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 to 23 April 2024.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 318 372
Rank change year-on-year -45 +54 -187
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 728 1,129 1,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 1.07% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.17% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 689 571 1,213
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +25.00%

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 92,477 96,786 147,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 66,588 60,676 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -27 658 £45,000 -14.29% 139
UK excluding London -68 642 £45,000 -5.26% 123
Work from Home +30 357 £50,000 -4.76% 104
North of England +42 213 £45,000 - 54
North West +40 114 £47,500 -11.63% 29
Midlands -24 105 £42,500 -5.56% 24
South East -96 105 £50,000 - 15
South West -37 102 £47,500 - 11
Yorkshire +70 88 £42,500 +6.25% 21
East of England +53 71 £43,500 -33.08% 12
West Midlands +16 60 £42,500 - 15
London +18 59 £51,250 -14.58% 25
East Midlands -52 44 £40,000 -15.79% 9
Scotland -96 28 £45,000 - 6
Wales -11 14 £47,500 -9.52% 3
North East -17 11 £50,000 +38.89% 4
Northern Ireland +3 4 £33,500 -4.29% 1

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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.

1 728 (100.00%) PHP
2 479 (65.80%) Laravel
3 412 (56.59%) JavaScript
4 377 (51.79%) MySQL
5 312 (42.86%) HTML
6 291 (39.97%) CSS
7 227 (31.18%) AWS
8 194 (26.65%) Git
9 175 (24.04%) Full Stack Development
10 174 (23.90%) Vue
11 170 (23.35%) React
12 162 (22.25%) Social Skills
13 153 (21.02%) Web Development
14 145 (19.92%) Agile
15 142 (19.51%) Symfony
16 139 (19.09%) OOP
17 121 (16.62%) jQuery
18 117 (16.07%) MVC
19 112 (15.38%) SaaS
20 106 (14.56%) OO
21 98 (13.46%) Docker
22 95 (13.05%) E-Commerce
23 93 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
24 91 (12.50%) Linux
25 89 (12.23%) SQL
26 87 (11.95%) TDD
27 77 (10.58%) Software Engineering
28 76 (10.44%) WordPress
29 69 (9.48%) HTML5
29 69 (9.48%) LAMP

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 76 (10.44%) WordPress
2 32 (4.40%) CMS
3 23 (3.16%) Apache
4 20 (2.75%) nginx
5 8 (1.10%) Drupal
6 6 (0.82%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.55%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.55%) ColdFusion
7 4 (0.55%) IIS
8 3 (0.41%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.27%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.14%) Confluence
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.14%) Totara
Applications
1 5 (0.69%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.55%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 25 (3.43%) Magento
2 13 (1.79%) Shopify
3 2 (0.27%) Infor M3
3 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 227 (31.18%) AWS
2 112 (15.38%) SaaS
3 26 (3.57%) GCP
4 23 (3.16%) Azure
5 17 (2.34%) GitHub
6 16 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (1.51%) npm
7 11 (1.51%) Serverless
8 8 (1.10%) Figma
8 8 (1.10%) Stripe
9 6 (0.82%) DigitalOcean
10 5 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (0.69%) Power Platform
11 4 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (0.55%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.55%) Firebase
12 3 (0.41%) Google Tag Manager
13 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 2 (0.27%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.27%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.82%) VoIP
1 6 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (0.55%) SSH
3 2 (0.27%) FTP
3 2 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 377 (51.79%) MySQL
2 31 (4.26%) Relational Database
3 30 (4.12%) MariaDB
4 26 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.30%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (1.92%) Redis
8 10 (1.37%) NoSQL
9 7 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.82%) GIS
11 5 (0.69%) Power BI
12 4 (0.55%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.41%) Looker
14 2 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.27%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.27%) phpMyAdmin
15 1 (0.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 194 (26.65%) Git
2 29 (3.98%) JIRA
3 17 (2.34%) webpack
4 13 (1.79%) Subversion
5 8 (1.10%) GitLab
5 8 (1.10%) PHPUnit
6 7 (0.96%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.55%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.41%) Grunt
8 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.27%) git-flow
9 2 (0.27%) gulp
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.14%) Selenium
10 1 (0.14%) Storybook
10 1 (0.14%) WiX
General
1 162 (22.25%) Social Skills
2 47 (6.46%) Marketing
3 42 (5.77%) Finance
4 28 (3.85%) Retail
5 22 (3.02%) Games
6 18 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.06%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.37%) Manufacturing
8 10 (1.37%) Tech for Good
9 9 (1.24%) Turkish Language
10 7 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.96%) Law
11 3 (0.41%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.41%) Legal
11 3 (0.41%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.27%) Aviation
12 2 (0.27%) Banking
13 1 (0.14%) Advertising
13 1 (0.14%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.14%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 479 (65.80%) Laravel
2 312 (42.86%) HTML
3 291 (39.97%) CSS
4 174 (23.90%) Vue
5 170 (23.35%) React
6 142 (19.51%) Symfony
7 121 (16.62%) jQuery
8 69 (9.48%) HTML5
8 69 (9.48%) LAMP
9 62 (8.52%) RESTful
10 53 (7.28%) Node.js
11 50 (6.87%) REST
12 46 (6.32%) AngularJS
12 46 (6.32%) CSS3
13 39 (5.36%) SOAP
14 34 (4.67%) Web Services
15 33 (4.53%) Sass
16 30 (4.12%) Tailwind CSS
17 29 (3.98%) Doctrine
18 23 (3.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.24%) Greenfield Project
2 29 (3.98%) Mobile App
3 23 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (1.65%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.51%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.37%) PropTech
8 9 (1.24%) Animation
9 8 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.96%) Video Editing
11 5 (0.69%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.55%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.55%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.55%) Educational Technology
12 4 (0.55%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.55%) Legacy Code
13 3 (0.41%) Blog
13 3 (0.41%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.41%) Photography
13 3 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 91 (12.50%) Linux
2 10 (1.37%) Ubuntu
3 8 (1.10%) Windows
4 6 (0.82%) Alpine Linux
5 5 (0.69%) Unix
6 2 (0.27%) AIX
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (24.04%) Full Stack Development
2 153 (21.02%) Web Development
3 145 (19.92%) Agile
4 139 (19.09%) OOP
5 117 (16.07%) MVC
6 106 (14.56%) OO
7 95 (13.05%) E-Commerce
8 93 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
9 87 (11.95%) TDD
10 77 (10.58%) Software Engineering
11 67 (9.20%) Unit Testing
12 65 (8.93%) User Experience
13 62 (8.52%) DevOps
14 61 (8.38%) Clean Code
15 59 (8.10%) OO PHP
16 54 (7.42%) Computer Science
17 49 (6.73%) Front End Development
18 44 (6.04%) Test Automation
19 41 (5.63%) Microservices
20 39 (5.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 728 (100.00%) PHP
2 412 (56.59%) JavaScript
3 89 (12.23%) SQL
4 42 (5.77%) TypeScript
5 16 (2.20%) Java
6 12 (1.65%) Ada
6 12 (1.65%) C#
6 12 (1.65%) Python
7 11 (1.51%) Go
8 9 (1.24%) Kotlin
8 9 (1.24%) VB
9 6 (0.82%) Rust
10 4 (0.55%) CFML
10 4 (0.55%) Ruby
10 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 59 (8.10%) Degree
2 51 (7.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.12%) QA
2 6 (0.82%) GDPR
3 5 (0.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 98 (13.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 17 (2.34%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.24%) Terraform
3 2 (0.27%) cPanel
4 1 (0.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (2.06%) Adobe
2 12 (1.65%) Google
3 11 (1.51%) Microsoft
4 9 (1.24%) WooCommerce
5 8 (1.10%) Twitter
6 6 (0.82%) Actuate
7 5 (0.69%) Zend
8 4 (0.55%) HP
9 3 (0.41%) Facebook
9 3 (0.41%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.41%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle
10 2 (0.27%) Progress