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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 168 197
Rank change year-on-year -157 +29 -7
Permanent jobs citing PHP 388 1,095 926
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.63% 1.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.23% 5.12% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 336 687 807
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,125 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £61,500 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,200
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 12,008 21,385 21,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 31.88% 40.90%
Number of salaries quoted 8,605 12,654 17,511
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,613
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 £108,750 £108,750 £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 19 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 19 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 -145 344 £50,000 - 408
UK excluding London -158 271 £45,000 -5.26% 334
Work from Home -36 193 £37,500 -21.05% 228
London +17 82 £60,000 - 104
North of England -68 64 £42,000 -4.00% 85
Midlands -15 61 £40,000 +8.11% 64
South East -104 58 £55,000 +4.76% 89
East of England -49 45 £37,500 -21.05% 33
West Midlands 0 41 £39,000 -8.24% 41
Yorkshire +2 32 £40,000 -11.11% 37
South West -65 31 £58,750 +17.50% 48
North West -74 28 £55,000 +22.22% 46
East Midlands -6 23 £40,000 +14.29% 22
Scotland -32 6 £60,000 +9.09% 12
North East -15 4 £25,000 -41.18% 3
Wales -21 4 £55,000 +69.23% 6
Northern Ireland +1 2 £55,000 +89.66% 4

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 27 (6.96%) WordPress
2 22 (5.67%) Apache
3 18 (4.64%) IIS
4 14 (3.61%) CMS
5 8 (2.06%) Apache Solr
6 7 (1.80%) nginx
7 5 (1.29%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.77%) Drupal
8 3 (0.77%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.52%) Confluence
9 2 (0.52%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.26%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 8 (2.06%) Adobe Illustrator
1 8 (2.06%) Photoshop
2 7 (1.80%) Adobe XD
3 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.77%) Elementor
6 2 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.26%) InDesign
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.26%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (2.06%) Infor M3
2 7 (1.80%) Magento
3 4 (1.03%) Shopify
4 3 (0.77%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.52%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 96 (24.74%) AWS
1 96 (24.74%) Azure
2 42 (10.82%) SaaS
3 18 (4.64%) GitHub
4 17 (4.38%) GCP
5 10 (2.58%) Power Automate
6 9 (2.32%) Power Platform
7 8 (2.06%) Cloudflare
8 7 (1.80%) Figma
9 6 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.55%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.55%) npm
9 6 (1.55%) Serverless
10 5 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.29%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (1.29%) Datadog
10 5 (1.29%) Google Analytics
10 5 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.29%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.03%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.58%) Internet
2 7 (1.80%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (1.29%) DNS
4 4 (1.03%) Intranet
5 3 (0.77%) HTTP
6 1 (0.26%) Broadband
6 1 (0.26%) DHCP
6 1 (0.26%) FTP
6 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.26%) IPsec
6 1 (0.26%) IPv6
6 1 (0.26%) RFID
6 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (41.75%) MySQL
2 78 (20.10%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.41%) Relational Database
4 20 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (3.09%) MariaDB
6 11 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.80%) Redis
8 5 (1.29%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.03%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.77%) Power BI
11 2 (0.52%) GIS
12 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.26%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.26%) Mixpanel
12 1 (0.26%) PostHog
12 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 61 (15.72%) Git
2 16 (4.12%) JIRA
3 14 (3.61%) Postman
4 9 (2.32%) Cucumber
4 9 (2.32%) Selenium
4 9 (2.32%) SoapUI
5 5 (1.29%) PHPUnit
6 4 (1.03%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.77%) git-flow
7 3 (0.77%) Vite
7 3 (0.77%) webpack
8 2 (0.52%) GitLab
8 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.26%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.26%) MSI
9 1 (0.26%) PhpStorm
9 1 (0.26%) Snyk
9 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 133 (34.28%) Social Skills
2 72 (18.56%) Finance
3 22 (5.67%) Law
4 19 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.09%) Games
6 12 (3.09%) Marketing
7 7 (1.80%) Automotive
7 7 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.55%) Health Technology
9 5 (1.29%) Legal
9 5 (1.29%) Retail
10 4 (1.03%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.52%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.26%) Advertising
13 1 (0.26%) Banking
13 1 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 230 (59.28%) Developer
2 97 (25.00%) PHP Developer
3 61 (15.72%) Graduate
4 55 (14.18%) Graduate Developer
5 47 (12.11%) Senior
6 43 (11.08%) Software Developer
7 41 (10.57%) Senior Developer
8 38 (9.79%) Lead
9 37 (9.54%) IT Graduate
10 24 (6.19%) C# Developer
10 24 (6.19%) SQL Developer
11 23 (5.93%) Graduate C# Developer
11 23 (5.93%) Graduate PHP Developer
11 23 (5.93%) Graduate SQL Developer
12 22 (5.67%) Software Engineer
13 21 (5.41%) Azure Developer
14 20 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
14 20 (5.15%) PHP Laravel Developer
15 19 (4.90%) Graduate Software Developer
16 18 (4.64%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (35.57%) CSS
2 100 (25.77%) Laravel
3 94 (24.23%) HTML
4 66 (17.01%) jQuery
5 60 (15.46%) .NET
6 57 (14.69%) React
7 53 (13.66%) Symfony
8 40 (10.31%) ASP.NET
9 36 (9.28%) Vue
10 28 (7.22%) REST
11 25 (6.44%) RESTful
12 24 (6.19%) Node.js
13 22 (5.67%) LAMP
14 17 (4.38%) HTML5
15 15 (3.87%) CakePHP
16 14 (3.61%) SOAP
17 13 (3.35%) CodeIgniter
17 13 (3.35%) CSS3
17 13 (3.35%) Tailwind CSS
18 10 (2.58%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.41%) CCTV
2 18 (4.64%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.38%) Driving Licence
4 15 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.61%) Virtual Team
6 12 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (2.58%) IoT
8 9 (2.32%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.32%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.06%) Legacy Code
9 8 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.55%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.29%) Educational Technology
11 5 (1.29%) Mobile Games
12 4 (1.03%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.77%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.77%) NHS
14 2 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.63%) Linux
2 18 (4.64%) Windows
3 11 (2.84%) CentOS
3 11 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.58%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.80%) Android
5 7 (1.80%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (32.47%) Agile
2 125 (32.22%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (19.85%) MVC
4 73 (18.81%) OO
5 71 (18.30%) OOP
6 70 (18.04%) Computer Science
7 52 (13.40%) Software Engineering
8 51 (13.14%) Full-Stack Development
9 48 (12.37%) CI/CD
10 44 (11.34%) Web Development
11 43 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (11.08%) DevOps
12 41 (10.57%) Test Automation
13 34 (8.76%) Mentoring
13 34 (8.76%) User Experience
14 28 (7.22%) AI
14 28 (7.22%) Clean Code
14 28 (7.22%) E-Commerce
15 25 (6.44%) Roadmaps
16 24 (6.19%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 158 (40.72%) JavaScript
2 116 (29.90%) SQL
3 87 (22.42%) C#
4 71 (18.30%) Java
5 68 (17.53%) Python
6 48 (12.37%) C++
7 43 (11.08%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.38%) Go
9 7 (1.80%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.29%) DataWeave
10 5 (1.29%) VBA
11 4 (1.03%) Perl
11 4 (1.03%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.77%) C
12 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.52%) Bash
13 2 (0.52%) Ruby
14 1 (0.26%) Rust
14 1 (0.26%) Scala
14 1 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 78 (20.10%) Degree
2 66 (17.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.06%) Master's Degree
3 8 (2.06%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.80%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.26%) MCSE
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.26%) MySQL Certification
5 1 (0.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.67%) QA
2 9 (2.32%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.06%) GDPR
4 7 (1.80%) SLA
5 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (8.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (4.64%) Ansible
2 12 (3.09%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.55%) Terraform
4 5 (1.29%) CloudHub
5 3 (0.77%) Grafana
6 2 (0.52%) Argo
6 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.26%) cPanel
7 1 (0.26%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.26%) Plesk
7 1 (0.26%) WMI
Vendors
1 40 (10.31%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.90%) Oracle
3 13 (3.35%) Salesforce
4 11 (2.84%) Adobe
4 11 (2.84%) Google
4 11 (2.84%) HubSpot
5 9 (2.32%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.55%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.29%) Cisco
7 5 (1.29%) Meraki
7 5 (1.29%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.29%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.77%) SAP
9 2 (0.52%) Netlify
9 2 (0.52%) Zend
10 1 (0.26%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.26%) Databricks
10 1 (0.26%) PayPal
10 1 (0.26%) Progress
10 1 (0.26%) RedGate