PHP Developer Job Trends

PHP Developer
UK

The median PHP Developer salary in the UK is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 373 451
Rank change year-on-year -179 +78 +122
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 109 440 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.66% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.69% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 99 288 249
10th Percentile £24,800 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £25,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -

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 48,668 63,346 48,348
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 94.33% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 30,738 35,437 37,585
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'PHP Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

PHP Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

PHP Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for PHP Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for PHP Developer job vacancies in the UK

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 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 -144 98 £40,000 -20.00% 69
UK excluding London -141 88 £40,000 -15.79% 66
Work from Home -10 59 £31,750 -29.44% 40
North of England -26 25 £37,500 -16.67% 21
Midlands +14 19 £40,000 -23.81% 19
South East +3 18 £55,000 - 7
London +34 15 £62,500 +19.05% 7
East Midlands +26 15 £40,000 -33.33% 6
East of England -3 14 £25,000 -47.37% 6
North West -8 14 £60,000 +29.73% 11
Yorkshire -5 9 £36,250 -17.14% 10
South West -28 7 £60,000 +20.00% 14
West Midlands +31 4 £33,750 -20.59% 13
Scotland -9 4 £60,000 +9.09%
North East +10 2 £25,000 -44.44%
Northern Ireland +3 1 £60,000 -

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 109 (100.00%) PHP
2 54 (49.54%) CSS
3 53 (48.62%) MySQL
4 51 (46.79%) Laravel
5 49 (44.95%) Agile
6 45 (41.28%) JavaScript
7 41 (37.61%) SQL
8 39 (35.78%) MVC
9 38 (34.86%) HTML
10 33 (30.28%) Azure
11 31 (28.44%) AWS
12 30 (27.52%) C#
12 30 (27.52%) OO
12 30 (27.52%) OOP
13 28 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (24.77%) jQuery
15 26 (23.85%) Computer Science
16 23 (21.10%) SQL Server
16 23 (21.10%) Symfony
17 19 (17.43%) Computer Science Degree
17 19 (17.43%) Degree
18 18 (16.51%) Full-Stack Development
18 18 (16.51%) Git
19 17 (15.60%) C++
19 17 (15.60%) Java
20 15 (13.76%) React
21 14 (12.84%) Clean Code
21 14 (12.84%) TypeScript
22 13 (11.93%) OO PHP
23 12 (11.01%) CodeIgniter

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.42%) WordPress
2 3 (2.75%) Apache
3 2 (1.83%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.92%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.92%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.92%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (30.28%) Azure
2 31 (28.44%) AWS
3 9 (8.26%) GCP
4 4 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.75%) ChatGPT
5 3 (2.75%) Cloudflare
5 3 (2.75%) GitHub
6 2 (1.83%) SaaS
6 2 (1.83%) Stripe
7 1 (0.92%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (0.92%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.92%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.92%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.67%) Intranet
2 1 (0.92%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (48.62%) MySQL
2 23 (21.10%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.83%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.92%) Power BI
5 1 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (16.51%) Git
2 3 (2.75%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.92%) git-flow
3 1 (0.92%) JIRA
General
1 32 (29.36%) Finance
2 16 (14.68%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.01%) Law
4 7 (6.42%) Games
5 6 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.67%) Marketing
7 2 (1.83%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.83%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (0.92%) Advertising
8 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.92%) Publishing
8 1 (0.92%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (49.54%) CSS
2 51 (46.79%) Laravel
3 38 (34.86%) HTML
4 27 (24.77%) jQuery
5 23 (21.10%) Symfony
6 15 (13.76%) React
7 12 (11.01%) CodeIgniter
8 11 (10.09%) CakePHP
9 10 (9.17%) .NET
10 9 (8.26%) ASP.NET
11 8 (7.34%) RESTful
12 7 (6.42%) HTML5
12 7 (6.42%) Vue
13 6 (5.50%) CSS3
13 6 (5.50%) REST
14 5 (4.59%) LAMP
15 3 (2.75%) Web Services
15 3 (2.75%) WebSockets
16 2 (1.83%) Playwright
16 2 (1.83%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.50%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.59%) Legacy Code
3 4 (3.67%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.75%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.83%) NHS
6 1 (0.92%) Animation
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.67%) Linux
1 4 (3.67%) Windows
1 4 (3.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (44.95%) Agile
2 39 (35.78%) MVC
3 30 (27.52%) OO
3 30 (27.52%) OOP
4 28 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (23.85%) Computer Science
6 18 (16.51%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (12.84%) Clean Code
8 13 (11.93%) OO PHP
9 11 (10.09%) E-Commerce
10 10 (9.17%) Web Development
11 8 (7.34%) CI/CD
11 8 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (7.34%) User Experience
12 6 (5.50%) Mentoring
13 5 (4.59%) AI
13 5 (4.59%) DevOps
13 5 (4.59%) Performance Optimisation
13 5 (4.59%) Secure Coding
13 5 (4.59%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 109 (100.00%) PHP
2 45 (41.28%) JavaScript
3 41 (37.61%) SQL
4 30 (27.52%) C#
5 17 (15.60%) C++
5 17 (15.60%) Java
6 14 (12.84%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.67%) Go
8 3 (2.75%) Python
9 1 (0.92%) Bash
9 1 (0.92%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 19 (17.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 19 (17.43%) Degree
2 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (0.92%) MySQL Certification
System Software
1 7 (6.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.75%) cPanel
1 3 (2.75%) Plesk
2 1 (0.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (2.75%) HubSpot
1 3 (2.75%) OpenAI
1 3 (2.75%) SAP
2 2 (1.83%) Google
3 1 (0.92%) Adobe
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.92%) Zend