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 7 April 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 430 362
Rank change year-on-year -65 -68 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 221 210 694
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.51% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.57% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 209 202 655
10th Percentile £24,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 76,056 36,861 85,999
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 89.84% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 48,922 23,343 64,499
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,501
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -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 7 April 2026.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Top 15 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 7 April 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 -17 207 £50,000 +5.26% 34
UK excluding London -60 192 £48,750 +8.33% 29
Work from Home -18 112 £37,500 -11.76% 23
North of England -38 61 £50,000 +5.26% 7
Midlands -3 57 £45,000 +5.88% 11
Yorkshire -23 40 £60,000 +26.32% 5
East Midlands -25 29 £40,000 - 4
West Midlands +1 28 £55,000 +29.41% 7
South West -49 26 £55,000 -8.33% 4
South East -43 25 £55,000 +37.50% 6
London -11 19 £65,000 +18.18% 5
East of England -19 19 £25,000 -32.43% 1
North West -43 19 £45,000 -5.26% 1
Scotland -39 4 £60,000 -
North East -26 2 £45,000 +16.13% 1

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

For the 6 months to 7 April 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.

1 221 (100.00%) PHP
2 75 (33.94%) Laravel
3 67 (30.32%) Agile
4 60 (27.15%) SQL
5 58 (26.24%) MySQL
6 56 (25.34%) Azure
7 52 (23.53%) CSS
8 50 (22.62%) C#
9 47 (21.27%) Computer Science
10 43 (19.46%) AWS
11 41 (18.55%) JavaScript
12 33 (14.93%) Full-Stack Development
13 32 (14.48%) HTML
14 31 (14.03%) MVC
15 29 (13.12%) jQuery
16 26 (11.76%) SQL Server
17 24 (10.86%) Degree
18 23 (10.41%) OOP
19 22 (9.95%) Computer Science Degree
19 22 (9.95%) OO
19 22 (9.95%) SaaS
20 20 (9.05%) C++
20 20 (9.05%) Java
20 20 (9.05%) Symfony
21 19 (8.60%) React
22 17 (7.69%) OO PHP
23 16 (7.24%) Problem-Solving
24 14 (6.33%) TypeScript
24 14 (6.33%) Vue
25 13 (5.88%) Git

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 6 (2.71%) nginx
2 3 (1.36%) WordPress
3 2 (0.90%) Apache
3 2 (0.90%) CMS
4 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 56 (25.34%) Azure
2 43 (19.46%) AWS
3 22 (9.95%) SaaS
4 11 (4.98%) GCP
5 3 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (1.36%) Serverless
6 2 (0.90%) Stripe
7 1 (0.45%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.45%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (0.45%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.36%) VPN
2 1 (0.45%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (26.24%) MySQL
2 26 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.62%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.71%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.81%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.36%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.45%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (5.88%) Git
2 4 (1.81%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.45%) JIRA
General
1 47 (21.27%) Finance
2 11 (4.98%) Social Skills
3 10 (4.52%) Marketing
4 8 (3.62%) Law
5 6 (2.71%) Tech for Good
6 5 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.90%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.90%) Retail
9 1 (0.45%) Back Office
9 1 (0.45%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (33.94%) Laravel
2 52 (23.53%) CSS
3 32 (14.48%) HTML
4 29 (13.12%) jQuery
5 20 (9.05%) Symfony
6 19 (8.60%) React
7 14 (6.33%) Vue
8 8 (3.62%) CSS3
8 8 (3.62%) HTML5
9 7 (3.17%) CodeIgniter
10 6 (2.71%) .NET
10 6 (2.71%) LAMP
11 5 (2.26%) .NET Framework
11 5 (2.26%) CakePHP
11 5 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.26%) REST
12 3 (1.36%) RESTful
13 2 (0.90%) ASP.NET
13 2 (0.90%) LEMP Stack
13 2 (0.90%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.07%) Educational Technology
2 5 (2.26%) Virtual Team
3 4 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (1.81%) NHS
4 3 (1.36%) Legacy Code
4 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.45%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.45%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.71%) Linux
2 2 (0.90%) Windows
2 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (30.32%) Agile
2 47 (21.27%) Computer Science
3 33 (14.93%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (14.03%) MVC
5 23 (10.41%) OOP
6 22 (9.95%) OO
7 17 (7.69%) OO PHP
8 16 (7.24%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (5.43%) Clean Code
10 11 (4.98%) Mentoring
10 11 (4.98%) Web Development
11 9 (4.07%) E-Commerce
12 8 (3.62%) DevOps
13 7 (3.17%) CI/CD
13 7 (3.17%) Microservices
13 7 (3.17%) User Experience
14 5 (2.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 5 (2.26%) Cybersecurity
14 5 (2.26%) Data Collection
14 5 (2.26%) Integrated Marketing
Programming Languages
1 221 (100.00%) PHP
2 60 (27.15%) SQL
3 50 (22.62%) C#
4 41 (18.55%) JavaScript
5 20 (9.05%) C++
5 20 (9.05%) Java
6 14 (6.33%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.26%) Python
8 3 (1.36%) Rust
9 1 (0.45%) Delphi
9 1 (0.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (10.86%) Degree
2 22 (9.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.45%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.36%) QA
2 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (1.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.36%) cPanel
2 3 (1.36%) Plesk
Vendors
1 7 (3.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.81%) Google
3 2 (0.90%) HubSpot
3 2 (0.90%) Zend
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe
4 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.45%) SAP