Object-Oriented PHP (OO PHP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring OO PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OO PHP over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 686 837 945
Rank change year-on-year +151 +108 +69
Permanent jobs citing OO PHP 14 67 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.068% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.079% 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 12 62 33
10th Percentile - £32,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% -14.29% +8.25%
75th Percentile £33,750 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.78% -14.29% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

OO PHP falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,113 84,749 99,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.34% 85.94% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,713 59,834 58,282
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,000 £72,500 £81,750
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

OO PHP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OO PHP in the UK

OO PHP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for OO PHP in the UK

OO PHP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OO PHP over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OO PHP in the UK

OO PHP
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OO PHP within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
Work from Home +148 13 £32,500 -27.78% 6
UK excluding London +146 13 £32,500 -27.78% 4
Wales +48 9 £32,500 - 1
England +124 5 £57,500 +27.78% 2
West Midlands +57 4 £43,750 +16.67%
Midlands +57 4 £43,750 +16.67%
London +102 1 £80,000 -

OO PHP
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 9 (64.29%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) npm
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (21.43%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (85.71%) MySQL
2 3 (21.43%) Big Data
3 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (92.86%) Git
2 9 (64.29%) Grunt
2 9 (64.29%) webpack
3 1 (7.14%) Subversion
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Developer
1 12 (85.71%) PHP Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Development Team Leader
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Team Leader
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) PHP Architect
3 1 (7.14%) PHP Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior PHP Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (92.86%) HTML
1 13 (92.86%) Symfony
2 12 (85.71%) Vue
3 9 (64.29%) CakePHP
3 9 (64.29%) Doctrine
3 9 (64.29%) Pyjs
3 9 (64.29%) Sass
4 5 (35.71%) Laravel
5 3 (21.43%) CSS
5 3 (21.43%) Next.js
5 3 (21.43%) React
5 3 (21.43%) RESTful
6 2 (14.29%) Web Services
7 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Legacy Code
2 1 (7.14%) Educational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) OO
2 9 (64.29%) B2B
2 9 (64.29%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (64.29%) CRM
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) MVC
4 2 (14.29%) Project Roadmap
4 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (7.14%) API Development
5 1 (7.14%) Architectural Design
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) PHP
2 10 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker