PHP Developer
UK

The median PHP Developer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 481 565 242
Rank change year-on-year +84 -323 -76
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 259 614 1,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.49% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.52% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 240 544 1,630
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +18.75%

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 51,159 118,464 121,698
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.44% 95.41% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37,465 74,592 83,940
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer over the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 December 2023. 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 +81 230 £52,500 - 145
UK excluding London +67 188 £50,000 - 130
Work from Home +68 159 £52,500 - 104
North of England +147 59 £47,500 +5.56% 58
London +169 53 £62,500 +8.70% 35
South East +74 38 £53,500 +1.90% 22
North West +132 34 £47,500 -13.64% 32
Midlands +97 26 £43,750 -2.78% 19
Yorkshire +91 24 £46,250 +8.82% 23
East of England +71 23 £60,000 - 2
South West +45 22 £50,000 +11.11% 15
East Midlands +52 16 £55,000 +22.22% 8
Scotland +47 15 £50,000 +11.11% 8
West Midlands +119 10 £40,500 -10.00% 11
Wales +12 5 £48,750 +8.33% 8
North East +26 1 £37,500 -6.25% 5

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

For the 6 months to 6 December 2023, 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 PHP Developer in the job title.

1 259 (100.00%) PHP
2 195 (75.29%) Laravel
3 176 (67.95%) JavaScript
4 133 (51.35%) CSS
5 132 (50.97%) MySQL
6 123 (47.49%) HTML
7 91 (35.14%) AWS
8 74 (28.57%) Vue
9 57 (22.01%) Docker
10 54 (20.85%) Agile
11 53 (20.46%) Symfony
11 53 (20.46%) React
12 52 (20.08%) OO
12 52 (20.08%) Social Skills
12 52 (20.08%) Full Stack Development
13 51 (19.69%) SaaS
14 50 (19.31%) Git
15 49 (18.92%) MVC
16 48 (18.53%) jQuery
17 47 (18.15%) OOP
17 47 (18.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 46 (17.76%) SQL
19 42 (16.22%) Web Development
20 39 (15.06%) DevOps
20 39 (15.06%) HTML5
21 34 (13.13%) Azure
22 33 (12.74%) JSON
23 32 (12.36%) MongoDB
24 30 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
25 29 (11.20%) API Development

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 27 (10.42%) WordPress
2 16 (6.18%) CMS
3 8 (3.09%) Joomla!
4 5 (1.93%) Apache
5 4 (1.54%) Drupal
6 3 (1.16%) Confluence
7 1 (0.39%) Moodle
7 1 (0.39%) Totara
Business Applications
1 5 (1.93%) Magento
2 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.39%) osCommerce
2 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 91 (35.14%) AWS
2 51 (19.69%) SaaS
3 34 (13.13%) Azure
4 14 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (3.09%) GCP
5 8 (3.09%) WhatsApp
6 4 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.54%) Serverless
7 3 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (0.77%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.77%) GitHub
9 1 (0.39%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 1 (0.39%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.39%) Boomi
9 1 (0.39%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.39%) npm
9 1 (0.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.09%) Internet
2 2 (0.77%) Firewall
2 2 (0.77%) HTTP
3 1 (0.39%) DNS
3 1 (0.39%) Intranet
3 1 (0.39%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (50.97%) MySQL
2 32 (12.36%) MongoDB
3 24 (9.27%) MariaDB
4 20 (7.72%) SQL Server
5 18 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (5.02%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.77%) Redis
11 1 (0.39%) Power BI
11 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 50 (19.31%) Git
2 18 (6.95%) JIRA
3 9 (3.47%) PHPUnit
4 3 (1.16%) GitLab
4 3 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.16%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.77%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.39%) Bower
6 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.39%) Grunt
6 1 (0.39%) gulp
6 1 (0.39%) Subversion
6 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 52 (20.08%) Social Skills
2 18 (6.95%) Retail
3 13 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.25%) Marketing
5 8 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (3.09%) Legal
6 7 (2.70%) Finance
7 6 (2.32%) Games
7 6 (2.32%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.32%) Tech for Good
8 5 (1.93%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.54%) Law
10 3 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.16%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.77%) Advertising
11 2 (0.77%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.39%) Automotive
12 1 (0.39%) Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Electronics
12 1 (0.39%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (75.29%) Laravel
2 133 (51.35%) CSS
3 123 (47.49%) HTML
4 74 (28.57%) Vue
5 53 (20.46%) React
5 53 (20.46%) Symfony
6 48 (18.53%) jQuery
7 47 (18.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 39 (15.06%) HTML5
9 33 (12.74%) JSON
10 25 (9.65%) SOAP
11 24 (9.27%) REST
12 23 (8.88%) AngularJS
13 19 (7.34%) RESTful
14 14 (5.41%) Node.js
14 14 (5.41%) Web Services
15 13 (5.02%) CSS3
16 12 (4.63%) LAMP
16 12 (4.63%) Tailwind CSS
16 12 (4.63%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (4.25%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.09%) IoT
4 6 (2.32%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.54%) e-Learning
5 4 (1.54%) Legacy Code
5 4 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.54%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.54%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.16%) Educational Technology
6 3 (1.16%) NHS
6 3 (1.16%) Social Media
7 2 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.77%) EPoS
7 2 (0.77%) Learning Management System
7 2 (0.77%) Online Games
7 2 (0.77%) PropTech
8 1 (0.39%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.27%) Linux
2 4 (1.54%) Ubuntu
2 4 (1.54%) Windows
3 3 (1.16%) Android
3 3 (1.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (20.85%) Agile
2 52 (20.08%) Full Stack Development
2 52 (20.08%) OO
3 49 (18.92%) MVC
4 47 (18.15%) OOP
5 42 (16.22%) Web Development
6 39 (15.06%) DevOps
7 30 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (11.20%) API Development
9 28 (10.81%) OO PHP
10 25 (9.65%) Continuous Delivery
10 25 (9.65%) E-Commerce
11 24 (9.27%) API Design
12 23 (8.88%) Unit Testing
13 21 (8.11%) Mentoring
14 17 (6.56%) Clean Code
14 17 (6.56%) Software Engineering
15 15 (5.79%) CRM
16 13 (5.02%) API Integration
16 13 (5.02%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 259 (100.00%) PHP
2 176 (67.95%) JavaScript
3 46 (17.76%) SQL
4 5 (1.93%) Go
4 5 (1.93%) TypeScript
5 4 (1.54%) Bash
5 4 (1.54%) Perl
5 4 (1.54%) Python
6 3 (1.16%) C#
6 3 (1.16%) Java
7 2 (0.77%) C++
7 2 (0.77%) Ruby
7 2 (0.77%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (6.95%) Degree
2 8 (3.09%) SC Cleared
2 8 (3.09%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.16%) QA
2 1 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 57 (22.01%) Docker
2 4 (1.54%) FreeRADIUS
Systems Management
1 9 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.93%) Terraform
3 3 (1.16%) cPanel
4 2 (0.77%) Plesk
5 1 (0.39%) Matomo
Vendors
1 9 (3.47%) Zend
2 4 (1.54%) Oracle
3 3 (1.16%) Rollbar
4 2 (0.77%) WooCommerce
5 1 (0.39%) Dell
5 1 (0.39%) Google
5 1 (0.39%) SAP