Laravel PHP Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Laravel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Laravel over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 304 471
Rank change year-on-year -169 +167 -157
Permanent jobs citing Laravel 244 936 638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.94% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.55% 4.44% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 219 852 553
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £34,600
25th Percentile £41,875 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,500 £72,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -7.83%

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 9,557 21,067 30,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.21% 21.24% 30.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,219 15,745 18,516
10th Percentile £37,747 £36,250 £40,835
25th Percentile £50,300 £45,000 £50,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +6.30%
75th Percentile £86,625 £78,750 £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%

Laravel
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Laravel in the UK

Laravel
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Laravel in the UK

Laravel
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Laravel over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Laravel in the UK

Laravel
Top 17 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 16 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
England -188 218 £55,000 +10.00% 258
UK excluding London -132 183 £55,000 +10.00% 209
Work from Home -135 103 £56,250 +7.14% 270
South East +43 49 £50,000 - 43
London +23 49 £60,000 - 72
North of England -127 46 £57,500 +21.05% 77
Midlands -15 32 £42,500 -15.00% 33
South West -6 31 £60,000 +20.00% 29
North West -110 27 £63,750 +27.50% 47
West Midlands +14 19 £58,750 +30.56% 17
Scotland +103 14 £60,000 +29.73% 4
Yorkshire -16 14 £57,500 +27.78% 25
East Midlands -4 13 £35,000 -33.33% 15
East of England -15 9 £37,000 -26.00% 22
North East +39 5 £55,000 +29.41% 7
Northern Ireland +35 1 - - 2
Wales +9 1 £45,000 -14.29% 4

Laravel
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 33 (13.52%) WordPress
2 27 (11.07%) CMS
3 6 (2.46%) Drupal
4 3 (1.23%) Apache
4 3 (1.23%) Confluence
5 2 (0.82%) nginx
5 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.41%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.82%) Photoshop
1 2 (0.82%) Trello
2 1 (0.41%) InVision
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (4.51%) Shopify
2 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.41%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 128 (52.46%) AWS
2 50 (20.49%) GCP
3 27 (11.07%) GitHub
4 24 (9.84%) SaaS
5 21 (8.61%) Serverless
6 20 (8.20%) Azure
7 16 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.92%) Slack
9 11 (4.51%) Zapier
10 9 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (3.69%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.64%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.23%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14 3 (1.23%) Figma
15 2 (0.82%) Cloudflare
15 2 (0.82%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.64%) Internet
2 1 (0.41%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.41%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (61.07%) MySQL
2 19 (7.79%) SQL Server
3 15 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (4.51%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.69%) Redis
7 8 (3.28%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.87%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.87%) SQLite
9 3 (1.23%) Power BI
9 3 (1.23%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.82%) Big Data
10 2 (0.82%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.82%) OLTP
11 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.41%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.41%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 96 (39.34%) Git
2 11 (4.51%) JIRA
2 11 (4.51%) PHPUnit
3 9 (3.69%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.64%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.23%) Vite
6 2 (0.82%) git-flow
6 2 (0.82%) Subversion
6 2 (0.82%) webpack
7 1 (0.41%) Babel
7 1 (0.41%) GitLab
7 1 (0.41%) Mocha
General
1 49 (20.08%) Social Skills
2 47 (19.26%) Finance
3 45 (18.44%) Games
4 14 (5.74%) Retail
5 11 (4.51%) Pharmaceutical
6 10 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.87%) Turkish Language
8 6 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.46%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.46%) Marketing
9 3 (1.23%) Automotive
9 3 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.82%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.41%) Advertising
11 1 (0.41%) Back Office
11 1 (0.41%) Law
11 1 (0.41%) Legal
11 1 (0.41%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 152 (62.30%) Developer
2 93 (38.11%) PHP Developer
3 70 (28.69%) Senior
4 40 (16.39%) Senior Developer
5 39 (15.98%) Full-Stack Developer
6 29 (11.89%) Software Engineer
7 28 (11.48%) Lead
8 27 (11.07%) Senior PHP Developer
9 18 (7.38%) PHP Software Engineer
10 17 (6.97%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
11 16 (6.56%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 13 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (4.92%) Junior
13 12 (4.92%) Junior Developer
14 10 (4.10%) Junior PHP Developer
14 10 (4.10%) Team Leader
15 7 (2.87%) Head of Development
15 7 (2.87%) Head of Software Development
16 6 (2.46%) Development Team Leader
16 6 (2.46%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (50.41%) CSS
2 118 (48.36%) HTML
3 66 (27.05%) Vue
4 60 (24.59%) React
5 57 (23.36%) LAMP
6 33 (13.52%) AngularJS
7 29 (11.89%) Symfony
8 25 (10.25%) RESTful
9 18 (7.38%) Node.js
9 18 (7.38%) Tailwind CSS
10 17 (6.97%) REST
10 17 (6.97%) Web Services
11 14 (5.74%) CakePHP
12 13 (5.33%) jQuery
13 11 (4.51%) .NET
13 11 (4.51%) HTML5
14 10 (4.10%) CSS3
15 8 (3.28%) Bootstrap
16 7 (2.87%) Memcached
16 7 (2.87%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.62%) Mobile App
2 12 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.05%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.05%) IoT
7 4 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.64%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.82%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.82%) Online Games
8 2 (0.82%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.41%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.41%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.41%) NHS
9 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.20%) Linux
2 11 (4.51%) Android
2 11 (4.51%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.82%) Debian
3 2 (0.82%) Unix
4 1 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.41%) CentOS
4 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (33.20%) E-Commerce
2 77 (31.56%) Web Development
3 71 (29.10%) Full-Stack Development
4 70 (28.69%) MVC
5 69 (28.28%) Software Engineering
6 65 (26.64%) OOP
7 51 (20.90%) Agile
8 48 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (13.93%) TDD
10 33 (13.52%) Mentoring
11 32 (13.11%) User Experience
12 31 (12.70%) Design Patterns
13 30 (12.30%) CI/CD
14 26 (10.66%) Front End Development
15 25 (10.25%) DevOps
16 23 (9.43%) OO
17 20 (8.20%) Computer Science
18 19 (7.79%) Responsive Web Design
18 19 (7.79%) Roadmaps
19 18 (7.38%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 240 (98.36%) PHP
2 146 (59.84%) JavaScript
3 28 (11.48%) SQL
4 25 (10.25%) TypeScript
5 18 (7.38%) Python
6 14 (5.74%) Java
7 6 (2.46%) C#
8 4 (1.64%) Go
9 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.41%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.41%) C
10 1 (0.41%) C++
10 1 (0.41%) Dart
10 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (8.20%) Degree
2 19 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.28%) QA
3 7 (2.87%) GDPR
4 6 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.64%) GMP
6 3 (1.23%) WCAG
7 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (10.66%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (4.10%) Terraform
2 7 (2.87%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (5.33%) Twitter
2 11 (4.51%) WooCommerce
3 5 (2.05%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.64%) Adobe
4 4 (1.64%) SAP
5 3 (1.23%) Google
5 3 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.82%) Apple
6 2 (0.82%) HubSpot
6 2 (0.82%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.82%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.82%) Sage
6 2 (0.82%) Zend
7 1 (0.41%) NVIDIA