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 leading to 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 654 596 359
Rank change year-on-year -58 -237 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 155 81 481
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.16% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.18% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 143 74 318
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,875 £32,813 £35,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £59,688
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,625 £66,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 109,479 44,337 68,935
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 89.81% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 74,234 25,787 39,430
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,875 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,015 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.44% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%

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 11 October 2026.

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 11 October 2026. 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 -71 141 £50,000 +15.61% 61
UK excluding London -47 134 £50,000 +25.00% 42
Work from Home -26 52 £35,000 -6.67% 27
South East -13 44 £55,000 +46.67% 14
North of England -41 41 £50,000 +33.33% 10
Yorkshire -20 27 £45,000 +24.14% 4
Midlands -44 19 £25,000 -37.50% 9
South West -69 13 £55,000 -2.22% 3
East of England -37 12 £47,500 +90.00% 3
London -61 12 £100,000 +37.93% 16
North West -21 11 £52,500 +7.69% 6
East Midlands -32 10 £24,000 -40.00% 7
West Midlands -41 9 £37,500 -37.50% 2
North East -66 3 £31,000 +24.00%
Scotland - 3 £40,000 -
Wales - 2 £45,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 11 October 2026, 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.

1 155 (100.00%) PHP
2 82 (52.90%) Laravel
3 58 (37.42%) JavaScript
4 56 (36.13%) CSS
4 56 (36.13%) MySQL
5 53 (34.19%) HTML
6 40 (25.81%) SQL
7 36 (23.23%) Agile
7 36 (23.23%) AWS
8 31 (20.00%) Azure
8 31 (20.00%) Web Development
9 28 (18.06%) Vue
10 27 (17.42%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (14.84%) C#
11 23 (14.84%) Computer Science
12 22 (14.19%) Git
12 22 (14.19%) Symfony
13 17 (10.97%) HTML5
13 17 (10.97%) MVC
13 17 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (10.32%) OOP
15 15 (9.68%) Docker
15 15 (9.68%) Microservices
16 14 (9.03%) Clean Code
16 14 (9.03%) Degree
16 14 (9.03%) React
17 13 (8.39%) CI/CD
17 13 (8.39%) Linux
17 13 (8.39%) Scrum
17 13 (8.39%) SQL Server

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 9 (5.81%) WordPress
2 7 (4.52%) CMS
3 5 (3.23%) Drupal
4 3 (1.94%) Apache
5 1 (0.65%) IIS
5 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Magento
1 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (23.23%) AWS
2 31 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (2.58%) SaaS
4 3 (1.94%) Stripe
5 2 (1.29%) GitHub
6 1 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.65%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.65%) Azure AI
6 1 (0.65%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.65%) GCP
6 1 (0.65%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (0.65%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.65%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (36.13%) MySQL
2 13 (8.39%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.87%) MariaDB
4 6 (3.87%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.94%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.94%) Redis
6 2 (1.29%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.65%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (14.19%) Git
2 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.65%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.65%) gulp
2 1 (0.65%) JIRA
2 1 (0.65%) PHPUnit
2 1 (0.65%) Postman
2 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 26 (16.77%) Finance
2 23 (14.84%) Social Skills
3 6 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.94%) Publishing
6 2 (1.29%) Marketing
6 2 (1.29%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (52.90%) Laravel
2 56 (36.13%) CSS
3 53 (34.19%) HTML
4 28 (18.06%) Vue
5 22 (14.19%) Symfony
6 17 (10.97%) HTML5
7 14 (9.03%) React
8 10 (6.45%) CodeIgniter
8 10 (6.45%) RESTful
9 9 (5.81%) CSS3
9 9 (5.81%) jQuery
10 8 (5.16%) LAMP
11 7 (4.52%) CakePHP
11 7 (4.52%) JSON
11 7 (4.52%) Nuxt
12 6 (3.87%) REST
13 5 (3.23%) Ajax
13 5 (3.23%) Node.js
14 3 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
14 3 (1.94%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.39%) Virtual Team
2 4 (2.58%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.29%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.29%) PMI
5 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.39%) Linux
2 3 (1.94%) Windows
3 1 (0.65%) Debian
3 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (23.23%) Agile
2 31 (20.00%) Web Development
3 27 (17.42%) Full-Stack Development
4 23 (14.84%) Computer Science
5 17 (10.97%) MVC
5 17 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (10.32%) OOP
7 15 (9.68%) Microservices
8 14 (9.03%) Clean Code
9 13 (8.39%) CI/CD
9 13 (8.39%) Scrum
10 12 (7.74%) DevOps
11 11 (7.10%) CRM
11 11 (7.10%) Test Automation
12 9 (5.81%) AI
12 9 (5.81%) E-Commerce
12 9 (5.81%) Software Engineering
13 8 (5.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (4.52%) Fintech
14 7 (4.52%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 155 (100.00%) PHP
2 58 (37.42%) JavaScript
3 40 (25.81%) SQL
4 23 (14.84%) C#
5 6 (3.87%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.58%) Java
7 3 (1.94%) C++
7 3 (1.94%) Go
7 3 (1.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (9.03%) Degree
2 12 (7.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.29%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.65%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.81%) QA
2 8 (5.16%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.87%) WCAG
4 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (3.23%) Google
2 3 (1.94%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft