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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 334 162
Rank change year-on-year -33 -172 +49
Permanent jobs citing PHP 553 381 1,157
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.77% 1.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.99% 3.05% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 472 278 725
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,875 £73,900
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -15.79% -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 18,486 12,502 22,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.56% 25.41% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 13,150 8,123 13,402
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,862 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £83,938 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -26 498 £50,000 +11.11% 317
UK excluding London -38 430 £50,000 +25.00% 169
Work from Home -41 219 £45,000 +12.50% 240
South East +31 161 £55,000 +4.76% 49
North of England -9 133 £50,000 +19.05% 47
Yorkshire +15 87 £50,000 +29.03% 18
London -72 78 £75,000 +30.43% 142
South West -55 47 £54,375 -3.33% 18
North West -20 39 £50,000 -9.09% 21
Midlands -69 38 £37,500 -6.25% 25
East of England -39 37 £42,500 +17.24% 16
West Midlands -61 21 £37,500 -3.85% 12
East Midlands -40 17 £38,750 -3.13% 13
Scotland +19 7 £40,000 -43.86% 5
North East -61 7 £31,000 +24.00% 8
Wales -64 6 £45,000 -18.18% 6
Northern Ireland -77 1 - - 3

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 50 (9.04%) WordPress
2 23 (4.16%) CMS
3 19 (3.44%) Drupal
4 11 (1.99%) Apache
5 9 (1.63%) Umbraco
6 8 (1.45%) ColdFusion
7 7 (1.27%) Confluence
8 6 (1.08%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.72%) IIS
9 4 (0.72%) nginx
10 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.18%) Moodle
12 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.54%) Elementor
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (0.90%) Shopify
2 4 (0.72%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.36%) Line 50
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 169 (30.56%) AWS
2 115 (20.80%) Azure
3 42 (7.59%) SaaS
4 27 (4.88%) Serverless
5 23 (4.16%) GitHub
6 22 (3.98%) GCP
7 19 (3.44%) Amazon ECS
8 18 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (2.71%) Power Platform
11 14 (2.53%) Amazon EventBridge
11 14 (2.53%) AWS Control Tower
11 14 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.08%) Amazon S3
15 6 (1.08%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.61%) Internet
2 16 (2.89%) Network Security
3 12 (2.17%) DNS
4 8 (1.45%) VoIP
5 7 (1.27%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.08%) BGP
6 6 (1.08%) IPsec
6 6 (1.08%) VPN
7 5 (0.90%) Intranet
8 4 (0.72%) Firewall
8 4 (0.72%) LAN
8 4 (0.72%) WAN
9 3 (0.54%) SSL
10 2 (0.36%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.36%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (23.69%) MySQL
2 74 (13.38%) SQL Server
3 30 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (4.16%) Relational Database
5 21 (3.80%) MariaDB
6 10 (1.81%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.63%) Power BI
7 9 (1.63%) Redis
8 8 (1.45%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.08%) Apache Hive
9 6 (1.08%) Big Data
9 6 (1.08%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.08%) HBase
9 6 (1.08%) Metadata
10 5 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.72%) ClickHouse
12 3 (0.54%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.36%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 81 (14.65%) Git
2 16 (2.89%) JIRA
3 14 (2.53%) GitLab
4 10 (1.81%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.27%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.08%) PHPUnit
7 5 (0.90%) Vite
8 4 (0.72%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.72%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.54%) Appium
10 2 (0.36%) Bower
10 2 (0.36%) ESLint
10 2 (0.36%) Selenium
10 2 (0.36%) Storybook
10 2 (0.36%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.18%) gulp
11 1 (0.18%) Postman
11 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.18%) webpack
General
1 114 (20.61%) Social Skills
2 76 (13.74%) Finance
3 24 (4.34%) Public Sector
4 23 (4.16%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.16%) Marketing
5 10 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (1.45%) Retail
7 6 (1.08%) Military
7 6 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (0.90%) Games
8 5 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.72%) Legal
10 3 (0.54%) Advertising
10 3 (0.54%) Law
10 3 (0.54%) Publishing
10 3 (0.54%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.36%) Billing
11 2 (0.36%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.18%) Banking
Job Titles
1 362 (65.46%) Developer
2 171 (30.92%) Senior
3 150 (27.12%) PHP Developer
4 114 (20.61%) Senior Developer
5 89 (16.09%) Software Engineer
6 75 (13.56%) Software Developer
7 69 (12.48%) Graduate
8 53 (9.58%) Web Developer
9 47 (8.50%) PHP Software Engineer
10 46 (8.32%) Full-Stack Developer
11 40 (7.23%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 33 (5.97%) Senior PHP Developer
13 32 (5.79%) PHP Laravel Developer
14 29 (5.24%) Graduate Developer
14 29 (5.24%) Graduate Software Developer
15 26 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
16 25 (4.52%) Azure Software Engineer
16 25 (4.52%) C# Software Engineer
17 21 (3.80%) Lead
18 19 (3.44%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (32.19%) Laravel
2 149 (26.94%) CSS
3 141 (25.50%) HTML
4 73 (13.20%) React
5 60 (10.85%) Vue
6 58 (10.49%) .NET
7 51 (9.22%) jQuery
8 45 (8.14%) Terraform
9 44 (7.96%) Node.js
10 39 (7.05%) Symfony
11 31 (5.61%) REST
12 25 (4.52%) HTML5
13 22 (3.98%) LAMP
14 20 (3.62%) RESTful
15 19 (3.44%) CSS3
16 17 (3.07%) JSON
17 15 (2.71%) Ajax
17 15 (2.71%) Sass
18 14 (2.53%) AWS CDK
19 13 (2.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
1 27 (4.88%) Onboarding
2 17 (3.07%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.07%) Virtual Team
3 14 (2.53%) Enterprise Cloud
4 12 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (2.17%) Mobile App
5 9 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.45%) IoT
7 7 (1.27%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.08%) Educational Technology
9 5 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.72%) PMI
11 3 (0.54%) Blog
11 3 (0.54%) Clustering
11 3 (0.54%) Culture of Ownership
11 3 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.54%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 60 (10.85%) Linux
2 21 (3.80%) Windows
3 13 (2.35%) Ubuntu
4 12 (2.17%) Debian
5 7 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.72%) Android
6 4 (0.72%) CentOS
6 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.36%) macOS
8 2 (0.36%) Unix
9 1 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (24.77%) Software Engineering
2 132 (23.87%) Agile
3 93 (16.82%) Web Development
4 92 (16.64%) Computer Science
5 88 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
6 80 (14.47%) CI/CD
7 79 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 77 (13.92%) AI
9 58 (10.49%) OOP
10 50 (9.04%) DevOps
11 43 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (7.23%) Clean Code
13 38 (6.87%) SEO
13 38 (6.87%) Test Automation
14 37 (6.69%) Mentoring
14 37 (6.69%) OO
15 36 (6.51%) Infrastructure as Code
16 34 (6.15%) E-Commerce
17 33 (5.97%) Microservices
18 31 (5.61%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 192 (34.72%) JavaScript
2 139 (25.14%) SQL
3 96 (17.36%) C#
4 89 (16.09%) Python
5 52 (9.40%) Java
6 44 (7.96%) TypeScript
7 33 (5.97%) Bash
8 23 (4.16%) Ruby
9 16 (2.89%) Perl
10 13 (2.35%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.17%) C++
12 10 (1.81%) Go
13 7 (1.27%) C
14 3 (0.54%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.54%) Scala
14 3 (0.54%) Swift
15 2 (0.36%) VBA
16 1 (0.18%) CFML
16 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (13.20%) Degree
2 58 (10.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (6.33%) Security Cleared
4 14 (2.53%) AWS Certification
4 14 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (1.63%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.45%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.72%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.36%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.36%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.18%) HNC
9 1 (0.18%) HND
9 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.39%) Accessibility
2 27 (4.88%) QA
3 11 (1.99%) WCAG
4 6 (1.08%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.36%) ISO 14001
5 2 (0.36%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.18%) GDPR
6 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 57 (10.31%) Docker
2 4 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (6.69%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.44%) Ansible
3 7 (1.27%) Grafana
4 6 (1.08%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (0.72%) Nagios
5 4 (0.72%) Podman
5 4 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.54%) Argo
6 3 (0.54%) Istio
6 3 (0.54%) Kustomize
6 3 (0.54%) Puppet
7 2 (0.36%) Kibana
7 2 (0.36%) Plesk
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (4.70%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.62%) Google
3 10 (1.81%) WooCommerce
4 6 (1.08%) HP
4 6 (1.08%) IBM
4 6 (1.08%) Oracle
4 6 (1.08%) SAP
5 5 (0.90%) OpenAI
5 5 (0.90%) Sage
6 4 (0.72%) Adobe
6 4 (0.72%) NEC
6 4 (0.72%) Splunk
7 2 (0.36%) Apple
7 2 (0.36%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.18%) Cisco
8 1 (0.18%) Databricks
8 1 (0.18%) Meraki
8 1 (0.18%) Plaid
8 1 (0.18%) SGI