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 to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 319 376
Rank change year-on-year -47 +57 -190
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 734 1,134 1,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 1.08% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.18% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 692 578 1,216
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Top 17 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 April 2024. 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 -19 665 £45,000 -14.29% 139
UK excluding London -64 648 £45,000 -5.26% 119
Work from Home +34 360 £50,000 -4.76% 99
North of England +44 214 £45,000 - 53
North West +39 114 £47,500 -11.63% 32
Midlands -42 109 £42,500 -5.56% 19
South East -82 107 £51,250 +2.50% 17
South West -48 102 £46,250 -2.63% 12
Yorkshire +79 88 £42,500 +6.25% 17
East of England +45 71 £43,500 -33.08% 15
West Midlands +14 62 £42,500 - 11
London +31 59 £51,250 -14.58% 26
East Midlands -51 46 £41,250 -17.50% 8
Scotland -95 27 £45,000 - 6
Wales -4 14 £47,500 -9.52% 1
North East -19 12 £48,250 +34.03% 4
Northern Ireland +7 4 £33,500 -4.29%

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, PHP Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 734 (100.00%) PHP
2 484 (65.94%) Laravel
3 414 (56.40%) JavaScript
4 379 (51.63%) MySQL
5 311 (42.37%) HTML
6 292 (39.78%) CSS
7 231 (31.47%) AWS
8 195 (26.57%) Git
9 179 (24.39%) Vue
10 176 (23.98%) Full Stack Development
11 173 (23.57%) React
12 164 (22.34%) Social Skills
13 155 (21.12%) Web Development
14 146 (19.89%) Agile
15 145 (19.75%) Symfony
16 139 (18.94%) OOP
17 122 (16.62%) jQuery
18 118 (16.08%) MVC
19 114 (15.53%) SaaS
20 107 (14.58%) OO
21 100 (13.62%) Docker
22 95 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
22 95 (12.94%) E-Commerce
23 92 (12.53%) Linux
24 90 (12.26%) SQL
25 88 (11.99%) TDD
26 77 (10.49%) Software Engineering
27 73 (9.95%) WordPress
28 71 (9.67%) HTML5
28 71 (9.67%) LAMP

PHP Developer 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:

Application Platforms
1 73 (9.95%) WordPress
2 31 (4.22%) CMS
3 23 (3.13%) Apache
4 20 (2.72%) nginx
5 8 (1.09%) Drupal
6 6 (0.82%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.54%) ColdFusion
7 4 (0.54%) IIS
8 3 (0.41%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.27%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.14%) Confluence
10 1 (0.14%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.14%) Totara
Applications
1 5 (0.68%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.54%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 25 (3.41%) Magento
2 13 (1.77%) Shopify
3 3 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.27%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 231 (31.47%) AWS
2 114 (15.53%) SaaS
3 27 (3.68%) GCP
4 23 (3.13%) Azure
5 19 (2.59%) GitHub
6 16 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (1.50%) npm
7 11 (1.50%) Serverless
8 10 (1.36%) Stripe
9 8 (1.09%) Figma
10 6 (0.82%) DigitalOcean
11 5 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.68%) Power Platform
12 4 (0.54%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (0.54%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.54%) Firebase
13 3 (0.41%) Google Tag Manager
14 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 2 (0.27%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (0.27%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.82%) VoIP
1 6 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (0.54%) SSH
3 2 (0.27%) FTP
3 2 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 379 (51.63%) MySQL
2 32 (4.36%) Relational Database
3 30 (4.09%) MariaDB
4 26 (3.54%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.27%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (1.91%) Redis
8 10 (1.36%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.82%) GIS
12 5 (0.68%) Power BI
13 4 (0.54%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.41%) Looker
15 2 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
15 2 (0.27%) DynamoDB
15 2 (0.27%) phpMyAdmin
16 1 (0.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 195 (26.57%) Git
2 29 (3.95%) JIRA
3 17 (2.32%) webpack
4 13 (1.77%) Subversion
5 8 (1.09%) GitLab
5 8 (1.09%) PHPUnit
6 7 (0.95%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.41%) Grunt
8 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.27%) git-flow
9 2 (0.27%) gulp
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.14%) Selenium
10 1 (0.14%) Storybook
10 1 (0.14%) WiX
General
1 164 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 47 (6.40%) Marketing
3 43 (5.86%) Finance
4 30 (4.09%) Retail
5 22 (3.00%) Games
6 17 (2.32%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (2.18%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.36%) Manufacturing
8 10 (1.36%) Tech for Good
9 9 (1.23%) Turkish Language
10 7 (0.95%) Law
11 6 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.54%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.41%) Legal
13 3 (0.41%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.27%) Aviation
14 2 (0.27%) Banking
15 1 (0.14%) Advertising
15 1 (0.14%) Digital Healthcare
15 1 (0.14%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 484 (65.94%) Laravel
2 311 (42.37%) HTML
3 292 (39.78%) CSS
4 179 (24.39%) Vue
5 173 (23.57%) React
6 145 (19.75%) Symfony
7 122 (16.62%) jQuery
8 71 (9.67%) HTML5
8 71 (9.67%) LAMP
9 65 (8.86%) RESTful
10 54 (7.36%) Node.js
11 51 (6.95%) REST
12 48 (6.54%) AngularJS
13 47 (6.40%) CSS3
14 40 (5.45%) SOAP
15 36 (4.90%) Web Services
16 33 (4.50%) Sass
17 30 (4.09%) Doctrine
17 30 (4.09%) Tailwind CSS
18 23 (3.13%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.17%) Greenfield Project
2 29 (3.95%) Mobile App
3 24 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (1.63%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.50%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.36%) PropTech
8 9 (1.23%) Animation
9 8 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.95%) Video Editing
11 5 (0.68%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.68%) Legacy Code
12 4 (0.54%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.54%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.54%) Educational Technology
12 4 (0.54%) e-Learning
13 3 (0.41%) Blog
13 3 (0.41%) Digital Media
13 3 (0.41%) IoT
13 3 (0.41%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 92 (12.53%) Linux
2 10 (1.36%) Ubuntu
2 10 (1.36%) Windows
3 6 (0.82%) Alpine Linux
4 5 (0.68%) Unix
5 2 (0.27%) AIX
6 1 (0.14%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (23.98%) Full Stack Development
2 155 (21.12%) Web Development
3 146 (19.89%) Agile
4 139 (18.94%) OOP
5 118 (16.08%) MVC
6 107 (14.58%) OO
7 95 (12.94%) E-Commerce
7 95 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
8 88 (11.99%) TDD
9 77 (10.49%) Software Engineering
10 67 (9.13%) Unit Testing
11 65 (8.86%) User Experience
12 64 (8.72%) DevOps
13 61 (8.31%) Clean Code
14 60 (8.17%) OO PHP
15 55 (7.49%) Computer Science
16 49 (6.68%) Front End Development
17 44 (5.99%) Microservices
17 44 (5.99%) Test Automation
18 40 (5.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 734 (100.00%) PHP
2 414 (56.40%) JavaScript
3 90 (12.26%) SQL
4 44 (5.99%) TypeScript
5 17 (2.32%) Java
6 14 (1.91%) Python
7 12 (1.63%) Ada
7 12 (1.63%) C#
7 12 (1.63%) Go
8 9 (1.23%) Kotlin
8 9 (1.23%) VB
9 6 (0.82%) Rust
10 4 (0.54%) CFML
10 4 (0.54%) Ruby
10 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 60 (8.17%) Degree
2 51 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.27%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.22%) QA
2 6 (0.82%) GDPR
3 5 (0.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 100 (13.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 18 (2.45%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.36%) Terraform
3 2 (0.27%) cPanel
4 1 (0.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (2.04%) Adobe
2 14 (1.91%) Google
3 11 (1.50%) Microsoft
4 9 (1.23%) WooCommerce
5 8 (1.09%) Twitter
6 6 (0.82%) Actuate
7 5 (0.68%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.68%) Zend
8 4 (0.54%) HP
9 3 (0.41%) Facebook
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle
10 2 (0.27%) Progress
10 2 (0.27%) Rollbar