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 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 499 331
Rank change year-on-year -23 -168 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 225 167 842
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.37% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.41% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 210 161 754
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,125 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,375 £67,500 £63,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -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 89,332 40,653 100,647
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 89.51% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 61,290 23,209 72,638
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
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 £77,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,622 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,042 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.08% - -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 26 June 2026.

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 26 June 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 +1 206 £50,000 +17.65% 18
UK excluding London +7 193 £45,000 +12.50% 17
Work from Home +17 104 £25,000 -41.18% 13
Midlands +23 62 £45,000 +12.50% 1
North of England -8 61 £45,000 -5.26% 6
Yorkshire +3 48 £45,000 -5.26% 3
West Midlands +3 32 £55,000 +51.72%
East Midlands 0 30 £40,000 - 1
South East -36 29 £56,250 +46.10% 4
East of England -9 19 £25,000 -23.08% 1
South West -62 19 £55,000 -4.35% 3
London -42 16 £71,250 +23.91% 3
North West -12 9 £45,000 -14.29% 1
North East -42 4 £38,000 +52.00% 2
Wales -48 2 £45,000 +38.46%
Scotland +4 1 £32,500 -45.83% 2

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

For the 6 months to 26 June 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.

1 225 (100.00%) PHP
2 76 (33.78%) Laravel
3 71 (31.56%) SQL
4 59 (26.22%) Agile
5 53 (23.56%) Azure
5 53 (23.56%) CSS
6 52 (23.11%) C#
6 52 (23.11%) Computer Science
6 52 (23.11%) MySQL
7 46 (20.44%) JavaScript
8 37 (16.44%) HTML
9 36 (16.00%) AWS
9 36 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 31 (13.78%) Degree
11 29 (12.89%) jQuery
11 29 (12.89%) SQL Server
12 27 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
13 25 (11.11%) MVC
14 20 (8.89%) OOP
15 19 (8.44%) Git
15 19 (8.44%) OO
15 19 (8.44%) Vue
16 16 (7.11%) C++
16 16 (7.11%) Java
17 15 (6.67%) OO PHP
18 14 (6.22%) React
19 12 (5.33%) Clean Code
19 12 (5.33%) Problem-Solving
19 12 (5.33%) TypeScript
20 11 (4.89%) HTML5

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 3 (1.33%) CMS
1 3 (1.33%) WordPress
2 2 (0.89%) Apache
2 2 (0.89%) Drupal
3 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.44%) IIS
3 1 (0.44%) nginx
3 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Magento
1 1 (0.44%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 53 (23.56%) Azure
2 36 (16.00%) AWS
3 11 (4.89%) SaaS
4 2 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (0.89%) GCP
4 2 (0.89%) GitHub
4 2 (0.89%) Serverless
5 1 (0.44%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.44%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.44%) ChatGPT
5 1 (0.44%) DigitalOcean
5 1 (0.44%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.89%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (23.11%) MySQL
2 29 (12.89%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.78%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.33%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.33%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (8.44%) Git
2 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.44%) gulp
2 1 (0.44%) JIRA
2 1 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 46 (20.44%) Finance
2 17 (7.56%) Social Skills
3 7 (3.11%) Marketing
4 6 (2.67%) Tech for Good
5 4 (1.78%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.33%) Law
7 2 (0.89%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.44%) Back Office
8 1 (0.44%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (33.78%) Laravel
2 53 (23.56%) CSS
3 37 (16.44%) HTML
4 29 (12.89%) jQuery
5 19 (8.44%) Vue
6 14 (6.22%) React
7 11 (4.89%) HTML5
8 9 (4.00%) CSS3
9 8 (3.56%) Symfony
10 7 (3.11%) REST
11 6 (2.67%) LAMP
11 6 (2.67%) RESTful
12 5 (2.22%) CodeIgniter
12 5 (2.22%) React Native
13 4 (1.78%) JSON
14 3 (1.33%) .NET
14 3 (1.33%) .NET Framework
14 3 (1.33%) Model Context Protocol
14 3 (1.33%) Node.js
15 2 (0.89%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.00%) Virtual Team
2 7 (3.11%) Educational Technology
3 3 (1.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (0.89%) Legacy Code
4 2 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.89%) Linux
1 2 (0.89%) Windows
1 2 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (26.22%) Agile
2 52 (23.11%) Computer Science
3 36 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 25 (11.11%) MVC
5 20 (8.89%) OOP
6 19 (8.44%) OO
7 15 (6.67%) OO PHP
8 12 (5.33%) Clean Code
8 12 (5.33%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (4.89%) Web Development
10 10 (4.44%) Microservices
11 8 (3.56%) CI/CD
11 8 (3.56%) DevOps
11 8 (3.56%) Mentoring
12 7 (3.11%) API Integration
13 6 (2.67%) E-Commerce
13 6 (2.67%) Requirements Gathering
14 5 (2.22%) AI
14 5 (2.22%) Data Collection
14 5 (2.22%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 225 (100.00%) PHP
2 71 (31.56%) SQL
3 52 (23.11%) C#
4 46 (20.44%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.11%) C++
5 16 (7.11%) Java
6 12 (5.33%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.11%) Python
8 4 (1.78%) Go
9 3 (1.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (13.78%) Degree
2 27 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
1 2 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.78%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (2.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.44%) Google
2 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
2 1 (0.44%) SAP