) HTML
2 25 (54.35%) Laravel
3 22 (47.83%) LAMP
4 13 (28.26%) React
5 9 (19.57%) jQuery
6 8 (17.39%) AngularJS
7 7 (15.22%) Symfony
7 7 (15.22%) Vue
8 5 (10.87%) RESTful
9 3 (6.52%) REST
9 3 (6.52%) Web Services
10 2 (4.35%) CakePHP
10 2 (4.35%) LEMP Stack
10 2 (4.35%) Next.js
10 2 (4.35%) Node.js
10 2 (4.35%) Tailwind CSS
11 1 (2.17%) Flutter
11 1 (2.17%) Middleware
11 1 (2.17%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (63.04%) E-Commerce
2 23 (50.00%) OOP
3 17 (36.96%) Web Development
4 16 (34.78%) MVC
5 8 (17.39%) Agile
6 7 (15.22%) Code Quality
6 7 (15.22%) Test Automation
7 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.04%) Project Delivery
7 6 (13.04%) Regression Testing
7 6 (13.04%) SOLID
8 5 (10.87%) Microservices
9 4 (8.70%) Software Engineering
10 3 (6.52%) DevOps
10 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Development
10 3 (6.52%) OO
11 2 (4.35%) CI/CD
11 2 (4.35%) Clean Code
11 2 (4.35%) Front End Development
11 2 (4.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) PHP
2 31 (67.39%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.52%) SQL
3 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.17%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Twitter
2 1 (2.17%) Apple
2 1 (2.17%) Google
2 1 (2.17%) Spotify
2 1 (2.17%) Zend