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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 257 146
Rank change year-on-year +1 -111 -2
Permanent jobs citing PHP 688 570 1,942
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.25% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.03% 4.06% 5.79%
Number of salaries quoted 613 468 1,679
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 17,088 14,028 33,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.94% 30.80% 31.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12,120 9,259 25,320
10th Percentile £36,795 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,784
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.39% -0.39%

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 27 June 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 27 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 -14 632 £50,000 -0.31% 119
UK excluding London -4 540 £47,500 - 122
Work from Home -14 279 £40,000 -20.00% 48
North of England +17 168 £45,000 -7.22% 31
South East -12 140 £50,000 +11.11% 32
Midlands +8 115 £45,000 +12.50% 13
Yorkshire +23 105 £50,000 +33.33% 14
London -28 99 £76,250 +27.08% 17
West Midlands +15 72 £45,000 -17.05% 6
South West -54 62 £50,000 -13.04% 22
North West -13 54 £45,000 -14.29% 13
East Midlands -12 43 £37,500 -6.25% 7
East of England -22 42 £25,000 -28.57% 14
Wales -43 11 £35,000 -36.36% 3
North East -45 9 £31,000 +15.89% 4
Scotland +2 1 £32,500 -43.48% 7
Northern Ireland -33 1 - - 2

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 63 (9.16%) WordPress
2 32 (4.65%) CMS
3 16 (2.33%) ColdFusion
4 14 (2.03%) Apache
5 10 (1.45%) nginx
6 9 (1.31%) Drupal
7 8 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.87%) Confluence
9 5 (0.73%) IIS
10 4 (0.58%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.29%) Moodle
11 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.15%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.15%) Liferay
12 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.29%) Elementor
5 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.74%) Shopify
2 8 (1.16%) Magento
3 4 (0.58%) Line 50
4 3 (0.44%) Infor M3
4 3 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 164 (23.84%) AWS
2 138 (20.06%) Azure
3 61 (8.87%) SaaS
4 26 (3.78%) GitHub
5 21 (3.05%) Figma
5 21 (3.05%) Serverless
6 16 (2.33%) GCP
7 14 (2.03%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (1.45%) Amazon S3
12 8 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (0.73%) Azure Stack
15 5 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (0.73%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.34%) Internet
2 15 (2.18%) DNS
3 11 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.45%) Network Security
4 10 (1.45%) VoIP
5 7 (1.02%) HTTP
6 6 (0.87%) Intranet
6 6 (0.87%) VPN
7 4 (0.58%) DHCP
7 4 (0.58%) LAN
7 4 (0.58%) WAN
7 4 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.29%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.29%) BGP
8 2 (0.29%) Broadband
8 2 (0.29%) IPsec
8 2 (0.29%) SSL
9 1 (0.15%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (21.08%) MySQL
2 89 (12.94%) SQL Server
3 30 (4.36%) Relational Database
4 26 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (2.91%) MariaDB
6 15 (2.18%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.03%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.87%) Redis
10 5 (0.73%) Power BI
11 4 (0.58%) FileMaker
11 4 (0.58%) Metadata
12 3 (0.44%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.29%) Big Data
13 2 (0.29%) HBase
13 2 (0.29%) Neo4j
13 2 (0.29%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 89 (12.94%) Git
2 22 (3.20%) JIRA
3 10 (1.45%) PHPUnit
4 8 (1.16%) GitLab
5 7 (1.02%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.02%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.73%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.73%) Postman
7 4 (0.58%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.58%) Vite
8 2 (0.29%) Bower
8 2 (0.29%) Selenium
8 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.29%) webpack
9 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.15%) Gatling
9 1 (0.15%) gulp
9 1 (0.15%) JMeter
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 137 (19.91%) Social Skills
2 92 (13.37%) Finance
3 23 (3.34%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.20%) Marketing
5 15 (2.18%) Public Sector
6 11 (1.60%) Tech for Good
7 7 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.02%) Law
7 7 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (1.02%) Retail
8 6 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (0.87%) Legal
8 6 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (0.73%) Advertising
9 5 (0.73%) Games
9 5 (0.73%) Health Technology
9 5 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (0.58%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.44%) Back Office
11 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 470 (68.31%) Developer
2 227 (32.99%) PHP Developer
3 154 (22.38%) Senior
4 123 (17.88%) Software Developer
5 116 (16.86%) Senior Developer
6 102 (14.83%) Graduate
7 82 (11.92%) Graduate Developer
8 80 (11.63%) Graduate Software Developer
9 71 (10.32%) Software Engineer
10 64 (9.30%) C# Developer
10 64 (9.30%) C# Software Developer
10 64 (9.30%) Graduate C# Developer
10 64 (9.30%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 62 (9.01%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 62 (9.01%) SQL Developer
12 61 (8.87%) Full-Stack Developer
13 53 (7.70%) Graduate PHP Developer
13 53 (7.70%) Web Developer
14 44 (6.40%) PHP Laravel Developer
15 41 (5.96%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (28.05%) CSS
2 185 (26.89%) Laravel
3 158 (22.97%) HTML
4 79 (11.48%) jQuery
5 73 (10.61%) Vue
6 71 (10.32%) React
7 58 (8.43%) .NET
8 48 (6.98%) Node.js
9 32 (4.65%) RESTful
10 27 (3.92%) REST
11 21 (3.05%) HTML5
11 21 (3.05%) JSON
12 20 (2.91%) LAMP
12 20 (2.91%) Symfony
12 20 (2.91%) Tailwind CSS
13 19 (2.76%) CSS3
14 18 (2.62%) AngularJS
15 13 (1.89%) Sass
16 12 (1.74%) Ajax
17 10 (1.45%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.36%) Virtual Team
2 27 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
3 24 (3.49%) Cloud Native
4 17 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.31%) Educational Technology
8 8 (1.16%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.16%) Social Media
9 7 (1.02%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.02%) CCTV
10 6 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.87%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.73%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.73%) IoT
11 5 (0.73%) Robotics
12 4 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 62 (9.01%) Linux
2 25 (3.63%) Windows
3 15 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.89%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.74%) CentOS
6 11 (1.60%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.45%) Debian
8 5 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.58%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.58%) Unix
9 4 (0.58%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (24.42%) Agile
2 134 (19.48%) Computer Science
3 108 (15.70%) Software Engineering
4 101 (14.68%) Full-Stack Development
5 97 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
6 93 (13.52%) Web Development
7 77 (11.19%) CI/CD
8 62 (9.01%) OOP
9 59 (8.58%) DevOps
10 58 (8.43%) Mentoring
11 53 (7.70%) Clean Code
12 51 (7.41%) AI
12 51 (7.41%) E-Commerce
12 51 (7.41%) MVC
13 45 (6.54%) Microservices
14 42 (6.10%) OO
15 38 (5.52%) User Experience
16 36 (5.23%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (4.94%) SEO
18 31 (4.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 205 (29.80%) JavaScript
2 176 (25.58%) SQL
3 123 (17.88%) C#
4 97 (14.10%) Python
5 56 (8.14%) Java
6 54 (7.85%) TypeScript
7 30 (4.36%) C++
8 25 (3.63%) Bash
9 22 (3.20%) Go
10 15 (2.18%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.89%) Perl
12 10 (1.45%) Ruby
13 4 (0.58%) Delphi
13 4 (0.58%) Pascal
13 4 (0.58%) VBA
14 3 (0.44%) C
14 3 (0.44%) CFML
14 3 (0.44%) Rust
14 3 (0.44%) Scala
15 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 106 (15.41%) Degree
2 89 (12.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (2.18%) Security Cleared
4 5 (0.73%) AWS Certification
4 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (0.73%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.44%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.29%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.15%) HNC
7 1 (0.15%) HND
7 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.40%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.62%) QA
3 7 (1.02%) ISO 9001
4 5 (0.73%) GDPR
4 5 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.73%) WCAG
5 4 (0.58%) ISO 14001
5 4 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.29%) SLA
7 1 (0.15%) NCSC
7 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (6.83%) Docker
2 6 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (3.92%) Kubernetes
1 27 (3.92%) Terraform
2 16 (2.33%) Ansible
3 5 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (0.73%) Nagios
3 5 (0.73%) Podman
4 3 (0.44%) Plesk
5 2 (0.29%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.29%) Puppet
6 1 (0.15%) Consul
6 1 (0.15%) Grafana
6 1 (0.15%) Kibana
6 1 (0.15%) Packer
6 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (5.96%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.18%) Adobe
3 13 (1.89%) Google
4 8 (1.16%) Sage
5 6 (0.87%) Apple
5 6 (0.87%) WooCommerce
6 5 (0.73%) Splunk
7 4 (0.58%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.44%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.44%) Oracle
8 3 (0.44%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.44%) SAP
9 2 (0.29%) BT
9 2 (0.29%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.29%) HP
9 2 (0.29%) IBM
9 2 (0.29%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.29%) PayPal
9 2 (0.29%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.15%) New Relic