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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 243 150
Rank change year-on-year -8 -93 -5
Permanent jobs citing PHP 681 606 1,934
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.37% 1.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.11% 4.34% 5.73%
Number of salaries quoted 607 501 1,701
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £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 £71,750 £76,250 £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 16,555 13,971 33,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.92% 31.60% 31.73%
Number of salaries quoted 11,594 9,186 25,567
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,625 £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 £110,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -6 628 £50,000 -0.31% 95
UK excluding London -17 534 £47,500 - 84
Work from Home -33 265 £41,250 -17.50% 59
North of England +20 173 £50,000 -2.91% 23
South East -13 137 £50,000 +5.26% 22
Midlands +14 114 £45,000 +12.50% 13
Yorkshire +19 107 £50,000 +33.33% 8
London -27 97 £65,000 +8.33% 18
West Midlands +11 74 £50,000 -9.91% 6
South West -55 61 £50,000 -14.89% 15
North West -3 57 £47,500 -9.52% 12
East Midlands -17 40 £37,500 -6.25% 7
East of England -24 40 £25,000 -28.57% 7
North East -49 9 £45,000 +66.67% 3
Wales -44 8 £35,000 -30.00% 4
Northern Ireland -35 1 - - 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 59 (8.66%) WordPress
2 33 (4.85%) CMS
3 16 (2.35%) ColdFusion
4 12 (1.76%) Apache
4 12 (1.76%) nginx
5 9 (1.32%) Drupal
6 6 (0.88%) Confluence
6 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.73%) IIS
8 4 (0.59%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.29%) Liferay
9 2 (0.29%) Moodle
9 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.15%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.03%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (2.20%) Shopify
2 13 (1.91%) Magento
3 5 (0.73%) Infor M3
4 4 (0.59%) Line 50
5 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.15%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 155 (22.76%) AWS
2 131 (19.24%) Azure
3 61 (8.96%) SaaS
4 24 (3.52%) GitHub
5 21 (3.08%) Figma
6 15 (2.20%) GCP
6 15 (2.20%) Serverless
7 12 (1.76%) Power Platform
8 11 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (1.32%) Amazon S3
9 9 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.17%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (1.17%) Stripe
11 7 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.73%) Azure Stack
13 5 (0.73%) Slack
14 4 (0.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (0.59%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.08%) Internet
2 13 (1.91%) DNS
3 9 (1.32%) VoIP
4 8 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.03%) HTTP
6 6 (0.88%) Network Security
7 4 (0.59%) DHCP
7 4 (0.59%) VPN
7 4 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.44%) Intranet
8 3 (0.44%) LAN
8 3 (0.44%) WAN
9 2 (0.29%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.29%) SSL
10 1 (0.15%) Broadband
10 1 (0.15%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (21.15%) MySQL
2 88 (12.92%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (3.82%) Relational Database
4 19 (2.79%) MariaDB
5 14 (2.06%) MongoDB
5 14 (2.06%) NoSQL
6 11 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.73%) Redis
8 4 (0.59%) FileMaker
8 4 (0.59%) Metadata
9 3 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.44%) Power BI
10 2 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.29%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.29%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.29%) phpMyAdmin
10 2 (0.29%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.15%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 84 (12.33%) Git
2 20 (2.94%) JIRA
3 9 (1.32%) PHPUnit
4 7 (1.03%) Claude Code
4 7 (1.03%) GitLab
5 6 (0.88%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.88%) Postman
6 5 (0.73%) Vite
7 4 (0.59%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.44%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.29%) Selenium
9 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.29%) webpack
10 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.15%) Gatling
10 1 (0.15%) gulp
10 1 (0.15%) JMeter
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 130 (19.09%) Social Skills
2 78 (11.45%) Finance
3 22 (3.23%) Marketing
4 21 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (1.91%) Tech for Good
6 11 (1.62%) Public Sector
7 8 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (1.17%) Retail
8 6 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (0.73%) Games
9 5 (0.73%) Health Technology
9 5 (0.73%) Law
9 5 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (0.59%) Advertising
10 4 (0.59%) Legal
10 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.59%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.44%) Back Office
11 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 473 (69.46%) Developer
2 241 (35.39%) PHP Developer
3 158 (23.20%) Senior
4 125 (18.36%) Software Developer
5 124 (18.21%) Senior Developer
6 92 (13.51%) Graduate
7 82 (12.04%) Graduate Developer
8 80 (11.75%) Graduate Software Developer
9 65 (9.54%) Software Engineer
10 64 (9.40%) C# Developer
10 64 (9.40%) C# Software Developer
10 64 (9.40%) Graduate C# Developer
10 64 (9.40%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 63 (9.25%) Full-Stack Developer
12 62 (9.10%) Graduate SQL Developer
12 62 (9.10%) SQL Developer
13 53 (7.78%) Graduate PHP Developer
14 52 (7.64%) Senior PHP Developer
15 50 (7.34%) Web Developer
16 47 (6.90%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (27.90%) Laravel
2 183 (26.87%) CSS
3 146 (21.44%) HTML
4 77 (11.31%) Vue
5 72 (10.57%) jQuery
6 68 (9.99%) React
7 55 (8.08%) .NET
8 43 (6.31%) Node.js
9 31 (4.55%) RESTful
10 25 (3.67%) REST
11 22 (3.23%) Symfony
12 21 (3.08%) HTML5
12 21 (3.08%) Tailwind CSS
13 20 (2.94%) CSS3
14 19 (2.79%) AngularJS
15 18 (2.64%) JSON
16 17 (2.50%) LAMP
17 12 (1.76%) Sass
18 10 (1.47%) Jest
19 9 (1.32%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
2 28 (4.11%) Virtual Team
3 20 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (1.47%) Mobile App
5 10 (1.47%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.32%) CCTV
6 9 (1.32%) Educational Technology
7 7 (1.03%) AI Agents
7 7 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.03%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.03%) Social Media
8 6 (0.88%) IoT
9 5 (0.73%) Driving Licence
9 5 (0.73%) Robotics
10 4 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.44%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 56 (8.22%) Linux
2 22 (3.23%) Windows
3 15 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (1.76%) CentOS
5 11 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.47%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.88%) Debian
8 5 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.59%) Unix
9 4 (0.59%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.29%) Android
10 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (22.32%) Agile
2 123 (18.06%) Computer Science
3 100 (14.68%) Full-Stack Development
4 98 (14.39%) Software Engineering
5 94 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (12.78%) Web Development
7 69 (10.13%) CI/CD
8 58 (8.52%) Mentoring
9 57 (8.37%) DevOps
10 56 (8.22%) OOP
11 53 (7.78%) Clean Code
12 51 (7.49%) MVC
13 50 (7.34%) E-Commerce
14 47 (6.90%) Microservices
15 43 (6.31%) AI
15 43 (6.31%) User Experience
16 37 (5.43%) Continuous Improvement
17 35 (5.14%) OO
18 32 (4.70%) SEO
19 31 (4.55%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 195 (28.63%) JavaScript
2 154 (22.61%) SQL
3 110 (16.15%) C#
4 85 (12.48%) Python
5 58 (8.52%) TypeScript
6 51 (7.49%) Java
7 30 (4.41%) C++
8 20 (2.94%) Go
9 19 (2.79%) Bash
10 12 (1.76%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.32%) Perl
12 5 (0.73%) VBA
13 4 (0.59%) Delphi
13 4 (0.59%) Pascal
14 3 (0.44%) CFML
14 3 (0.44%) Rust
14 3 (0.44%) Scala
15 2 (0.29%) Ruby
16 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.15%) VB6
Qualifications
1 99 (14.54%) Degree
2 87 (12.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.32%) Security Cleared
4 4 (0.59%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.29%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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 39 (5.73%) Accessibility
2 19 (2.79%) QA
3 7 (1.03%) ISO 9001
4 5 (0.73%) GDPR
4 5 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.73%) WCAG
5 4 (0.59%) ISO 14001
6 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.29%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (7.34%) Docker
2 4 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (3.96%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.94%) Terraform
3 13 (1.91%) Ansible
4 5 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (0.73%) Nagios
4 5 (0.73%) Podman
5 3 (0.44%) 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 38 (5.58%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.94%) Adobe
3 13 (1.91%) Google
4 8 (1.17%) WooCommerce
5 6 (0.88%) Apple
5 6 (0.88%) HubSpot
5 6 (0.88%) Sage
6 5 (0.73%) Splunk
7 4 (0.59%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.44%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.29%) BT
9 2 (0.29%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.29%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.29%) PayPal
9 2 (0.29%) 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