Laravel PHP Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Laravel skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 384 295
Rank change year-on-year -130 -89 +166
Permanent jobs citing Laravel 206 279 929
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.67% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.37% 3.23% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 182 257 861
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Laravel 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 8,692 8,649 20,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.00% 20.71% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 6,345 6,522 15,750
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,146
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,150 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +10.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

Laravel
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Laravel relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Laravel job vacancy trend in the UK

Laravel
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Laravel.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Laravel

Laravel
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Laravel over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Laravel in the UK

Laravel
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Laravel within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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 -105 194 £55,000 - 44
UK excluding London -96 170 £50,000 -9.09% 43
Work from Home -46 75 £52,500 -6.67% 24
North of England -58 55 £50,000 -13.04% 13
Midlands -38 38 £45,000 +16.13% 8
South East -66 37 £55,000 +10.00% 11
North West -18 31 £60,000 -7.69% 3
London -29 29 £77,500 +29.17% 4
East Midlands -45 27 £40,000 +14.29% 4
South West -65 25 £60,000 - 3
Yorkshire -46 23 £50,000 -28.57% 10
West Midlands -34 11 £66,500 +15.65% 4
East of England -34 9 £46,250 +20.13% 4
Scotland -43 4 £60,000 - 2
Wales -25 2 £25,000 -44.44% 2
North East -36 1 £45,000 -18.18%

Laravel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (6.80%) CMS
2 7 (3.40%) nginx
3 6 (2.91%) WordPress
4 2 (0.97%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Apache
5 1 (0.49%) Drupal
Applications
1 5 (2.43%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (2.43%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (4.85%) Shopify
2 1 (0.49%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 57 (27.67%) AWS
2 27 (13.11%) SaaS
3 10 (4.85%) Stripe
4 9 (4.37%) GCP
4 9 (4.37%) GitHub
5 8 (3.88%) Azure
6 4 (1.94%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.94%) DigitalOcean
6 4 (1.94%) Serverless
7 3 (1.46%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (0.97%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (0.97%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (0.97%) Figma
8 2 (0.97%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.49%) Asana
9 1 (0.49%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.49%) Firebase
9 1 (0.49%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.97%) HTTP
2 1 (0.49%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (34.95%) MySQL
2 10 (4.85%) Relational Database
3 9 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.43%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.94%) MariaDB
5 4 (1.94%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.46%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.46%) Redis
7 2 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.49%) Airbyte
8 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.49%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.49%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.49%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 34 (16.50%) Git
2 9 (4.37%) JIRA
3 8 (3.88%) PHPUnit
4 5 (2.43%) Vite
5 2 (0.97%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (10.19%) Social Skills
2 11 (5.34%) Tech for Good
3 8 (3.88%) Games
4 5 (2.43%) Law
4 5 (2.43%) Marketing
5 4 (1.94%) Finance
6 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.97%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.49%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 173 (83.98%) Developer
2 79 (38.35%) PHP Developer
3 54 (26.21%) Senior
4 51 (24.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 46 (22.33%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 45 (21.84%) Senior Developer
7 22 (10.68%) Lead
8 21 (10.19%) Lead Developer
9 17 (8.25%) Software Developer
10 15 (7.28%) Backend Developer
10 15 (7.28%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (6.80%) Software Engineer
12 13 (6.31%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
13 12 (5.83%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (5.83%) Senior PHP Developer
14 11 (5.34%) Senior Software Developer
15 9 (4.37%) SaaS Developer
16 8 (3.88%) PHP Software Engineer
16 8 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
17 6 (2.91%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (26.21%) Vue
2 44 (21.36%) CSS
3 43 (20.87%) HTML
3 43 (20.87%) React
4 21 (10.19%) Symfony
5 15 (7.28%) Tailwind CSS
6 13 (6.31%) RESTful
7 10 (4.85%) jQuery
8 9 (4.37%) CSS3
8 9 (4.37%) HTML5
8 9 (4.37%) Node.js
9 7 (3.40%) CodeIgniter
9 7 (3.40%) LEMP Stack
9 7 (3.40%) React Native
10 6 (2.91%) CakePHP
10 6 (2.91%) REST
11 5 (2.43%) Alpine.js
11 5 (2.43%) Hugging Face
11 5 (2.43%) Next.js
11 5 (2.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.28%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (3.88%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.91%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.94%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.94%) PropTech
6 3 (1.46%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.97%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.97%) Legacy Code
7 2 (0.97%) NHS
8 1 (0.49%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.49%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.49%) IoT
8 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.49%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.28%) Linux
2 3 (1.46%) Android
2 3 (1.46%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.49%) Unix
3 1 (0.49%) Windows
3 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (32.52%) Full-Stack Development
2 39 (18.93%) Agile
3 29 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (11.65%) AI
4 24 (11.65%) Software Engineering
4 24 (11.65%) User Experience
5 20 (9.71%) CI/CD
6 18 (8.74%) OO
6 18 (8.74%) OO PHP
7 16 (7.77%) DevOps
7 16 (7.77%) E-Commerce
8 15 (7.28%) Clean Code
8 15 (7.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (6.80%) Machine Learning
9 14 (6.80%) Microservices
9 14 (6.80%) Roadmaps
10 13 (6.31%) Containerisation
10 13 (6.31%) Web Development
11 10 (4.85%) Mentoring
11 10 (4.85%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 172 (83.50%) PHP
2 68 (33.01%) JavaScript
3 34 (16.50%) TypeScript
4 12 (5.83%) SQL
5 6 (2.91%) Bash
6 5 (2.43%) Python
7 2 (0.97%) Go
8 1 (0.49%) C++
8 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (2.43%) Degree
2 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.49%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.37%) QA
2 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.49%) GDPR
3 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (10.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.97%) cPanel
1 2 (0.97%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.97%) Plesk
1 2 (0.97%) Terraform
2 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (4.85%) HubSpot
2 6 (2.91%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.94%) Zend
4 3 (1.46%) WooCommerce
5 1 (0.49%) Google
5 1 (0.49%) Netlify
5 1 (0.49%) New Relic
5 1 (0.49%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.49%) SAP