PHP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 273 161
Rank change year-on-year -10 -112 -13
Permanent jobs citing PHP 720 539 1,463
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.09% 1.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.98% 3.77% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 637 427 1,234
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,075
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,250 £63,000
90th Percentile £73,500 £76,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

PHP falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 18,083 14,309 27,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.79% 29.02% 30.70%
Number of salaries quoted 12,873 9,476 19,695
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

PHP job vacancy trend in the UK

PHP
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Salary histogram for PHP in the UK

PHP
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 28 July 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 +6 657 £50,000 - 124
UK excluding London +3 569 £47,500 +5.56% 112
Work from Home -12 307 £38,750 -13.89% 57
North of England +14 173 £50,000 +5.26% 26
South East +35 160 £52,500 +16.67% 33
Yorkshire +29 113 £50,000 +33.33% 12
Midlands +10 113 £45,000 +12.50% 20
London -47 99 £86,250 +43.75% 32
West Midlands +19 69 £45,000 +5.88% 10
South West -48 64 £47,000 -18.26% 13
North West -13 52 £45,000 -14.29% 11
East Midlands -8 44 £37,500 -6.25% 10
East of England -22 42 £25,000 -28.57% 16
Wales -52 11 £35,000 -36.36% 2
North East -49 8 £31,000 +24.00% 3
Scotland +10 5 £32,500 -45.83% 5
Northern Ireland -69 1 - - 1

PHP
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 62 (8.61%) WordPress
2 30 (4.17%) CMS
3 16 (2.22%) ColdFusion
4 14 (1.94%) Apache
5 9 (1.25%) Drupal
6 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.11%) nginx
7 7 (0.97%) Confluence
8 6 (0.83%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.69%) IIS
10 4 (0.56%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.28%) Moodle
11 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.56%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.28%) Elementor
3 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.25%) Shopify
2 4 (0.56%) Line 50
3 3 (0.42%) Magento
3 3 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.28%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.14%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.14%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 188 (26.11%) AWS
2 150 (20.83%) Azure
3 57 (7.92%) SaaS
4 35 (4.86%) Serverless
5 27 (3.75%) GitHub
6 26 (3.61%) GCP
7 23 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (2.92%) Figma
10 17 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (2.08%) AWS Control Tower
13 14 (1.94%) Amazon EventBridge
13 14 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (1.81%) Power Platform
15 12 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (1.39%) Amazon S3
18 7 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
19 6 (0.83%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.47%) Internet
2 19 (2.64%) DNS
2 19 (2.64%) Network Security
3 11 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.39%) VoIP
4 10 (1.39%) VPN
5 6 (0.83%) BGP
5 6 (0.83%) Intranet
5 6 (0.83%) IPsec
6 4 (0.56%) DHCP
6 4 (0.56%) Firewall
6 4 (0.56%) HTTP
6 4 (0.56%) LAN
6 4 (0.56%) WAN
6 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.28%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.28%) Broadband
7 2 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (22.92%) MySQL
2 97 (13.47%) SQL Server
3 30 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 26 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (3.19%) MariaDB
6 19 (2.64%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.81%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.97%) Redis
10 6 (0.83%) Apache Hive
10 6 (0.83%) Big Data
10 6 (0.83%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.83%) HBase
11 4 (0.56%) FileMaker
11 4 (0.56%) Metadata
11 4 (0.56%) Power BI
12 3 (0.42%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.28%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 96 (13.33%) Git
2 24 (3.33%) JIRA
3 13 (1.81%) PHPUnit
4 11 (1.53%) GitLab
5 8 (1.11%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.97%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.97%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.56%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.56%) Selenium
8 3 (0.42%) Postman
9 2 (0.28%) Bower
9 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.28%) Vite
9 2 (0.28%) webpack
10 1 (0.14%) Appium
10 1 (0.14%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.14%) Gatling
10 1 (0.14%) gulp
10 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 140 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 115 (15.97%) Finance
3 27 (3.75%) Public Sector
4 26 (3.61%) Marketing
5 24 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (0.97%) Law
8 7 (0.97%) Retail
9 6 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (0.83%) Military
9 6 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.69%) Advertising
10 5 (0.69%) Games
10 5 (0.69%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.69%) Legal
10 5 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (0.69%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 489 (67.92%) Developer
2 231 (32.08%) PHP Developer
3 172 (23.89%) Senior
4 130 (18.06%) Senior Developer
5 123 (17.08%) Software Developer
6 114 (15.83%) Graduate
7 81 (11.25%) Graduate Developer
8 80 (11.11%) Graduate Software Developer
9 73 (10.14%) Software Engineer
10 64 (8.89%) C# Developer
10 64 (8.89%) C# Software Developer
10 64 (8.89%) Graduate C# Developer
10 64 (8.89%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 62 (8.61%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 62 (8.61%) SQL Developer
12 60 (8.33%) Web Developer
13 59 (8.19%) Full-Stack Developer
14 52 (7.22%) Graduate PHP Developer
15 44 (6.11%) PHP Laravel Developer
16 42 (5.83%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (28.75%) CSS
2 198 (27.50%) Laravel
3 176 (24.44%) HTML
4 83 (11.53%) jQuery
5 77 (10.69%) React
6 75 (10.42%) Vue
7 61 (8.47%) .NET
8 51 (7.08%) Node.js
9 29 (4.03%) Symfony
10 28 (3.89%) LAMP
10 28 (3.89%) RESTful
11 25 (3.47%) HTML5
11 25 (3.47%) REST
12 21 (2.92%) CSS3
13 19 (2.64%) JSON
14 15 (2.08%) AngularJS
15 14 (1.94%) AWS CDK
15 14 (1.94%) Tailwind CSS
16 12 (1.67%) Ajax
16 12 (1.67%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 31 (4.31%) Onboarding
2 30 (4.17%) Virtual Team
3 27 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 21 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
7 11 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.25%) Educational Technology
9 8 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.11%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.11%) Social Media
10 7 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (0.83%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.69%) CCTV
12 5 (0.69%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.69%) Robotics
13 4 (0.56%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.56%) IoT
13 4 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
14 3 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 66 (9.17%) Linux
2 29 (4.03%) Windows
3 13 (1.81%) Ubuntu
4 11 (1.53%) Debian
4 11 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.25%) CentOS
7 5 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.56%) Unix
8 4 (0.56%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.14%) Android
9 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (24.58%) Agile
2 139 (19.31%) Computer Science
3 118 (16.39%) Software Engineering
4 103 (14.31%) Web Development
5 101 (14.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 95 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (11.67%) CI/CD
7 84 (11.67%) OOP
8 64 (8.89%) DevOps
9 63 (8.75%) AI
10 57 (7.92%) MVC
11 55 (7.64%) E-Commerce
11 55 (7.64%) Mentoring
12 53 (7.36%) Clean Code
13 49 (6.81%) OO
14 42 (5.83%) Microservices
15 38 (5.28%) Infrastructure as Code
16 36 (5.00%) SEO
17 33 (4.58%) Continuous Improvement
18 31 (4.31%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 212 (29.44%) JavaScript
2 196 (27.22%) SQL
3 139 (19.31%) C#
4 106 (14.72%) Python
5 68 (9.44%) Java
6 48 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 36 (5.00%) Bash
8 30 (4.17%) C++
9 24 (3.33%) Ruby
10 22 (3.06%) Go
11 20 (2.78%) Perl
12 18 (2.50%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.97%) C
14 4 (0.56%) Delphi
14 4 (0.56%) Pascal
15 3 (0.42%) CFML
15 3 (0.42%) Rust
15 3 (0.42%) Scala
15 3 (0.42%) VBA
16 1 (0.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 107 (14.86%) Degree
2 89 (12.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (4.31%) Security Cleared
4 15 (2.08%) AWS Certification
4 15 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (0.83%) DV Cleared
6 5 (0.69%) SC Cleared
7 4 (0.56%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.14%) HNC
9 1 (0.14%) HND
9 1 (0.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.53%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.50%) QA
3 7 (0.97%) ISO 9001
3 7 (0.97%) PCI DSS
3 7 (0.97%) WCAG
4 5 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.56%) GDPR
5 4 (0.56%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.28%) SLA
7 1 (0.14%) NCSC
7 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 57 (7.92%) Docker
2 6 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (6.11%) Terraform
2 41 (5.69%) Kubernetes
3 19 (2.64%) Ansible
4 6 (0.83%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (0.69%) Grafana
5 5 (0.69%) Nagios
5 5 (0.69%) Podman
6 4 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.42%) Argo
7 3 (0.42%) Istio
7 3 (0.42%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.42%) Plesk
7 3 (0.42%) Puppet
8 1 (0.14%) Consul
8 1 (0.14%) Kibana
8 1 (0.14%) Packer
8 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (6.11%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.64%) Google
3 10 (1.39%) Adobe
4 8 (1.11%) Sage
5 7 (0.97%) Oracle
5 7 (0.97%) SAP
6 6 (0.83%) Apple
6 6 (0.83%) HP
6 6 (0.83%) IBM
6 6 (0.83%) WooCommerce
7 5 (0.69%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.69%) Splunk
8 2 (0.28%) BT
8 2 (0.28%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.28%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.28%) NEC
8 2 (0.28%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.14%) Netlify
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.14%) TOWER Software