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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 291 162
Rank change year-on-year +10 -129 -15
Permanent jobs citing PHP 722 520 1,364
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.70% 1.05% 1.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.94% 3.64% 5.37%
Number of salaries quoted 637 410 1,140
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,063 £63,055
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -

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 18,347 14,285 25,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.73% 28.77% 30.33%
Number of salaries quoted 13,045 9,453 18,225
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -5 660 £50,000 - 128
UK excluding London +17 577 £47,500 +5.56% 111
Work from Home +1 307 £37,500 -16.67% 57
North of England +24 179 £50,000 +5.26% 26
South East +27 165 £52,500 +16.67% 34
Yorkshire +37 116 £50,000 +33.33% 13
Midlands +19 112 £45,000 +9.09% 16
London -44 95 £92,500 +54.17% 39
West Midlands -3 67 £45,000 +5.88% 7
South West -57 61 £43,892 -23.67% 11
North West -15 54 £45,000 -14.29% 10
East Midlands -13 45 £37,500 -6.25% 9
East of England -26 43 £25,000 -28.57% 18
Wales -55 11 £35,000 -36.36% 2
North East -55 9 £31,000 +24.00% 3
Scotland +2 5 £32,500 -45.83% 6
Northern Ireland -74 1 - - 1

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 65 (9.00%) WordPress
2 27 (3.74%) CMS
3 16 (2.22%) ColdFusion
4 13 (1.80%) Apache
5 9 (1.25%) Drupal
6 8 (1.11%) Confluence
7 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.83%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.83%) nginx
9 5 (0.69%) IIS
10 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Moodle
11 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.55%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.28%) Elementor
3 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.11%) Shopify
2 4 (0.55%) Line 50
2 4 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.42%) Magento
3 3 (0.42%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.14%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 190 (26.32%) AWS
2 152 (21.05%) Azure
3 56 (7.76%) SaaS
4 34 (4.71%) Serverless
5 27 (3.74%) GCP
5 27 (3.74%) GitHub
6 23 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
7 22 (3.05%) Figma
8 17 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (2.08%) AWS Control Tower
11 14 (1.94%) Amazon EventBridge
11 14 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (1.66%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.39%) Amazon S3
15 6 (0.83%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.74%) Internet
2 19 (2.63%) Network Security
3 18 (2.49%) DNS
4 10 (1.39%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.39%) VoIP
5 9 (1.25%) VPN
6 6 (0.83%) BGP
6 6 (0.83%) Intranet
6 6 (0.83%) IPsec
7 4 (0.55%) Firewall
7 4 (0.55%) HTTP
7 4 (0.55%) LAN
7 4 (0.55%) WAN
8 3 (0.42%) DHCP
8 3 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.28%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.28%) Broadband
9 2 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (22.58%) MySQL
2 100 (13.85%) SQL Server
3 27 (3.74%) Relational Database
4 25 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (3.19%) MariaDB
6 17 (2.35%) NoSQL
7 10 (1.39%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.97%) Redis
10 6 (0.83%) Apache Hive
10 6 (0.83%) Big Data
10 6 (0.83%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.83%) HBase
11 4 (0.55%) FileMaker
11 4 (0.55%) Metadata
11 4 (0.55%) Power BI
12 3 (0.42%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.28%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 95 (13.16%) Git
2 25 (3.46%) JIRA
3 13 (1.80%) PHPUnit
4 11 (1.52%) GitLab
5 8 (1.11%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.97%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.83%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.55%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.55%) Postman
8 4 (0.55%) Selenium
9 2 (0.28%) Appium
9 2 (0.28%) Bower
9 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.28%) Vite
9 2 (0.28%) webpack
10 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.14%) Gatling
10 1 (0.14%) gulp
10 1 (0.14%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 144 (19.94%) Social Skills
2 117 (16.20%) Finance
3 28 (3.88%) Public Sector
4 27 (3.74%) Marketing
5 25 (3.46%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (0.97%) Law
7 7 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (0.97%) Retail
8 6 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (0.83%) Military
9 5 (0.69%) Advertising
9 5 (0.69%) Games
9 5 (0.69%) Health Technology
9 5 (0.69%) Legal
9 5 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (0.69%) Tech for Good
10 4 (0.55%) Publishing
11 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 493 (68.28%) Developer
2 229 (31.72%) PHP Developer
3 176 (24.38%) Senior
4 132 (18.28%) Senior Developer
5 122 (16.90%) Software Developer
6 115 (15.93%) Graduate
7 81 (11.22%) Graduate Developer
8 80 (11.08%) Graduate Software Developer
9 74 (10.25%) Software Engineer
10 64 (8.86%) C# Developer
10 64 (8.86%) C# Software Developer
10 64 (8.86%) Graduate C# Developer
10 64 (8.86%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 62 (8.59%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 62 (8.59%) SQL Developer
12 61 (8.45%) Web Developer
13 56 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
14 52 (7.20%) Graduate PHP Developer
15 43 (5.96%) PHP Laravel Developer
16 42 (5.82%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (29.50%) CSS
2 199 (27.56%) Laravel
3 183 (25.35%) HTML
4 85 (11.77%) jQuery
5 78 (10.80%) React
6 71 (9.83%) Vue
7 64 (8.86%) .NET
8 48 (6.65%) Node.js
9 29 (4.02%) LAMP
9 29 (4.02%) RESTful
9 29 (4.02%) Symfony
10 27 (3.74%) HTML5
11 25 (3.46%) REST
12 22 (3.05%) CSS3
13 18 (2.49%) JSON
14 14 (1.94%) AngularJS
14 14 (1.94%) AWS CDK
14 14 (1.94%) Sass
14 14 (1.94%) Tailwind CSS
15 12 (1.66%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.16%) Onboarding
1 30 (4.16%) Virtual Team
2 28 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (3.19%) Cloud Native
4 21 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
6 10 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.25%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.11%) Educational Technology
8 8 (1.11%) Social Media
9 7 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (0.83%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.69%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.69%) Robotics
12 4 (0.55%) IoT
12 4 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.42%) CCTV
13 3 (0.42%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 65 (9.00%) Linux
2 28 (3.88%) Windows
3 13 (1.80%) Ubuntu
4 12 (1.66%) Debian
5 11 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.25%) CentOS
6 9 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.55%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.55%) Unix
9 3 (0.42%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.28%) Android
10 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (24.93%) Agile
2 142 (19.67%) Computer Science
3 120 (16.62%) Software Engineering
4 106 (14.68%) Web Development
5 98 (13.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 97 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
7 87 (12.05%) CI/CD
8 85 (11.77%) OOP
9 65 (9.00%) AI
10 64 (8.86%) DevOps
11 58 (8.03%) MVC
12 56 (7.76%) Clean Code
13 55 (7.62%) Mentoring
14 54 (7.48%) E-Commerce
15 51 (7.06%) OO
16 42 (5.82%) Microservices
17 40 (5.54%) SEO
18 37 (5.12%) Continuous Improvement
18 37 (5.12%) Infrastructure as Code
19 32 (4.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 219 (30.33%) JavaScript
2 200 (27.70%) SQL
3 142 (19.67%) C#
4 108 (14.96%) Python
5 70 (9.70%) Java
6 50 (6.93%) TypeScript
7 36 (4.99%) Bash
8 30 (4.16%) C++
9 24 (3.32%) Ruby
10 22 (3.05%) Go
11 20 (2.77%) Perl
12 16 (2.22%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.97%) C
14 3 (0.42%) CFML
14 3 (0.42%) Delphi
14 3 (0.42%) Pascal
14 3 (0.42%) Rust
14 3 (0.42%) Scala
14 3 (0.42%) VBA
15 2 (0.28%) Swift
Qualifications
1 108 (14.96%) Degree
2 90 (12.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (4.43%) Security Cleared
4 15 (2.08%) AWS Certification
4 15 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (0.83%) DV Cleared
5 6 (0.83%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.42%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.14%) HNC
8 1 (0.14%) HND
8 1 (0.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (7.06%) Accessibility
2 20 (2.77%) QA
3 8 (1.11%) PCI DSS
3 8 (1.11%) WCAG
4 7 (0.97%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.55%) ISO 14001
5 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.42%) GDPR
7 2 (0.28%) SLA
8 1 (0.14%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (7.76%) Docker
2 5 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (6.23%) Terraform
2 42 (5.82%) Kubernetes
3 19 (2.63%) Ansible
4 6 (0.83%) Grafana
4 6 (0.83%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (0.69%) Nagios
5 5 (0.69%) Podman
6 4 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.55%) Puppet
7 3 (0.42%) Argo
7 3 (0.42%) Istio
7 3 (0.42%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.42%) Plesk
8 1 (0.14%) Consul
8 1 (0.14%) Kibana
8 1 (0.14%) Packer
8 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (5.82%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.77%) Google
3 10 (1.39%) Adobe
4 8 (1.11%) Sage
5 7 (0.97%) Oracle
5 7 (0.97%) SAP
6 6 (0.83%) Apple
6 6 (0.83%) HP
6 6 (0.83%) IBM
6 6 (0.83%) WooCommerce
7 5 (0.69%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.69%) Splunk
8 3 (0.42%) NEC
9 2 (0.28%) BT
9 2 (0.28%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.28%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.14%) Netlify
10 1 (0.14%) New Relic
10 1 (0.14%) PayPal
10 1 (0.14%) TOWER Software