PHP Job Trends

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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 161 191
Rank change year-on-year -150 +30 +13
Permanent jobs citing PHP 369 1,121 917
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.71% 1.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.18% 5.24% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 315 729 807
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,688 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -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 11,594 21,384 20,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.43% 32.67% 40.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8,390 12,837 17,206
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 -152 333 £50,000 - 226
UK excluding London -154 258 £45,000 -10.00% 218
Work from Home -60 177 £37,500 -21.05% 124
London +17 80 £62,500 +4.17% 41
Midlands -15 65 £40,000 +6.67% 45
North of England -73 61 £40,000 -11.11% 48
South East -102 54 £55,000 +7.32% 70
East of England -42 43 £35,000 -26.32% 17
West Midlands +5 39 £39,000 -8.24% 29
Yorkshire +1 32 £37,500 -23.08% 20
East Midlands +2 29 £40,000 +14.29% 16
South West -68 27 £60,000 +14.29% 38
North West -63 26 £55,000 +25.71% 27
Scotland -28 5 £60,000 +9.09% 2
North East -12 3 £25,000 -41.18% 1
Northern Ireland -2 2 £55,000 - 4
Wales -25 1 £52,500 +61.54% 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 21 (5.69%) WordPress
2 18 (4.88%) IIS
3 13 (3.52%) Apache
4 9 (2.44%) CMS
5 7 (1.90%) Apache Solr
6 5 (1.36%) Anypoint
7 4 (1.08%) nginx
8 2 (0.54%) Drupal
8 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.27%) Confluence
9 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.27%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.08%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.27%) Elementor
3 1 (0.27%) InDesign
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.17%) Infor M3
2 3 (0.81%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.54%) Magento
3 2 (0.54%) Shopify
4 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 98 (26.56%) AWS
2 97 (26.29%) Azure
3 45 (12.20%) SaaS
4 18 (4.88%) GCP
5 17 (4.61%) GitHub
6 7 (1.90%) Power Automate
7 5 (1.36%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (1.36%) Datadog
7 5 (1.36%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.36%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.08%) Serverless
9 3 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.81%) Azure Functions
9 3 (0.81%) ChatGPT
9 3 (0.81%) Cloudflare
9 3 (0.81%) Figma
9 3 (0.81%) Firebase
9 3 (0.81%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.71%) Internet
2 4 (1.08%) DNS
2 4 (1.08%) HTTP
2 4 (1.08%) Intranet
3 2 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.27%) Broadband
4 1 (0.27%) DHCP
4 1 (0.27%) FTP
4 1 (0.27%) IPv6
4 1 (0.27%) RFID
4 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (39.84%) MySQL
2 74 (20.05%) SQL Server
3 20 (5.42%) Relational Database
4 18 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (2.98%) MariaDB
6 7 (1.90%) Redis
7 5 (1.36%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.81%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.54%) Power BI
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.27%) PostHog
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (12.74%) Git
2 13 (3.52%) Postman
3 12 (3.25%) JIRA
4 8 (2.17%) Cucumber
4 8 (2.17%) Selenium
4 8 (2.17%) SoapUI
5 4 (1.08%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (1.08%) PHPUnit
6 3 (0.81%) git-flow
6 3 (0.81%) Vite
7 2 (0.54%) GitLab
7 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.27%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 112 (30.35%) Social Skills
2 77 (20.87%) Finance
3 21 (5.69%) Law
4 18 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (3.52%) Marketing
6 11 (2.98%) Games
7 10 (2.71%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (1.90%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.63%) Automotive
9 6 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.36%) Legal
10 5 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.08%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.27%) Advertising
12 1 (0.27%) Banking
12 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.27%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.27%) Retail
12 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 220 (59.62%) Developer
2 104 (28.18%) PHP Developer
3 63 (17.07%) Graduate
4 58 (15.72%) Software Developer
5 57 (15.45%) Graduate Developer
6 47 (12.74%) Senior
7 43 (11.65%) Lead
8 40 (10.84%) Senior Developer
9 32 (8.67%) C# Developer
10 31 (8.40%) Graduate C# Developer
10 31 (8.40%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 31 (8.40%) IT Graduate
11 29 (7.86%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 29 (7.86%) SQL Developer
12 28 (7.59%) Graduate Software Developer
13 24 (6.50%) Software Engineer
14 23 (6.23%) C# Software Developer
14 23 (6.23%) Graduate C# Software Developer
15 22 (5.96%) PHP Laravel Developer
16 21 (5.69%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (30.35%) CSS
2 96 (26.02%) Laravel
3 74 (20.05%) HTML
4 59 (15.99%) React
5 57 (15.45%) jQuery
6 52 (14.09%) .NET
7 46 (12.47%) Symfony
8 35 (9.49%) ASP.NET
9 28 (7.59%) Vue
10 26 (7.05%) REST
11 25 (6.78%) Node.js
12 20 (5.42%) RESTful
13 16 (4.34%) LAMP
14 15 (4.07%) CakePHP
14 15 (4.07%) CodeIgniter
15 13 (3.52%) SOAP
16 12 (3.25%) Tailwind CSS
17 9 (2.44%) AngularJS
17 9 (2.44%) HTML5
18 8 (2.17%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.69%) CCTV
2 17 (4.61%) Driving Licence
3 16 (4.34%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (4.07%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.98%) Virtual Team
6 10 (2.71%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (2.17%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.17%) IoT
8 7 (1.90%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.63%) Legacy Code
9 6 (1.63%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.36%) Educational Technology
10 5 (1.36%) Mobile Games
11 4 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.08%) NHS
12 3 (0.81%) e-Learning
12 3 (0.81%) Web Conferencing
13 2 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.76%) Linux
2 18 (4.88%) Windows
3 11 (2.98%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.90%) Android
4 7 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.08%) CentOS
5 4 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (31.98%) Agile
2 115 (31.17%) Problem-Solving
3 70 (18.97%) Computer Science
4 67 (18.16%) MVC
5 63 (17.07%) OO
6 62 (16.80%) OOP
7 51 (13.82%) Software Engineering
8 47 (12.74%) Full-Stack Development
9 45 (12.20%) CI/CD
10 38 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (9.49%) Test Automation
12 32 (8.67%) AI
13 30 (8.13%) Clean Code
13 30 (8.13%) DevOps
13 30 (8.13%) User Experience
14 29 (7.86%) Mentoring
14 29 (7.86%) Web Development
15 25 (6.78%) Machine Learning
15 25 (6.78%) Roadmaps
16 21 (5.69%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 134 (36.31%) JavaScript
2 107 (29.00%) SQL
3 90 (24.39%) C#
4 64 (17.34%) Java
4 64 (17.34%) Python
5 44 (11.92%) TypeScript
6 41 (11.11%) C++
7 16 (4.34%) Go
8 7 (1.90%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.36%) DataWeave
9 5 (1.36%) VBA
10 4 (1.08%) Perl
11 3 (0.81%) C
11 3 (0.81%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.54%) Bash
12 2 (0.54%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.27%) Delphi
13 1 (0.27%) Rust
13 1 (0.27%) Scala
13 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 66 (17.89%) Degree
2 57 (15.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.90%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.81%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.54%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.27%) MCSE
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.27%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (0.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.15%) QA
2 7 (1.90%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.90%) SLA
3 6 (1.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 36 (9.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (3.79%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.71%) Ansible
3 5 (1.36%) CloudHub
3 5 (1.36%) Terraform
4 3 (0.81%) cPanel
4 3 (0.81%) Grafana
4 3 (0.81%) Plesk
5 2 (0.54%) Argo
5 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 32 (8.67%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.61%) Oracle
3 11 (2.98%) Salesforce
4 9 (2.44%) HubSpot
4 9 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.90%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.36%) Cisco
6 5 (1.36%) Meraki
6 5 (1.36%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.08%) Adobe
7 4 (1.08%) Google
8 3 (0.81%) SAP
8 3 (0.81%) Zend
9 1 (0.27%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.27%) Databricks
9 1 (0.27%) Netlify
9 1 (0.27%) Progress
9 1 (0.27%) RedGate
9 1 (0.27%) WooCommerce