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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 300 166
Rank change year-on-year -3 -134 +33
Permanent jobs citing PHP 677 474 1,313
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.95% 1.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.66% 3.47% 5.20%
Number of salaries quoted 592 365 1,032
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,142 £76,250 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -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 18,520 13,676 25,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.02% 27.39% 30.22%
Number of salaries quoted 13,186 8,953 17,344
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,373 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 25 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 25 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 0 621 £50,000 - 84
UK excluding London +5 545 £47,500 +5.56% 53
Work from Home -17 291 £37,500 -16.67% 49
North of England +15 177 £50,000 +5.26% 15
South East +25 160 £52,500 +23.53% 21
Yorkshire +23 111 £50,000 +33.33% 6
London -51 88 £92,500 +54.17% 37
Midlands -7 86 £40,000 - 4
South West -49 59 £44,892 -20.19% 4
North West -17 57 £45,000 -18.18% 6
West Midlands -18 50 £45,000 +9.09% 1
East of England -19 46 £25,000 -28.57% 5
East Midlands -19 36 £35,000 -12.50% 3
Wales -58 11 £35,000 -36.36%
North East -53 9 £31,000 +24.00% 4
Scotland +2 5 £32,500 -50.00% 4
Northern Ireland -79 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 57 (8.42%) WordPress
2 22 (3.25%) CMS
3 16 (2.36%) ColdFusion
4 12 (1.77%) Apache
5 8 (1.18%) Confluence
5 8 (1.18%) Drupal
6 6 (0.89%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.74%) IIS
7 5 (0.74%) nginx
8 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.30%) Moodle
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.44%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.30%) Elementor
4 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Shopify
2 4 (0.59%) Line 50
2 4 (0.59%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.44%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 178 (26.29%) AWS
2 151 (22.30%) Azure
3 56 (8.27%) SaaS
4 31 (4.58%) Serverless
5 26 (3.84%) GCP
6 24 (3.55%) GitHub
7 20 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
7 20 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (2.22%) AWS Control Tower
10 15 (2.22%) Figma
11 14 (2.07%) Amazon EventBridge
11 14 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (1.92%) Power Platform
13 10 (1.48%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (1.03%) Datadog
16 6 (0.89%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.99%) Internet
2 19 (2.81%) Network Security
3 14 (2.07%) DNS
4 10 (1.48%) VoIP
5 7 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.89%) BGP
6 6 (0.89%) IPsec
6 6 (0.89%) VPN
7 5 (0.74%) Intranet
8 4 (0.59%) Firewall
8 4 (0.59%) LAN
8 4 (0.59%) WAN
9 3 (0.44%) HTTP
10 2 (0.30%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.30%) Broadband
10 2 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (23.63%) MySQL
2 98 (14.48%) SQL Server
3 24 (3.55%) MariaDB
4 21 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (2.95%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.36%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.33%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.18%) Redis
9 6 (0.89%) Apache Hive
9 6 (0.89%) Big Data
9 6 (0.89%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.89%) HBase
10 5 (0.74%) Power BI
11 4 (0.59%) FileMaker
11 4 (0.59%) Metadata
12 3 (0.44%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.30%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 87 (12.85%) Git
2 21 (3.10%) JIRA
3 12 (1.77%) PHPUnit
4 11 (1.62%) GitLab
5 9 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.03%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.59%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.59%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.59%) Postman
7 4 (0.59%) Selenium
8 3 (0.44%) Appium
9 2 (0.30%) Bower
9 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.15%) Gatling
10 1 (0.15%) gulp
10 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.15%) Vite
10 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 141 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 114 (16.84%) Finance
3 27 (3.99%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (3.84%) Marketing
5 24 (3.55%) Public Sector
6 10 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.03%) Law
8 7 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (0.89%) Military
9 6 (0.89%) Retail
10 5 (0.74%) Advertising
10 5 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.74%) Games
10 5 (0.74%) Legal
11 3 (0.44%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.44%) Publishing
12 2 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 464 (68.54%) Developer
2 202 (29.84%) PHP Developer
3 171 (25.26%) Senior
4 125 (18.46%) Senior Developer
5 116 (17.13%) Software Developer
6 111 (16.40%) Graduate
7 77 (11.37%) Software Engineer
8 74 (10.93%) Graduate Developer
8 74 (10.93%) Graduate Software Developer
9 59 (8.71%) Web Developer
10 58 (8.57%) C# Developer
10 58 (8.57%) C# Software Developer
10 58 (8.57%) Graduate C# Developer
10 58 (8.57%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 56 (8.27%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 56 (8.27%) SQL Developer
12 54 (7.98%) Full-Stack Developer
13 46 (6.79%) Graduate PHP Developer
14 37 (5.47%) Graduate Software Engineer
15 36 (5.32%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (28.95%) CSS
2 187 (27.62%) Laravel
3 173 (25.55%) HTML
4 80 (11.82%) jQuery
5 73 (10.78%) React
6 67 (9.90%) .NET
7 64 (9.45%) Vue
8 46 (6.79%) Node.js
9 43 (6.35%) Terraform
10 29 (4.28%) LAMP
10 29 (4.28%) Symfony
11 28 (4.14%) HTML5
12 25 (3.69%) RESTful
13 23 (3.40%) REST
14 22 (3.25%) CSS3
15 17 (2.51%) JSON
16 14 (2.07%) AWS CDK
16 14 (2.07%) Sass
17 12 (1.77%) AngularJS
17 12 (1.77%) CodeIgniter
Miscellaneous
1 31 (4.58%) Greenfield Project
2 29 (4.28%) Virtual Team
3 27 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 23 (3.40%) Cloud Native
5 19 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.48%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.18%) Social Media
9 7 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.03%) Educational Technology
10 6 (0.89%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.59%) IoT
12 3 (0.44%) Blog
12 3 (0.44%) Clustering
12 3 (0.44%) Culture of Ownership
12 3 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.44%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 61 (9.01%) Linux
2 24 (3.55%) Windows
3 12 (1.77%) Debian
3 12 (1.77%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.03%) CentOS
5 7 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.59%) Unix
6 4 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.44%) Android
7 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (24.52%) Agile
2 138 (20.38%) Computer Science
3 124 (18.32%) Software Engineering
4 103 (15.21%) Web Development
5 94 (13.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 92 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
7 83 (12.26%) CI/CD
8 80 (11.82%) OOP
9 65 (9.60%) AI
10 59 (8.71%) DevOps
11 55 (8.12%) Clean Code
11 55 (8.12%) MVC
12 51 (7.53%) OO
13 50 (7.39%) Mentoring
14 47 (6.94%) E-Commerce
15 40 (5.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (5.91%) Microservices
16 38 (5.61%) SEO
17 36 (5.32%) Infrastructure as Code
18 34 (5.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 210 (31.02%) JavaScript
2 192 (28.36%) SQL
3 140 (20.68%) C#
4 111 (16.40%) Python
5 69 (10.19%) Java
6 41 (6.06%) TypeScript
7 34 (5.02%) Bash
8 26 (3.84%) C++
9 23 (3.40%) Ruby
10 21 (3.10%) Go
11 19 (2.81%) Perl
12 13 (1.92%) PowerShell
13 7 (1.03%) C
14 3 (0.44%) CFML
14 3 (0.44%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.44%) Rust
14 3 (0.44%) Scala
14 3 (0.44%) Swift
14 3 (0.44%) VBA
15 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 103 (15.21%) Degree
2 86 (12.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (5.17%) Security Cleared
4 15 (2.22%) AWS Certification
4 15 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (1.33%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.03%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.44%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.30%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.15%) HNC
9 1 (0.15%) HND
9 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (7.98%) Accessibility
2 21 (3.10%) QA
3 8 (1.18%) WCAG
4 7 (1.03%) ISO 9001
4 7 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.59%) ISO 14001
5 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.30%) GDPR
6 2 (0.30%) SLA
7 1 (0.15%) NCSC
7 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 52 (7.68%) Docker
2 5 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.81%) Ansible
3 8 (1.18%) Grafana
4 6 (0.89%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (0.59%) Nagios
6 4 (0.59%) Podman
6 4 (0.59%) Puppet
7 3 (0.44%) Argo
7 3 (0.44%) Istio
7 3 (0.44%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.44%) Plesk
8 2 (0.30%) Kibana
9 1 (0.15%) Consul
9 1 (0.15%) Packer
9 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (5.61%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.10%) Google
3 10 (1.48%) Adobe
4 8 (1.18%) Sage
5 7 (1.03%) Oracle
6 6 (0.89%) HP
6 6 (0.89%) IBM
6 6 (0.89%) SAP
6 6 (0.89%) WooCommerce
7 5 (0.74%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.59%) Apple
8 4 (0.59%) NEC
8 4 (0.59%) Splunk
9 2 (0.30%) BT
9 2 (0.30%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.30%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.15%) Netlify
10 1 (0.15%) PayPal
10 1 (0.15%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.15%) TOWER Software