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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 246 153
Rank change year-on-year -21 -93 -2
Permanent jobs citing PHP 669 571 1,833
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.34% 1.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.09% 4.33% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 600 461 1,666
10th Percentile £24,000 £30,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,625 £76,250 £76,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +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 16,346 13,195 32,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.58% 31.04% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 11,345 8,880 25,013
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,635
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.54% -2.48%

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 May 2026.

Salary histogram for PHP in the UK

PHP
Top 16 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 May 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 -7 617 £50,000 -1.14% 134
UK excluding London -10 522 £47,500 -5.00% 125
Work from Home -9 252 £40,000 -23.81% 44
North of England +9 160 £50,000 -3.85% 36
South East -3 127 £50,000 - 38
Midlands +3 119 £45,000 +12.50% 16
London -16 97 £65,000 +8.33% 24
Yorkshire +13 96 £50,000 +33.33% 21
West Midlands +2 77 £52,500 -7.49% 4
South West -60 66 £52,246 -12.92% 13
North West -21 56 £46,250 -11.90% 11
East of England -18 43 £25,000 -28.57% 14
East Midlands -28 42 £35,000 -3.45% 12
North East -43 8 £45,000 -16.28% 4
Wales -46 6 £35,000 -12.50% 3
Northern Ireland -38 1 - - 3

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 56 (8.37%) WordPress
2 31 (4.63%) CMS
3 16 (2.39%) ColdFusion
4 14 (2.09%) nginx
5 12 (1.79%) Apache
6 9 (1.35%) Drupal
7 5 (0.75%) Confluence
7 5 (0.75%) IIS
7 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.45%) Liferay
9 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.30%) Moodle
9 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.15%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.05%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.30%) Trello
4 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (2.54%) Shopify
2 13 (1.94%) Magento
3 6 (0.90%) Infor M3
4 4 (0.60%) Line 50
5 3 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.15%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 150 (22.42%) AWS
2 125 (18.68%) Azure
3 64 (9.57%) SaaS
4 22 (3.29%) GitHub
5 21 (3.14%) GCP
6 20 (2.99%) Figma
7 13 (1.94%) Serverless
8 10 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (1.49%) Power Platform
8 10 (1.49%) Stripe
9 9 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (1.35%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.75%) Slack
13 4 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.60%) Azure Stack
13 4 (0.60%) DigitalOcean
13 4 (0.60%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.69%) Internet
2 14 (2.09%) DNS
3 9 (1.35%) HTTP
4 8 (1.20%) VoIP
5 7 (1.05%) VPN
6 6 (0.90%) Network Security
6 6 (0.90%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.60%) DHCP
7 4 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.30%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.30%) LAN
8 2 (0.30%) SSL
8 2 (0.30%) WAN
9 1 (0.15%) Firewall
9 1 (0.15%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (22.12%) MySQL
2 82 (12.26%) SQL Server
3 25 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (3.74%) Relational Database
4 19 (2.84%) MariaDB
5 14 (2.09%) NoSQL
6 12 (1.79%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (0.60%) FileMaker
9 4 (0.60%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.60%) Redis
10 3 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.45%) Metadata
11 2 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.30%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.30%) Power BI
12 1 (0.15%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.15%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 73 (10.91%) Git
2 17 (2.54%) JIRA
3 10 (1.49%) PHPUnit
4 7 (1.05%) Claude Code
5 6 (0.90%) GitLab
5 6 (0.90%) Postman
6 5 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.60%) Vite
8 3 (0.45%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.30%) Selenium
9 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.15%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.15%) Gatling
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 117 (17.49%) Social Skills
2 73 (10.91%) Finance
3 23 (3.44%) Marketing
4 20 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (1.94%) Tech for Good
6 11 (1.64%) Public Sector
7 9 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.20%) Health Technology
9 7 (1.05%) Games
9 7 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (1.05%) Retail
10 5 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.75%) Law
11 4 (0.60%) Advertising
11 4 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.60%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.45%) Back Office
12 3 (0.45%) Legal
12 3 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 470 (70.25%) Developer
2 255 (38.12%) PHP Developer
3 151 (22.57%) Senior
4 137 (20.48%) Software Developer
5 116 (17.34%) Senior Developer
6 88 (13.15%) Graduate
6 88 (13.15%) Graduate Developer
7 86 (12.86%) Graduate Software Developer
8 70 (10.46%) C# Developer
8 70 (10.46%) C# Software Developer
8 70 (10.46%) Graduate C# Developer
8 70 (10.46%) Graduate C# Software Developer
9 68 (10.16%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 68 (10.16%) SQL Developer
10 67 (10.01%) Full-Stack Developer
11 59 (8.82%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 57 (8.52%) Software Engineer
13 54 (8.07%) Senior PHP Developer
14 50 (7.47%) PHP Laravel Developer
15 43 (6.43%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (27.80%) Laravel
2 172 (25.71%) CSS
3 139 (20.78%) HTML
4 74 (11.06%) Vue
5 68 (10.16%) React
6 64 (9.57%) jQuery
7 49 (7.32%) .NET
8 36 (5.38%) Node.js
9 30 (4.48%) RESTful
10 26 (3.89%) Symfony
11 21 (3.14%) Tailwind CSS
12 20 (2.99%) CSS3
12 20 (2.99%) HTML5
13 19 (2.84%) REST
14 17 (2.54%) AngularJS
15 16 (2.39%) LAMP
16 15 (2.24%) JSON
17 11 (1.64%) React Native
18 9 (1.35%) Jest
18 9 (1.35%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
2 26 (3.89%) Virtual Team
3 18 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (2.39%) Cloud Native
5 15 (2.24%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.64%) Mobile App
7 10 (1.49%) CCTV
8 9 (1.35%) Educational Technology
9 7 (1.05%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (0.90%) IoT
10 6 (0.90%) Social Media
11 5 (0.75%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.75%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.75%) Robotics
12 4 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.45%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.62%) Linux
2 20 (2.99%) Windows
3 15 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (1.79%) CentOS
5 10 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.05%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.60%) Debian
7 4 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.60%) Unix
7 4 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.45%) Android
8 3 (0.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (21.08%) Agile
2 114 (17.04%) Computer Science
3 103 (15.40%) Full-Stack Development
4 87 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
4 87 (13.00%) Software Engineering
5 84 (12.56%) Web Development
6 62 (9.27%) CI/CD
7 57 (8.52%) Mentoring
8 53 (7.92%) Clean Code
8 53 (7.92%) DevOps
9 50 (7.47%) OOP
10 48 (7.17%) E-Commerce
11 47 (7.03%) Microservices
11 47 (7.03%) MVC
12 42 (6.28%) User Experience
13 40 (5.98%) AI
14 32 (4.78%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (4.78%) Migration
14 32 (4.78%) OO
15 29 (4.33%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 190 (28.40%) JavaScript
2 142 (21.23%) SQL
3 103 (15.40%) C#
4 79 (11.81%) Python
5 59 (8.82%) TypeScript
6 45 (6.73%) Java
7 26 (3.89%) C++
8 19 (2.84%) Go
9 17 (2.54%) Bash
10 10 (1.49%) Perl
10 10 (1.49%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.90%) VBA
12 4 (0.60%) Delphi
12 4 (0.60%) Pascal
13 3 (0.45%) CFML
13 3 (0.45%) Rust
13 3 (0.45%) Scala
14 1 (0.15%) Ruby
14 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.15%) VB6
Qualifications
1 90 (13.45%) Degree
2 80 (11.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.20%) Security Cleared
4 3 (0.45%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.30%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.15%) HNC
6 1 (0.15%) HND
6 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.38%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.69%) QA
3 7 (1.05%) ISO 9001
4 5 (0.75%) GDPR
4 5 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.75%) WCAG
5 4 (0.60%) ISO 14001
6 3 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.30%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 48 (7.17%) Docker
2 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.69%) Terraform
3 11 (1.64%) Ansible
4 4 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (0.60%) Nagios
4 4 (0.60%) Podman
5 3 (0.45%) Plesk
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%) Puppet
6 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (5.53%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.29%) Adobe
3 17 (2.54%) Google
4 7 (1.05%) HubSpot
4 7 (1.05%) WooCommerce
5 6 (0.90%) Apple
6 5 (0.75%) OpenAI
6 5 (0.75%) Sage
7 4 (0.60%) Splunk
8 3 (0.45%) PayPal
8 3 (0.45%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.30%) BT
9 2 (0.30%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.30%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.30%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.15%) Meraki
10 1 (0.15%) Netlify
10 1 (0.15%) New Relic
10 1 (0.15%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.15%) Zend