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 leading to 18 May 2026.

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 469 361
Rank change year-on-year -6 -108 -67
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 260 189 744
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.43% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.48% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 245 179 697
10th Percentile £24,000 £27,800 £29,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,800
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 85,613 39,653 91,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 89.71% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,627 23,002 67,400
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £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 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -5.66%

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 18 May 2026.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Top 14 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 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 +26 244 £50,000 +11.11% 22
UK excluding London +25 224 £47,500 +11.76% 22
Work from Home +70 130 £35,000 -17.65% 12
North of England +1 77 £50,000 +5.26% 6
Midlands +14 68 £45,000 +12.50% 3
Yorkshire +8 55 £60,000 +26.32% 5
West Midlands -1 34 £55,000 +29.41% 1
East Midlands -7 34 £40,000 - 2
South East -16 30 £55,250 +41.67% 10
South West -57 27 £55,000 -8.33% 1
East of England -8 22 £25,000 -28.06% 2
North West -1 20 £45,000 -7.69%
London -23 20 £65,000 +18.18% 1
North East -36 2 £45,000 +16.13% 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 260 (100.00%) PHP
2 84 (32.31%) Laravel
3 77 (29.62%) SQL
4 74 (28.46%) Agile
5 68 (26.15%) Azure
6 63 (24.23%) C#
7 60 (23.08%) Computer Science
8 59 (22.69%) MySQL
9 52 (20.00%) CSS
10 46 (17.69%) JavaScript
11 38 (14.62%) AWS
11 38 (14.62%) Full-Stack Development
12 36 (13.85%) HTML
13 29 (11.15%) MVC
14 27 (10.38%) jQuery
14 27 (10.38%) SQL Server
15 26 (10.00%) Degree
16 23 (8.85%) Computer Science Degree
17 22 (8.46%) SaaS
18 20 (7.69%) OOP
18 20 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
19 19 (7.31%) OO
19 19 (7.31%) Vue
20 17 (6.54%) Git
21 16 (6.15%) C++
21 16 (6.15%) Java
21 16 (6.15%) React
21 16 (6.15%) Symfony
22 15 (5.77%) OO PHP
22 15 (5.77%) 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 (2.31%) nginx
2 4 (1.54%) WordPress
3 3 (1.15%) Apache
3 3 (1.15%) CMS
4 2 (0.77%) Drupal
5 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 68 (26.15%) Azure
2 38 (14.62%) AWS
3 22 (8.46%) SaaS
4 10 (3.85%) GCP
5 3 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (1.15%) Serverless
6 1 (0.38%) ChatGPT
6 1 (0.38%) DigitalOcean
6 1 (0.38%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.15%) VPN
2 1 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (22.69%) MySQL
2 27 (10.38%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.46%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.08%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.15%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.15%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (6.54%) Git
2 2 (0.77%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.38%) JIRA
General
1 56 (21.54%) Finance
2 15 (5.77%) Social Skills
3 9 (3.46%) Marketing
4 8 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.31%) Tech for Good
6 5 (1.92%) Law
7 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.77%) Public Sector
7 2 (0.77%) Retail
8 1 (0.38%) Back Office
8 1 (0.38%) Games
8 1 (0.38%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (32.31%) Laravel
2 52 (20.00%) CSS
3 36 (13.85%) HTML
4 27 (10.38%) jQuery
5 19 (7.31%) Vue
6 16 (6.15%) React
6 16 (6.15%) Symfony
7 10 (3.85%) CSS3
7 10 (3.85%) HTML5
8 7 (2.69%) LAMP
8 7 (2.69%) RESTful
9 6 (2.31%) .NET
9 6 (2.31%) CodeIgniter
9 6 (2.31%) REST
10 5 (1.92%) .NET Framework
10 5 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.92%) React Native
11 3 (1.15%) Tailwind CSS
12 2 (0.77%) Alpine.js
12 2 (0.77%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.38%) Virtual Team
2 9 (3.46%) Educational Technology
3 4 (1.54%) NHS
4 3 (1.15%) Legacy Code
4 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.77%) Cloud Native
5 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.38%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.31%) Linux
2 3 (1.15%) Windows
2 3 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (28.46%) Agile
2 60 (23.08%) Computer Science
3 38 (14.62%) Full-Stack Development
4 29 (11.15%) MVC
5 20 (7.69%) OOP
5 20 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (7.31%) OO
7 15 (5.77%) OO PHP
8 14 (5.38%) Web Development
9 13 (5.00%) Clean Code
10 12 (4.62%) Mentoring
11 10 (3.85%) Microservices
12 9 (3.46%) CI/CD
12 9 (3.46%) E-Commerce
13 8 (3.08%) DevOps
14 7 (2.69%) API Integration
14 7 (2.69%) TDD
15 6 (2.31%) Requirements Gathering
16 5 (1.92%) Collaborative Culture
16 5 (1.92%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 260 (100.00%) PHP
2 77 (29.62%) SQL
3 63 (24.23%) C#
4 46 (17.69%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.15%) C++
5 16 (6.15%) Java
6 15 (5.77%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.69%) Python
8 3 (1.15%) Rust
9 2 (0.77%) Go
10 1 (0.38%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 26 (10.00%) Degree
2 23 (8.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (0.38%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.15%) QA
2 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.54%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.77%) cPanel
2 2 (0.77%) Plesk
Vendors
1 7 (2.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.54%) Google
3 2 (0.77%) Zend
4 1 (0.38%) Adobe
4 1 (0.38%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.38%) SAP