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 15 May 2026.

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 462 355
Rank change year-on-year -6 -107 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 259 190 745
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.44% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.49% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 245 180 699
10th Percentile £24,000 £28,025 £29,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £34,688 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -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 84,829 38,939 91,215
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 89.48% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 55,870 22,758 66,964
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 £52,508
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.51% -12.49%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 15 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 15 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 +36 243 £50,000 +11.11% 22
UK excluding London +15 223 £45,000 +5.88% 22
Work from Home +56 130 £28,750 -32.35% 15
North of England +6 76 £50,000 +5.26% 6
Midlands +11 68 £45,000 +12.50% 4
Yorkshire -3 55 £60,000 +26.32% 5
West Midlands -9 35 £55,000 +29.41% 1
East Midlands +3 33 £40,000 - 3
South East -23 29 £55,000 +41.03% 9
South West -49 27 £55,000 -8.33% 1
East of England -1 23 £25,000 -28.06% 2
London -34 20 £65,000 +18.18% 1
North West -12 19 £45,000 -7.69% 1
North East -36 2 £45,000 +16.13%

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 259 (100.00%) PHP
2 82 (31.66%) Laravel
3 78 (30.12%) SQL
4 76 (29.34%) Agile
5 70 (27.03%) Azure
6 65 (25.10%) C#
7 62 (23.94%) Computer Science
8 61 (23.55%) MySQL
9 53 (20.46%) CSS
10 45 (17.37%) JavaScript
11 40 (15.44%) AWS
12 37 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
13 35 (13.51%) HTML
14 31 (11.97%) MVC
15 29 (11.20%) jQuery
15 29 (11.20%) SQL Server
16 28 (10.81%) Degree
17 25 (9.65%) Computer Science Degree
18 22 (8.49%) OOP
18 22 (8.49%) SaaS
19 19 (7.34%) OO
19 19 (7.34%) Problem-Solving
19 19 (7.34%) Vue
20 18 (6.95%) C++
20 18 (6.95%) Java
21 16 (6.18%) Git
21 16 (6.18%) React
22 15 (5.79%) OO PHP
22 15 (5.79%) Symfony
22 15 (5.79%) 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 (2.32%) nginx
2 4 (1.54%) WordPress
3 3 (1.16%) Apache
3 3 (1.16%) CMS
4 2 (0.77%) Drupal
5 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.39%) IIS
5 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 70 (27.03%) Azure
2 40 (15.44%) AWS
3 22 (8.49%) SaaS
4 10 (3.86%) GCP
5 3 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (1.16%) Serverless
6 1 (0.39%) ChatGPT
6 1 (0.39%) DigitalOcean
6 1 (0.39%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.16%) VPN
2 1 (0.39%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (23.55%) MySQL
2 29 (11.20%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.47%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.09%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.16%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.16%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (6.18%) Git
2 2 (0.77%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.39%) JIRA
General
1 58 (22.39%) Finance
2 15 (5.79%) Social Skills
3 9 (3.47%) Marketing
4 7 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.32%) Tech for Good
6 5 (1.93%) Law
7 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.77%) Retail
8 1 (0.39%) Back Office
8 1 (0.39%) Games
8 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.39%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (31.66%) Laravel
2 53 (20.46%) CSS
3 35 (13.51%) HTML
4 29 (11.20%) jQuery
5 19 (7.34%) Vue
6 16 (6.18%) React
7 15 (5.79%) Symfony
8 10 (3.86%) CSS3
8 10 (3.86%) HTML5
9 7 (2.70%) LAMP
10 6 (2.32%) .NET
10 6 (2.32%) CodeIgniter
10 6 (2.32%) REST
10 6 (2.32%) RESTful
11 5 (1.93%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.93%) React Native
12 3 (1.16%) Tailwind CSS
13 2 (0.77%) Alpine.js
13 2 (0.77%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.02%) Virtual Team
2 9 (3.47%) Educational Technology
3 4 (1.54%) NHS
4 3 (1.16%) Legacy Code
4 3 (1.16%) 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 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.39%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.32%) Linux
2 3 (1.16%) Windows
2 3 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (29.34%) Agile
2 62 (23.94%) Computer Science
3 37 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (11.97%) MVC
5 22 (8.49%) OOP
6 19 (7.34%) OO
6 19 (7.34%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (5.79%) OO PHP
8 14 (5.41%) Web Development
9 12 (4.63%) Clean Code
10 11 (4.25%) Mentoring
11 9 (3.47%) CI/CD
11 9 (3.47%) E-Commerce
11 9 (3.47%) Microservices
12 8 (3.09%) DevOps
13 6 (2.32%) API Integration
13 6 (2.32%) TDD
14 5 (1.93%) Cybersecurity
14 5 (1.93%) Data Collection
14 5 (1.93%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 259 (100.00%) PHP
2 78 (30.12%) SQL
3 65 (25.10%) C#
4 45 (17.37%) JavaScript
5 18 (6.95%) C++
5 18 (6.95%) Java
6 15 (5.79%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.32%) Python
8 3 (1.16%) Rust
9 2 (0.77%) Go
10 1 (0.39%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 28 (10.81%) Degree
2 25 (9.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (0.39%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.16%) QA
2 1 (0.39%) 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 (2.70%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.54%) Google
3 2 (0.77%) Zend
4 1 (0.39%) Adobe
4 1 (0.39%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.39%) SAP