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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 278 162
Rank change year-on-year +5 -116 -13
Permanent jobs citing PHP 717 533 1,423
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.70% 1.08% 1.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.97% 3.74% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 634 421 1,196
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,000
90th Percentile £74,250 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% -4.00%

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 18,046 14,265 26,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.74% 28.91% 30.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12,843 9,435 19,251
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 29 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 29 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 -7 655 £50,000 - 125
UK excluding London +10 568 £47,500 +5.56% 114
Work from Home -15 302 £37,500 -16.67% 58
North of England +16 174 £50,000 +5.26% 26
South East +20 162 £52,500 +16.67% 33
Yorkshire +37 113 £50,000 +33.33% 12
Midlands +9 112 £45,000 +12.50% 20
London -32 99 £86,250 +43.75% 32
West Midlands +5 68 £45,000 +5.88% 10
South West -51 61 £43,892 -23.67% 14
North West -29 53 £45,000 -14.29% 11
East Midlands -12 44 £37,500 -6.25% 10
East of England -31 42 £25,000 -28.57% 16
Wales -48 11 £35,000 -36.36% 2
North East -54 8 £31,000 +24.00% 3
Scotland +8 5 £32,500 -45.83% 6
Northern Ireland -70 1 - - 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 62 (8.65%) WordPress
2 27 (3.77%) CMS
3 16 (2.23%) ColdFusion
4 14 (1.95%) Apache
5 9 (1.26%) Drupal
6 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.98%) Confluence
8 6 (0.84%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.84%) nginx
9 5 (0.70%) IIS
10 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Moodle
11 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.56%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.28%) Elementor
3 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.12%) Shopify
2 4 (0.56%) Line 50
3 3 (0.42%) Magento
3 3 (0.42%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.14%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 185 (25.80%) AWS
2 149 (20.78%) Azure
3 57 (7.95%) SaaS
4 34 (4.74%) Serverless
5 26 (3.63%) GCP
5 26 (3.63%) GitHub
6 23 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (2.93%) Figma
9 17 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.09%) AWS Control Tower
12 14 (1.95%) Amazon EventBridge
12 14 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (1.53%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.39%) Amazon S3
15 6 (0.84%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.63%) Internet
2 19 (2.65%) DNS
2 19 (2.65%) Network Security
3 11 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.39%) VoIP
4 10 (1.39%) VPN
5 6 (0.84%) BGP
5 6 (0.84%) Intranet
5 6 (0.84%) IPsec
6 4 (0.56%) DHCP
6 4 (0.56%) Firewall
6 4 (0.56%) HTTP
6 4 (0.56%) LAN
6 4 (0.56%) WAN
6 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.28%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.28%) Broadband
7 2 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (22.59%) MySQL
2 98 (13.67%) SQL Server
3 28 (3.91%) Relational Database
4 25 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (3.07%) MariaDB
6 17 (2.37%) NoSQL
7 10 (1.39%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.98%) Redis
10 6 (0.84%) Apache Hive
10 6 (0.84%) Big Data
10 6 (0.84%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.84%) HBase
11 4 (0.56%) FileMaker
11 4 (0.56%) Metadata
12 3 (0.42%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.42%) Power BI
13 2 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.28%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 94 (13.11%) Git
2 24 (3.35%) JIRA
3 13 (1.81%) PHPUnit
4 11 (1.53%) GitLab
5 8 (1.12%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.98%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.84%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.56%) Postman
8 4 (0.56%) Selenium
9 2 (0.28%) Bower
9 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.28%) Vite
9 2 (0.28%) webpack
10 1 (0.14%) Appium
10 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.14%) Gatling
10 1 (0.14%) gulp
10 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.14%) Vagrant
General
1 141 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 115 (16.04%) Finance
3 27 (3.77%) Public Sector
4 26 (3.63%) Marketing
5 24 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (0.98%) Law
8 7 (0.98%) Retail
9 6 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (0.84%) Military
9 6 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.70%) Advertising
10 5 (0.70%) Games
10 5 (0.70%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.70%) Legal
10 5 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (0.70%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 489 (68.20%) Developer
2 231 (32.22%) PHP Developer
3 172 (23.99%) Senior
4 131 (18.27%) Senior Developer
5 122 (17.02%) Software Developer
6 114 (15.90%) Graduate
7 81 (11.30%) Graduate Developer
8 80 (11.16%) Graduate Software Developer
9 73 (10.18%) Software Engineer
10 64 (8.93%) C# Developer
10 64 (8.93%) C# Software Developer
10 64 (8.93%) Graduate C# Developer
10 64 (8.93%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 62 (8.65%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 62 (8.65%) SQL Developer
12 59 (8.23%) Web Developer
13 56 (7.81%) Full-Stack Developer
14 52 (7.25%) Graduate PHP Developer
15 43 (6.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
16 42 (5.86%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (29.01%) CSS
2 196 (27.34%) Laravel
3 178 (24.83%) HTML
4 84 (11.72%) jQuery
5 76 (10.60%) React
6 71 (9.90%) Vue
7 62 (8.65%) .NET
8 47 (6.56%) Node.js
9 28 (3.91%) LAMP
10 27 (3.77%) RESTful
10 27 (3.77%) Symfony
11 25 (3.49%) HTML5
11 25 (3.49%) REST
12 21 (2.93%) CSS3
13 18 (2.51%) JSON
14 14 (1.95%) AngularJS
14 14 (1.95%) AWS CDK
14 14 (1.95%) Tailwind CSS
15 12 (1.67%) Ajax
15 12 (1.67%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 31 (4.32%) Onboarding
2 30 (4.18%) Virtual Team
3 27 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (3.21%) Cloud Native
5 21 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.26%) Educational Technology
8 9 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.12%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.12%) Social Media
10 7 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.70%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.70%) CCTV
11 5 (0.70%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.70%) Robotics
12 4 (0.56%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.56%) IoT
12 4 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 63 (8.79%) Linux
2 29 (4.04%) Windows
3 13 (1.81%) Ubuntu
4 11 (1.53%) Debian
4 11 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.26%) CentOS
7 5 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.56%) Unix
8 4 (0.56%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.14%) Android
9 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (24.97%) Agile
2 140 (19.53%) Computer Science
3 116 (16.18%) Software Engineering
4 103 (14.37%) Web Development
5 97 (13.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 94 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (11.72%) OOP
8 81 (11.30%) CI/CD
9 63 (8.79%) DevOps
10 62 (8.65%) AI
11 58 (8.09%) MVC
12 54 (7.53%) Mentoring
13 53 (7.39%) Clean Code
13 53 (7.39%) E-Commerce
14 49 (6.83%) OO
15 41 (5.72%) Microservices
16 37 (5.16%) Infrastructure as Code
16 37 (5.16%) SEO
17 33 (4.60%) Continuous Improvement
18 31 (4.32%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 213 (29.71%) JavaScript
2 197 (27.48%) SQL
3 139 (19.39%) C#
4 107 (14.92%) Python
5 69 (9.62%) Java
6 48 (6.69%) TypeScript
7 36 (5.02%) Bash
8 30 (4.18%) C++
9 24 (3.35%) Ruby
10 22 (3.07%) Go
11 20 (2.79%) Perl
12 17 (2.37%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.98%) C
14 4 (0.56%) Delphi
14 4 (0.56%) Pascal
15 3 (0.42%) CFML
15 3 (0.42%) Rust
15 3 (0.42%) Scala
15 3 (0.42%) VBA
16 1 (0.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 107 (14.92%) Degree
2 89 (12.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (4.32%) Security Cleared
4 15 (2.09%) AWS Certification
4 15 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (0.84%) DV Cleared
6 5 (0.70%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.42%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.14%) HNC
9 1 (0.14%) HND
9 1 (0.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.69%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.51%) QA
3 7 (0.98%) ISO 9001
3 7 (0.98%) PCI DSS
3 7 (0.98%) WCAG
4 4 (0.56%) ISO 14001
4 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.42%) GDPR
6 2 (0.28%) SLA
7 1 (0.14%) NCSC
7 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (7.53%) Docker
2 5 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (6.14%) Terraform
2 41 (5.72%) Kubernetes
3 19 (2.65%) Ansible
4 6 (0.84%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (0.70%) Grafana
5 5 (0.70%) Nagios
5 5 (0.70%) Podman
6 4 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.42%) Argo
7 3 (0.42%) Istio
7 3 (0.42%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.42%) Plesk
7 3 (0.42%) Puppet
8 1 (0.14%) Consul
8 1 (0.14%) Kibana
8 1 (0.14%) Packer
8 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (6.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.65%) Google
3 10 (1.39%) Adobe
4 8 (1.12%) Sage
5 7 (0.98%) Oracle
5 7 (0.98%) SAP
6 6 (0.84%) Apple
6 6 (0.84%) HP
6 6 (0.84%) IBM
6 6 (0.84%) WooCommerce
7 5 (0.70%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.70%) Splunk
8 3 (0.42%) NEC
9 2 (0.28%) BT
9 2 (0.28%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.28%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.14%) Netlify
10 1 (0.14%) PayPal
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.14%) Salesforce