PHP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 213 211 82
Rank change year-on-year -2 -129 -22
Permanent jobs citing PHP 876 2,227 5,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.68% 1.82% 3.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.11% 3.97% 7.59%
Number of salaries quoted 784 1,751 3,548
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,375 £83,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +18.75%

All Programming Languages
UK

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21,309 56,138 66,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.76% 45.93% 51.97%
Number of salaries quoted 16,539 35,840 45,476
10th Percentile £39,740 £38,443 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,845 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP.

Salary trend for PHP in the UK

PHP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

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 10 December 2023. 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 +13 795 £53,500 +1.90% 519
UK excluding London -5 604 £50,000 - 419
Work from Home -21 438 £52,500 -0.40% 337
London +35 206 £60,000 - 147
South East +11 198 £50,000 -4.76% 75
North of England +83 150 £50,000 +5.26% 174
South West +6 110 £50,000 +11.11% 49
North West +116 78 £50,000 - 92
Yorkshire +32 70 £50,000 +11.11% 65
Midlands +41 68 £49,990 +5.24% 54
East Midlands +38 46 £49,990 +17.62% 23
East of England +14 38 £60,000 -1.64% 32
Scotland -31 27 £47,500 - 18
West Midlands +44 22 £46,250 -7.50% 31
Wales -16 12 £50,000 +11.11% 21
North East +21 2 £37,500 -16.67% 19
Northern Ireland +33 1 £36,000 +3.60% 4

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
1 100 (11.42%) WordPress
2 58 (6.62%) CMS
3 49 (5.59%) Apache
4 33 (3.77%) Drupal
5 18 (2.05%) Confluence
6 17 (1.94%) SharePoint
7 11 (1.26%) nginx
7 11 (1.26%) Oracle Application Server
8 9 (1.03%) IIS
9 7 (0.80%) ColdFusion
9 7 (0.80%) Joomla!
10 6 (0.68%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.68%) Moodle
11 5 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.57%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.23%) MODX
12 2 (0.23%) MS Exchange
12 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.23%) Site Server
Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (0.57%) SOLIDWORKS
2 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.46%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.46%) Trello
3 3 (0.34%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.34%) FileZilla
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.23%) Campfire
4 2 (0.23%) Mathcad
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 39 (4.45%) Magento
2 6 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.68%) Shopify
3 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.11%) osCommerce
4 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 255 (29.11%) AWS
2 125 (14.27%) Azure
3 96 (10.96%) SaaS
4 39 (4.45%) GCP
5 36 (4.11%) GitHub
6 33 (3.77%) Power Platform
7 28 (3.20%) Serverless
8 20 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (1.60%) Google Analytics
11 13 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (1.37%) Snowflake
12 12 (1.37%) WhatsApp
13 11 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (1.26%) Amazon S3
13 11 (1.26%) iPaaS
13 11 (1.26%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.20%) WAN
2 25 (2.85%) LAN
3 20 (2.28%) HTTP
4 18 (2.05%) DNS
5 16 (1.83%) Internet
6 11 (1.26%) VoIP
7 10 (1.14%) Firewall
8 7 (0.80%) PPP
9 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.57%) Wireless
10 4 (0.46%) BGP
10 4 (0.46%) MPLS
11 3 (0.34%) DHCP
11 3 (0.34%) FTP
11 3 (0.34%) Intranet
11 3 (0.34%) OSPF
11 3 (0.34%) RSVP
12 2 (0.23%) 3G
12 2 (0.23%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.23%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (33.22%) MySQL
2 87 (9.93%) SQL Server
3 64 (7.31%) MongoDB
4 49 (5.59%) NoSQL
5 45 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (2.85%) Relational Database
7 24 (2.74%) MariaDB
8 21 (2.40%) Power BI
9 20 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.26%) Oracle BI EE
11 11 (1.26%) Star Schema
11 11 (1.26%) Tableau
12 10 (1.14%) Redis
13 8 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.57%) SQLite
15 3 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (0.34%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 182 (20.78%) Git
2 52 (5.94%) JIRA
3 29 (3.31%) Selenium
4 26 (2.97%) Jenkins
5 25 (2.85%) Cypress.io
6 24 (2.74%) Visual Studio
7 16 (1.83%) GitLab
8 15 (1.71%) PHPUnit
9 13 (1.48%) webpack
10 5 (0.57%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.57%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.57%) Serilog
11 4 (0.46%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (0.46%) Firebug
11 4 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.46%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.34%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.34%) gulp
12 3 (0.34%) Postman
12 3 (0.34%) Vagrant
General
1 189 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 57 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (6.05%) Marketing
4 44 (5.02%) Retail
5 42 (4.79%) Finance
6 34 (3.88%) Manufacturing
7 28 (3.20%) Telecoms
8 22 (2.51%) Public Sector
9 16 (1.83%) Automotive
10 15 (1.71%) Advertising
10 15 (1.71%) Games
11 13 (1.48%) Law
12 12 (1.37%) Legal
13 10 (1.14%) Tech for Good
14 9 (1.03%) Electronics
15 7 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.57%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.57%) Music Industry
16 5 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 595 (67.92%) Developer
2 253 (28.88%) PHP Developer
3 159 (18.15%) Senior
4 112 (12.79%) Senior Developer
5 105 (11.99%) Full Stack Developer
6 76 (8.68%) Lead
7 66 (7.53%) Web Developer
8 63 (7.19%) Software Developer
9 53 (6.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 49 (5.59%) Software Engineer
11 40 (4.57%) Senior PHP Developer
12 38 (4.34%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 33 (3.77%) WordPress Developer
14 28 (3.20%) Analyst
14 28 (3.20%) Lead Developer
15 25 (2.85%) Full Stack PHP Developer
16 24 (2.74%) Azure Developer
16 24 (2.74%) Junior
16 24 (2.74%) Magento Developer
17 22 (2.51%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 390 (44.52%) HTML
2 372 (42.47%) CSS
3 354 (40.41%) Laravel
4 222 (25.34%) React
5 152 (17.35%) Vue
6 116 (13.24%) HTML5
7 112 (12.79%) jQuery
8 94 (10.73%) Symfony
9 91 (10.39%) AngularJS
10 85 (9.70%) Node.js
11 66 (7.53%) REST
12 61 (6.96%) LAMP
13 60 (6.85%) RESTful
14 55 (6.28%) JSON
14 55 (6.28%) Web Services
15 50 (5.71%) .NET
15 50 (5.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 47 (5.37%) Tailwind CSS
17 44 (5.02%) CSS3
18 38 (4.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
2 23 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 19 (2.17%) Mobile App
4 17 (1.94%) Product Ownership
4 17 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (1.71%) Educational Technology
6 14 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.48%) IoT
7 13 (1.48%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.26%) Social Media
9 10 (1.14%) Legacy Code
9 10 (1.14%) Virtual Team
10 7 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.80%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
12 5 (0.57%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.57%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.57%) Online Games
12 5 (0.57%) VLE
13 4 (0.46%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 135 (15.41%) Linux
2 33 (3.77%) Windows
3 26 (2.97%) CentOS
4 19 (2.17%) Ubuntu
5 16 (1.83%) Android
6 14 (1.60%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.60%) Unix
7 13 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (1.37%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.57%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.46%) Debian
11 4 (0.46%) Solaris
12 1 (0.11%) AIX
12 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.11%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (27.17%) Full Stack Development
2 216 (24.66%) Agile
3 150 (17.12%) Web Development
4 126 (14.38%) DevOps
4 126 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
5 119 (13.58%) Software Engineering
6 109 (12.44%) OOP
7 106 (12.10%) E-Commerce
7 106 (12.10%) MVC
8 82 (9.36%) Computer Science
9 79 (9.02%) CI/CD
10 76 (8.68%) Front End Development
11 71 (8.11%) Mentoring
12 69 (7.88%) OO
13 62 (7.08%) Clean Code
14 59 (6.74%) Artificial Intelligence
15 58 (6.62%) Test Automation
16 56 (6.39%) CRM
17 53 (6.05%) API Development
18 49 (5.59%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 517 (59.02%) JavaScript
2 213 (24.32%) SQL
3 172 (19.63%) Python
4 91 (10.39%) C#
5 76 (8.68%) TypeScript
6 70 (7.99%) Java
7 43 (4.91%) Bash
8 39 (4.45%) C++
9 37 (4.22%) Perl
10 26 (2.97%) C
11 24 (2.74%) VB
12 23 (2.63%) JSX
13 22 (2.51%) Shell Script
14 21 (2.40%) Go
15 18 (2.05%) PowerShell
16 14 (1.60%) VBA
17 13 (1.48%) T-SQL
18 10 (1.14%) Ruby
19 7 (0.80%) PL/SQL
20 5 (0.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 133 (15.18%) Degree
2 40 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (3.08%) Security Cleared
4 21 (2.40%) SC Cleared
5 8 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.46%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (0.46%) CISM
6 4 (0.46%) CISSP
6 4 (0.46%) JNCIP
7 3 (0.34%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.34%) JNCIA
7 3 (0.34%) MCP
8 2 (0.23%) CCNA
8 2 (0.23%) CCNP
8 2 (0.23%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.23%) MCSE
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.11%) CCSP
9 1 (0.11%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.42%) QA
2 27 (3.08%) WCAG
3 18 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.37%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.34%) GDPR
6 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.11%) NCSC
7 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 163 (18.61%) Docker
2 11 (1.26%) OpenSIPS
2 11 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.46%) FreeRADIUS
5 2 (0.23%) Firmware
5 2 (0.23%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.23%) Varnish
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (9.47%) Kubernetes
2 37 (4.22%) Terraform
3 35 (4.00%) Ansible
4 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.68%) Cobbler
6 4 (0.46%) cPanel
6 4 (0.46%) Kibana
6 4 (0.46%) Puppet
6 4 (0.46%) ZABBIX
7 3 (0.34%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.23%) Grafana
8 2 (0.23%) Plesk
8 2 (0.23%) SCCM
9 1 (0.11%) Matomo
9 1 (0.11%) Nagios
9 1 (0.11%) Nessus
9 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.11%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 66 (7.53%) Microsoft
2 29 (3.31%) Oracle
3 26 (2.97%) Google
4 14 (1.60%) Zend
5 13 (1.48%) VMware
6 12 (1.37%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.26%) Kofax
7 11 (1.26%) SAP
8 9 (1.03%) WooCommerce
9 6 (0.68%) Adobe
9 6 (0.68%) Apple
10 5 (0.57%) Cisco
10 5 (0.57%) Dell
11 4 (0.46%) Juniper
11 4 (0.46%) New Relic
11 4 (0.46%) Rackspace
11 4 (0.46%) Twitter
12 3 (0.34%) Aruba
12 3 (0.34%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.34%) Rollbar