PHP Job Trends

PHP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring PHP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 167 206
Rank change year-on-year -168 +39 -67
Permanent jobs citing PHP 404 1,228 1,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 1.57% 1.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.09% 5.08% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 298 857 955
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £31,469 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 13,095 24,160 25,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.41% 30.87% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 8,447 15,323 20,928
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,713 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% -4.62% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £105,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PHP 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -167 371 £44,000 -12.00% 244
UK excluding London -171 291 £40,000 -20.00% 203
Work from Home -39 234 £37,500 -21.05% 139
North of England -110 87 £40,000 -15.79% 68
London +25 83 £58,750 -4.28% 59
South East -86 76 £37,500 -28.57% 53
Midlands -44 56 £40,000 -5.88% 36
Yorkshire -12 41 £37,500 -18.92% 25
North West -109 40 £52,500 +5.00% 35
East of England -77 35 £33,000 -34.00% 25
South West -43 31 £57,500 +25.00% 27
East Midlands -9 29 £40,000 -5.88% 19
West Midlands -41 28 £40,000 -5.88% 17
North East -1 6 £25,000 -28.57% 8
Wales +4 3 £55,000 +69.23% 1
Scotland +35 2 £71,250 +58.33% 1
Northern Ireland +13 1 £60,000 +106.90%

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 39 (9.65%) WordPress
2 23 (5.69%) Apache
3 16 (3.96%) CMS
4 11 (2.72%) IIS
5 8 (1.98%) Drupal
6 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.49%) nginx
7 5 (1.24%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.99%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.74%) Confluence
9 3 (0.74%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.25%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 15 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.73%) Adobe Illustrator
2 7 (1.73%) Adobe XD
2 7 (1.73%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.74%) Elementor
4 2 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.25%) InDesign
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.25%) Sketch
5 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.98%) Magento
2 3 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.74%) Shopify
3 2 (0.50%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.50%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 77 (19.06%) AWS
2 76 (18.81%) Azure
3 32 (7.92%) SaaS
4 12 (2.97%) GitHub
5 11 (2.72%) GCP
5 11 (2.72%) Power Automate
6 9 (2.23%) Cloudflare
6 9 (2.23%) Google Analytics
7 8 (1.98%) Power Platform
7 8 (1.98%) Serverless
8 7 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.73%) Entra ID
8 7 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (1.73%) npm
9 6 (1.49%) Figma
10 5 (1.24%) Datadog
10 5 (1.24%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.24%) Vercel
11 4 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.48%) Internet
2 9 (2.23%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (1.24%) VoIP
4 4 (0.99%) MPLS
5 3 (0.74%) Intranet
6 2 (0.50%) DNS
7 1 (0.25%) Broadband
7 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.25%) FTP
7 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.25%) IPsec
7 1 (0.25%) RFID
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
7 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (33.91%) MySQL
2 64 (15.84%) SQL Server
3 19 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.97%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.23%) Redis
6 7 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.49%) MariaDB
8 3 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.74%) GIS
9 2 (0.50%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.50%) Power BI
10 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.25%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.25%) PostHog
10 1 (0.25%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 56 (13.86%) Git
2 11 (2.72%) JIRA
3 10 (2.48%) Postman
4 7 (1.73%) PHPUnit
5 5 (1.24%) Selenium
6 4 (0.99%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (0.99%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.99%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.50%) GitLab
7 2 (0.50%) Subversion
7 2 (0.50%) Vite
7 2 (0.50%) webpack
8 1 (0.25%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.25%) git-flow
8 1 (0.25%) MSI
8 1 (0.25%) PhpStorm
8 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.25%) Xcode
General
1 132 (32.67%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.35%) Finance
3 29 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (5.69%) Law
5 19 (4.70%) Legal
6 18 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.22%) Games
8 9 (2.23%) Marketing
9 8 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.49%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.49%) Retail
10 6 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.99%) Automotive
11 4 (0.99%) Back Office
11 4 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.74%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.50%) Electronics
13 2 (0.50%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.50%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 217 (53.71%) Developer
2 103 (25.50%) PHP Developer
3 49 (12.13%) Graduate
4 48 (11.88%) Graduate Developer
5 46 (11.39%) Senior
6 42 (10.40%) IT Graduate
7 38 (9.41%) Senior Developer
8 29 (7.18%) Lead
9 24 (5.94%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (5.45%) SQL Developer
11 20 (4.95%) C# Developer
12 19 (4.70%) Graduate C# Developer
12 19 (4.70%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 19 (4.70%) Graduate SQL Developer
12 19 (4.70%) Web Developer
13 18 (4.46%) Software Developer
14 15 (3.71%) IT Support
14 15 (3.71%) Senior PHP Developer
14 15 (3.71%) Technical Support
15 13 (3.22%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (39.60%) HTML
2 148 (36.63%) CSS
3 96 (23.76%) Laravel
4 65 (16.09%) .NET
4 65 (16.09%) jQuery
5 53 (13.12%) React
6 45 (11.14%) Symfony
7 44 (10.89%) ASP.NET
8 40 (9.90%) Vue
9 29 (7.18%) RESTful
10 28 (6.93%) REST
11 23 (5.69%) HTML5
12 20 (4.95%) CSS3
13 18 (4.46%) LAMP
14 16 (3.96%) Tailwind CSS
15 13 (3.22%) Node.js
16 12 (2.97%) Playwright
17 11 (2.72%) CakePHP
17 11 (2.72%) JSON
18 10 (2.48%) CodeIgniter
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.45%) Driving Licence
2 20 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.21%) CCTV
4 16 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.96%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.23%) e-Learning
5 9 (2.23%) Mobile App
6 8 (1.98%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.98%) Legacy Code
6 8 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.49%) IoT
8 6 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.49%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (0.99%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.74%) Blog
10 3 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.74%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 46 (11.39%) Linux
2 28 (6.93%) Windows
3 12 (2.97%) CentOS
4 11 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.48%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.99%) Android
6 4 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) Debian
7 1 (0.25%) Unix
7 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (29.95%) Agile
2 112 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
3 109 (26.98%) Computer Science
4 83 (20.54%) OO
5 72 (17.82%) OOP
6 67 (16.58%) MVC
7 64 (15.84%) Artificial Intelligence
8 59 (14.60%) Machine Learning
9 53 (13.12%) Data Privacy
10 50 (12.38%) Full-Stack Development
10 50 (12.38%) Web Development
11 44 (10.89%) DevOps
12 42 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (9.41%) CI/CD
14 34 (8.42%) Mentoring
14 34 (8.42%) Test Automation
14 34 (8.42%) User Experience
15 33 (8.17%) Software Engineering
16 27 (6.68%) E-Commerce
16 27 (6.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 215 (53.22%) JavaScript
2 145 (35.89%) SQL
3 123 (30.45%) C#
4 111 (27.48%) Java
5 108 (26.73%) Python
6 96 (23.76%) C++
7 84 (20.79%) TypeScript
8 56 (13.86%) C
9 51 (12.62%) Ruby
10 50 (12.38%) Rust
11 49 (12.13%) Dart
11 49 (12.13%) MATLAB
11 49 (12.13%) R
12 12 (2.97%) Go
13 7 (1.73%) Perl
14 5 (1.24%) DataWeave
15 4 (0.99%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.99%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.74%) Bash
17 2 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 122 (30.20%) Degree
2 107 (26.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.47%) Security Cleared
4 9 (2.23%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.73%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.99%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (0.50%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.71%) QA
2 14 (3.47%) GDPR
3 8 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.73%) SLA
5 3 (0.74%) WCAG
6 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 30 (7.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) Firmware
2 1 (0.25%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 16 (3.96%) Ansible
2 12 (2.97%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.48%) Terraform
4 5 (1.24%) CloudHub
5 4 (0.99%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (0.74%) Grafana
6 3 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.25%) Argo
7 1 (0.25%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.25%) WMI
Vendors
1 39 (9.65%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.96%) Google
3 15 (3.71%) Cisco
4 12 (2.97%) Adobe
5 11 (2.72%) Meraki
5 11 (2.72%) Oracle
6 9 (2.23%) HubSpot
7 8 (1.98%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.24%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.24%) WooCommerce
9 3 (0.74%) Ahrefs
9 3 (0.74%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.74%) SAP
9 3 (0.74%) Screaming Frog
9 3 (0.74%) Twitter
10 2 (0.50%) Netlify
10 2 (0.50%) PayPal
11 1 (0.25%) Freshdesk
11 1 (0.25%) Red Hat