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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 160 193
Rank change year-on-year -165 +33 +18
Permanent jobs citing PHP 374 1,077 895
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.73% 1.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.23% 5.19% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 318 713 799
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £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 £76,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% 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 11,579 20,744 20,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.53% 33.39% 40.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,450 12,486 17,013
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,103
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 £106,250
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 13 December 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 13 December 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 -151 339 £50,000 - 373
UK excluding London -146 265 £47,500 -5.00% 364
Work from Home -70 171 £37,500 -21.05% 171
London +28 79 £62,500 +4.17% 44
Midlands -13 71 £40,000 +14.29% 60
North of England -93 58 £40,000 -11.11% 120
South East -94 55 £55,000 +10.00% 83
East of England -46 43 £50,000 +5.26% 27
West Midlands -2 42 £39,500 -7.06% 35
East Midlands -1 32 £40,000 +14.29% 23
Yorkshire -17 31 £38,500 -23.00% 57
South West -72 30 £60,000 +9.09% 59
North West -68 26 £53,750 +19.44% 52
Scotland -34 5 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Northern Ireland -4 2 £55,000 - 4
North East -16 1 £25,000 -42.86% 12
Wales -33 1 £52,500 +61.54% 9

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 19 (5.08%) WordPress
2 17 (4.55%) IIS
3 13 (3.48%) Apache
4 8 (2.14%) CMS
5 7 (1.87%) Apache Solr
6 5 (1.34%) Anypoint
7 4 (1.07%) nginx
8 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.27%) Confluence
9 1 (0.27%) Drupal
9 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.27%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (0.80%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.27%) InDesign
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.41%) Infor M3
2 4 (1.07%) Shopify
3 3 (0.80%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.53%) Magento
5 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 99 (26.47%) AWS
2 90 (24.06%) Azure
3 50 (13.37%) SaaS
4 17 (4.55%) GCP
4 17 (4.55%) GitHub
5 6 (1.60%) Power Automate
6 5 (1.34%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (1.34%) Datadog
6 5 (1.34%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.34%) Stripe
7 4 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.07%) Serverless
8 3 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.80%) Azure Functions
8 3 (0.80%) ChatGPT
8 3 (0.80%) Firebase
8 3 (0.80%) npm
8 3 (0.80%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.53%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.67%) Internet
2 5 (1.34%) HTTP
3 4 (1.07%) DNS
3 4 (1.07%) Intranet
4 2 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.27%) Broadband
5 1 (0.27%) DHCP
5 1 (0.27%) FTP
5 1 (0.27%) IPv6
5 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (38.24%) MySQL
2 66 (17.65%) SQL Server
3 20 (5.35%) Relational Database
4 17 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.94%) MariaDB
6 10 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.34%) Redis
8 4 (1.07%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.80%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.27%) PostHog
10 1 (0.27%) Power BI
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 (12.57%) Git
2 13 (3.48%) JIRA
2 13 (3.48%) Postman
3 8 (2.14%) Cucumber
3 8 (2.14%) Selenium
3 8 (2.14%) SoapUI
4 4 (1.07%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (0.80%) git-flow
5 3 (0.80%) PHPUnit
6 2 (0.53%) GitLab
6 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.53%) Vite
7 1 (0.27%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 103 (27.54%) Social Skills
2 69 (18.45%) Finance
3 21 (5.61%) Law
4 19 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (3.74%) Marketing
6 12 (3.21%) Games
7 8 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (1.87%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.60%) Automotive
10 5 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.34%) Legal
10 5 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.07%) 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 (58.82%) Developer
2 108 (28.88%) PHP Developer
3 63 (16.84%) Software Developer
4 57 (15.24%) Graduate
5 51 (13.64%) Graduate Developer
6 49 (13.10%) Senior
7 44 (11.76%) Lead
8 40 (10.70%) Senior Developer
9 30 (8.02%) Graduate Software Developer
10 29 (7.75%) C# Developer
10 29 (7.75%) Graduate C# Developer
10 29 (7.75%) Graduate PHP Developer
11 27 (7.22%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 27 (7.22%) Software Engineer
11 27 (7.22%) SQL Developer
12 25 (6.68%) C# Software Developer
12 25 (6.68%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 25 (6.68%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 23 (6.15%) IT Graduate
14 22 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (28.07%) CSS
2 101 (27.01%) Laravel
3 75 (20.05%) HTML
4 62 (16.58%) React
5 48 (12.83%) jQuery
6 45 (12.03%) Symfony
7 44 (11.76%) .NET
8 28 (7.49%) Vue
9 27 (7.22%) ASP.NET
10 25 (6.68%) Node.js
10 25 (6.68%) REST
11 20 (5.35%) RESTful
12 16 (4.28%) CakePHP
12 16 (4.28%) CodeIgniter
12 16 (4.28%) LAMP
13 13 (3.48%) SOAP
13 13 (3.48%) Tailwind CSS
14 8 (2.14%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.14%) HTML5
14 8 (2.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.88%) CCTV
2 17 (4.55%) Driving Licence
3 15 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.94%) Virtual Team
5 10 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (2.41%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.14%) IoT
7 8 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.87%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.60%) Educational Technology
10 5 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.34%) Legacy Code
10 5 (1.34%) Mobile Games
11 4 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.07%) NHS
12 3 (0.80%) Web Conferencing
13 2 (0.53%) e-Learning
13 2 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.63%) Linux
2 17 (4.55%) Windows
3 11 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.14%) Android
4 8 (2.14%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.07%) CentOS
5 4 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (29.95%) Agile
2 108 (28.88%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (16.84%) Computer Science
4 60 (16.04%) MVC
5 55 (14.71%) OO
5 55 (14.71%) Software Engineering
6 53 (14.17%) OOP
7 51 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 43 (11.50%) CI/CD
9 35 (9.36%) Test Automation
10 32 (8.56%) DevOps
11 31 (8.29%) Clean Code
11 31 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (8.02%) AI
12 30 (8.02%) User Experience
13 29 (7.75%) Mentoring
14 28 (7.49%) Web Development
15 26 (6.95%) Roadmaps
16 24 (6.42%) Machine Learning
17 20 (5.35%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 135 (36.10%) JavaScript
2 102 (27.27%) SQL
3 84 (22.46%) C#
4 63 (16.84%) Python
5 56 (14.97%) Java
6 46 (12.30%) TypeScript
7 33 (8.82%) C++
8 16 (4.28%) Go
9 7 (1.87%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.60%) VBA
11 5 (1.34%) DataWeave
12 4 (1.07%) Perl
13 3 (0.80%) C
13 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.53%) Bash
14 2 (0.53%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.27%) Delphi
15 1 (0.27%) Ruby
15 1 (0.27%) Rust
15 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 58 (15.51%) Degree
2 49 (13.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.87%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.80%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.53%) 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 20 (5.35%) QA
2 7 (1.87%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.87%) SLA
3 6 (1.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 36 (9.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.67%) Ansible
3 5 (1.34%) CloudHub
3 5 (1.34%) Terraform
4 3 (0.80%) cPanel
4 3 (0.80%) Grafana
4 3 (0.80%) Plesk
5 2 (0.53%) Argo
5 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 32 (8.56%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.55%) Oracle
3 11 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.67%) HubSpot
5 9 (2.41%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.87%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.34%) Adobe
7 5 (1.34%) Cisco
7 5 (1.34%) Google
7 5 (1.34%) Meraki
7 5 (1.34%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.80%) SAP
8 3 (0.80%) Zend
9 2 (0.53%) WooCommerce
10 1 (0.27%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.27%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.27%) Databricks
10 1 (0.27%) PayPal
10 1 (0.27%) Progress
10 1 (0.27%) RedGate