Full-Stack PHP Developer Jobs

Full-Stack PHP Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack PHP Developer salary in the UK is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 January 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 707 729 906
Rank change year-on-year +22 +177 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack PHP Developer 42 34 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.055% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.058% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 25 32 67
10th Percentile - £33,875 £34,800
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £59,250 £67,375 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% +18.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 60,425 59,050 102,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 95.35% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 27,963 43,520 66,812
10th Percentile £34,750 £30,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -4.17% +0.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,050 £50,000 £52,772
% change year-on-year +6.10% -5.25% +5.54%

Full-Stack PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Full-Stack PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack PHP Developer in the UK

Full-Stack PHP Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack PHP Developer.

Salary trend for Full-Stack PHP Developer in the UK

Full-Stack PHP Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack PHP Developer over the 6 months to 17 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack PHP Developer in the UK

Full-Stack PHP Developer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Full-Stack PHP Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 17 January 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
England -3 33 £40,000 -20.00% 22
UK excluding London -6 29 £37,500 -25.00% 16
Work from Home +60 26 £42,500 -15.00% 19
North of England -17 15 £37,500 -28.57% 11
North West -37 11 £35,000 -30.00% 10
London +19 7 £67,500 -14.29% 6
South West +20 4 £35,000 -30.00% 2
South East -17 4 £53,750 +43.33% 1
Wales +22 3 - -
North East -10 3 - -
Midlands -14 3 £35,000 -17.65% 2
West Midlands -28 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +28 1 £52,500 -2.33% 1
East Midlands -5 1 £35,000 -46.15% 1

Full-Stack PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 January 2025, Full-Stack 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 featuring Full-Stack PHP Developer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) PHP
1 42 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 34 (80.95%) JavaScript
3 32 (76.19%) Laravel
4 21 (50.00%) MySQL
5 20 (47.62%) CSS
6 19 (45.24%) HTML
6 19 (45.24%) Web Development
7 16 (38.10%) Vue
8 13 (30.95%) React
9 11 (26.19%) Clean Code
9 11 (26.19%) Agile
10 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
10 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (23.81%) AngularJS
11 9 (21.43%) GitHub
11 9 (21.43%) Design Patterns
11 9 (21.43%) WordPress
11 9 (21.43%) RESTful
12 8 (19.05%) Git
12 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
12 8 (19.05%) SQL Server
12 8 (19.05%) OO
12 8 (19.05%) CMS
12 8 (19.05%) Tailwind CSS
13 7 (16.67%) Linux
14 6 (14.29%) OOD
14 6 (14.29%) SQL
14 6 (14.29%) AWS
14 6 (14.29%) SaaS

Full-Stack PHP Developer Skill Set
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 (21.43%) WordPress
2 8 (19.05%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.38%) InVision
2 1 (2.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.43%) GitHub
2 6 (14.29%) AWS
2 6 (14.29%) SaaS
3 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.38%) Figma
4 1 (2.38%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (50.00%) MySQL
2 8 (19.05%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.14%) Redis
4 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Git
2 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.14%) Marketing
4 3 (7.14%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.38%) Automotive
5 1 (2.38%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (76.19%) Laravel
2 20 (47.62%) CSS
3 19 (45.24%) HTML
4 16 (38.10%) Vue
5 13 (30.95%) React
6 10 (23.81%) AngularJS
7 9 (21.43%) RESTful
8 8 (19.05%) Tailwind CSS
9 6 (14.29%) HTML5
9 6 (14.29%) Sass
10 5 (11.90%) jQuery
11 3 (7.14%) Alpine.js
11 3 (7.14%) CSS3
11 3 (7.14%) Symfony
12 2 (4.76%) Bootstrap
12 2 (4.76%) Ember.js
12 2 (4.76%) GraphQL
12 2 (4.76%) KnockoutJS
12 2 (4.76%) Next.js
12 2 (4.76%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) IoT
1 6 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.38%) BBC
3 1 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 19 (45.24%) Web Development
3 11 (26.19%) Agile
3 11 (26.19%) Clean Code
4 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (21.43%) Design Patterns
6 8 (19.05%) OO
6 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
7 6 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 6 (14.29%) OOD
7 6 (14.29%) Security Testing
7 6 (14.29%) Waterfall
8 5 (11.90%) API Integration
8 5 (11.90%) MVC
8 5 (11.90%) User Experience
9 3 (7.14%) Business Continuity
9 3 (7.14%) ERP
9 3 (7.14%) TDD
9 3 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (100.00%) PHP
2 34 (80.95%) JavaScript
3 6 (14.29%) SQL
4 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.38%) Java
5 1 (2.38%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 4 (9.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (4.76%) Sage
1 2 (4.76%) SAP
1 2 (4.76%) Zend
2 1 (2.38%) Adobe
2 1 (2.38%) Apple