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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 297 165
Rank change year-on-year +13 -132 -6
Permanent jobs citing PHP 717 504 1,327
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.01% 1.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.86% 3.57% 5.25%
Number of salaries quoted 629 398 1,093
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,250 £63,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -

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 18,557 14,128 25,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.53% 28.30% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13,141 9,283 17,846
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,565 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% - -

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -3 655 £50,000 - 159
UK excluding London +12 574 £47,500 +5.56% 106
Work from Home +1 307 £37,500 -16.67% 71
North of England +21 180 £50,000 +5.26% 22
South East +29 164 £51,250 +13.89% 32
Yorkshire +30 113 £50,000 +33.33% 10
Midlands +12 109 £45,000 +12.50% 14
London -67 93 £92,500 +54.17% 69
West Midlands +6 65 £45,000 +5.88% 4
South West -55 60 £42,784 -25.59% 10
North West -13 58 £45,000 -14.29% 10
East Midlands -9 44 £37,500 -6.25% 10
East of England -29 44 £25,000 -28.57% 20
Wales -44 11 £35,000 -36.36% 2
North East -56 9 £31,000 +24.00% 3
Scotland +7 5 £32,500 -50.00% 7
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 65 (9.07%) WordPress
2 25 (3.49%) CMS
3 16 (2.23%) ColdFusion
4 12 (1.67%) Apache
5 9 (1.26%) Confluence
5 9 (1.26%) Drupal
6 6 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.84%) nginx
7 5 (0.70%) IIS
8 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.28%) Moodle
9 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
9 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
2 4 (0.56%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.42%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 188 (26.22%) AWS
2 154 (21.48%) Azure
3 55 (7.67%) SaaS
4 33 (4.60%) Serverless
5 26 (3.63%) GCP
5 26 (3.63%) GitHub
6 22 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (3.07%) Figma
7 21 (2.93%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (2.09%) AWS Control Tower
11 14 (1.95%) Amazon EventBridge
11 14 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (1.67%) Power Platform
14 11 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.39%) Amazon S3
16 6 (0.84%) Amazon Kinesis
16 6 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.77%) Internet
2 19 (2.65%) Network Security
3 17 (2.37%) DNS
4 10 (1.39%) VoIP
5 9 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.12%) VPN
7 6 (0.84%) BGP
7 6 (0.84%) IPsec
8 5 (0.70%) Intranet
9 4 (0.56%) Firewall
9 4 (0.56%) HTTP
9 4 (0.56%) LAN
9 4 (0.56%) WAN
10 2 (0.28%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.28%) Broadband
10 2 (0.28%) DHCP
10 2 (0.28%) SSL
10 2 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (23.01%) MySQL
2 102 (14.23%) SQL Server
3 25 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (3.35%) MariaDB
4 24 (3.35%) Relational Database
5 16 (2.23%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (1.26%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.12%) Redis
8 6 (0.84%) Apache Hive
8 6 (0.84%) Big Data
8 6 (0.84%) Hadoop
8 6 (0.84%) HBase
9 4 (0.56%) FileMaker
9 4 (0.56%) Metadata
9 4 (0.56%) Power BI
10 3 (0.42%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.28%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 92 (12.83%) Git
2 26 (3.63%) 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 3 (0.42%) Appium
10 2 (0.28%) Bower
10 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.28%) Vite
10 2 (0.28%) webpack
11 1 (0.14%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.14%) Gatling
11 1 (0.14%) gulp
11 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 145 (20.22%) Social Skills
2 120 (16.74%) Finance
3 27 (3.77%) Public Sector
4 26 (3.63%) Marketing
5 25 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (0.98%) Law
8 7 (0.98%) Retail
9 6 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (0.84%) Military
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
11 4 (0.56%) Publishing
11 4 (0.56%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 488 (68.06%) Developer
2 222 (30.96%) PHP Developer
3 174 (24.27%) Senior
4 130 (18.13%) Senior Developer
5 121 (16.88%) Software Developer
6 118 (16.46%) Graduate
7 81 (11.30%) Graduate Developer
8 80 (11.16%) Graduate Software Developer
9 78 (10.88%) 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 61 (8.51%) Web Developer
13 55 (7.67%) Full-Stack Developer
14 52 (7.25%) Graduate PHP Developer
15 42 (5.86%) PHP Laravel Developer
16 37 (5.16%) Graduate Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (29.85%) CSS
2 197 (27.48%) Laravel
3 185 (25.80%) HTML
4 84 (11.72%) jQuery
5 80 (11.16%) React
6 71 (9.90%) Vue
7 65 (9.07%) .NET
8 47 (6.56%) Node.js
9 30 (4.18%) Symfony
10 29 (4.04%) LAMP
11 28 (3.91%) RESTful
12 27 (3.77%) HTML5
13 23 (3.21%) REST
14 22 (3.07%) CSS3
15 18 (2.51%) JSON
16 14 (1.95%) AngularJS
16 14 (1.95%) AWS CDK
16 14 (1.95%) Sass
16 14 (1.95%) Tailwind CSS
17 12 (1.67%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.18%) Greenfield Project
1 30 (4.18%) Virtual Team
2 28 (3.91%) Onboarding
3 23 (3.21%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
6 10 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (1.39%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.12%) Social Media
8 7 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (0.98%) Educational Technology
9 6 (0.84%) Product Ownership
10 5 (0.70%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.70%) Robotics
11 4 (0.56%) IoT
11 4 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.42%) Blog
12 3 (0.42%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 62 (8.65%) Linux
2 26 (3.63%) Windows
3 13 (1.81%) Ubuntu
4 12 (1.67%) Debian
5 10 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.26%) CentOS
6 9 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.56%) Unix
9 3 (0.42%) Android
9 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (24.83%) Agile
2 145 (20.22%) Computer Science
3 125 (17.43%) Software Engineering
4 107 (14.92%) Web Development
5 99 (13.81%) Full-Stack Development
6 98 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
7 88 (12.27%) CI/CD
8 84 (11.72%) OOP
9 67 (9.34%) AI
10 62 (8.65%) DevOps
11 57 (7.95%) MVC
12 56 (7.81%) Clean Code
12 56 (7.81%) Mentoring
13 51 (7.11%) E-Commerce
13 51 (7.11%) OO
14 42 (5.86%) Microservices
15 40 (5.58%) SEO
16 37 (5.16%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (5.16%) Infrastructure as Code
17 32 (4.46%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 218 (30.40%) JavaScript
2 201 (28.03%) SQL
3 146 (20.36%) C#
4 110 (15.34%) Python
5 71 (9.90%) Java
6 47 (6.56%) TypeScript
7 36 (5.02%) Bash
8 30 (4.18%) C++
9 24 (3.35%) Ruby
10 21 (2.93%) Go
11 20 (2.79%) Perl
12 15 (2.09%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.98%) C
14 3 (0.42%) CFML
14 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.42%) Rust
14 3 (0.42%) Scala
14 3 (0.42%) Swift
14 3 (0.42%) VBA
15 2 (0.28%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 108 (15.06%) Degree
2 90 (12.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (4.60%) Security Cleared
4 15 (2.09%) AWS Certification
4 15 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (0.98%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.84%) DV 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 52 (7.25%) Accessibility
2 20 (2.79%) QA
3 8 (1.12%) PCI DSS
3 8 (1.12%) WCAG
4 7 (0.98%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.56%) ISO 14001
5 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.42%) GDPR
7 2 (0.28%) SLA
8 1 (0.14%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (7.67%) Docker
2 5 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (6.00%) Terraform
2 41 (5.72%) Kubernetes
3 19 (2.65%) Ansible
4 7 (0.98%) Grafana
5 6 (0.84%) Hadoop YARN
6 5 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (0.70%) Nagios
6 5 (0.70%) Podman
7 4 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.56%) Puppet
8 3 (0.42%) Argo
8 3 (0.42%) Istio
8 3 (0.42%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.42%) Plesk
9 1 (0.14%) Consul
9 1 (0.14%) Kibana
9 1 (0.14%) Packer
9 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 40 (5.58%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.93%) Google
3 10 (1.39%) Adobe
4 8 (1.12%) Sage
5 7 (0.98%) Oracle
6 6 (0.84%) Apple
6 6 (0.84%) HP
6 6 (0.84%) IBM
6 6 (0.84%) SAP
6 6 (0.84%) WooCommerce
7 5 (0.70%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.70%) Splunk
8 4 (0.56%) 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%) New Relic
10 1 (0.14%) PayPal
10 1 (0.14%) TOWER Software