PHP Job Trends

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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 163 188
Rank change year-on-year -148 +25 +7
Permanent jobs citing PHP 396 1,162 936
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.72% 1.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.36% 5.31% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 340 746 816
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -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 11,786 21,883 21,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.18% 32.33% 40.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8,517 13,125 17,429
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 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
England -146 354 £50,000 - 243
UK excluding London -142 278 £45,000 -5.26% 226
Work from Home -45 193 £40,000 -15.79% 113
London +4 84 £60,000 - 43
Midlands -7 65 £40,000 +6.67% 59
North of England -82 65 £42,000 -6.67% 48
South East -98 60 £55,000 +10.00% 62
East of England -40 47 £37,500 -21.05% 24
West Midlands +11 42 £39,000 -8.24% 39
Yorkshire 0 32 £40,000 -15.79% 21
North West -66 29 £55,000 +25.71% 26
South West -69 29 £60,000 +17.07% 31
East Midlands -2 26 £40,000 +14.29% 20
Scotland -26 6 £60,000 +9.09% 6
North East -4 4 £25,000 -41.18% 2
Wales -18 4 £55,000 +69.23% 3
Northern Ireland 0 2 £55,000 - 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 29 (7.32%) WordPress
2 18 (4.55%) Apache
2 18 (4.55%) IIS
3 14 (3.54%) CMS
4 8 (2.02%) Apache Solr
5 7 (1.77%) nginx
6 5 (1.26%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.76%) Drupal
7 3 (0.76%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.51%) Confluence
8 2 (0.51%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.25%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 8 (2.02%) Adobe Illustrator
1 8 (2.02%) Photoshop
2 7 (1.77%) Adobe XD
3 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.76%) Elementor
6 2 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.25%) InDesign
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (2.02%) Infor M3
2 6 (1.52%) Magento
3 4 (1.01%) Shopify
4 3 (0.76%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.51%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 102 (25.76%) AWS
2 97 (24.49%) Azure
3 44 (11.11%) SaaS
4 19 (4.80%) GCP
4 19 (4.80%) GitHub
5 10 (2.53%) Power Automate
6 9 (2.27%) Power Platform
7 8 (2.02%) Cloudflare
8 7 (1.77%) Figma
9 6 (1.52%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.52%) npm
9 6 (1.52%) Serverless
10 5 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.26%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.26%) Datadog
10 5 (1.26%) Google Analytics
10 5 (1.26%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.01%) Stripe
11 4 (1.01%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.53%) Internet
2 5 (1.26%) DNS
3 4 (1.01%) Intranet
4 3 (0.76%) HTTP
4 3 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.25%) Broadband
5 1 (0.25%) DHCP
5 1 (0.25%) FTP
5 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.25%) IPsec
5 1 (0.25%) IPv6
5 1 (0.25%) RFID
5 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (41.16%) MySQL
2 77 (19.44%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (5.30%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.03%) MariaDB
6 11 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.02%) Redis
8 5 (1.26%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.01%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.76%) Power BI
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.25%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.25%) Mixpanel
11 1 (0.25%) PostHog
11 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 63 (15.91%) Git
2 16 (4.04%) JIRA
3 13 (3.28%) Postman
4 8 (2.02%) Cucumber
4 8 (2.02%) Selenium
4 8 (2.02%) SoapUI
5 5 (1.26%) PHPUnit
6 4 (1.01%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.76%) git-flow
7 3 (0.76%) Vite
7 3 (0.76%) webpack
8 2 (0.51%) GitLab
8 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.25%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.25%) PhpStorm
9 1 (0.25%) Snyk
9 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 131 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 73 (18.43%) Finance
3 22 (5.56%) Law
4 20 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.28%) Games
6 13 (3.28%) Marketing
7 8 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.77%) Automotive
8 7 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.52%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.26%) Legal
11 4 (1.01%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.01%) Retail
12 3 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.51%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.25%) Advertising
14 1 (0.25%) Banking
14 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 240 (60.61%) Developer
2 101 (25.51%) PHP Developer
3 60 (15.15%) Graduate
4 55 (13.89%) Senior
5 54 (13.64%) Graduate Developer
6 50 (12.63%) Software Developer
7 48 (12.12%) Senior Developer
8 41 (10.35%) Lead
9 34 (8.59%) IT Graduate
10 24 (6.06%) C# Developer
11 23 (5.81%) Graduate C# Developer
11 23 (5.81%) Graduate PHP Developer
11 23 (5.81%) Software Engineer
12 22 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
13 21 (5.30%) Azure Developer
13 21 (5.30%) Graduate Software Developer
13 21 (5.30%) Graduate SQL Developer
13 21 (5.30%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 21 (5.30%) SQL Developer
14 19 (4.80%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (34.09%) CSS
2 107 (27.02%) Laravel
3 94 (23.74%) HTML
4 63 (15.91%) jQuery
5 62 (15.66%) React
6 58 (14.65%) .NET
7 52 (13.13%) Symfony
8 37 (9.34%) ASP.NET
9 36 (9.09%) Vue
10 30 (7.58%) REST
11 25 (6.31%) Node.js
11 25 (6.31%) RESTful
12 22 (5.56%) LAMP
13 16 (4.04%) CakePHP
13 16 (4.04%) HTML5
14 14 (3.54%) CodeIgniter
14 14 (3.54%) Tailwind CSS
15 13 (3.28%) SOAP
16 12 (3.03%) CSS3
17 10 (2.53%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.30%) CCTV
2 19 (4.80%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.29%) Driving Licence
4 15 (3.79%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.54%) Virtual Team
6 11 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (2.53%) IoT
7 10 (2.53%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.27%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.27%) Legacy Code
9 8 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.52%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.26%) Educational Technology
11 5 (1.26%) Mobile Games
11 5 (1.26%) NHS
12 4 (1.01%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.76%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (11.11%) Linux
2 18 (4.55%) Windows
3 11 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.77%) Android
4 7 (1.77%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.77%) CentOS
4 7 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (32.32%) Problem-Solving
2 126 (31.82%) Agile
3 75 (18.94%) MVC
4 70 (17.68%) OO
5 69 (17.42%) Computer Science
5 69 (17.42%) OOP
6 55 (13.89%) Software Engineering
7 54 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 49 (12.37%) CI/CD
9 44 (11.11%) Web Development
10 43 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (9.85%) DevOps
11 39 (9.85%) Test Automation
12 36 (9.09%) Mentoring
13 34 (8.59%) User Experience
14 31 (7.83%) Clean Code
15 29 (7.32%) AI
16 28 (7.07%) E-Commerce
16 28 (7.07%) Roadmaps
17 24 (6.06%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 158 (39.90%) JavaScript
2 113 (28.54%) SQL
3 87 (21.97%) C#
4 68 (17.17%) Java
5 66 (16.67%) Python
6 47 (11.87%) TypeScript
7 45 (11.36%) C++
8 16 (4.04%) Go
9 7 (1.77%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.26%) DataWeave
10 5 (1.26%) VBA
11 4 (1.01%) C
11 4 (1.01%) Perl
12 3 (0.76%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.76%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.51%) Bash
13 2 (0.51%) Ruby
14 1 (0.25%) Delphi
14 1 (0.25%) Scala
14 1 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 75 (18.94%) Degree
2 63 (15.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.02%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.01%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.76%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.25%) MCSE
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.25%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (0.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.30%) QA
2 9 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.02%) GDPR
4 7 (1.77%) SLA
5 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (8.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (3.54%) Ansible
2 12 (3.03%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.52%) Terraform
4 5 (1.26%) CloudHub
5 3 (0.76%) cPanel
5 3 (0.76%) Grafana
5 3 (0.76%) Plesk
6 2 (0.51%) Argo
6 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.25%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 38 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.80%) Oracle
3 13 (3.28%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.03%) HubSpot
5 11 (2.78%) Adobe
6 10 (2.53%) Google
7 9 (2.27%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.77%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.26%) Cisco
9 5 (1.26%) Meraki
9 5 (1.26%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.26%) WooCommerce
10 3 (0.76%) SAP
10 3 (0.76%) Zend
11 2 (0.51%) Netlify
12 1 (0.25%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.25%) Databricks
12 1 (0.25%) PayPal
12 1 (0.25%) Progress
12 1 (0.25%) RedGate