PHP Architect Jobs

PHP Architect
UK

The median PHP Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 686 - 978
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Architect 5 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% - 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% - 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £67,500
75th Percentile - - £71,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 46,967 93,227 95,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.63% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 27,330 66,890 59,886
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

PHP Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Architect in the UK

PHP Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for PHP Architect in the UK

PHP Architect
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 - 5 £80,000 -
UK excluding London - 4 - -
South West - 3 - -
London - 1 £80,000 -
South East - 1 - -
Work from Home - 1 - -

PHP Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, PHP Architect 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 PHP Architect in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) Symfony
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Laravel
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 4 (80.00%) IoT
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (80.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Manufacturing
2 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (80.00%) GMP
2 4 (80.00%) Internet
2 4 (80.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (80.00%) MySQL
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Finance

PHP Architect 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (80.00%) MySQL
1 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 4 (80.00%) Manufacturing
1 4 (80.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Laravel
1 5 (100.00%) Symfony
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (80.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (80.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (20.00%) API Development
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (20.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) OO PHP
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GMP
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes