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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 259 149
Rank change year-on-year -9 -110 -7
Permanent jobs citing PHP 693 580 1,933
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.23% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.00% 4.08% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 615 473 1,671
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 17,334 14,220 33,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.93% 30.09% 31.71%
Number of salaries quoted 12,317 9,449 25,240
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -2 635 £50,000 - 146
UK excluding London -10 541 £47,500 - 137
Work from Home -22 278 £40,000 -16.67% 67
North of England +5 164 £45,000 -6.25% 39
South East -2 143 £50,000 +11.11% 35
Midlands +17 115 £45,000 +12.50% 15
Yorkshire +24 104 £50,000 +33.33% 15
London -25 102 £78,750 +31.25% 32
West Midlands +8 72 £45,000 -17.05% 7
South West -65 62 £50,000 -14.89% 22
North West -26 52 £45,000 -14.29% 18
East Midlands -2 43 £37,500 -6.25% 8
East of England -19 43 £25,000 -28.57% 17
Wales -35 11 £35,000 -36.36% 2
North East -53 8 £31,000 +15.89% 6
Scotland +5 2 £36,250 -36.96% 7
Northern Ireland -44 1 - - 2

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 63 (9.09%) WordPress
2 32 (4.62%) CMS
3 16 (2.31%) ColdFusion
4 14 (2.02%) Apache
5 10 (1.44%) nginx
6 9 (1.30%) Drupal
7 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.87%) Confluence
9 5 (0.72%) IIS
10 4 (0.58%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.29%) Moodle
12 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
13 1 (0.14%) Joomla!
13 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.29%) Elementor
5 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.73%) Shopify
2 7 (1.01%) Magento
3 4 (0.58%) Line 50
4 3 (0.43%) Infor M3
4 3 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 171 (24.68%) AWS
2 137 (19.77%) Azure
3 59 (8.51%) SaaS
4 26 (3.75%) GitHub
4 26 (3.75%) Serverless
5 21 (3.03%) Figma
6 17 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (2.45%) GCP
7 16 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (2.02%) Power Platform
9 11 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (1.44%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (1.30%) AWS Control Tower
12 8 (1.15%) Amazon EventBridge
12 8 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.46%) Internet
2 16 (2.31%) DNS
3 14 (2.02%) Network Security
4 11 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.44%) VoIP
6 7 (1.01%) HTTP
6 7 (1.01%) VPN
7 6 (0.87%) Intranet
8 4 (0.58%) DHCP
8 4 (0.58%) LAN
8 4 (0.58%) WAN
8 4 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.43%) BGP
9 3 (0.43%) IPsec
10 2 (0.29%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.29%) Broadband
10 2 (0.29%) SSL
11 1 (0.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (21.21%) MySQL
2 89 (12.84%) SQL Server
3 30 (4.33%) Relational Database
4 26 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (2.89%) MariaDB
6 16 (2.31%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.02%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.87%) Redis
10 5 (0.72%) Power BI
11 4 (0.58%) FileMaker
11 4 (0.58%) Metadata
12 3 (0.43%) Apache Hive
12 3 (0.43%) Big Data
12 3 (0.43%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.43%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.43%) HBase
13 2 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.29%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 90 (12.99%) Git
2 22 (3.17%) JIRA
3 10 (1.44%) PHPUnit
4 8 (1.15%) GitLab
5 7 (1.01%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.01%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.72%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.58%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.58%) Postman
7 4 (0.58%) Vite
8 2 (0.29%) Bower
8 2 (0.29%) Selenium
8 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.29%) webpack
9 1 (0.14%) Gatling
9 1 (0.14%) gulp
9 1 (0.14%) JMeter
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.14%) Vagrant
General
1 139 (20.06%) Social Skills
2 98 (14.14%) Finance
3 23 (3.32%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (3.32%) Marketing
4 19 (2.74%) Public Sector
5 11 (1.59%) Tech for Good
6 7 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (1.01%) Law
6 7 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (1.01%) Retail
7 6 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (0.87%) Legal
7 6 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (0.72%) Advertising
8 5 (0.72%) Games
8 5 (0.72%) Health Technology
8 5 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.43%) Back Office
9 3 (0.43%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 471 (67.97%) Developer
2 225 (32.47%) PHP Developer
3 159 (22.94%) Senior
4 124 (17.89%) Software Developer
5 117 (16.88%) Senior Developer
6 103 (14.86%) Graduate
7 82 (11.83%) Graduate Developer
8 80 (11.54%) Graduate Software Developer
9 71 (10.25%) Software Engineer
10 64 (9.24%) C# Developer
10 64 (9.24%) C# Software Developer
10 64 (9.24%) Graduate C# Developer
10 64 (9.24%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 62 (8.95%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 62 (8.95%) SQL Developer
12 60 (8.66%) Full-Stack Developer
13 54 (7.79%) Web Developer
14 53 (7.65%) Graduate PHP Developer
15 43 (6.20%) PHP Laravel Developer
16 39 (5.63%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (28.14%) CSS
2 187 (26.98%) Laravel
3 160 (23.09%) HTML
4 80 (11.54%) jQuery
5 74 (10.68%) Vue
6 71 (10.25%) React
7 58 (8.37%) .NET
8 49 (7.07%) Node.js
9 31 (4.47%) RESTful
10 26 (3.75%) REST
11 21 (3.03%) HTML5
11 21 (3.03%) LAMP
11 21 (3.03%) Symfony
12 20 (2.89%) JSON
12 20 (2.89%) Tailwind CSS
13 19 (2.74%) CSS3
14 18 (2.60%) AngularJS
15 13 (1.88%) Sass
16 12 (1.73%) Ajax
17 10 (1.44%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.33%) Virtual Team
2 26 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
3 24 (3.46%) Cloud Native
4 22 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.15%) Educational Technology
7 8 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (1.15%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.15%) Social Media
8 7 (1.01%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.01%) CCTV
9 6 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.87%) Product Ownership
10 5 (0.72%) Driving Licence
10 5 (0.72%) IoT
10 5 (0.72%) Robotics
11 4 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 63 (9.09%) Linux
2 25 (3.61%) Windows
3 15 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.88%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.73%) CentOS
6 11 (1.59%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.44%) Debian
8 5 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.58%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.58%) Unix
9 4 (0.58%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (24.53%) Agile
2 136 (19.62%) Computer Science
3 109 (15.73%) Software Engineering
4 101 (14.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 96 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
6 95 (13.71%) Web Development
7 76 (10.97%) CI/CD
8 65 (9.38%) OOP
9 57 (8.23%) Mentoring
10 56 (8.08%) DevOps
11 55 (7.94%) AI
12 53 (7.65%) Clean Code
13 52 (7.50%) E-Commerce
14 51 (7.36%) MVC
15 44 (6.35%) OO
16 42 (6.06%) Microservices
17 37 (5.34%) User Experience
18 35 (5.05%) SEO
19 34 (4.91%) Continuous Improvement
20 31 (4.47%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 205 (29.58%) JavaScript
2 180 (25.97%) SQL
3 124 (17.89%) C#
4 102 (14.72%) Python
5 59 (8.51%) Java
6 53 (7.65%) TypeScript
7 30 (4.33%) C++
8 29 (4.18%) Bash
9 22 (3.17%) Go
10 17 (2.45%) Perl
11 15 (2.16%) PowerShell
11 15 (2.16%) Ruby
12 4 (0.58%) C
12 4 (0.58%) Delphi
12 4 (0.58%) Pascal
12 4 (0.58%) VBA
13 3 (0.43%) CFML
13 3 (0.43%) Rust
13 3 (0.43%) Scala
14 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 108 (15.58%) Degree
2 90 (12.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (2.74%) Security Cleared
4 9 (1.30%) AWS Certification
4 9 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (0.72%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.43%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.29%) SC Cleared
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 45 (6.49%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.60%) QA
3 7 (1.01%) ISO 9001
4 5 (0.72%) GDPR
4 5 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.72%) WCAG
5 4 (0.58%) ISO 14001
5 4 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.29%) SLA
7 1 (0.14%) NCSC
7 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (6.78%) Docker
2 6 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (4.47%) Terraform
2 28 (4.04%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.31%) Ansible
4 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (0.72%) Nagios
4 5 (0.72%) Podman
5 3 (0.43%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (0.43%) Plesk
6 2 (0.29%) Puppet
7 1 (0.14%) Consul
7 1 (0.14%) Grafana
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Packer
7 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.02%) Adobe
3 12 (1.73%) Google
4 8 (1.15%) Sage
5 6 (0.87%) Apple
5 6 (0.87%) WooCommerce
6 5 (0.72%) Splunk
7 4 (0.58%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.58%) Oracle
7 4 (0.58%) SAP
8 3 (0.43%) HP
8 3 (0.43%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.43%) IBM
8 3 (0.43%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.29%) BT
9 2 (0.29%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.29%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.29%) PayPal
9 2 (0.29%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.14%) Netlify