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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 306 455
Rank change year-on-year -133 +149 -140
Permanent jobs citing Laravel 265 936 662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.95% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.12% 4.45% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 240 857 575
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £34,050
25th Percentile £43,438 £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 £76,250 £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 8,506 21,033 31,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.15% 21.35% 30.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,388 15,718 19,193
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,955
25th Percentile £50,649 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +7.89%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £105,000
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 5 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 5 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 -145 235 £55,000 +10.00% 171
UK excluding London -103 200 £55,000 +10.00% 137
Work from Home -79 117 £57,500 +9.52% 140
London +21 52 £60,000 - 49
North of England -102 52 £60,000 +26.32% 56
South East +49 51 £50,000 - 24
Midlands -11 36 £42,500 -15.00% 20
South West +4 33 £60,000 +20.00% 16
North West -90 29 £63,750 +27.50% 32
West Midlands +19 21 £57,500 +27.78% 11
Yorkshire -5 18 £70,000 +55.56% 19
Scotland +127 17 £55,000 +15.79% 5
East Midlands +9 15 £35,000 -33.33% 7
East of England -8 9 £37,000 -26.00% 17
North East +43 5 £55,000 +29.41% 6
Northern Ireland +33 1 - - 1
Wales +7 1 £45,000 -14.29% 5

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 35 (13.21%) WordPress
2 29 (10.94%) CMS
3 6 (2.26%) Drupal
4 4 (1.51%) Apache
5 2 (0.75%) Confluence
5 2 (0.75%) nginx
5 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.38%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.38%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.75%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.75%) Trello
3 1 (0.38%) InVision
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (4.91%) Shopify
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 139 (52.45%) AWS
2 56 (21.13%) GCP
3 34 (12.83%) GitHub
4 25 (9.43%) SaaS
5 24 (9.06%) Azure
6 22 (8.30%) Serverless
7 17 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (5.28%) Slack
9 13 (4.91%) Zapier
10 10 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (3.77%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.51%) Figma
14 4 (1.51%) Power Platform
15 3 (1.13%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
16 2 (0.75%) Amazon MSK
16 2 (0.75%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.51%) Internet
2 1 (0.38%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (63.02%) MySQL
2 26 (9.81%) SQL Server
3 15 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (4.15%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.40%) Redis
6 9 (3.40%) SQLite
7 8 (3.02%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.64%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.13%) Big Data
9 3 (1.13%) Power BI
9 3 (1.13%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.75%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.75%) OLTP
11 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.38%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 105 (39.62%) Git
2 11 (4.15%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.77%) JIRA
3 10 (3.77%) PHPUnit
4 3 (1.13%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.13%) Vite
5 2 (0.75%) git-flow
5 2 (0.75%) Subversion
5 2 (0.75%) webpack
6 1 (0.38%) Babel
6 1 (0.38%) GitLab
General
1 54 (20.38%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.49%) Finance
2 49 (18.49%) Games
3 19 (7.17%) Retail
4 13 (4.91%) Pharmaceutical
5 12 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.64%) Turkish Language
7 6 (2.26%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.26%) Marketing
8 3 (1.13%) Automotive
8 3 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.13%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.75%) Back Office
9 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.38%) Advertising
10 1 (0.38%) Electronics
10 1 (0.38%) Law
10 1 (0.38%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 160 (60.38%) Developer
2 97 (36.60%) PHP Developer
3 80 (30.19%) Senior
4 45 (16.98%) Senior Developer
5 40 (15.09%) Full-Stack Developer
6 36 (13.58%) Software Engineer
7 31 (11.70%) Senior PHP Developer
8 28 (10.57%) Lead
9 21 (7.92%) PHP Software Engineer
10 17 (6.42%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
10 17 (6.42%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 14 (5.28%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (4.91%) Junior
12 13 (4.91%) Junior Developer
13 11 (4.15%) Team Leader
14 10 (3.77%) Junior PHP Developer
15 7 (2.64%) Development Team Leader
15 7 (2.64%) Head of Development
15 7 (2.64%) Head of Software Development
16 6 (2.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (50.94%) CSS
2 130 (49.06%) HTML
3 74 (27.92%) Vue
4 69 (26.04%) React
5 65 (24.53%) LAMP
6 39 (14.72%) AngularJS
7 31 (11.70%) Symfony
8 25 (9.43%) RESTful
9 21 (7.92%) Node.js
10 20 (7.55%) Web Services
11 16 (6.04%) .NET
11 16 (6.04%) Tailwind CSS
12 15 (5.66%) REST
13 14 (5.28%) CakePHP
14 13 (4.91%) jQuery
15 11 (4.15%) HTML5
16 10 (3.77%) CSS3
17 9 (3.40%) React Native
18 8 (3.02%) Bootstrap
18 8 (3.02%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 46 (17.36%) Mobile App
2 16 (6.04%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (4.53%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.89%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.89%) IoT
6 4 (1.51%) Educational Technology
6 4 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.75%) NHS
8 2 (0.75%) Online Games
8 2 (0.75%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.38%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.38%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.38%) PropTech
9 1 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.92%) Linux
2 12 (4.53%) Android
2 12 (4.53%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.75%) Debian
3 2 (0.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.38%) CentOS
4 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (34.34%) E-Commerce
2 83 (31.32%) Software Engineering
3 81 (30.57%) Web Development
4 79 (29.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 79 (29.81%) MVC
5 74 (27.92%) OOP
6 54 (20.38%) Agile
6 54 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (14.34%) User Experience
8 37 (13.96%) Mentoring
9 36 (13.58%) TDD
10 33 (12.45%) Design Patterns
11 31 (11.70%) CI/CD
12 30 (11.32%) DevOps
13 27 (10.19%) Front End Development
14 24 (9.06%) OO
15 23 (8.68%) Computer Science
16 20 (7.55%) Responsive Web Design
17 18 (6.79%) Microservices
17 18 (6.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 260 (98.11%) PHP
2 155 (58.49%) JavaScript
3 29 (10.94%) SQL
4 28 (10.57%) TypeScript
5 21 (7.92%) Python
6 16 (6.04%) Java
7 8 (3.02%) C#
8 4 (1.51%) Go
9 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.75%) VB
10 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.38%) C
10 1 (0.38%) C++
10 1 (0.38%) Dart
10 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 23 (8.68%) Degree
2 22 (8.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.02%) QA
3 7 (2.64%) GDPR
4 6 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.51%) GMP
6 3 (1.13%) WCAG
7 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (9.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (4.15%) Terraform
2 7 (2.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (5.66%) Twitter
2 13 (4.91%) WooCommerce
3 5 (1.89%) Adobe
3 5 (1.89%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.51%) SAP
5 3 (1.13%) Google
5 3 (1.13%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.75%) Apple
6 2 (0.75%) HubSpot
6 2 (0.75%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.75%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.75%) Sage
6 2 (0.75%) Zend
7 1 (0.38%) NVIDIA