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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 164 206
Rank change year-on-year -144 +42 -27
Permanent jobs citing PHP 418 1,108 922
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.82% 1.63% 1.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.42% 5.17% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 313 692 809
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £32,125 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £62,250 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.58% -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 12,238 21,451 21,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.13% 31.52% 41.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,449 12,755 17,967
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.36%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
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 7 November 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 7 November 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 -139 371 £45,000 -10.00% 515
UK excluding London -143 299 £42,000 -11.58% 456
Work from Home -33 241 £37,500 -21.05% 334
London +7 79 £60,000 - 141
Midlands -10 76 £40,000 +6.67% 72
North of England -82 76 £42,000 -6.67% 130
South East -97 68 £53,750 +2.38% 121
West Midlands -1 44 £39,000 -2.50% 44
East of England -38 40 £37,500 -21.05% 47
Yorkshire +13 39 £40,000 -11.11% 37
East Midlands +5 35 £40,000 +14.29% 27
North West -79 32 £55,000 +22.22% 85
South West -59 28 £56,250 +12.50% 48
North East -8 5 £25,000 -41.18% 9
Scotland -36 5 £60,000 +9.09% 21
Wales -16 4 £55,000 +69.23% 6
Northern Ireland -1 2 £55,000 +89.66% 4

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 29 (6.94%) WordPress
2 23 (5.50%) Apache
3 19 (4.55%) IIS
4 13 (3.11%) CMS
5 8 (1.91%) Apache Solr
6 6 (1.44%) nginx
7 5 (1.20%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.96%) Drupal
8 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.72%) Confluence
9 3 (0.72%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.24%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 7 (1.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 7 (1.67%) Adobe XD
1 7 (1.67%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.72%) Elementor
5 2 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.24%) InDesign
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (2.15%) Magento
2 4 (0.96%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.72%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.72%) Shopify
4 2 (0.48%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 98 (23.44%) Azure
2 91 (21.77%) AWS
3 43 (10.29%) SaaS
4 16 (3.83%) GCP
4 16 (3.83%) GitHub
5 11 (2.63%) Power Automate
6 9 (2.15%) Cloudflare
6 9 (2.15%) Power Platform
7 7 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (1.67%) Entra ID
7 7 (1.67%) Figma
7 7 (1.67%) npm
8 6 (1.44%) Serverless
9 5 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.20%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (1.20%) Datadog
9 5 (1.20%) Google Analytics
9 5 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.20%) PowerApps
10 4 (0.96%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.39%) Internet
2 7 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (0.96%) DNS
3 4 (0.96%) Intranet
4 2 (0.48%) HTTP
5 1 (0.24%) Broadband
5 1 (0.24%) DHCP
5 1 (0.24%) FTP
5 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.24%) IPsec
5 1 (0.24%) IPv6
5 1 (0.24%) RFID
5 1 (0.24%) SSL
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (36.12%) MySQL
2 74 (17.70%) SQL Server
3 19 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.31%) Relational Database
5 12 (2.87%) MariaDB
6 11 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.91%) Redis
8 4 (0.96%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.72%) GIS
9 3 (0.72%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.72%) Power BI
10 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.24%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.24%) Mixpanel
11 1 (0.24%) PostHog
11 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 65 (15.55%) Git
2 17 (4.07%) JIRA
3 11 (2.63%) Postman
4 6 (1.44%) Cucumber
4 6 (1.44%) Selenium
4 6 (1.44%) SoapUI
5 5 (1.20%) PHPUnit
6 4 (0.96%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.72%) git-flow
7 3 (0.72%) webpack
8 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.48%) GitLab
8 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.48%) Vite
9 1 (0.24%) Mocha
9 1 (0.24%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.24%) MSI
9 1 (0.24%) PhpStorm
9 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 133 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 67 (16.03%) Finance
3 23 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (5.50%) Law
4 17 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (2.87%) Games
5 12 (2.87%) Marketing
6 7 (1.67%) Automotive
6 7 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.44%) Legal
7 6 (1.44%) Retail
8 5 (1.20%) Public Sector
9 4 (0.96%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.48%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (0.48%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.24%) Electronics
11 1 (0.24%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 219 (52.39%) Developer
2 91 (21.77%) PHP Developer
3 56 (13.40%) Graduate
4 50 (11.96%) Graduate Developer
5 41 (9.81%) Senior
6 37 (8.85%) IT Graduate
7 35 (8.37%) Senior Developer
8 34 (8.13%) Lead
9 33 (7.89%) Software Developer
10 21 (5.02%) Software Engineer
11 19 (4.55%) C# Developer
11 19 (4.55%) SQL Developer
11 19 (4.55%) Web Developer
12 18 (4.31%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (4.31%) Graduate C# Developer
12 18 (4.31%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 18 (4.31%) Graduate SQL Developer
13 17 (4.07%) PHP Laravel Developer
14 16 (3.83%) Azure Developer
14 16 (3.83%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (34.93%) HTML
2 137 (32.78%) CSS
3 95 (22.73%) Laravel
4 63 (15.07%) jQuery
5 62 (14.83%) .NET
6 53 (12.68%) React
6 53 (12.68%) Symfony
7 40 (9.57%) ASP.NET
8 37 (8.85%) Vue
9 30 (7.18%) REST
10 27 (6.46%) RESTful
11 23 (5.50%) LAMP
11 23 (5.50%) Node.js
12 18 (4.31%) HTML5
13 15 (3.59%) CakePHP
14 14 (3.35%) CSS3
14 14 (3.35%) Tailwind CSS
15 13 (3.11%) CodeIgniter
16 11 (2.63%) SOAP
17 9 (2.15%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (4.07%) CCTV
2 17 (4.07%) Driving Licence
3 15 (3.59%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.35%) Virtual Team
5 12 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (2.15%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.15%) IoT
7 8 (1.91%) Legacy Code
7 8 (1.91%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.20%) Educational Technology
8 5 (1.20%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.20%) Mobile Games
9 4 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.96%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.72%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.72%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 52 (12.44%) Linux
2 20 (4.78%) Windows
3 12 (2.87%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.39%) CentOS
4 10 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.67%) Android
5 7 (1.67%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.24%) Unix
6 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (29.90%) Agile
2 119 (28.47%) Problem-Solving
3 114 (27.27%) Computer Science
4 76 (18.18%) AI
5 75 (17.94%) OO
6 71 (16.99%) MVC
7 70 (16.75%) Machine Learning
8 65 (15.55%) OOP
9 52 (12.44%) Software Engineering
10 50 (11.96%) Data Privacy
11 49 (11.72%) Full-Stack Development
12 47 (11.24%) DevOps
13 45 (10.77%) CI/CD
14 44 (10.53%) Web Development
15 40 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (9.57%) Test Automation
16 34 (8.13%) Mentoring
17 32 (7.66%) User Experience
18 29 (6.94%) E-Commerce
19 26 (6.22%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 205 (49.04%) JavaScript
2 160 (38.28%) SQL
3 131 (31.34%) C#
4 116 (27.75%) Python
5 111 (26.56%) Java
6 92 (22.01%) C++
6 92 (22.01%) TypeScript
7 52 (12.44%) C
8 51 (12.20%) Ruby
9 50 (11.96%) Rust
10 49 (11.72%) Dart
10 49 (11.72%) MATLAB
10 49 (11.72%) R
11 15 (3.59%) Go
12 7 (1.67%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.20%) DataWeave
13 5 (1.20%) Perl
13 5 (1.20%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.96%) VBA
15 3 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 123 (29.43%) Degree
2 110 (26.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.39%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.91%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.48%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.24%) MCSE
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.55%) QA
2 8 (1.91%) GDPR
2 8 (1.91%) SLA
3 5 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 31 (7.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.24%) Firmware
2 1 (0.24%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 19 (4.55%) Ansible
2 14 (3.35%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.67%) Terraform
4 5 (1.20%) CloudHub
5 3 (0.72%) Grafana
6 2 (0.48%) Argo
6 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.24%) cPanel
7 1 (0.24%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.24%) Plesk
7 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.24%) WMI
Vendors
1 43 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.55%) Oracle
3 13 (3.11%) Adobe
3 13 (3.11%) Salesforce
4 12 (2.87%) Google
5 9 (2.15%) HubSpot
5 9 (2.15%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.44%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.20%) Cisco
7 5 (1.20%) Meraki
7 5 (1.20%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.20%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.72%) SAP
9 2 (0.48%) Netlify
9 2 (0.48%) PayPal
10 1 (0.24%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.24%) Databricks
10 1 (0.24%) Freshdesk
10 1 (0.24%) Progress
10 1 (0.24%) Zend