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 21 June 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 495 335
Rank change year-on-year -32 -160 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 230 171 858
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.38% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.43% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 215 165 769
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £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 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £63,250
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 88,632 40,228 103,596
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.47% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 60,836 22,885 74,815
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,603
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 21 June 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 21 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 -11 213 £50,000 +17.65% 20
UK excluding London -7 198 £45,000 +12.50% 16
Work from Home +20 108 £35,000 -17.65% 11
North of England +3 67 £45,000 -5.26% 8
Midlands +22 62 £45,000 +12.50% 2
Yorkshire +7 52 £47,500 - 3
West Midlands -2 32 £55,000 +29.41% 1
East Midlands -4 30 £40,000 - 1
South East -28 29 £56,250 +46.10% 4
South West -58 21 £55,000 -6.38% 1
East of England -8 18 £25,000 -23.08% 2
London -28 16 £65,000 +14.04% 5
North West -10 11 £45,000 -14.29% 2
North East -46 4 £38,000 +52.00% 3
Wales -51 1 £45,000 +38.46% 1

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 230 (100.00%) PHP
2 76 (33.04%) Laravel
3 70 (30.43%) SQL
4 58 (25.22%) Agile
5 53 (23.04%) Azure
6 52 (22.61%) C#
6 52 (22.61%) Computer Science
7 50 (21.74%) CSS
8 49 (21.30%) MySQL
9 44 (19.13%) JavaScript
10 36 (15.65%) Full-Stack Development
11 34 (14.78%) AWS
11 34 (14.78%) HTML
12 30 (13.04%) Degree
13 29 (12.61%) SQL Server
14 27 (11.74%) Computer Science Degree
14 27 (11.74%) jQuery
15 25 (10.87%) MVC
16 19 (8.26%) OOP
17 18 (7.83%) Git
17 18 (7.83%) Vue
18 17 (7.39%) OO
19 16 (6.96%) C++
19 16 (6.96%) Java
20 14 (6.09%) SaaS
21 13 (5.65%) OO PHP
21 13 (5.65%) React
22 12 (5.22%) Clean Code
22 12 (5.22%) Problem-Solving
22 12 (5.22%) 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 3 (1.30%) CMS
1 3 (1.30%) WordPress
2 2 (0.87%) Apache
2 2 (0.87%) Drupal
3 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.43%) IIS
3 1 (0.43%) nginx
3 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Magento
1 1 (0.43%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 53 (23.04%) Azure
2 34 (14.78%) AWS
3 14 (6.09%) SaaS
4 2 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (0.87%) GCP
4 2 (0.87%) GitHub
4 2 (0.87%) Serverless
5 1 (0.43%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.43%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.43%) ChatGPT
5 1 (0.43%) DigitalOcean
5 1 (0.43%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (21.30%) MySQL
2 29 (12.61%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.48%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.74%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.30%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.30%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (7.83%) Git
2 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.43%) gulp
2 1 (0.43%) JIRA
2 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 45 (19.57%) Finance
2 17 (7.39%) Social Skills
3 9 (3.91%) Marketing
4 6 (2.61%) Tech for Good
5 4 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.30%) Law
7 2 (0.87%) Public Sector
7 2 (0.87%) Retail
8 1 (0.43%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (33.04%) Laravel
2 50 (21.74%) CSS
3 34 (14.78%) HTML
4 27 (11.74%) jQuery
5 18 (7.83%) Vue
6 13 (5.65%) React
7 11 (4.78%) HTML5
8 9 (3.91%) CSS3
9 7 (3.04%) REST
9 7 (3.04%) Symfony
10 6 (2.61%) LAMP
10 6 (2.61%) RESTful
11 5 (2.17%) React Native
12 4 (1.74%) CodeIgniter
13 3 (1.30%) .NET
13 3 (1.30%) .NET Framework
13 3 (1.30%) JSON
13 3 (1.30%) Node.js
14 2 (0.87%) Sass
14 2 (0.87%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.39%) Virtual Team
2 8 (3.48%) Educational Technology
3 2 (0.87%) Cloud Native
3 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (0.87%) Legacy Code
3 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (0.87%) NHS
4 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.43%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.87%) Linux
1 2 (0.87%) Windows
1 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (25.22%) Agile
2 52 (22.61%) Computer Science
3 36 (15.65%) Full-Stack Development
4 25 (10.87%) MVC
5 19 (8.26%) OOP
6 17 (7.39%) OO
7 13 (5.65%) OO PHP
8 12 (5.22%) Clean Code
8 12 (5.22%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (4.78%) Web Development
10 9 (3.91%) Microservices
11 8 (3.48%) CI/CD
11 8 (3.48%) Mentoring
12 7 (3.04%) API Integration
12 7 (3.04%) DevOps
12 7 (3.04%) E-Commerce
13 6 (2.61%) Requirements Gathering
14 5 (2.17%) Data Collection
14 5 (2.17%) Fintech
14 5 (2.17%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 230 (100.00%) PHP
2 70 (30.43%) SQL
3 52 (22.61%) C#
4 44 (19.13%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.96%) C++
5 16 (6.96%) Java
6 12 (5.22%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.04%) Python
8 3 (1.30%) Go
8 3 (1.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (13.04%) Degree
2 27 (11.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.87%) QA
2 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (1.74%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (2.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.43%) Google
2 1 (0.43%) OpenAI
2 1 (0.43%) SAP