PHP Developer Job Trends

PHP Developer
UK

The median PHP Developer salary in the UK is £41,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 November 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 374 448
Rank change year-on-year -174 +74 +131
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 101 446 271
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.66% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.70% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 92 294 254
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £34,650
25th Percentile £25,938 £35,000 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,250 £67,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -

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 47,921 63,941 49,281
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.47% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 30,174 35,998 38,349
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.77% -1.90% -

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 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 -147 90 £42,500 -12.95% 53
UK excluding London -154 80 £40,000 -11.11% 51
Work from Home -14 54 £37,500 -16.67% 35
North of England -49 21 £40,000 -11.11% 18
Midlands +33 18 £40,000 -20.00% 19
South East -11 17 £55,000 - 4
London +35 15 £70,000 +33.33% 5
East Midlands +30 14 £40,000 -33.33% 8
East of England -3 13 £25,000 -47.37% 2
North West -18 12 £60,000 +33.33% 10
Yorkshire 0 7 £38,750 -13.89% 8
South West -26 6 £58,750 +20.51% 7
West Midlands +25 4 £33,750 -18.18% 11
Scotland -8 4 £60,000 +9.09% 2
North East +9 2 £25,000 -44.44%
Northern Ireland +2 1 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 November 2025, 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.

1 101 (100.00%) PHP
2 54 (53.47%) CSS
3 51 (50.50%) Laravel
3 51 (50.50%) MySQL
4 45 (44.55%) Agile
4 45 (44.55%) JavaScript
5 39 (38.61%) MVC
6 38 (37.62%) HTML
7 37 (36.63%) SQL
8 32 (31.68%) AWS
9 30 (29.70%) OO
9 30 (29.70%) OOP
10 27 (26.73%) Azure
10 27 (26.73%) jQuery
10 27 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (23.76%) C#
11 24 (23.76%) Symfony
12 22 (21.78%) Computer Science
12 22 (21.78%) SQL Server
13 19 (18.81%) Computer Science Degree
13 19 (18.81%) Degree
14 18 (17.82%) Full-Stack Development
14 18 (17.82%) Git
15 17 (16.83%) C++
15 17 (16.83%) Java
16 15 (14.85%) React
17 14 (13.86%) Clean Code
17 14 (13.86%) TypeScript
18 13 (12.87%) OO PHP
19 11 (10.89%) CakePHP

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 7 (6.93%) WordPress
2 3 (2.97%) Apache
3 2 (1.98%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.99%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.99%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.99%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (31.68%) AWS
2 27 (26.73%) Azure
3 9 (8.91%) GCP
4 4 (3.96%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.97%) ChatGPT
5 3 (2.97%) Cloudflare
5 3 (2.97%) GitHub
6 2 (1.98%) Stripe
7 1 (0.99%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (0.99%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.99%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.99%) SaaS
7 1 (0.99%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.96%) Intranet
2 1 (0.99%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (50.50%) MySQL
2 22 (21.78%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.96%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.98%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.99%) Power BI
5 1 (0.99%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (17.82%) Git
2 3 (2.97%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.99%) git-flow
3 1 (0.99%) JIRA
General
1 28 (27.72%) Finance
2 16 (15.84%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.88%) Law
4 7 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.93%) Games
5 4 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.96%) Marketing
6 2 (1.98%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.98%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (0.99%) Advertising
7 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
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 54 (53.47%) CSS
2 51 (50.50%) Laravel
3 38 (37.62%) HTML
4 27 (26.73%) jQuery
5 24 (23.76%) Symfony
6 15 (14.85%) React
7 11 (10.89%) CakePHP
7 11 (10.89%) CodeIgniter
8 9 (8.91%) .NET
9 8 (7.92%) ASP.NET
9 8 (7.92%) RESTful
10 7 (6.93%) HTML5
10 7 (6.93%) Vue
11 6 (5.94%) CSS3
11 6 (5.94%) REST
12 5 (4.95%) LAMP
13 3 (2.97%) Web Services
13 3 (2.97%) WebSockets
14 2 (1.98%) Playwright
14 2 (1.98%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.93%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.95%) Legacy Code
3 4 (3.96%) e-Learning
3 4 (3.96%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.98%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.98%) NHS
5 1 (0.99%) Animation
5 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.96%) Linux
1 4 (3.96%) Windows
1 4 (3.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (44.55%) Agile
2 39 (38.61%) MVC
3 30 (29.70%) OO
3 30 (29.70%) OOP
4 27 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (21.78%) Computer Science
6 18 (17.82%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (13.86%) Clean Code
8 13 (12.87%) OO PHP
9 10 (9.90%) E-Commerce
9 10 (9.90%) Web Development
10 9 (8.91%) CI/CD
11 8 (7.92%) User Experience
12 7 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (5.94%) Mentoring
14 5 (4.95%) AI
14 5 (4.95%) DevOps
14 5 (4.95%) Microservices
14 5 (4.95%) Performance Optimisation
14 5 (4.95%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 101 (100.00%) PHP
2 45 (44.55%) JavaScript
3 37 (36.63%) SQL
4 24 (23.76%) C#
5 17 (16.83%) C++
5 17 (16.83%) Java
6 14 (13.86%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.96%) Go
8 3 (2.97%) Python
9 1 (0.99%) Bash
9 1 (0.99%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 19 (18.81%) Computer Science Degree
1 19 (18.81%) Degree
2 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (0.99%) MySQL Certification
System Software
1 7 (6.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.97%) cPanel
1 3 (2.97%) Plesk
2 1 (0.99%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (2.97%) HubSpot
1 3 (2.97%) OpenAI
1 3 (2.97%) SAP
2 2 (1.98%) Google
3 1 (0.99%) Adobe
3 1 (0.99%) Zend