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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 241 151
Rank change year-on-year -21 -90 -5
Permanent jobs citing PHP 675 614 1,887
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.41% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.12% 4.50% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 602 506 1,689
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,875 £30,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,079 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +0.16% -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 £48,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% -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 16,370 13,633 33,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.57% 31.32% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11,391 9,132 25,284
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 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 3 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 -10 625 £50,000 -1.14% 127
UK excluding London -23 528 £47,500 -2.06% 105
Work from Home -25 255 £40,750 -21.63% 268
North of England +4 166 £50,000 -4.76% 36
South East -14 134 £50,000 +5.26% 30
Midlands +5 118 £45,000 +12.50% 12
Yorkshire +11 101 £50,000 +33.33% 17
London -16 98 £75,000 +25.00% 32
West Midlands -3 77 £50,000 -9.91% 7
South West -72 62 £50,000 -16.67% 15
North West -16 57 £47,500 -9.52% 17
East Midlands -9 41 £37,500 - 5
East of England -23 41 £25,000 -28.57% 5
North East -52 8 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Wales -49 6 £35,000 -26.32% 5
Northern Ireland -38 1 - - 3

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 (8.44%) WordPress
2 33 (4.89%) CMS
3 16 (2.37%) ColdFusion
4 15 (2.22%) nginx
5 12 (1.78%) Apache
6 9 (1.33%) Drupal
7 6 (0.89%) Confluence
8 5 (0.74%) IIS
8 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.59%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.44%) Liferay
11 2 (0.30%) Moodle
11 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.15%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.04%) 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 15 (2.22%) Shopify
2 13 (1.93%) Magento
3 6 (0.89%) Infor M3
4 4 (0.59%) Line 50
5 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.15%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 156 (23.11%) AWS
2 127 (18.81%) Azure
3 65 (9.63%) SaaS
4 22 (3.26%) GitHub
5 21 (3.11%) Figma
6 20 (2.96%) GCP
7 16 (2.37%) Serverless
8 11 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (1.63%) Power Platform
9 9 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (1.33%) Amazon S3
9 9 (1.33%) Stripe
10 7 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.74%) Azure Stack
12 5 (0.74%) Slack
13 4 (0.59%) DigitalOcean
13 4 (0.59%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.96%) Internet
2 14 (2.07%) DNS
3 8 (1.19%) HTTP
3 8 (1.19%) VoIP
4 7 (1.04%) VPN
5 6 (0.89%) Network Security
5 6 (0.89%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.59%) DHCP
6 4 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.30%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.30%) LAN
7 2 (0.30%) SSL
7 2 (0.30%) WAN
8 1 (0.15%) Broadband
8 1 (0.15%) Firewall
8 1 (0.15%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (22.22%) MySQL
2 87 (12.89%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 19 (2.81%) MariaDB
5 16 (2.37%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.93%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (0.74%) Redis
10 4 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.59%) FileMaker
10 4 (0.59%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.44%) Metadata
12 2 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.30%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.30%) Power BI
13 1 (0.15%) InterSystems Cache
13 1 (0.15%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 79 (11.70%) Git
2 18 (2.67%) JIRA
3 10 (1.48%) PHPUnit
4 7 (1.04%) Claude Code
4 7 (1.04%) GitLab
5 6 (0.89%) Postman
6 5 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.74%) Vite
7 3 (0.44%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.30%) Selenium
8 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.30%) webpack
9 1 (0.15%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.15%) Gatling
9 1 (0.15%) gulp
9 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 126 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 73 (10.81%) Finance
3 22 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (3.11%) Marketing
5 13 (1.93%) Tech for Good
6 11 (1.63%) Public Sector
7 9 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.19%) Retail
9 6 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (0.89%) Games
9 6 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.74%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.74%) Law
10 5 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.59%) Advertising
11 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.59%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.44%) Back Office
12 3 (0.44%) Legal
12 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 471 (69.78%) Developer
2 248 (36.74%) PHP Developer
3 156 (23.11%) Senior
4 128 (18.96%) Software Developer
5 121 (17.93%) Senior Developer
6 87 (12.89%) Graduate
7 82 (12.15%) Graduate Developer
8 80 (11.85%) Graduate Software Developer
9 64 (9.48%) C# Developer
9 64 (9.48%) C# Software Developer
9 64 (9.48%) Full-Stack Developer
9 64 (9.48%) Graduate C# Developer
9 64 (9.48%) Graduate C# Software Developer
10 62 (9.19%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 62 (9.19%) SQL Developer
11 61 (9.04%) Software Engineer
12 54 (8.00%) Senior PHP Developer
13 53 (7.85%) Graduate PHP Developer
14 49 (7.26%) PHP Laravel Developer
15 46 (6.81%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (28.00%) Laravel
2 181 (26.81%) CSS
3 143 (21.19%) HTML
4 76 (11.26%) Vue
5 70 (10.37%) jQuery
6 68 (10.07%) React
7 52 (7.70%) .NET
8 40 (5.93%) Node.js
9 31 (4.59%) RESTful
10 26 (3.85%) Symfony
11 23 (3.41%) REST
12 22 (3.26%) Tailwind CSS
13 20 (2.96%) CSS3
13 20 (2.96%) HTML5
14 18 (2.67%) AngularJS
15 17 (2.52%) LAMP
16 15 (2.22%) JSON
17 11 (1.63%) React Native
18 10 (1.48%) Sass
19 9 (1.33%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
2 27 (4.00%) Virtual Team
3 19 (2.81%) Cloud Native
4 17 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (1.78%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.48%) CCTV
6 10 (1.48%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.33%) Educational Technology
8 7 (1.04%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.04%) Social Media
9 6 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (0.89%) IoT
9 6 (0.89%) Product Ownership
10 5 (0.74%) Driving Licence
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 55 (8.15%) Linux
2 21 (3.11%) Windows
3 16 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.93%) CentOS
5 11 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.19%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.59%) Debian
8 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.59%) Unix
8 4 (0.59%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.30%) Android
9 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (21.48%) Agile
2 115 (17.04%) Computer Science
3 101 (14.96%) Full-Stack Development
4 93 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
4 93 (13.78%) Software Engineering
5 86 (12.74%) Web Development
6 66 (9.78%) CI/CD
7 58 (8.59%) DevOps
7 58 (8.59%) Mentoring
8 55 (8.15%) OOP
9 54 (8.00%) Clean Code
10 52 (7.70%) MVC
11 49 (7.26%) E-Commerce
11 49 (7.26%) Microservices
12 44 (6.52%) User Experience
13 43 (6.37%) AI
14 36 (5.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (4.89%) OO
16 32 (4.74%) Migration
17 30 (4.44%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 196 (29.04%) JavaScript
2 144 (21.33%) SQL
3 103 (15.26%) C#
4 82 (12.15%) Python
5 61 (9.04%) TypeScript
6 51 (7.56%) Java
7 30 (4.44%) C++
8 20 (2.96%) Go
9 18 (2.67%) Bash
10 11 (1.63%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.48%) Perl
12 6 (0.89%) 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 1 (0.15%) Ruby
15 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.15%) VB6
Qualifications
1 96 (14.22%) Degree
2 86 (12.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (0.44%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.30%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.30%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.15%) HNC
6 1 (0.15%) HND
6 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.63%) Accessibility
2 20 (2.96%) QA
3 7 (1.04%) 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 (0.30%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (7.41%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.81%) Terraform
3 12 (1.78%) 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%) 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 37 (5.48%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.11%) Adobe
3 16 (2.37%) Google
4 7 (1.04%) HubSpot
4 7 (1.04%) WooCommerce
5 6 (0.89%) Apple
6 5 (0.74%) OpenAI
6 5 (0.74%) Sage
6 5 (0.74%) Splunk
7 3 (0.44%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.30%) BT
8 2 (0.30%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.30%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.30%) PayPal
8 2 (0.30%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.15%) Meraki
9 1 (0.15%) Netlify
9 1 (0.15%) New Relic
9 1 (0.15%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.15%) Zend