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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 252 147
Rank change year-on-year -15 -105 -4
Permanent jobs citing PHP 683 591 2,012
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.32% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.06% 4.23% 5.84%
Number of salaries quoted 607 488 1,742
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,676 £50,157 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +0.31% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £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 16,841 13,971 34,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.89% 31.13% 31.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11,911 9,215 25,983
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £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 £97,500
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 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 20 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 -21 628 £50,000 -1.96% 115
UK excluding London -4 534 £47,500 - 120
Work from Home -23 271 £40,000 -20.00% 44
North of England +20 171 £50,000 +0.50% 37
South East -9 136 £50,000 +11.11% 27
Midlands +13 115 £45,000 +12.50% 14
Yorkshire +20 105 £50,000 +33.33% 17
London -30 99 £75,000 +25.00% 15
West Midlands +12 73 £45,000 -18.92% 6
South West -64 60 £50,000 -13.04% 19
North West -7 58 £45,000 -14.29% 15
East Midlands -22 42 £37,500 -6.25% 8
East of England -20 41 £25,000 -28.57% 14
Wales -41 10 £35,000 -33.33% 5
North East -56 8 £38,000 +40.74% 5
Northern Ireland -31 1 - - 2

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 61 (8.93%) WordPress
2 33 (4.83%) CMS
3 16 (2.34%) ColdFusion
4 14 (2.05%) Apache
5 11 (1.61%) nginx
6 9 (1.32%) Drupal
7 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.88%) Confluence
9 5 (0.73%) IIS
10 4 (0.59%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.29%) Liferay
11 2 (0.29%) Moodle
11 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.15%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.02%) 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 14 (2.05%) Shopify
2 12 (1.76%) 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
1 157 (22.99%) AWS
2 136 (19.91%) Azure
3 62 (9.08%) SaaS
4 24 (3.51%) GitHub
5 21 (3.07%) Figma
6 18 (2.64%) Serverless
7 15 (2.20%) GCP
8 13 (1.90%) Power Platform
9 11 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (1.32%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (0.88%) Stripe
14 5 (0.73%) Azure Stack
14 5 (0.73%) Slack
15 4 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.59%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.22%) Internet
2 14 (2.05%) DNS
3 11 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.46%) VoIP
5 8 (1.17%) Network Security
6 7 (1.02%) HTTP
7 5 (0.73%) Intranet
7 5 (0.73%) VPN
8 4 (0.59%) DHCP
8 4 (0.59%) LAN
8 4 (0.59%) WAN
8 4 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.29%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.29%) SSL
10 1 (0.15%) BGP
10 1 (0.15%) Broadband
10 1 (0.15%) Firewall
10 1 (0.15%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (20.50%) MySQL
2 88 (12.88%) SQL Server
3 29 (4.25%) Relational Database
4 26 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (2.78%) MariaDB
6 14 (2.05%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.90%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.88%) Redis
10 4 (0.59%) FileMaker
10 4 (0.59%) Metadata
10 4 (0.59%) Power BI
11 3 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.29%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.29%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.29%) phpMyAdmin
12 2 (0.29%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.15%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 88 (12.88%) Git
2 22 (3.22%) JIRA
3 9 (1.32%) PHPUnit
4 7 (1.02%) Bitbucket
4 7 (1.02%) Claude Code
4 7 (1.02%) GitLab
5 6 (0.88%) Postman
6 5 (0.73%) Vite
7 4 (0.59%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.59%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.29%) Bower
8 2 (0.29%) Selenium
8 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.29%) webpack
9 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.15%) Gatling
9 1 (0.15%) gulp
9 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 132 (19.33%) Social Skills
2 87 (12.74%) Finance
3 23 (3.37%) Marketing
4 21 (3.07%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (1.90%) Public Sector
6 12 (1.76%) Tech for Good
7 8 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (1.17%) Retail
8 7 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (0.88%) Law
10 5 (0.73%) Advertising
10 5 (0.73%) Games
10 5 (0.73%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.73%) Legal
10 5 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.73%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.44%) Back Office
11 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 465 (68.08%) Developer
2 230 (33.67%) PHP Developer
3 150 (21.96%) Senior
4 124 (18.16%) Software Developer
5 115 (16.84%) Senior Developer
6 98 (14.35%) Graduate
7 82 (12.01%) Graduate Developer
8 80 (11.71%) Graduate Software Developer
9 70 (10.25%) Software Engineer
10 64 (9.37%) C# Developer
10 64 (9.37%) C# Software Developer
10 64 (9.37%) Graduate C# Developer
10 64 (9.37%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 62 (9.08%) Full-Stack Developer
11 62 (9.08%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 62 (9.08%) SQL Developer
12 53 (7.76%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 53 (7.76%) Web Developer
13 46 (6.73%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 46 (6.73%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (27.09%) CSS
2 184 (26.94%) Laravel
3 149 (21.82%) HTML
4 75 (10.98%) jQuery
5 74 (10.83%) Vue
6 69 (10.10%) React
7 56 (8.20%) .NET
8 45 (6.59%) Node.js
9 31 (4.54%) RESTful
10 27 (3.95%) REST
11 21 (3.07%) Tailwind CSS
12 20 (2.93%) HTML5
12 20 (2.93%) JSON
13 19 (2.78%) CSS3
13 19 (2.78%) Symfony
14 18 (2.64%) AngularJS
14 18 (2.64%) LAMP
15 12 (1.76%) Sass
16 11 (1.61%) Ajax
17 10 (1.46%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.10%) Virtual Team
2 27 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (2.93%) Cloud Native
4 15 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.05%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.46%) Educational Technology
7 9 (1.32%) CCTV
7 9 (1.32%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.02%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.02%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.02%) Social Media
9 5 (0.73%) Driving Licence
9 5 (0.73%) IoT
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 60 (8.78%) Linux
2 23 (3.37%) Windows
3 15 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.90%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.76%) CentOS
6 11 (1.61%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.32%) 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 1 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.15%) Android
10 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (24.01%) Agile
2 132 (19.33%) Computer Science
3 106 (15.52%) Software Engineering
4 99 (14.49%) Full-Stack Development
5 95 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
6 90 (13.18%) Web Development
7 72 (10.54%) CI/CD
8 58 (8.49%) Mentoring
9 57 (8.35%) DevOps
9 57 (8.35%) OOP
10 52 (7.61%) Clean Code
11 51 (7.47%) MVC
12 50 (7.32%) E-Commerce
13 45 (6.59%) AI
13 45 (6.59%) Microservices
14 40 (5.86%) User Experience
15 38 (5.56%) OO
16 36 (5.27%) Continuous Improvement
17 33 (4.83%) SEO
18 30 (4.39%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 198 (28.99%) JavaScript
2 165 (24.16%) SQL
3 117 (17.13%) C#
4 92 (13.47%) Python
5 56 (8.20%) TypeScript
6 55 (8.05%) Java
7 30 (4.39%) C++
8 23 (3.37%) Bash
9 20 (2.93%) Go
10 14 (2.05%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.61%) Perl
12 7 (1.02%) Ruby
13 5 (0.73%) VBA
14 4 (0.59%) Delphi
14 4 (0.59%) Pascal
15 3 (0.44%) CFML
15 3 (0.44%) Rust
15 3 (0.44%) Scala
16 2 (0.29%) C
17 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 102 (14.93%) Degree
2 88 (12.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (1.76%) Security Cleared
4 5 (0.73%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.44%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.29%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.29%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.15%) HNC
7 1 (0.15%) HND
7 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.86%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.64%) QA
3 7 (1.02%) 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 49 (7.17%) Docker
2 5 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (3.81%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.22%) Terraform
3 15 (2.20%) 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%) Hadoop YARN
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 40 (5.86%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.78%) Adobe
3 13 (1.90%) Google
4 7 (1.02%) Sage
4 7 (1.02%) WooCommerce
5 6 (0.88%) Apple
6 5 (0.73%) Splunk
7 4 (0.59%) HubSpot
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%) Oracle
9 2 (0.29%) PayPal
9 2 (0.29%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.29%) SAP
10 1 (0.15%) Meraki
10 1 (0.15%) Netlify
10 1 (0.15%) New Relic