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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 302 467
Rank change year-on-year -127 +165 -151
Permanent jobs citing Laravel 270 932 667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.95% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.18% 4.43% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 246 857 577
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,813 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

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 8,493 21,046 31,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 21.40% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,474 15,738 19,371
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £50,509 £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 £79,900 £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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -137 240 £55,000 +10.00% 145
UK excluding London -88 203 £55,000 +10.00% 115
Work from Home -76 117 £56,250 +7.14% 125
London +25 54 £60,000 - 35
South East +60 52 £50,000 - 9
North of England -94 52 £57,500 +21.05% 56
Midlands -9 37 £42,500 -15.00% 18
South West +5 34 £60,000 +20.00% 15
North West -79 28 £65,000 +30.00% 34
West Midlands +14 21 £57,500 +27.78% 10
Yorkshire -7 19 £70,000 +55.56% 17
Scotland +121 17 £55,000 +15.79% 2
East Midlands +14 16 £35,000 -33.33% 7
East of England +2 9 £37,000 -26.00% 11
North East +46 5 £55,000 +29.41% 6
Northern Ireland +31 1 - -
Wales +12 1 £45,000 -14.29% 6

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 37 (13.70%) WordPress
2 31 (11.48%) CMS
3 6 (2.22%) Drupal
4 3 (1.11%) Apache
5 2 (0.74%) Confluence
5 2 (0.74%) nginx
5 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.37%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.37%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.37%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.74%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.74%) Trello
3 1 (0.37%) InVision
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (5.19%) Shopify
2 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.37%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 141 (52.22%) AWS
2 58 (21.48%) GCP
3 36 (13.33%) GitHub
4 26 (9.63%) SaaS
5 25 (9.26%) Azure
6 22 (8.15%) Serverless
7 17 (6.30%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (5.56%) Slack
9 14 (5.19%) Zapier
10 10 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (3.70%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.48%) Figma
14 4 (1.48%) Power Platform
15 3 (1.11%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
16 2 (0.74%) Amazon EMR
16 2 (0.74%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.48%) Internet
2 1 (0.37%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.37%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (62.59%) MySQL
2 27 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 16 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.70%) SQLite
6 9 (3.33%) Redis
7 8 (2.96%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.59%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.48%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.11%) Big Data
10 3 (1.11%) Power BI
11 2 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.74%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.74%) OLTP
12 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
12 1 (0.37%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 108 (40.00%) Git
2 12 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.70%) JIRA
4 9 (3.33%) PHPUnit
5 3 (1.11%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.11%) Vite
6 2 (0.74%) git-flow
6 2 (0.74%) Subversion
6 2 (0.74%) webpack
7 1 (0.37%) Babel
7 1 (0.37%) GitLab
General
1 55 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.52%) Games
3 48 (17.78%) Finance
4 19 (7.04%) Retail
5 14 (5.19%) Pharmaceutical
6 13 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.59%) Turkish Language
8 6 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.22%) Marketing
9 3 (1.11%) Automotive
9 3 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.11%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.74%) Back Office
10 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.37%) Advertising
11 1 (0.37%) Electronics
11 1 (0.37%) Law
11 1 (0.37%) Legal
11 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 165 (61.11%) Developer
2 100 (37.04%) PHP Developer
3 81 (30.00%) Senior
4 47 (17.41%) Senior Developer
5 40 (14.81%) Full-Stack Developer
6 36 (13.33%) Software Engineer
7 33 (12.22%) Senior PHP Developer
8 28 (10.37%) Lead
9 21 (7.78%) PHP Software Engineer
10 18 (6.67%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 17 (6.30%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
12 14 (5.19%) Junior
12 14 (5.19%) Junior Developer
12 14 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (4.07%) Team Leader
14 10 (3.70%) Junior PHP Developer
15 7 (2.59%) Development Team Leader
15 7 (2.59%) Head of Development
15 7 (2.59%) Head of Software Development
16 6 (2.22%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (50.74%) CSS
2 132 (48.89%) HTML
3 76 (28.15%) Vue
4 69 (25.56%) React
5 65 (24.07%) LAMP
6 39 (14.44%) AngularJS
7 32 (11.85%) Symfony
8 25 (9.26%) RESTful
9 21 (7.78%) Node.js
10 20 (7.41%) Web Services
11 16 (5.93%) .NET
11 16 (5.93%) Tailwind CSS
12 15 (5.56%) REST
13 14 (5.19%) CakePHP
14 12 (4.44%) jQuery
15 11 (4.07%) HTML5
16 10 (3.70%) CSS3
17 9 (3.33%) React Native
18 8 (2.96%) Bootstrap
18 8 (2.96%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.41%) Mobile App
2 16 (5.93%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.85%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.85%) IoT
6 4 (1.48%) Educational Technology
7 3 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.11%) NHS
8 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.74%) Online Games
8 2 (0.74%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.37%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.37%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.37%) PropTech
9 1 (0.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.78%) Linux
2 12 (4.44%) Android
2 12 (4.44%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.74%) Debian
3 2 (0.74%) Unix
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.37%) CentOS
4 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (34.44%) E-Commerce
2 84 (31.11%) Web Development
3 83 (30.74%) Software Engineering
4 80 (29.63%) Full-Stack Development
4 80 (29.63%) MVC
5 74 (27.41%) OOP
6 58 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (20.37%) Agile
8 40 (14.81%) User Experience
9 37 (13.70%) Mentoring
9 37 (13.70%) TDD
10 32 (11.85%) Design Patterns
11 31 (11.48%) CI/CD
12 30 (11.11%) DevOps
13 28 (10.37%) Front End Development
14 24 (8.89%) Computer Science
14 24 (8.89%) OO
15 20 (7.41%) Responsive Web Design
16 19 (7.04%) Microservices
17 18 (6.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 265 (98.15%) PHP
2 157 (58.15%) JavaScript
3 31 (11.48%) SQL
4 30 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 22 (8.15%) Python
6 17 (6.30%) Java
7 8 (2.96%) C#
8 4 (1.48%) Go
9 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.74%) VB
10 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.37%) C
10 1 (0.37%) C++
10 1 (0.37%) Dart
10 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 25 (9.26%) Degree
2 23 (8.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.96%) QA
3 7 (2.59%) GDPR
4 6 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.48%) GMP
6 3 (1.11%) WCAG
7 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (9.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (4.07%) Terraform
2 7 (2.59%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (5.93%) Twitter
2 14 (5.19%) WooCommerce
3 5 (1.85%) Adobe
3 5 (1.85%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.48%) SAP
5 3 (1.11%) Google
5 3 (1.11%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.74%) Apple
6 2 (0.74%) HubSpot
6 2 (0.74%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.74%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.74%) Sage
6 2 (0.74%) Zend
7 1 (0.37%) NVIDIA