PHP Developer Job Trends

PHP Developer
UK

The median PHP Developer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 March 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 431 351
Rank change year-on-year -62 -80 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 205 209 680
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.51% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.57% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 196 199 641
10th Percentile £24,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,875 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £69,250 £63,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -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 71,448 36,544 83,806
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 90.03% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 45,655 22,888 63,388
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,574 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.76%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -19 192 £50,000 +5.26% 34
UK excluding London -40 177 £50,000 +11.11% 29
Work from Home -13 100 £37,500 -11.76% 23
North of England -30 59 £50,000 +5.26% 7
Midlands -1 49 £45,000 +5.88% 11
Yorkshire -27 39 £60,000 +26.32% 5
East Midlands -27 26 £40,000 - 4
South West -39 25 £55,000 -8.33% 4
West Midlands 0 23 £55,000 +29.41% 7
South East -42 23 £55,000 +37.50% 6
London -11 19 £65,000 +18.18% 5
North West -32 18 £45,000 -10.00% 1
East of England -17 17 £25,000 -32.43% 1
Scotland -40 4 £60,000 +4.35%
North East -29 2 £45,000 +16.13% 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 March 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.

1 205 (100.00%) PHP
2 70 (34.15%) Laravel
3 63 (30.73%) Agile
4 52 (25.37%) Azure
4 52 (25.37%) MySQL
5 51 (24.88%) SQL
6 46 (22.44%) C#
7 43 (20.98%) Computer Science
8 42 (20.49%) CSS
9 39 (19.02%) AWS
10 38 (18.54%) JavaScript
11 31 (15.12%) Full-Stack Development
12 29 (14.15%) MVC
13 26 (12.68%) HTML
14 23 (11.22%) jQuery
14 23 (11.22%) SQL Server
15 22 (10.73%) SaaS
16 20 (9.76%) OOP
17 19 (9.27%) Degree
17 19 (9.27%) Symfony
18 18 (8.78%) Computer Science Degree
18 18 (8.78%) React
19 16 (7.80%) C++
19 16 (7.80%) Java
19 16 (7.80%) Problem-Solving
20 14 (6.83%) Git
20 14 (6.83%) TypeScript
20 14 (6.83%) Vue
21 13 (6.34%) OO
22 11 (5.37%) GCP

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 (2.93%) nginx
2 3 (1.46%) Apache
2 3 (1.46%) WordPress
3 2 (0.98%) CMS
4 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 52 (25.37%) Azure
2 39 (19.02%) AWS
3 22 (10.73%) SaaS
4 11 (5.37%) GCP
5 3 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (1.46%) Serverless
6 2 (0.98%) ChatGPT
6 2 (0.98%) DigitalOcean
6 2 (0.98%) Stripe
7 1 (0.49%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.46%) VPN
2 2 (0.98%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (25.37%) MySQL
2 23 (11.22%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.41%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.93%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.46%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.49%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (6.83%) Git
2 4 (1.95%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.49%) JIRA
General
1 42 (20.49%) Finance
2 9 (4.39%) Marketing
3 8 (3.90%) Social Skills
4 7 (3.41%) Law
5 6 (2.93%) Tech for Good
6 5 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.98%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.98%) Retail
9 1 (0.49%) Back Office
9 1 (0.49%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (34.15%) Laravel
2 42 (20.49%) CSS
3 26 (12.68%) HTML
4 23 (11.22%) jQuery
5 19 (9.27%) Symfony
6 18 (8.78%) React
7 14 (6.83%) Vue
8 6 (2.93%) CodeIgniter
9 5 (2.44%) .NET
9 5 (2.44%) CakePHP
9 5 (2.44%) CSS3
9 5 (2.44%) HTML5
9 5 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.44%) REST
9 5 (2.44%) RESTful
10 4 (1.95%) .NET Framework
10 4 (1.95%) LAMP
11 2 (0.98%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.98%) LEMP Stack
11 2 (0.98%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.39%) Educational Technology
2 4 (1.95%) Legacy Code
2 4 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (1.95%) NHS
3 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
4 2 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.49%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.93%) Linux
2 3 (1.46%) Windows
2 3 (1.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (30.73%) Agile
2 43 (20.98%) Computer Science
3 31 (15.12%) Full-Stack Development
4 29 (14.15%) MVC
5 20 (9.76%) OOP
6 16 (7.80%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (6.34%) OO
8 10 (4.88%) OO PHP
8 10 (4.88%) Web Development
9 9 (4.39%) E-Commerce
10 8 (3.90%) Clean Code
10 8 (3.90%) User Experience
11 7 (3.41%) CI/CD
11 7 (3.41%) DevOps
11 7 (3.41%) Mentoring
12 5 (2.44%) API Integration
12 5 (2.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (2.44%) Cybersecurity
12 5 (2.44%) Microservices
12 5 (2.44%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 205 (100.00%) PHP
2 51 (24.88%) SQL
3 46 (22.44%) C#
4 38 (18.54%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.80%) C++
5 16 (7.80%) Java
6 14 (6.83%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.98%) Rust
8 1 (0.49%) Delphi
8 1 (0.49%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (9.27%) Degree
2 18 (8.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.49%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.46%) QA
2 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.46%) cPanel
2 3 (1.46%) Plesk
Vendors
1 4 (1.95%) Google
2 3 (1.46%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.98%) HubSpot
3 2 (0.98%) OpenAI
3 2 (0.98%) SAP
3 2 (0.98%) Zend
4 1 (0.49%) Adobe