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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 337 161
Rank change year-on-year -16 -176 +47
Permanent jobs citing PHP 570 383 1,187
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.77% 1.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.08% 3.00% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 492 278 749
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% -13.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,370 £77,875 £75,000
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 18,479 12,786 22,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.64% 25.74% 30.94%
Number of salaries quoted 13,116 8,181 13,706
10th Percentile £39,163 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 7 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 7 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 -14 515 £50,000 +11.11% 331
UK excluding London -3 445 £50,000 +25.00% 204
Work from Home -34 231 £40,000 +3.23% 181
South East +39 163 £55,000 +46.67% 58
North of England +4 142 £50,000 +19.05% 41
Yorkshire +21 94 £50,000 +29.03% 15
London -77 78 £75,000 +25.00% 140
South West -52 48 £54,375 -1.14% 21
Midlands -57 42 £36,250 -9.38% 25
North West -14 41 £50,000 -9.09% 18
East of England -29 38 £41,250 +13.79% 35
West Midlands -58 22 £37,500 -3.85% 13
East Midlands -40 20 £30,000 -25.00% 12
North East -67 7 £31,000 +24.00% 8
Wales -64 6 £45,000 -18.18% 9
Scotland +9 5 £32,500 -54.39% 9
Northern Ireland -81 1 - - 7

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 47 (8.25%) WordPress
2 21 (3.68%) CMS
3 17 (2.98%) Drupal
4 11 (1.93%) Apache
5 10 (1.75%) ColdFusion
6 8 (1.40%) Umbraco
7 7 (1.23%) Confluence
8 6 (1.05%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.88%) IIS
10 4 (0.70%) nginx
11 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.35%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.18%) Moodle
13 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.35%) Elementor
2 2 (0.35%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Shopify
2 4 (0.70%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.53%) Line 50
3 3 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 171 (30.00%) AWS
2 128 (22.46%) Azure
3 42 (7.37%) SaaS
4 27 (4.74%) Serverless
5 22 (3.86%) GCP
6 21 (3.68%) GitHub
7 19 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
8 18 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.46%) Amazon EventBridge
11 14 (2.46%) AWS Control Tower
11 14 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (2.46%) Power Platform
12 12 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.05%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (1.05%) Amazon S3
14 6 (1.05%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.61%) Internet
2 17 (2.98%) Network Security
3 11 (1.93%) DNS
4 9 (1.58%) VoIP
5 7 (1.23%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.05%) BGP
6 6 (1.05%) IPsec
6 6 (1.05%) VPN
7 5 (0.88%) Intranet
8 4 (0.70%) Firewall
8 4 (0.70%) LAN
8 4 (0.70%) WAN
9 2 (0.35%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.35%) Broadband
9 2 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (21.93%) MySQL
2 85 (14.91%) SQL Server
3 28 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (4.04%) Relational Database
5 20 (3.51%) MariaDB
6 10 (1.75%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.40%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.40%) Power BI
7 8 (1.40%) Redis
8 6 (1.05%) Apache Hive
8 6 (1.05%) Big Data
8 6 (1.05%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.05%) HBase
9 5 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.70%) ClickHouse
10 4 (0.70%) Metadata
11 3 (0.53%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.53%) FileMaker
12 2 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 74 (12.98%) Git
2 17 (2.98%) JIRA
3 14 (2.46%) GitLab
4 10 (1.75%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.23%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.05%) PHPUnit
7 4 (0.70%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.70%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.70%) Vite
8 3 (0.53%) Appium
9 2 (0.35%) Bower
9 2 (0.35%) ESLint
9 2 (0.35%) Selenium
9 2 (0.35%) Storybook
9 2 (0.35%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.18%) gulp
10 1 (0.18%) Postman
10 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.18%) webpack
General
1 115 (20.18%) Social Skills
2 87 (15.26%) Finance
3 24 (4.21%) Public Sector
4 22 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (3.68%) Marketing
6 8 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.23%) Retail
8 6 (1.05%) Military
8 6 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (0.88%) Games
9 5 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.70%) Legal
11 3 (0.53%) Advertising
11 3 (0.53%) Law
11 3 (0.53%) Publishing
11 3 (0.53%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.35%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.18%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.18%) Banking
Job Titles
1 381 (66.84%) Developer
2 169 (29.65%) Senior
3 160 (28.07%) PHP Developer
4 113 (19.82%) Senior Developer
5 93 (16.32%) Software Developer
6 88 (15.44%) Software Engineer
7 85 (14.91%) Graduate
8 54 (9.47%) Web Developer
9 49 (8.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 45 (7.89%) Graduate Developer
10 45 (7.89%) Graduate Software Developer
10 45 (7.89%) PHP Software Engineer
11 40 (7.02%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 33 (5.79%) C# Developer
12 33 (5.79%) C# Software Developer
12 33 (5.79%) Graduate C# Developer
12 33 (5.79%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 33 (5.79%) Graduate SQL Developer
12 33 (5.79%) Senior PHP Developer
12 33 (5.79%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (31.75%) Laravel
2 151 (26.49%) CSS
3 140 (24.56%) HTML
4 72 (12.63%) React
5 61 (10.70%) .NET
6 60 (10.53%) Vue
7 57 (10.00%) jQuery
8 45 (7.89%) Node.js
8 45 (7.89%) Terraform
9 36 (6.32%) Symfony
10 25 (4.39%) REST
11 23 (4.04%) HTML5
12 22 (3.86%) LAMP
13 18 (3.16%) RESTful
14 17 (2.98%) JSON
15 15 (2.63%) CSS3
15 15 (2.63%) Sass
16 14 (2.46%) Ajax
16 14 (2.46%) AWS CDK
17 12 (2.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.74%) Onboarding
2 26 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (3.33%) Virtual Team
4 18 (3.16%) Cloud Native
5 14 (2.46%) Enterprise Cloud
6 13 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.93%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.23%) IoT
9 7 (1.23%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.05%) Educational Technology
11 4 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.70%) PMI
11 4 (0.70%) Social Media
12 3 (0.53%) Blog
12 3 (0.53%) Clustering
12 3 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.53%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 59 (10.35%) Linux
2 22 (3.86%) Windows
3 13 (2.28%) Ubuntu
4 12 (2.11%) Debian
5 7 (1.23%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.70%) CentOS
6 4 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.53%) Android
7 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.53%) Unix
8 1 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (24.56%) Agile
2 136 (23.86%) Software Engineering
3 110 (19.30%) Computer Science
4 93 (16.32%) Web Development
5 83 (14.56%) Full-Stack Development
5 83 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
6 80 (14.04%) CI/CD
7 77 (13.51%) AI
8 64 (11.23%) OOP
9 51 (8.95%) DevOps
10 43 (7.54%) Clean Code
11 42 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (6.84%) OO
13 37 (6.49%) Mentoring
14 36 (6.32%) Infrastructure as Code
14 36 (6.32%) MVC
14 36 (6.32%) SEO
15 33 (5.79%) Microservices
15 33 (5.79%) Test Automation
16 32 (5.61%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 187 (32.81%) JavaScript
2 153 (26.84%) SQL
3 111 (19.47%) C#
4 93 (16.32%) Python
5 56 (9.82%) Java
6 43 (7.54%) TypeScript
7 33 (5.79%) Bash
8 23 (4.04%) Ruby
9 16 (2.81%) C++
9 16 (2.81%) Perl
10 13 (2.28%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.11%) Go
12 7 (1.23%) C
13 3 (0.53%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.53%) Scala
13 3 (0.53%) Swift
14 2 (0.35%) CFML
14 2 (0.35%) VBA
15 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (14.74%) Degree
2 69 (12.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (6.14%) Security Cleared
4 14 (2.46%) AWS Certification
4 14 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (1.58%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.70%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.35%) 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 60 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 21 (3.68%) QA
3 10 (1.75%) WCAG
4 6 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.53%) ISO 14001
5 3 (0.53%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.18%) GDPR
7 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 51 (8.95%) Docker
2 3 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (6.49%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.33%) Ansible
3 7 (1.23%) Grafana
4 6 (1.05%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (0.70%) Nagios
5 4 (0.70%) Podman
5 4 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.53%) Argo
6 3 (0.53%) Istio
6 3 (0.53%) Kustomize
6 3 (0.53%) Puppet
7 2 (0.35%) Kibana
7 2 (0.35%) Plesk
Vendors
1 27 (4.74%) Microsoft
2 17 (2.98%) Google
3 7 (1.23%) Adobe
4 6 (1.05%) HP
4 6 (1.05%) IBM
4 6 (1.05%) Oracle
4 6 (1.05%) Sage
4 6 (1.05%) SAP
4 6 (1.05%) WooCommerce
5 5 (0.88%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.70%) NEC
6 4 (0.70%) Splunk
7 3 (0.53%) Apple
8 2 (0.35%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.18%) Netlify
9 1 (0.18%) Plaid
9 1 (0.18%) SGI