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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 164 190
Rank change year-on-year -146 +26 +8
Permanent jobs citing PHP 405 1,154 929
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.72% 1.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.40% 5.30% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 348 738 812
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 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 11,929 21,782 20,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 32.42% 40.84%
Number of salaries quoted 8,632 13,039 17,227
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,568
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £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 26 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 26 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 -142 363 £50,000 - 259
UK excluding London -144 285 £45,000 -10.00% 243
Work from Home -49 197 £37,500 -21.05% 149
London +12 86 £60,000 - 40
North of England -69 69 £42,000 -6.67% 55
Midlands -24 66 £40,000 +6.67% 60
South East -90 62 £55,000 +10.00% 63
East of England -45 47 £37,500 -21.05% 31
West Midlands +11 42 £39,000 -8.24% 42
Yorkshire +4 34 £37,500 -21.05% 22
North West -64 31 £55,000 +29.41% 31
South West -74 29 £60,000 +14.29% 33
East Midlands -6 27 £40,000 +14.29% 18
Scotland -26 6 £60,000 +9.09% 6
North East -3 4 £25,000 -41.18% 2
Wales -20 4 £55,000 +69.23% 3
Northern Ireland +3 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 (7.16%) WordPress
2 18 (4.44%) Apache
2 18 (4.44%) IIS
3 14 (3.46%) CMS
4 8 (1.98%) Apache Solr
5 7 (1.73%) nginx
6 5 (1.23%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.74%) Drupal
7 3 (0.74%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.49%) Confluence
8 2 (0.49%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.25%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 8 (1.98%) Adobe Illustrator
1 8 (1.98%) Photoshop
2 7 (1.73%) Adobe XD
3 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.74%) Elementor
6 2 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.25%) InDesign
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.98%) Infor M3
2 6 (1.48%) Magento
3 4 (0.99%) Shopify
4 3 (0.74%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.49%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 104 (25.68%) AWS
2 101 (24.94%) Azure
3 46 (11.36%) SaaS
4 21 (5.19%) GCP
5 19 (4.69%) GitHub
6 10 (2.47%) Power Automate
7 9 (2.22%) Power Platform
8 8 (1.98%) Cloudflare
9 7 (1.73%) Figma
10 6 (1.48%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.48%) npm
10 6 (1.48%) Serverless
11 5 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.23%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.23%) Datadog
11 5 (1.23%) Google Analytics
11 5 (1.23%) PowerApps
12 4 (0.99%) Azure Functions
12 4 (0.99%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.47%) Internet
2 5 (1.23%) DNS
3 4 (0.99%) HTTP
3 4 (0.99%) Intranet
4 3 (0.74%) 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
1 168 (41.48%) MySQL
2 78 (19.26%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (5.19%) Relational Database
5 12 (2.96%) MariaDB
6 11 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.98%) Redis
8 5 (1.23%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.99%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.74%) 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%) GIS
11 1 (0.25%) Mixpanel
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 64 (15.80%) Git
2 16 (3.95%) JIRA
3 13 (3.21%) Postman
4 8 (1.98%) Cucumber
4 8 (1.98%) Selenium
4 8 (1.98%) SoapUI
5 5 (1.23%) PHPUnit
6 4 (0.99%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.74%) git-flow
7 3 (0.74%) Vite
7 3 (0.74%) webpack
8 2 (0.49%) GitLab
8 2 (0.49%) 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 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 75 (18.52%) Finance
3 22 (5.43%) Law
4 20 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.95%) Marketing
6 14 (3.46%) Games
7 8 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.73%) Automotive
8 7 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.48%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.23%) Legal
11 4 (0.99%) Public Sector
11 4 (0.99%) Retail
12 3 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.49%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.25%) Advertising
14 1 (0.25%) Banking
14 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 247 (60.99%) Developer
2 106 (26.17%) PHP Developer
3 62 (15.31%) Graduate
4 56 (13.83%) Graduate Developer
4 56 (13.83%) Senior
5 53 (13.09%) Software Developer
6 49 (12.10%) Senior Developer
7 43 (10.62%) Lead
8 34 (8.40%) IT Graduate
9 26 (6.42%) C# Developer
10 25 (6.17%) Graduate C# Developer
10 25 (6.17%) Graduate PHP Developer
11 23 (5.68%) Full-Stack Developer
11 23 (5.68%) Graduate Software Developer
11 23 (5.68%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 23 (5.68%) Software Engineer
11 23 (5.68%) SQL Developer
12 21 (5.19%) Azure Developer
12 21 (5.19%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 19 (4.69%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (33.58%) CSS
2 108 (26.67%) Laravel
3 97 (23.95%) HTML
4 63 (15.56%) jQuery
4 63 (15.56%) React
5 59 (14.57%) .NET
6 52 (12.84%) Symfony
7 38 (9.38%) ASP.NET
8 37 (9.14%) Vue
9 31 (7.65%) REST
10 26 (6.42%) Node.js
11 25 (6.17%) RESTful
12 22 (5.43%) LAMP
13 16 (3.95%) CakePHP
13 16 (3.95%) HTML5
14 15 (3.70%) CodeIgniter
14 15 (3.70%) Tailwind CSS
15 13 (3.21%) SOAP
16 12 (2.96%) CSS3
17 10 (2.47%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.19%) CCTV
2 19 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.20%) Driving Licence
4 15 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.46%) Virtual Team
6 11 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (2.47%) IoT
7 10 (2.47%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.22%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.22%) Legacy Code
9 8 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.48%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.23%) Educational Technology
11 5 (1.23%) Mobile Games
11 5 (1.23%) NHS
12 4 (0.99%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.74%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.74%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (10.86%) Linux
2 18 (4.44%) Windows
3 11 (2.72%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.73%) Android
4 7 (1.73%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.73%) CentOS
4 7 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (32.59%) Problem-Solving
2 128 (31.60%) Agile
3 76 (18.77%) MVC
4 71 (17.53%) Computer Science
5 70 (17.28%) OO
5 70 (17.28%) OOP
6 56 (13.83%) Software Engineering
7 55 (13.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 51 (12.59%) CI/CD
9 47 (11.60%) Web Development
10 44 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (9.63%) DevOps
11 39 (9.63%) Test Automation
12 36 (8.89%) Mentoring
13 34 (8.40%) User Experience
14 32 (7.90%) Clean Code
15 31 (7.65%) AI
16 30 (7.41%) E-Commerce
17 28 (6.91%) Roadmaps
18 24 (5.93%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 159 (39.26%) JavaScript
2 116 (28.64%) SQL
3 91 (22.47%) C#
4 68 (16.79%) Java
4 68 (16.79%) Python
5 48 (11.85%) TypeScript
6 45 (11.11%) C++
7 16 (3.95%) Go
8 7 (1.73%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.23%) DataWeave
9 5 (1.23%) VBA
10 4 (0.99%) C
10 4 (0.99%) Perl
11 3 (0.74%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.49%) Bash
12 2 (0.49%) Ruby
13 1 (0.25%) Rust
13 1 (0.25%) Scala
13 1 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 75 (18.52%) Degree
2 63 (15.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.98%) Master's Degree
4 4 (0.99%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.74%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.49%) 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 (5.19%) QA
2 9 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.98%) GDPR
4 7 (1.73%) SLA
5 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 37 (9.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (3.46%) Ansible
1 14 (3.46%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.48%) Terraform
3 5 (1.23%) CloudHub
4 3 (0.74%) cPanel
4 3 (0.74%) Grafana
4 3 (0.74%) Plesk
5 2 (0.49%) Argo
5 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.25%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 39 (9.63%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.69%) Oracle
3 13 (3.21%) Salesforce
4 12 (2.96%) HubSpot
5 11 (2.72%) Adobe
6 10 (2.47%) Google
7 9 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.73%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.23%) Cisco
9 5 (1.23%) Meraki
9 5 (1.23%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.23%) WooCommerce
10 3 (0.74%) SAP
10 3 (0.74%) Zend
11 2 (0.49%) 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