PHP Developer Jobs

PHP Developer
UK

The median PHP Developer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 316 483
Rank change year-on-year -46 +167 -257
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 641 885 1,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 1.10% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 1.19% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 554 437 950
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +23.53%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Top 17 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 26 July 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 -40 587 £45,000 -14.29% 63
UK excluding London -38 574 £45,000 -5.26% 54
Work from Home +35 273 £47,500 -9.52% 36
North of England 0 176 £47,500 +5.56% 19
Midlands -47 117 £40,000 -20.00% 7
South East -51 108 £52,500 +5.00% 10
North West +23 102 £52,500 +5.00% 12
South West -18 75 £45,000 -5.26% 4
Yorkshire +32 66 £45,000 - 6
East of England +31 65 £45,000 -25.00% 10
West Midlands -5 65 £38,750 -8.82% 4
East Midlands -57 51 £42,500 -22.73% 3
London -2 45 £50,000 -16.67% 15
Scotland -73 19 £45,000 -
Wales +25 11 £32,500 -27.78%
North East -28 8 £38,750 +3.33% 1
Northern Ireland +3 3 £33,500 -4.29% 6

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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.

1 641 (100.00%) PHP
2 382 (59.59%) JavaScript
3 362 (56.47%) Laravel
4 330 (51.48%) MySQL
5 291 (45.40%) HTML
6 268 (41.81%) CSS
7 183 (28.55%) Git
8 177 (27.61%) AWS
9 161 (25.12%) React
10 157 (24.49%) Full Stack Development
11 147 (22.93%) Web Development
12 137 (21.37%) Symfony
13 131 (20.44%) Social Skills
14 128 (19.97%) Vue
15 124 (19.34%) Agile
16 122 (19.03%) OOP
17 103 (16.07%) OO
18 101 (15.76%) E-Commerce
19 97 (15.13%) jQuery
20 94 (14.66%) MVC
21 87 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
22 86 (13.42%) Docker
23 83 (12.95%) SaaS
23 83 (12.95%) Linux
24 75 (11.70%) Software Engineering
25 72 (11.23%) SQL
25 72 (11.23%) WordPress
26 67 (10.45%) TDD
27 62 (9.67%) RESTful
27 62 (9.67%) Clean Code

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 72 (11.23%) WordPress
2 41 (6.40%) CMS
3 22 (3.43%) nginx
4 16 (2.50%) Apache
5 14 (2.18%) Drupal
6 12 (1.87%) Totara
7 10 (1.56%) Moodle
8 6 (0.94%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.62%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.31%) Confluence
11 1 (0.16%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.16%) PrestaShop
11 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 19 (2.96%) Magento
2 5 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.78%) Shopify
3 1 (0.16%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 177 (27.61%) AWS
2 83 (12.95%) SaaS
3 30 (4.68%) GCP
4 25 (3.90%) GitHub
5 11 (1.72%) npm
6 10 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (1.25%) Serverless
7 8 (1.25%) Stripe
8 7 (1.09%) Azure
8 7 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (0.94%) Datadog
10 4 (0.62%) DigitalOcean
11 3 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.47%) Firebase
12 2 (0.31%) Figma
12 2 (0.31%) Twilio
13 1 (0.16%) BigCommerce
13 1 (0.16%) Discord
13 1 (0.16%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.16%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (0.62%) HTTP
3 2 (0.31%) FTP
3 2 (0.31%) SSH
4 1 (0.16%) Internet
4 1 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (51.48%) MySQL
2 35 (5.46%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (4.84%) Relational Database
4 17 (2.65%) MariaDB
5 14 (2.18%) MongoDB
5 14 (2.18%) Redis
6 13 (2.03%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.47%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.16%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 183 (28.55%) Git
2 23 (3.59%) JIRA
3 18 (2.81%) webpack
4 14 (2.18%) PHPUnit
5 12 (1.87%) GitLab
6 7 (1.09%) Grunt
7 6 (0.94%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.94%) Selenium
8 3 (0.47%) git-flow
8 3 (0.47%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.47%) Subversion
9 1 (0.16%) Appium
9 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.16%) gulp
9 1 (0.16%) Storybook
General
1 131 (20.44%) Social Skills
2 46 (7.18%) Marketing
3 41 (6.40%) Finance
4 25 (3.90%) Games
4 25 (3.90%) Retail
5 13 (2.03%) Law
6 11 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (1.72%) Tech for Good
7 9 (1.40%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.25%) Health Technology
8 8 (1.25%) Turkish Language
9 7 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.62%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.31%) Banking
13 1 (0.16%) Automotive
13 1 (0.16%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.16%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (56.47%) Laravel
2 291 (45.40%) HTML
3 268 (41.81%) CSS
4 161 (25.12%) React
5 137 (21.37%) Symfony
6 128 (19.97%) Vue
7 97 (15.13%) jQuery
8 62 (9.67%) RESTful
9 56 (8.74%) HTML5
10 54 (8.42%) LAMP
11 52 (8.11%) Node.js
12 46 (7.18%) AngularJS
13 38 (5.93%) REST
14 37 (5.77%) CSS3
15 36 (5.62%) Sass
16 32 (4.99%) Web Services
17 25 (3.90%) CakePHP
18 24 (3.74%) Doctrine
19 23 (3.59%) Tailwind CSS
20 21 (3.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.93%) Greenfield Project
2 28 (4.37%) Mobile App
3 20 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (2.18%) Legacy Code
5 14 (2.18%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.03%) e-Learning
7 12 (1.87%) PropTech
8 11 (1.72%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.56%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.94%) Cybercrime
10 6 (0.94%) IoT
11 5 (0.78%) Educational Technology
12 3 (0.47%) Digital Media
12 3 (0.47%) Smartphone
13 2 (0.31%) Cloud Native
13 2 (0.31%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.31%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.31%) NHS
13 2 (0.31%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 83 (12.95%) Linux
2 6 (0.94%) Windows
3 5 (0.78%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (0.31%) Android
5 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.31%) Unix
6 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (24.49%) Full Stack Development
2 147 (22.93%) Web Development
3 124 (19.34%) Agile
4 122 (19.03%) OOP
5 103 (16.07%) OO
6 101 (15.76%) E-Commerce
7 94 (14.66%) MVC
8 87 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (11.70%) Software Engineering
10 67 (10.45%) TDD
11 62 (9.67%) Clean Code
12 55 (8.58%) User Experience
13 51 (7.96%) DevOps
14 47 (7.33%) Computer Science
15 46 (7.18%) OO PHP
16 42 (6.55%) Front End Development
17 36 (5.62%) Collaborative Working
18 35 (5.46%) Roadmaps
19 34 (5.30%) Unit Testing
20 27 (4.21%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 641 (100.00%) PHP
2 382 (59.59%) JavaScript
3 72 (11.23%) SQL
4 37 (5.77%) TypeScript
5 15 (2.34%) Go
6 9 (1.40%) Python
7 6 (0.94%) Java
8 5 (0.78%) C#
9 4 (0.62%) Ruby
9 4 (0.62%) Rust
9 4 (0.62%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.62%) VB
10 3 (0.47%) Ada
10 3 (0.47%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.16%) RPG
11 1 (0.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 45 (7.02%) Degree
2 38 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.59%) QA
2 11 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 86 (13.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) GlusterFS
Systems Management
1 13 (2.03%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.09%) Terraform
3 1 (0.16%) Ansible
3 1 (0.16%) cPanel
3 1 (0.16%) Plesk
Vendors
1 14 (2.18%) Zend
2 12 (1.87%) Google
3 6 (0.94%) Adobe
3 6 (0.94%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.78%) Twitter
5 4 (0.62%) HP
5 4 (0.62%) WooCommerce
6 3 (0.47%) Actuate
6 3 (0.47%) Microsoft
6 3 (0.47%) Oracle
7 1 (0.16%) Apple
7 1 (0.16%) Facebook
7 1 (0.16%) Panasonic
7 1 (0.16%) Progress
7 1 (0.16%) Sony