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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 244 148
Rank change year-on-year -15 -96 -3
Permanent jobs citing PHP 683 609 1,927
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 1.38% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.16% 4.35% 5.73%
Number of salaries quoted 609 504 1,695
10th Percentile £24,800 £25,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,500 £76,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% 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 16,402 14,006 33,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.84% 31.66% 31.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,467 9,215 25,436
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,612
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 9 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 9 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 -12 631 £50,000 - 100
UK excluding London -25 535 £47,500 - 91
Work from Home -29 262 £40,750 -18.50% 60
North of England +10 175 £50,000 -1.96% 28
South East -11 138 £50,000 +8.11% 20
Midlands +10 115 £45,000 +12.50% 12
Yorkshire +18 108 £50,000 +33.33% 12
London -46 98 £65,000 +8.33% 18
West Midlands +12 75 £50,000 -9.91% 5
South West -52 59 £50,000 -14.89% 17
North West -8 58 £47,500 -9.52% 13
East of England -15 40 £25,000 -28.57% 8
East Midlands -19 40 £37,500 -6.25% 7
North East -49 9 £45,000 +66.67% 3
Wales -44 7 £35,000 -30.00% 5
Northern Ireland -38 1 - - 2

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 58 (8.49%) WordPress
2 33 (4.83%) CMS
3 16 (2.34%) ColdFusion
3 16 (2.34%) nginx
4 12 (1.76%) Apache
5 9 (1.32%) Drupal
6 6 (0.88%) Confluence
7 5 (0.73%) IIS
7 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.59%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.44%) Liferay
10 2 (0.29%) Moodle
10 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.15%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.02%) 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 (2.20%) Shopify
2 13 (1.90%) Magento
3 5 (0.73%) Infor M3
4 4 (0.59%) Line 50
5 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.15%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 156 (22.84%) AWS
2 131 (19.18%) Azure
3 60 (8.78%) SaaS
4 23 (3.37%) GitHub
5 21 (3.07%) Figma
6 19 (2.78%) GCP
7 16 (2.34%) Serverless
8 11 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (1.61%) Power Platform
9 10 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (1.32%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.17%) Stripe
12 7 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.73%) Azure Stack
14 5 (0.73%) Slack
15 4 (0.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (0.59%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.93%) Internet
2 13 (1.90%) DNS
3 9 (1.32%) VoIP
4 7 (1.02%) HTTP
4 7 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.02%) VPN
5 6 (0.88%) Network Security
6 4 (0.59%) DHCP
6 4 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.44%) LAN
7 3 (0.44%) WAN
8 2 (0.29%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.29%) Intranet
8 2 (0.29%) SSL
9 1 (0.15%) Broadband
9 1 (0.15%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (22.11%) MySQL
2 87 (12.74%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (3.81%) Relational Database
4 19 (2.78%) MariaDB
5 17 (2.49%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.05%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (0.73%) Redis
10 4 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.59%) FileMaker
10 4 (0.59%) Metadata
11 3 (0.44%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.29%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.29%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.29%) phpMyAdmin
12 2 (0.29%) Power BI
13 1 (0.15%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 84 (12.30%) Git
2 19 (2.78%) JIRA
3 10 (1.46%) PHPUnit
4 7 (1.02%) Claude Code
4 7 (1.02%) GitLab
5 6 (0.88%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.88%) Postman
6 5 (0.73%) Vite
7 4 (0.59%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.29%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.29%) Selenium
8 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.29%) webpack
9 1 (0.15%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.15%) Gatling
9 1 (0.15%) gulp
9 1 (0.15%) JMeter
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 127 (18.59%) Social Skills
2 77 (11.27%) Finance
3 23 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.22%) Marketing
5 13 (1.90%) Tech for Good
6 11 (1.61%) Public Sector
7 9 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.17%) Retail
9 6 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (0.88%) Games
10 5 (0.73%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.59%) Advertising
11 4 (0.59%) Law
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
1 477 (69.84%) Developer
2 248 (36.31%) PHP Developer
3 161 (23.57%) Senior
4 127 (18.59%) Senior Developer
4 127 (18.59%) Software Developer
5 91 (13.32%) Graduate
6 82 (12.01%) Graduate Developer
7 80 (11.71%) Graduate Software Developer
8 64 (9.37%) C# Developer
8 64 (9.37%) C# Software Developer
8 64 (9.37%) Full-Stack Developer
8 64 (9.37%) Graduate C# Developer
8 64 (9.37%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 64 (9.37%) Software Engineer
9 62 (9.08%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 62 (9.08%) SQL Developer
10 55 (8.05%) Senior PHP Developer
11 53 (7.76%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 49 (7.17%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 48 (7.03%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (28.26%) Laravel
2 184 (26.94%) CSS
3 146 (21.38%) HTML
4 76 (11.13%) Vue
5 71 (10.40%) jQuery
6 68 (9.96%) React
7 53 (7.76%) .NET
8 43 (6.30%) Node.js
9 31 (4.54%) RESTful
10 25 (3.66%) REST
11 23 (3.37%) Symfony
12 22 (3.22%) Tailwind CSS
13 21 (3.07%) HTML5
14 20 (2.93%) CSS3
15 19 (2.78%) AngularJS
16 18 (2.64%) LAMP
17 17 (2.49%) JSON
18 11 (1.61%) Sass
19 10 (1.46%) Jest
19 10 (1.46%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.25%) Legacy Systems
2 28 (4.10%) Virtual Team
3 20 (2.93%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (1.76%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.46%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.32%) CCTV
8 8 (1.17%) Educational Technology
9 7 (1.02%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.02%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.02%) Social Media
10 6 (0.88%) IoT
11 5 (0.73%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.73%) Robotics
12 4 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.44%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 56 (8.20%) Linux
2 21 (3.07%) Windows
3 15 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (1.76%) CentOS
5 11 (1.61%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.32%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.73%) Debian
7 5 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.59%) Unix
8 4 (0.59%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (21.82%) Agile
2 120 (17.57%) Computer Science
3 101 (14.79%) Full-Stack Development
4 96 (14.06%) Software Engineering
5 93 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
6 89 (13.03%) Web Development
7 69 (10.10%) CI/CD
8 58 (8.49%) DevOps
8 58 (8.49%) Mentoring
9 56 (8.20%) OOP
10 54 (7.91%) Clean Code
11 51 (7.47%) E-Commerce
11 51 (7.47%) MVC
12 49 (7.17%) Microservices
13 44 (6.44%) AI
13 44 (6.44%) User Experience
14 36 (5.27%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (4.98%) OO
16 31 (4.54%) Migration
16 31 (4.54%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 197 (28.84%) JavaScript
2 149 (21.82%) SQL
3 108 (15.81%) C#
4 83 (12.15%) Python
5 60 (8.78%) TypeScript
6 51 (7.47%) Java
7 30 (4.39%) C++
8 20 (2.93%) Go
9 18 (2.64%) Bash
10 11 (1.61%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.32%) Perl
12 5 (0.73%) 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 97 (14.20%) Degree
2 86 (12.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.32%) Security Cleared
4 3 (0.44%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.29%) 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 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 19 (2.78%) QA
3 7 (1.02%) ISO 9001
4 5 (0.73%) GDPR
4 5 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.73%) WCAG
5 4 (0.59%) ISO 14001
6 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.29%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (7.32%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (4.39%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.93%) Terraform
3 12 (1.76%) Ansible
4 5 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (0.73%) Nagios
4 5 (0.73%) 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 (5.42%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.07%) Adobe
3 16 (2.34%) Google
4 8 (1.17%) WooCommerce
5 6 (0.88%) Apple
5 6 (0.88%) HubSpot
6 5 (0.73%) Sage
6 5 (0.73%) Splunk
7 4 (0.59%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.44%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.29%) BT
9 2 (0.29%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.29%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.29%) PayPal
9 2 (0.29%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.15%) Meraki
10 1 (0.15%) Netlify
10 1 (0.15%) New Relic
10 1 (0.15%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.15%) Zend