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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 251 147
Rank change year-on-year -15 -104 -4
Permanent jobs citing PHP 679 587 2,013
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.31% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.02% 4.19% 5.84%
Number of salaries quoted 605 484 1,744
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £50,157 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% +0.31% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £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 16,891 13,994 34,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.91% 31.12% 31.52%
Number of salaries quoted 11,961 9,238 26,001
10th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £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 £97,500
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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -11 625 £50,000 -1.96% 119
UK excluding London -11 533 £47,500 - 124
Work from Home -10 271 £40,000 -20.00% 43
North of England +13 170 £47,500 -4.52% 37
South East -12 136 £50,000 +11.11% 28
Midlands +16 115 £45,000 +12.50% 13
Yorkshire +19 104 £50,000 +33.33% 17
London -21 97 £75,000 +25.00% 17
West Midlands +9 73 £45,000 -18.92% 6
South West -61 60 £50,000 -13.04% 22
North West -7 57 £45,000 -14.29% 15
East Midlands -15 42 £37,500 -6.25% 7
East of England -21 41 £25,000 -28.57% 15
Wales -46 10 £35,000 -33.33% 5
North East -53 9 £31,000 +14.81% 5
Northern Ireland -29 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 61 (8.98%) WordPress
2 33 (4.86%) CMS
3 16 (2.36%) ColdFusion
4 14 (2.06%) Apache
5 11 (1.62%) nginx
6 9 (1.33%) Drupal
7 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.88%) Confluence
9 5 (0.74%) IIS
10 4 (0.59%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.29%) Moodle
11 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.15%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.15%) Liferay
12 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.03%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (2.06%) Shopify
2 11 (1.62%) Magento
3 4 (0.59%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.59%) Line 50
4 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 156 (22.97%) AWS
2 135 (19.88%) Azure
3 62 (9.13%) SaaS
4 25 (3.68%) GitHub
5 21 (3.09%) Figma
6 18 (2.65%) Serverless
7 15 (2.21%) GCP
8 13 (1.91%) Power Platform
9 11 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (1.33%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (0.88%) Stripe
14 5 (0.74%) Azure Stack
14 5 (0.74%) Slack
15 4 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (0.59%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.24%) Internet
2 14 (2.06%) DNS
3 11 (1.62%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.47%) VoIP
5 8 (1.18%) Network Security
6 7 (1.03%) HTTP
7 5 (0.74%) Intranet
7 5 (0.74%) VPN
8 4 (0.59%) DHCP
8 4 (0.59%) LAN
8 4 (0.59%) WAN
8 4 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.29%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.29%) SSL
10 1 (0.15%) BGP
10 1 (0.15%) Broadband
10 1 (0.15%) Firewall
10 1 (0.15%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (20.77%) MySQL
2 88 (12.96%) SQL Server
3 29 (4.27%) Relational Database
4 26 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (2.80%) MariaDB
6 14 (2.06%) MongoDB
6 14 (2.06%) NoSQL
7 10 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.88%) Redis
9 4 (0.59%) FileMaker
9 4 (0.59%) Metadata
9 4 (0.59%) Power BI
10 3 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.29%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.29%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.29%) phpMyAdmin
11 2 (0.29%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 88 (12.96%) Git
2 22 (3.24%) JIRA
3 9 (1.33%) PHPUnit
4 7 (1.03%) Bitbucket
4 7 (1.03%) Claude Code
4 7 (1.03%) GitLab
5 6 (0.88%) Postman
6 5 (0.74%) Vite
7 4 (0.59%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.59%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.29%) Bower
8 2 (0.29%) Selenium
8 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.29%) webpack
9 1 (0.15%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.15%) JMeter
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 132 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 87 (12.81%) Finance
3 23 (3.39%) Marketing
4 21 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (1.91%) Public Sector
6 11 (1.62%) Tech for Good
7 8 (1.18%) Retail
8 7 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (0.88%) Law
10 5 (0.74%) Advertising
10 5 (0.74%) Games
10 5 (0.74%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.74%) Legal
10 5 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.74%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.44%) Back Office
11 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 464 (68.34%) Developer
2 230 (33.87%) PHP Developer
3 150 (22.09%) Senior
4 124 (18.26%) Software Developer
5 115 (16.94%) Senior Developer
6 98 (14.43%) Graduate
7 82 (12.08%) Graduate Developer
8 80 (11.78%) Graduate Software Developer
9 69 (10.16%) Software Engineer
10 64 (9.43%) C# Developer
10 64 (9.43%) C# Software Developer
10 64 (9.43%) Graduate C# Developer
10 64 (9.43%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 62 (9.13%) Full-Stack Developer
11 62 (9.13%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 62 (9.13%) SQL Developer
12 53 (7.81%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 53 (7.81%) Web Developer
13 46 (6.77%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 46 (6.77%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (27.25%) CSS
2 183 (26.95%) Laravel
3 149 (21.94%) HTML
4 75 (11.05%) jQuery
5 73 (10.75%) Vue
6 69 (10.16%) React
7 56 (8.25%) .NET
8 46 (6.77%) Node.js
9 31 (4.57%) RESTful
10 28 (4.12%) REST
11 21 (3.09%) HTML5
11 21 (3.09%) JSON
11 21 (3.09%) Tailwind CSS
12 19 (2.80%) CSS3
13 18 (2.65%) AngularJS
13 18 (2.65%) LAMP
13 18 (2.65%) Symfony
14 12 (1.77%) Sass
15 11 (1.62%) Ajax
16 10 (1.47%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.12%) Virtual Team
2 27 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (2.95%) Cloud Native
4 15 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.47%) Educational Technology
7 9 (1.33%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.18%) CCTV
9 7 (1.03%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.03%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.03%) Social Media
10 5 (0.74%) Driving Licence
10 5 (0.74%) IoT
10 5 (0.74%) Robotics
11 4 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.44%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 60 (8.84%) Linux
2 23 (3.39%) Windows
3 15 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.91%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.77%) CentOS
6 11 (1.62%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.33%) Debian
8 5 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.59%) Unix
9 4 (0.59%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.15%) Android
10 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (24.15%) Agile
2 132 (19.44%) Computer Science
3 105 (15.46%) Software Engineering
4 98 (14.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 94 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
6 90 (13.25%) Web Development
7 72 (10.60%) CI/CD
8 58 (8.54%) Mentoring
9 57 (8.39%) OOP
10 56 (8.25%) DevOps
11 52 (7.66%) Clean Code
12 51 (7.51%) MVC
13 50 (7.36%) E-Commerce
14 44 (6.48%) AI
14 44 (6.48%) Microservices
15 40 (5.89%) User Experience
16 38 (5.60%) OO
17 36 (5.30%) Continuous Improvement
18 33 (4.86%) SEO
19 30 (4.42%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 198 (29.16%) JavaScript
2 165 (24.30%) SQL
3 117 (17.23%) C#
4 92 (13.55%) Python
5 54 (7.95%) Java
5 54 (7.95%) TypeScript
6 30 (4.42%) C++
7 23 (3.39%) Bash
8 20 (2.95%) Go
9 14 (2.06%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.62%) Perl
11 7 (1.03%) Ruby
12 5 (0.74%) VBA
13 4 (0.59%) Delphi
13 4 (0.59%) Pascal
14 3 (0.44%) CFML
14 3 (0.44%) Rust
14 3 (0.44%) Scala
15 2 (0.29%) C
16 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 102 (15.02%) Degree
2 88 (12.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (1.77%) Security Cleared
4 5 (0.74%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.44%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.29%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.29%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.15%) HNC
7 1 (0.15%) HND
7 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.89%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.65%) QA
3 7 (1.03%) ISO 9001
4 5 (0.74%) GDPR
4 5 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.74%) WCAG
5 4 (0.59%) ISO 14001
6 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.29%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (7.22%) Docker
2 5 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (3.83%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.24%) Terraform
3 15 (2.21%) Ansible
4 5 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (0.74%) Nagios
4 5 (0.74%) Podman
5 3 (0.44%) Plesk
6 1 (0.15%) Consul
6 1 (0.15%) Grafana
6 1 (0.15%) Hadoop YARN
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 40 (5.89%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.65%) Adobe
3 13 (1.91%) Google
4 7 (1.03%) Sage
4 7 (1.03%) WooCommerce
5 6 (0.88%) Apple
6 5 (0.74%) Splunk
7 4 (0.59%) HubSpot
7 4 (0.59%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.44%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.29%) BT
9 2 (0.29%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.29%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle
9 2 (0.29%) PayPal
9 2 (0.29%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.29%) SAP
10 1 (0.15%) Cisco
10 1 (0.15%) Meraki
10 1 (0.15%) New Relic