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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 229 153
Rank change year-on-year -24 -76 -3
Permanent jobs citing PHP 666 614 1,841
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.41% 1.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.19% 4.39% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 594 547 1,678
10th Percentile £24,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,750 £63,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -4.00%

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 15,896 13,992 32,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.54% 32.15% 33.65%
Number of salaries quoted 10,864 10,014 24,981
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -6 617 £50,000 -4.76% 153
UK excluding London -29 516 £50,000 - 149
Work from Home -14 258 £40,000 -27.27% 52
North of England -41 147 £50,000 -4.76% 47
Midlands +12 123 £45,000 +12.50% 15
South East -11 123 £50,000 - 40
London -28 101 £70,000 +16.67% 22
Yorkshire -11 81 £50,000 +14.29% 31
West Midlands +3 76 £50,000 -9.91% 5
South West -55 72 £55,000 -8.33% 18
North West -32 60 £46,250 -11.90% 12
East Midlands -6 47 £37,500 +7.14% 10
East of England -7 45 £25,000 -28.57% 18
North East -54 6 £57,500 +4.55% 4
Wales -43 5 £35,000 -9.68% 4
Scotland -33 1 £60,000 +9.09% 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 50 (7.51%) WordPress
2 28 (4.20%) CMS
3 15 (2.25%) ColdFusion
3 15 (2.25%) nginx
4 10 (1.50%) Apache
5 8 (1.20%) Drupal
6 5 (0.75%) IIS
6 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.45%) Confluence
7 3 (0.45%) Liferay
8 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.15%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.15%) Moodle
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (1.20%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.30%) Trello
5 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (2.25%) Shopify
2 13 (1.95%) Magento
3 8 (1.20%) Infor M3
4 4 (0.60%) Line 50
5 3 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.15%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 148 (22.22%) AWS
2 131 (19.67%) Azure
3 65 (9.76%) SaaS
4 27 (4.05%) GCP
5 24 (3.60%) GitHub
6 20 (3.00%) Figma
7 12 (1.80%) Stripe
8 11 (1.65%) Serverless
9 10 (1.50%) Power Platform
10 8 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.05%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.75%) Slack
13 4 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.60%) DigitalOcean
13 4 (0.60%) GitHub Copilot
14 3 (0.45%) Anthos
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.25%) Internet
2 14 (2.10%) DNS
3 10 (1.50%) HTTP
4 7 (1.05%) VPN
5 6 (0.90%) Network Security
6 4 (0.60%) DHCP
6 4 (0.60%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.60%) VoIP
6 4 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.30%) SSL
8 1 (0.15%) Firewall
8 1 (0.15%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (22.97%) MySQL
2 80 (12.01%) SQL Server
3 27 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (3.75%) Relational Database
5 15 (2.25%) NoSQL
6 12 (1.80%) MariaDB
6 12 (1.80%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (0.75%) Redis
10 4 (0.60%) FileMaker
10 4 (0.60%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.30%) Metadata
12 2 (0.30%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.30%) Power BI
13 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.15%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 65 (9.76%) Git
2 14 (2.10%) JIRA
3 11 (1.65%) PHPUnit
4 9 (1.35%) Postman
5 7 (1.05%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.75%) Selenium
6 5 (0.75%) Vite
7 4 (0.60%) GitLab
8 3 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.45%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.15%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.15%) Gatling
10 1 (0.15%) JMeter
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 107 (16.07%) Social Skills
2 82 (12.31%) Finance
3 23 (3.45%) Marketing
4 16 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (1.95%) Tech for Good
6 10 (1.50%) Health Technology
7 9 (1.35%) Public Sector
8 8 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.05%) Retail
10 6 (0.90%) Games
10 6 (0.90%) Law
11 5 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.45%) Advertising
13 3 (0.45%) Back Office
13 3 (0.45%) Legal
13 3 (0.45%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 462 (69.37%) Developer
2 254 (38.14%) PHP Developer
3 155 (23.27%) Senior
4 134 (20.12%) Software Developer
5 120 (18.02%) Senior Developer
6 91 (13.66%) Graduate
6 91 (13.66%) Graduate Developer
7 89 (13.36%) Graduate Software Developer
8 73 (10.96%) C# Developer
8 73 (10.96%) C# Software Developer
8 73 (10.96%) Graduate C# Developer
8 73 (10.96%) Graduate C# Software Developer
9 69 (10.36%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 69 (10.36%) SQL Developer
10 68 (10.21%) Full-Stack Developer
11 62 (9.31%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 54 (8.11%) Senior PHP Developer
13 52 (7.81%) Software Engineer
14 47 (7.06%) PHP Laravel Developer
15 39 (5.86%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (27.78%) Laravel
2 162 (24.32%) CSS
3 130 (19.52%) HTML
4 73 (10.96%) React
5 69 (10.36%) Vue
6 60 (9.01%) jQuery
7 47 (7.06%) .NET
8 32 (4.80%) Node.js
9 30 (4.50%) Symfony
10 29 (4.35%) RESTful
11 21 (3.15%) Tailwind CSS
12 20 (3.00%) HTML5
12 20 (3.00%) REST
13 19 (2.85%) CSS3
14 17 (2.55%) AngularJS
15 15 (2.25%) JSON
16 14 (2.10%) LAMP
17 11 (1.65%) React Native
18 9 (1.35%) LEMP Stack
18 9 (1.35%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
2 22 (3.30%) Virtual Team
3 18 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.10%) Cloud Native
6 13 (1.95%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.80%) CCTV
8 9 (1.35%) Educational Technology
9 7 (1.05%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.05%) IoT
10 6 (0.90%) Product Ownership
10 6 (0.90%) Social Media
11 5 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.75%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.75%) Robotics
12 4 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.60%) NHS
13 3 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.45%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.91%) Linux
2 19 (2.85%) Windows
3 13 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.50%) CentOS
5 9 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.60%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.60%) Unix
6 4 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.45%) Android
7 3 (0.45%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (21.62%) Agile
2 113 (16.97%) Computer Science
3 101 (15.17%) Full-Stack Development
4 86 (12.91%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (12.31%) Software Engineering
6 81 (12.16%) Web Development
7 57 (8.56%) CI/CD
7 57 (8.56%) Mentoring
7 57 (8.56%) OOP
8 51 (7.66%) MVC
9 50 (7.51%) DevOps
9 50 (7.51%) E-Commerce
10 48 (7.21%) Clean Code
10 48 (7.21%) Microservices
11 41 (6.16%) User Experience
12 35 (5.26%) AI
12 35 (5.26%) TDD
13 33 (4.95%) OO
14 31 (4.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (4.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 180 (27.03%) JavaScript
2 144 (21.62%) SQL
3 108 (16.22%) C#
4 74 (11.11%) Python
5 60 (9.01%) TypeScript
6 52 (7.81%) Java
7 28 (4.20%) C++
8 20 (3.00%) Go
9 13 (1.95%) Bash
10 10 (1.50%) Perl
11 8 (1.20%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.90%) VBA
13 5 (0.75%) Delphi
14 4 (0.60%) Pascal
15 3 (0.45%) C
15 3 (0.45%) CFML
15 3 (0.45%) Rust
15 3 (0.45%) Scala
16 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (12.46%) Degree
2 75 (11.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.45%) Master's Degree
3 3 (0.45%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.15%) MySQL Certification
4 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 16 (2.40%) QA
3 7 (1.05%) ISO 9001
4 5 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.75%) WCAG
5 4 (0.60%) GDPR
5 4 (0.60%) ISO 14001
6 3 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.30%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 52 (7.81%) Docker
2 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.65%) Terraform
3 8 (1.20%) Ansible
4 5 (0.75%) Plesk
5 2 (0.30%) cPanel
5 2 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.30%) Nagios
5 2 (0.30%) Podman
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 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.30%) Adobe
3 15 (2.25%) Google
4 9 (1.35%) HubSpot
5 6 (0.90%) Apple
5 6 (0.90%) OpenAI
6 5 (0.75%) Sage
6 5 (0.75%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.45%) PayPal
7 3 (0.45%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.45%) Zend
8 2 (0.30%) BT
8 2 (0.30%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.30%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.30%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.30%) Splunk
9 1 (0.15%) Meraki
9 1 (0.15%) Netlify
9 1 (0.15%) New Relic
9 1 (0.15%) TOWER Software