Lead PHP Developer
UK

The median Lead PHP Developer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 880 954 1157
Rank change year-on-year +74 +203 -311
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead PHP Developer 23 29 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.028% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.030% 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 23 21 44
10th Percentile £49,250 £58,750 £56,625
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +1.50% +20.91%
75th Percentile £66,875 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,750 £97,500 £82,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £66,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year -13.21% -11.67% +42.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,219 95,232 149,773
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,883 59,878 85,286
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,777 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Lead PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead PHP Developer in the UK

Lead PHP Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead PHP Developer in the UK

Lead PHP Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead PHP Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead PHP Developer in the UK

Lead PHP Developer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead PHP Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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 +90 20 £57,500 -14.81% 6
UK excluding London +4 19 £57,500 -13.21% 3
Work from Home +77 13 £57,500 -20.69% 2
North of England +47 10 £57,500 -8.00% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £57,500 -
South East +7 4 £57,500 -14.81% 1
North East - 3 £52,500 -
London +118 2 £82,500 +17.86% 3
North West +7 2 £65,000 +4.00% 1
South West -18 2 £60,000 -5.88%
East of England - 2 £70,000 - 1
Scotland -67 1 £52,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead PHP Developer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) PHP
2 15 (65.22%) Laravel
3 14 (60.87%) JavaScript
4 12 (52.17%) MySQL
5 10 (43.48%) HTML
5 10 (43.48%) AWS
5 10 (43.48%) Mentoring
6 8 (34.78%) CSS
7 7 (30.43%) Full Stack Development
8 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (26.09%) OOP
9 5 (21.74%) Ada
9 5 (21.74%) TDD
9 5 (21.74%) Technical Debt
9 5 (21.74%) Tailwind CSS
9 5 (21.74%) Product Roadmap
9 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
9 5 (21.74%) Microservices
9 5 (21.74%) Front End Development
9 5 (21.74%) Vue
9 5 (21.74%) SOLID
10 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
10 4 (17.39%) QA
10 4 (17.39%) Symfony
11 3 (13.04%) UX Design
11 3 (13.04%) Azure
11 3 (13.04%) Blog
11 3 (13.04%) Ubuntu
11 3 (13.04%) Project Management
11 3 (13.04%) Agile

Lead 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 3 (13.04%) CMS
2 2 (8.70%) WordPress
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) MySQL
2 3 (13.04%) MariaDB
3 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
3 2 (8.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
1 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.35%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (4.35%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (65.22%) Laravel
2 10 (43.48%) HTML
3 8 (34.78%) CSS
4 5 (21.74%) Tailwind CSS
4 5 (21.74%) Vue
5 4 (17.39%) Symfony
6 3 (13.04%) GraphQL
6 3 (13.04%) Node.js
6 3 (13.04%) React
7 1 (4.35%) Yii
7 1 (4.35%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Blog
2 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.70%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
1 3 (13.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Mentoring
2 7 (30.43%) Full Stack Development
3 6 (26.09%) OOP
3 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (21.74%) Front End Development
4 5 (21.74%) Microservices
4 5 (21.74%) Product Roadmap
4 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
4 5 (21.74%) SOLID
4 5 (21.74%) TDD
4 5 (21.74%) Technical Debt
5 3 (13.04%) Agile
5 3 (13.04%) Business Strategy
5 3 (13.04%) Change Management
5 3 (13.04%) CRM
5 3 (13.04%) Project Management
5 3 (13.04%) User Experience
5 3 (13.04%) UX Design
6 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (4.35%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) PHP
2 14 (60.87%) JavaScript
3 5 (21.74%) Ada
4 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
5 3 (13.04%) SQL
6 2 (8.70%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) Zend