PHP Developer
UK

The median PHP Developer salary in the UK is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 483 361
Rank change year-on-year -10 -122 -56
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 256 169 757
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.39% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.44% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 244 161 706
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,375
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -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 87,064 38,294 94,653
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.31% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 57,954 21,519 69,253
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +1.93% -6.54%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +18 239 £50,000 +17.65% 15
UK excluding London +17 221 £47,500 +11.76% 16
Work from Home +46 119 £37,500 -11.76% 6
North of England -5 76 £50,000 +5.26% 7
Midlands +15 66 £45,000 +12.50% 2
Yorkshire -2 58 £60,000 +26.32% 5
East Midlands -10 33 £37,500 -6.25%
West Midlands -13 33 £55,000 +29.41% 2
South East -31 31 £56,500 +46.75% 7
South West -51 26 £55,000 -8.33%
East of England -9 21 £25,000 -23.08%
London -26 19 £65,000 +18.18%
North West -14 16 £45,000 -14.29%
North East -36 2 £45,000 +16.13% 2
Wales -40 1 £45,000 +38.46% 1

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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.

1 256 (100.00%) PHP
2 87 (33.98%) Laravel
3 73 (28.52%) SQL
4 65 (25.39%) Agile
5 60 (23.44%) Azure
6 59 (23.05%) MySQL
7 56 (21.88%) C#
8 55 (21.48%) Computer Science
9 52 (20.31%) CSS
10 48 (18.75%) JavaScript
11 39 (15.23%) Full-Stack Development
12 37 (14.45%) AWS
13 36 (14.06%) HTML
14 30 (11.72%) Degree
14 30 (11.72%) SQL Server
15 29 (11.33%) MVC
16 28 (10.94%) jQuery
17 27 (10.55%) Computer Science Degree
18 21 (8.20%) OOP
18 21 (8.20%) SaaS
18 21 (8.20%) Vue
19 19 (7.42%) Git
20 18 (7.03%) OO
21 16 (6.25%) C++
21 16 (6.25%) Java
21 16 (6.25%) Web Development
22 15 (5.86%) Problem-Solving
22 15 (5.86%) React
22 15 (5.86%) Symfony
22 15 (5.86%) TypeScript

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 (2.34%) nginx
2 3 (1.17%) Apache
2 3 (1.17%) CMS
2 3 (1.17%) WordPress
3 2 (0.78%) Drupal
4 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.39%) IIS
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Magento
1 1 (0.39%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 60 (23.44%) Azure
2 37 (14.45%) AWS
3 21 (8.20%) SaaS
4 9 (3.52%) GCP
5 4 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (1.56%) Serverless
6 3 (1.17%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.39%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.39%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.39%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (0.39%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.17%) VPN
2 1 (0.39%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (23.05%) MySQL
2 30 (11.72%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.91%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.17%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.17%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (7.42%) Git
2 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.39%) gulp
2 1 (0.39%) JIRA
2 1 (0.39%) PHPUnit
2 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 48 (18.75%) Finance
2 17 (6.64%) Social Skills
3 9 (3.52%) Marketing
4 8 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.34%) Tech for Good
6 4 (1.56%) Law
7 2 (0.78%) Public Sector
7 2 (0.78%) Retail
8 1 (0.39%) Back Office
8 1 (0.39%) Games
8 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (33.98%) Laravel
2 52 (20.31%) CSS
3 36 (14.06%) HTML
4 28 (10.94%) jQuery
5 21 (8.20%) Vue
6 15 (5.86%) React
6 15 (5.86%) Symfony
7 10 (3.91%) CSS3
7 10 (3.91%) HTML5
8 7 (2.73%) LAMP
8 7 (2.73%) REST
8 7 (2.73%) RESTful
9 5 (1.95%) CodeIgniter
9 5 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (1.95%) React Native
10 4 (1.56%) .NET
10 4 (1.56%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.17%) Sass
11 3 (1.17%) Tailwind CSS
12 2 (0.78%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.86%) Virtual Team
2 9 (3.52%) Educational Technology
3 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (0.78%) Cloud Native
4 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (0.78%) Legacy Code
4 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (0.78%) NHS
5 1 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.39%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.95%) Linux
2 2 (0.78%) Windows
2 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (25.39%) Agile
2 55 (21.48%) Computer Science
3 39 (15.23%) Full-Stack Development
4 29 (11.33%) MVC
5 21 (8.20%) OOP
6 18 (7.03%) OO
7 16 (6.25%) Web Development
8 15 (5.86%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (5.47%) OO PHP
10 13 (5.08%) Clean Code
11 11 (4.30%) Microservices
12 10 (3.91%) Mentoring
13 9 (3.52%) CI/CD
13 9 (3.52%) DevOps
14 8 (3.13%) API Integration
15 7 (2.73%) E-Commerce
15 7 (2.73%) TDD
16 6 (2.34%) Requirements Gathering
16 6 (2.34%) User Experience
17 5 (1.95%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 256 (100.00%) PHP
2 73 (28.52%) SQL
3 56 (21.88%) C#
4 48 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.25%) C++
5 16 (6.25%) Java
6 15 (5.86%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.73%) Python
8 3 (1.17%) Go
8 3 (1.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (11.72%) Degree
2 27 (10.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.56%) QA
2 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (1.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (2.34%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.95%) Google
3 1 (0.39%) Adobe
3 1 (0.39%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.39%) SAP
3 1 (0.39%) Zend