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 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 380 452
Rank change year-on-year -195 +72 +82
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 101 527 352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.67% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.71% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 95 384 326
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £30,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £69,000 £65,000 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -13.64%

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 44,338 74,395 56,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.65% 95.25% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26,053 44,780 43,966
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

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

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 -194 94 £40,000 -15.79% 53
UK excluding London -191 74 £40,000 -11.11% 45
Work from Home -57 53 £37,500 -16.67% 30
North of England -90 23 £40,000 -11.11% 20
London +55 21 £62,500 +19.05% 11
Midlands -13 15 £40,000 -15.79% 3
North West -62 15 £40,000 -20.00% 11
South West +17 13 £60,000 +33.33% 1
East Midlands +15 13 £40,000 -15.79% 3
South East -20 13 £31,000 -40.95% 12
East of England -65 9 £25,000 -47.37% 11
Yorkshire -9 6 £38,750 -8.82% 9
North East +10 2 £25,000 -20.00%
West Midlands 0 2 £42,500 +13.33%
Northern Ireland - 1 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 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.

1 101 (100.00%) PHP
2 57 (56.44%) CSS
3 56 (55.45%) JavaScript
4 43 (42.57%) MySQL
4 43 (42.57%) Agile
5 42 (41.58%) HTML
6 41 (40.59%) OO
7 40 (39.60%) SQL
8 39 (38.61%) Laravel
9 35 (34.65%) OOP
10 34 (33.66%) MVC
11 32 (31.68%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (25.74%) Symfony
12 26 (25.74%) jQuery
13 22 (21.78%) Finance
13 22 (21.78%) C#
13 22 (21.78%) Social Skills
14 21 (20.79%) Azure
14 21 (20.79%) AWS
15 19 (18.81%) Degree
15 19 (18.81%) Computer Science
15 19 (18.81%) SQL Server
15 19 (18.81%) Computer Science Degree
16 17 (16.83%) React
17 16 (15.84%) C++
17 16 (15.84%) Java
17 16 (15.84%) .NET
17 16 (15.84%) ASP.NET
17 16 (15.84%) Web Development
18 15 (14.85%) Git

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 7 (6.93%) WordPress
2 5 (4.95%) Apache
3 2 (1.98%) nginx
4 1 (0.99%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.99%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.99%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.99%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.99%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (20.79%) AWS
1 21 (20.79%) Azure
2 6 (5.94%) GCP
3 4 (3.96%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (3.96%) SaaS
4 3 (2.97%) Cloudflare
4 3 (2.97%) GitHub
5 2 (1.98%) ChatGPT
5 2 (1.98%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.99%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.99%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) Intranet
2 1 (0.99%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (42.57%) MySQL
2 19 (18.81%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.96%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.98%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.98%) Redis
6 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (14.85%) Git
2 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.99%) git-flow
2 1 (0.99%) PHPUnit
General
1 22 (21.78%) Finance
1 22 (21.78%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.87%) Law
3 9 (8.91%) Games
4 7 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.98%) Mandarin Language
6 2 (1.98%) Marketing
7 1 (0.99%) Advertising
7 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.99%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.99%) Publishing
7 1 (0.99%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (56.44%) CSS
2 42 (41.58%) HTML
3 39 (38.61%) Laravel
4 26 (25.74%) jQuery
4 26 (25.74%) Symfony
5 17 (16.83%) React
6 16 (15.84%) .NET
6 16 (15.84%) ASP.NET
7 9 (8.91%) HTML5
7 9 (8.91%) RESTful
7 9 (8.91%) Vue
8 8 (7.92%) CSS3
8 8 (7.92%) Playwright
8 8 (7.92%) REST
9 6 (5.94%) CakePHP
9 6 (5.94%) CodeIgniter
10 5 (4.95%) Web Services
11 4 (3.96%) LAMP
11 4 (3.96%) Tailwind CSS
12 3 (2.97%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.93%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (6.93%) Virtual Team
2 4 (3.96%) e-Learning
2 4 (3.96%) Legacy Code
3 3 (2.97%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.98%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.98%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.99%) Animation
5 1 (0.99%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.99%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.93%) Linux
2 5 (4.95%) Windows
3 2 (1.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (42.57%) Agile
2 41 (40.59%) OO
3 35 (34.65%) OOP
4 34 (33.66%) MVC
5 32 (31.68%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (18.81%) Computer Science
7 16 (15.84%) Web Development
8 13 (12.87%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (9.90%) CI/CD
9 10 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (9.90%) E-Commerce
9 10 (9.90%) Front End Development
9 10 (9.90%) Test Automation
10 9 (8.91%) Clean Code
10 9 (8.91%) OO PHP
11 8 (7.92%) User Experience
12 6 (5.94%) Microservices
13 4 (3.96%) DevOps
13 4 (3.96%) Mentoring
13 4 (3.96%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 101 (100.00%) PHP
2 56 (55.45%) JavaScript
3 40 (39.60%) SQL
4 22 (21.78%) C#
5 16 (15.84%) C++
5 16 (15.84%) Java
6 10 (9.90%) TypeScript
7 7 (6.93%) Python
8 3 (2.97%) C
8 3 (2.97%) Go
9 1 (0.99%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (18.81%) Computer Science Degree
1 19 (18.81%) Degree
2 1 (0.99%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.99%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (8.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.99%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (2.97%) Google
1 3 (2.97%) Microsoft
1 3 (2.97%) Twitter
2 2 (1.98%) OpenAI
2 2 (1.98%) SAP
3 1 (0.99%) Adobe
3 1 (0.99%) HubSpot