PHP Software Engineer Jobs

PHP Software Engineer
UK

The median PHP Software Engineer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 651 856 919
Rank change year-on-year +205 +63 +206
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Software Engineer 41 40 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.041% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.043% 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 41 40 60
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,500 - £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

PHP Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured PHP Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Software Engineer in the UK

PHP Software Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP Software Engineer.

Salary trend for PHP Software Engineer in the UK

PHP Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Software Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP Software Engineer in the UK

PHP Software Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
UK excluding London +219 35 £55,000 +4.76% 8
England +166 32 £55,000 +4.76% 11
Work from Home +177 19 £55,000 +4.76% 6
North of England +96 14 £55,000 +4.76% 1
Scotland - 9 £55,000 -
North East - 9 £55,000 -
London +101 6 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Midlands +68 5 £60,000 +14.29% 3
North West +35 5 £65,000 +36.84% 1
South East - 5 £60,000 -
West Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 2
East of England +57 2 £50,000 +2.56% 3

PHP Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, PHP Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring PHP Software Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) PHP
1 41 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 27 (65.85%) MySQL
3 26 (63.41%) E-Commerce
3 26 (63.41%) Games
4 21 (51.22%) Laravel
5 20 (48.78%) AWS
6 17 (41.46%) Git
6 17 (41.46%) MVC
6 17 (41.46%) CSS
6 17 (41.46%) OOP
6 17 (41.46%) HTML
6 17 (41.46%) JavaScript
7 16 (39.02%) LAMP
7 16 (39.02%) Finance
7 16 (39.02%) Web Development
7 16 (39.02%) Mobile App
7 16 (39.02%) GCP
8 15 (36.59%) Agile
9 12 (29.27%) TDD
10 11 (26.83%) Unit Testing
10 11 (26.83%) Go
11 10 (24.39%) Mentoring
11 10 (24.39%) Clean Code
11 10 (24.39%) SOLID
11 10 (24.39%) QA
12 9 (21.95%) Fintech
13 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (17.07%) PostgreSQL
15 4 (9.76%) Twitter

PHP Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 20 (48.78%) AWS
2 16 (39.02%) GCP
3 2 (4.88%) Azure
4 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (65.85%) MySQL
2 7 (17.07%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (41.46%) Git
General
1 26 (63.41%) Games
2 16 (39.02%) Finance
3 1 (2.44%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (51.22%) Laravel
2 17 (41.46%) CSS
2 17 (41.46%) HTML
3 16 (39.02%) LAMP
4 3 (7.32%) AngularJS
4 3 (7.32%) React
4 3 (7.32%) Vue
5 2 (4.88%) .NET
6 1 (2.44%) RESTful
6 1 (2.44%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 16 (39.02%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Android
1 2 (4.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 26 (63.41%) E-Commerce
3 17 (41.46%) MVC
3 17 (41.46%) OOP
4 16 (39.02%) Web Development
5 15 (36.59%) Agile
6 12 (29.27%) TDD
7 11 (26.83%) Unit Testing
8 10 (24.39%) Clean Code
8 10 (24.39%) Mentoring
8 10 (24.39%) SOLID
9 9 (21.95%) Fintech
10 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (4.88%) BDD
11 2 (4.88%) CI/CD
11 2 (4.88%) Microservices
12 1 (2.44%) Coaching
12 1 (2.44%) CQRS
12 1 (2.44%) DevOps
12 1 (2.44%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) PHP
2 17 (41.46%) JavaScript
3 11 (26.83%) Go
4 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.44%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (24.39%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Twitter