Cake Software Foundation CakePHP (PHP Framework)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring CakePHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited CakePHP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 669 882 964
Rank change year-on-year +213 +82 +197
Permanent jobs citing CakePHP 23 14 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.014% 0.024%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.27% 0.066% 0.080%
Number of salaries quoted 21 14 20
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,500 £36,585
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,813 £37,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £51,250 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -36.59% -19.61% +41.67%
75th Percentile £33,750 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile - £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £57,500 £38,744
% change year-on-year -43.48% +48.41% +3.32%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

CakePHP falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

CakePHP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CakePHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CakePHP in the UK

CakePHP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CakePHP.

Salary trend for CakePHP in the UK

CakePHP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CakePHP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for CakePHP in the UK

CakePHP
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CakePHP within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +219 23 £32,500 -43.48% 2
England +176 14 £30,250 -48.51% 4
South East +122 14 £30,250 -47.39%
Work from Home +197 9 £32,500 - 2
Wales +54 9 £32,500 -

CakePHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (39.13%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (95.65%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (65.22%) Git
2 9 (39.13%) Grunt
2 9 (39.13%) webpack
3 4 (17.39%) PHPUnit
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (82.61%) Developer
1 19 (82.61%) PHP Developer
2 8 (34.78%) Junior
2 8 (34.78%) Junior Developer
2 8 (34.78%) Junior PHP Developer
3 2 (8.70%) QA Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) QA Tester
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior PHP Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (95.65%) HTML
2 14 (60.87%) Laravel
3 13 (56.52%) CSS
4 9 (39.13%) Doctrine
4 9 (39.13%) Pyjs
4 9 (39.13%) Sass
4 9 (39.13%) Symfony
4 9 (39.13%) Vue
5 2 (8.70%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) B2B
1 9 (39.13%) Collaborative Working
1 9 (39.13%) CRM
1 9 (39.13%) OO
1 9 (39.13%) OO PHP
2 8 (34.78%) E-Commerce
3 5 (21.74%) Clean Code
4 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
4 4 (17.39%) Unit Testing
5 3 (13.04%) Functional Testing
5 3 (13.04%) System Testing
5 3 (13.04%) Validation
6 2 (8.70%) Code Quality
6 2 (8.70%) OOP
6 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (4.35%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) PHP
2 22 (95.65%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Docker