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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 244 148
Rank change year-on-year -22 -96 -6
Permanent jobs citing PHP 679 594 2,003
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.33% 1.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.07% 4.26% 5.85%
Number of salaries quoted 606 490 1,733
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,676 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% - -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 16,664 13,950 34,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.82% 31.30% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 11,760 9,193 25,782
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,379 £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 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

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 17 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 17 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 -14 625 £50,000 -0.31% 425
UK excluding London -20 532 £47,500 - 525
Work from Home -22 267 £40,000 -20.00% 450
North of England +15 171 £50,000 -1.96% 120
South East -4 136 £50,000 +11.11% 101
Midlands +12 115 £45,000 +12.50% 67
Yorkshire +20 104 £50,000 +33.33% 48
London -40 97 £75,000 +25.00% 25
West Midlands +13 73 £45,000 -18.92% 25
South West -59 59 £50,000 -13.04% 53
North West -13 58 £45,000 -14.29% 48
East Midlands -21 42 £37,500 -6.25% 42
East of England -21 41 £25,000 -28.57% 76
Wales -40 9 £35,000 -30.00% 33
North East -53 9 £45,000 +66.67% 24
Northern Ireland -31 1 - - 27

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 60 (8.84%) WordPress
2 33 (4.86%) CMS
3 16 (2.36%) ColdFusion
4 12 (1.77%) Apache
4 12 (1.77%) nginx
5 9 (1.33%) Drupal
6 6 (0.88%) Confluence
6 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.74%) 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 (2.21%) Shopify
2 12 (1.77%) Magento
3 5 (0.74%) 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
1 154 (22.68%) AWS
2 136 (20.03%) Azure
3 62 (9.13%) SaaS
4 23 (3.39%) GitHub
5 21 (3.09%) Figma
6 15 (2.21%) GCP
6 15 (2.21%) Serverless
7 12 (1.77%) Power Platform
8 11 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (1.33%) Amazon S3
9 9 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.03%) Stripe
12 6 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.74%) Azure Stack
13 5 (0.74%) Slack
14 4 (0.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (0.59%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.24%) Internet
2 13 (1.91%) DNS
3 9 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 9 (1.33%) VoIP
4 7 (1.03%) HTTP
5 6 (0.88%) Network Security
6 4 (0.59%) DHCP
6 4 (0.59%) Intranet
6 4 (0.59%) VPN
6 4 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.44%) LAN
7 3 (0.44%) WAN
8 2 (0.29%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.29%) SSL
9 1 (0.15%) Broadband
9 1 (0.15%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (20.77%) MySQL
2 89 (13.11%) SQL Server
3 27 (3.98%) Relational Database
4 26 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (2.80%) MariaDB
6 14 (2.06%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.91%) MongoDB
8 11 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.88%) Redis
10 4 (0.59%) FileMaker
10 4 (0.59%) Metadata
11 3 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.44%) Power BI
12 2 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.29%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.29%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.29%) phpMyAdmin
12 2 (0.29%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.15%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 85 (12.52%) Git
2 20 (2.95%) JIRA
3 9 (1.33%) PHPUnit
4 7 (1.03%) Claude Code
4 7 (1.03%) GitLab
5 6 (0.88%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.88%) Postman
6 5 (0.74%) 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%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.15%) Gatling
10 1 (0.15%) gulp
10 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 129 (19.00%) Social Skills
2 84 (12.37%) Finance
3 22 (3.24%) Marketing
4 21 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (1.77%) Tech for Good
6 11 (1.62%) Public Sector
7 8 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (1.18%) Retail
8 6 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (0.74%) Advertising
9 5 (0.74%) Games
9 5 (0.74%) Health Technology
9 5 (0.74%) Law
9 5 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
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
1 465 (68.48%) Developer
2 232 (34.17%) PHP Developer
3 151 (22.24%) Senior
4 124 (18.26%) Software Developer
5 117 (17.23%) Senior Developer
6 98 (14.43%) Graduate
7 82 (12.08%) Graduate Developer
8 80 (11.78%) Graduate Software Developer
9 70 (10.31%) Software Engineer
10 64 (9.43%) C# Developer
10 64 (9.43%) C# Software Developer
10 64 (9.43%) Graduate C# Developer
10 64 (9.43%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 62 (9.13%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 62 (9.13%) SQL Developer
12 61 (8.98%) Full-Stack Developer
13 53 (7.81%) Graduate PHP Developer
14 52 (7.66%) Web Developer
15 47 (6.92%) Senior PHP Developer
16 46 (6.77%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (27.54%) Laravel
2 184 (27.10%) CSS
3 147 (21.65%) HTML
4 75 (11.05%) Vue
5 74 (10.90%) jQuery
6 67 (9.87%) React
7 56 (8.25%) .NET
8 43 (6.33%) Node.js
9 31 (4.57%) RESTful
10 26 (3.83%) REST
11 21 (3.09%) Tailwind CSS
12 20 (2.95%) HTML5
12 20 (2.95%) Symfony
13 19 (2.80%) CSS3
13 19 (2.80%) JSON
14 17 (2.50%) AngularJS
14 17 (2.50%) LAMP
15 11 (1.62%) Sass
16 10 (1.47%) Ajax
16 10 (1.47%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
2 28 (4.12%) Virtual Team
3 20 (2.95%) Cloud Native
4 15 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (1.47%) Mobile App
5 10 (1.47%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.33%) CCTV
6 9 (1.33%) 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 5 (0.74%) Driving Licence
8 5 (0.74%) IoT
8 5 (0.74%) Robotics
9 4 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.44%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 56 (8.25%) Linux
2 22 (3.24%) Windows
3 15 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (1.77%) CentOS
5 11 (1.62%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.03%) Debian
7 5 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.59%) Unix
8 4 (0.59%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (23.42%) Agile
2 130 (19.15%) Computer Science
3 104 (15.32%) Software Engineering
4 97 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 94 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
6 89 (13.11%) Web Development
7 71 (10.46%) CI/CD
8 58 (8.54%) DevOps
8 58 (8.54%) Mentoring
9 55 (8.10%) OOP
10 52 (7.66%) Clean Code
11 50 (7.36%) E-Commerce
11 50 (7.36%) MVC
12 46 (6.77%) Microservices
13 43 (6.33%) AI
14 42 (6.19%) User Experience
15 37 (5.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (5.30%) OO
17 33 (4.86%) SEO
18 31 (4.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 197 (29.01%) JavaScript
2 161 (23.71%) SQL
3 116 (17.08%) C#
4 87 (12.81%) Python
5 56 (8.25%) TypeScript
6 52 (7.66%) Java
7 30 (4.42%) C++
8 20 (2.95%) Bash
8 20 (2.95%) Go
9 13 (1.91%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.33%) Perl
11 5 (0.74%) VBA
12 4 (0.59%) Delphi
12 4 (0.59%) Pascal
13 3 (0.44%) CFML
13 3 (0.44%) Ruby
13 3 (0.44%) Rust
13 3 (0.44%) Scala
14 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.15%) VB6
Qualifications
1 100 (14.73%) Degree
2 88 (12.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.33%) 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 40 (5.89%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.65%) QA
3 7 (1.03%) ISO 9001
4 5 (0.74%) GDPR
4 5 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.74%) 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 (7.36%) Docker
2 4 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.95%) Terraform
3 14 (2.06%) Ansible
4 5 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (0.74%) Nagios
4 5 (0.74%) 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 (5.60%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.80%) Adobe
3 14 (2.06%) Google
4 8 (1.18%) WooCommerce
5 6 (0.88%) Apple
5 6 (0.88%) Sage
6 5 (0.74%) HubSpot
6 5 (0.74%) 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%) New Relic
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle
10 1 (0.15%) SAP
10 1 (0.15%) TOWER Software