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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 260 155
Rank change year-on-year -11 -105 -10
Permanent jobs citing PHP 718 574 1,685
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.16% 1.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.05% 3.98% 5.57%
Number of salaries quoted 634 460 1,438
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,125 £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 17,726 14,432 30,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.75% 29.26% 31.46%
Number of salaries quoted 12,703 9,594 22,361
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,280 £35,475
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 £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 20 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 20 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 -10 657 £50,000 - 65
UK excluding London -5 565 £47,500 - 56
Work from Home -9 304 £40,000 -15.79% 37
North of England +18 174 £50,000 +4.17% 16
South East +13 152 £52,500 +16.67% 22
Midlands +13 114 £45,000 +5.88% 7
Yorkshire +37 111 £50,000 +33.33% 9
London -33 102 £85,000 +41.67% 18
West Midlands +13 70 £45,000 -15.89% 6
South West -53 67 £47,500 -17.39% 3
North West -20 55 £45,000 -14.29% 5
East Midlands -5 44 £37,500 -6.25% 1
East of England -26 42 £25,000 -28.57% 9
Wales -46 11 £35,000 -36.36%
North East -50 8 £31,000 +15.89% 2
Scotland +5 4 £36,250 -39.58% 1
Northern Ireland -61 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 63 (8.77%) WordPress
2 32 (4.46%) CMS
3 16 (2.23%) ColdFusion
4 15 (2.09%) Apache
5 9 (1.25%) Drupal
6 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.11%) nginx
7 6 (0.84%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.84%) Confluence
8 5 (0.70%) IIS
9 4 (0.56%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Moodle
10 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.14%) Joomla!
11 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 10 (1.39%) Shopify
2 4 (0.56%) Line 50
2 4 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.42%) Magento
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
1 184 (25.63%) AWS
2 145 (20.19%) Azure
3 57 (7.94%) SaaS
4 35 (4.87%) Serverless
5 26 (3.62%) GitHub
6 23 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (3.20%) GCP
7 22 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (2.92%) Figma
9 17 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.09%) AWS Control Tower
12 14 (1.95%) Amazon EventBridge
12 14 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (1.81%) Power Platform
14 11 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.39%) Amazon S3
15 10 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
17 6 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.34%) Internet
2 20 (2.79%) DNS
2 20 (2.79%) Network Security
3 11 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.39%) VoIP
4 10 (1.39%) VPN
5 6 (0.84%) BGP
5 6 (0.84%) Intranet
5 6 (0.84%) IPsec
6 5 (0.70%) HTTP
7 4 (0.56%) DHCP
7 4 (0.56%) Firewall
7 4 (0.56%) LAN
7 4 (0.56%) WAN
7 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.28%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.28%) Broadband
8 2 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (22.01%) MySQL
2 94 (13.09%) SQL Server
3 31 (4.32%) Relational Database
4 25 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (3.06%) MariaDB
6 19 (2.65%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.95%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.97%) Redis
10 6 (0.84%) Apache Hive
10 6 (0.84%) Big Data
10 6 (0.84%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.84%) HBase
11 4 (0.56%) FileMaker
11 4 (0.56%) Metadata
11 4 (0.56%) Power BI
12 3 (0.42%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.28%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 92 (12.81%) Git
2 22 (3.06%) JIRA
3 12 (1.67%) PHPUnit
4 10 (1.39%) GitLab
5 8 (1.11%) Claude Code
6 7 (0.97%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.97%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.42%) Postman
8 3 (0.42%) Selenium
9 2 (0.28%) Bower
9 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.28%) Vite
9 2 (0.28%) webpack
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
10 1 (0.14%) Vagrant
General
1 141 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 110 (15.32%) Finance
3 26 (3.62%) Marketing
3 26 (3.62%) Public Sector
4 24 (3.34%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (0.97%) Law
7 7 (0.97%) Retail
7 7 (0.97%) Tech for Good
8 6 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (0.84%) Military
8 6 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (0.70%) Advertising
9 5 (0.70%) Games
9 5 (0.70%) Health Technology
9 5 (0.70%) Legal
9 5 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.42%) Back Office
10 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 486 (67.69%) Developer
2 227 (31.62%) PHP Developer
3 171 (23.82%) Senior
4 126 (17.55%) Senior Developer
5 122 (16.99%) Software Developer
6 112 (15.60%) Graduate
7 81 (11.28%) Graduate Developer
8 80 (11.14%) Graduate Software Developer
9 72 (10.03%) Software Engineer
10 64 (8.91%) C# Developer
10 64 (8.91%) C# Software Developer
10 64 (8.91%) Full-Stack Developer
10 64 (8.91%) Graduate C# Developer
10 64 (8.91%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 62 (8.64%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 62 (8.64%) SQL Developer
12 58 (8.08%) Web Developer
13 52 (7.24%) Graduate PHP Developer
14 43 (5.99%) PHP Laravel Developer
15 39 (5.43%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (27.99%) CSS
2 193 (26.88%) Laravel
3 168 (23.40%) HTML
4 81 (11.28%) jQuery
5 77 (10.72%) React
6 76 (10.58%) Vue
7 60 (8.36%) .NET
8 53 (7.38%) Node.js
9 30 (4.18%) RESTful
10 26 (3.62%) LAMP
10 26 (3.62%) REST
11 24 (3.34%) Symfony
12 22 (3.06%) HTML5
13 20 (2.79%) CSS3
14 19 (2.65%) JSON
15 17 (2.37%) AngularJS
16 16 (2.23%) Tailwind CSS
17 14 (1.95%) AWS CDK
17 14 (1.95%) Sass
18 12 (1.67%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 31 (4.32%) Onboarding
2 30 (4.18%) Virtual Team
3 26 (3.62%) Cloud Native
3 26 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
4 21 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
6 11 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.25%) Educational Technology
8 8 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.11%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.11%) Social Media
9 7 (0.97%) AI Agents
9 7 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (0.84%) IoT
11 5 (0.70%) CCTV
11 5 (0.70%) Robotics
12 4 (0.56%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.56%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 66 (9.19%) Linux
2 28 (3.90%) Windows
3 13 (1.81%) Ubuntu
4 12 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.53%) Debian
5 11 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.39%) CentOS
7 5 (0.70%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (23.96%) Agile
2 138 (19.22%) Computer Science
3 118 (16.43%) Software Engineering
4 106 (14.76%) Full-Stack Development
5 100 (13.93%) Web Development
6 96 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (11.28%) CI/CD
8 78 (10.86%) OOP
9 63 (8.77%) AI
10 60 (8.36%) DevOps
11 59 (8.22%) Mentoring
12 55 (7.66%) E-Commerce
12 55 (7.66%) MVC
13 54 (7.52%) Clean Code
14 50 (6.96%) OO
15 42 (5.85%) Microservices
16 38 (5.29%) Infrastructure as Code
17 35 (4.87%) SEO
18 33 (4.60%) Continuous Improvement
19 31 (4.32%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 209 (29.11%) JavaScript
2 193 (26.88%) SQL
3 137 (19.08%) C#
4 108 (15.04%) Python
5 69 (9.61%) Java
6 52 (7.24%) TypeScript
7 35 (4.87%) Bash
8 30 (4.18%) C++
9 24 (3.34%) Ruby
10 22 (3.06%) Go
11 21 (2.92%) Perl
12 17 (2.37%) 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%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 108 (15.04%) Degree
2 89 (12.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (4.18%) Security Cleared
4 15 (2.09%) AWS Certification
4 15 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (0.70%) DV Cleared
5 5 (0.70%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.56%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.14%) HNC
8 1 (0.14%) HND
8 1 (0.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.41%) Accessibility
2 16 (2.23%) QA
3 8 (1.11%) PCI DSS
4 7 (0.97%) ISO 9001
5 6 (0.84%) WCAG
6 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.56%) GDPR
7 4 (0.56%) ISO 14001
8 2 (0.28%) SLA
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (6.96%) Docker
2 6 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (5.99%) Terraform
2 36 (5.01%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.51%) Ansible
4 6 (0.84%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (0.70%) Nagios
5 5 (0.70%) Podman
6 4 (0.56%) Grafana
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 (6.13%) Microsoft
2 17 (2.37%) Google
3 10 (1.39%) Adobe
4 8 (1.11%) Sage
5 7 (0.97%) Oracle
5 7 (0.97%) SAP
6 6 (0.84%) Apple
6 6 (0.84%) HP
6 6 (0.84%) IBM
6 6 (0.84%) WooCommerce
7 5 (0.70%) Splunk
8 4 (0.56%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.28%) BT
9 2 (0.28%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.28%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.28%) NEC
9 2 (0.28%) PayPal
9 2 (0.28%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.28%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.14%) TOWER Software