PHP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 168 99
Rank change year-on-year +12 -69 -36
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,858 2,390 5,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.90% 2.28% 3.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.61% 5.25% 6.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,678 1,638 3,158
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.91% +12.22%
75th Percentile £63,000 £67,188 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,625 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +17.65%

All Programming Languages
UK

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,106 45,516 82,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.77% 43.49% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,929 28,962 44,133
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the UK

PHP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP.

Salary trend for PHP in the UK

PHP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +22 1,696 £50,000 -9.09% 392
UK excluding London -10 1,497 £48,000 -4.00% 305
Work from Home +22 866 £51,500 -6.36% 236
North of England +50 480 £47,500 -7.32% 112
London +11 284 £63,218 +5.36% 100
South West +6 266 £45,000 -5.26% 48
South East -81 249 £55,000 +10.00% 52
North West +50 236 £50,000 -9.09% 60
Midlands +15 234 £45,000 -14.29% 46
Yorkshire +71 218 £47,000 +4.44% 43
East of England +43 167 £43,500 -33.08% 31
East Midlands +7 119 £46,250 -5.13% 19
West Midlands +21 114 £45,000 -14.29% 27
Scotland -105 50 £47,500 -13.64% 12
Wales +12 43 £50,000 +19.05% 12
North East -40 26 £45,000 -21.74% 10
Northern Ireland -5 9 £45,000 -21.74% 1

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 263 (14.16%) WordPress
2 115 (6.19%) CMS
3 80 (4.31%) Drupal
4 56 (3.01%) Apache
5 51 (2.74%) nginx
6 19 (1.02%) Confluence
7 18 (0.97%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.54%) Headless CMS
8 10 (0.54%) IIS
9 9 (0.48%) Moodle
10 6 (0.32%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
12 4 (0.22%) ColdFusion
12 4 (0.22%) SAS
13 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.11%) Joomla!
13 2 (0.11%) Liferay
13 2 (0.11%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.65%) Adobe XD
3 12 (0.65%) Photoshop
4 11 (0.59%) Simulink
5 8 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.054%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 74 (3.98%) Magento
2 46 (2.48%) Shopify
3 21 (1.13%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.22%) CiviCRM
4 4 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 583 (31.38%) AWS
2 233 (12.54%) SaaS
3 120 (6.46%) Azure
4 92 (4.95%) GitHub
5 65 (3.50%) GCP
6 40 (2.15%) Serverless
7 38 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
8 36 (1.94%) Amazon S3
9 29 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (1.45%) Amazon Kinesis
10 27 (1.45%) Power Platform
11 23 (1.24%) Figma
12 22 (1.18%) npm
13 21 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (0.91%) Stripe
15 14 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
15 14 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (0.59%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.15%) HTTP
2 27 (1.45%) Internet
3 25 (1.35%) LAN
3 25 (1.35%) WAN
4 24 (1.29%) DNS
5 12 (0.65%) Firewall
5 12 (0.65%) SSL
6 8 (0.43%) VoIP
6 8 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.32%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.27%) FTP
8 5 (0.27%) SSH
9 3 (0.16%) SMS
10 2 (0.11%) 3G
10 2 (0.11%) DHCP
10 2 (0.11%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.11%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.11%) IPv6
10 2 (0.11%) VPN
10 2 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 745 (40.10%) MySQL
2 103 (5.54%) SQL Server
3 90 (4.84%) Relational Database
4 82 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
5 52 (2.80%) MongoDB
6 47 (2.53%) MariaDB
7 44 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
8 33 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
9 32 (1.72%) NoSQL
9 32 (1.72%) Redis
10 28 (1.51%) RDBMS
11 25 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (1.29%) DynamoDB
13 19 (1.02%) Power BI
14 18 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
16 9 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 9 (0.48%) SQLite
17 8 (0.43%) Tableau
18 7 (0.38%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 470 (25.30%) Git
2 74 (3.98%) JIRA
3 40 (2.15%) Jenkins
4 39 (2.10%) Cypress.io
5 38 (2.05%) Selenium
6 34 (1.83%) GitLab
7 27 (1.45%) Postman
8 24 (1.29%) Subversion
9 21 (1.13%) webpack
10 14 (0.75%) PHPUnit
11 13 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
12 12 (0.65%) gulp
12 12 (0.65%) Visual Studio
13 9 (0.48%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.43%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.27%) git-flow
15 5 (0.27%) Grunt
16 2 (0.11%) Appium
16 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
16 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 375 (20.18%) Social Skills
2 174 (9.36%) Marketing
3 132 (7.10%) Retail
4 104 (5.60%) Finance
5 68 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.64%) Games
7 41 (2.21%) Public Sector
8 40 (2.15%) Telecoms
9 32 (1.72%) Tech for Good
10 30 (1.61%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.08%) Electronics
13 19 (1.02%) Legal
14 18 (0.97%) Banking
15 17 (0.91%) Law
16 13 (0.70%) Health Technology
17 11 (0.59%) German Language
18 10 (0.54%) Advertising
18 10 (0.54%) Retail Banking
19 9 (0.48%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 1,400 (75.35%) Developer
2 731 (39.34%) PHP Developer
3 369 (19.86%) Senior
4 315 (16.95%) Senior Developer
5 235 (12.65%) Full Stack Developer
6 189 (10.17%) Lead
7 165 (8.88%) Web Developer
8 147 (7.91%) Senior PHP Developer
9 136 (7.32%) Software Developer
10 117 (6.30%) Software Engineer
11 98 (5.27%) WordPress Developer
12 97 (5.22%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 88 (4.74%) Full Stack PHP Developer
14 79 (4.25%) Junior
15 78 (4.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 73 (3.93%) Junior Developer
16 73 (3.93%) Lead Developer
17 57 (3.07%) Technical Leader
18 54 (2.91%) PHP Web Developer
19 45 (2.42%) Junior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 852 (45.86%) Laravel
2 767 (41.28%) HTML
3 729 (39.24%) CSS
4 465 (25.03%) React
5 327 (17.60%) Vue
6 230 (12.38%) jQuery
7 227 (12.22%) Symfony
8 189 (10.17%) HTML5
9 185 (9.96%) Node.js
10 172 (9.26%) LAMP
11 149 (8.02%) AngularJS
12 128 (6.89%) CSS3
13 125 (6.73%) RESTful
14 116 (6.24%) REST
15 92 (4.95%) Web Services
16 90 (4.84%) JSON
17 83 (4.47%) Sass
18 77 (4.14%) .NET
19 70 (3.77%) XML
20 55 (2.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.22%) Greenfield Project
2 52 (2.80%) Onboarding
3 49 (2.64%) Mobile App
4 38 (2.05%) Cloud Native
5 34 (1.83%) Management Information System
6 30 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (1.61%) Product Ownership
7 28 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (1.45%) IoT
9 24 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
11 19 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
12 16 (0.86%) Algorithms
12 16 (0.86%) Virtual Team
13 15 (0.81%) Animation
14 14 (0.75%) Client/Server
15 12 (0.65%) Low-Code
16 11 (0.59%) Educational Technology
17 10 (0.54%) Data Structures
17 10 (0.54%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 196 (10.55%) Linux
2 39 (2.10%) Windows
3 20 (1.08%) Ubuntu
4 15 (0.81%) Unix
5 11 (0.59%) Android
6 10 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.38%) CentOS
7 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.32%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.054%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.054%) Rocky
12 1 (0.054%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (25.24%) Full Stack Development
2 419 (22.55%) Web Development
3 402 (21.64%) Agile
4 334 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
5 286 (15.39%) Software Engineering
6 250 (13.46%) OOP
7 248 (13.35%) E-Commerce
8 227 (12.22%) MVC
9 222 (11.95%) DevOps
10 195 (10.50%) User Experience
11 160 (8.61%) Computer Science
12 148 (7.97%) Front End Development
13 146 (7.86%) Mentoring
14 131 (7.05%) CI/CD
15 128 (6.89%) OO
15 128 (6.89%) TDD
16 109 (5.87%) Roadmaps
17 107 (5.76%) Clean Code
18 100 (5.38%) Project Management
19 99 (5.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 982 (52.85%) JavaScript
2 286 (15.39%) SQL
3 164 (8.83%) TypeScript
4 156 (8.40%) Python
5 147 (7.91%) C#
6 118 (6.35%) Java
7 46 (2.48%) C
8 40 (2.15%) Go
9 39 (2.10%) VB
10 29 (1.56%) Bash
10 29 (1.56%) Ruby
11 23 (1.24%) C++
11 23 (1.24%) JSX
12 22 (1.18%) Rust
13 19 (1.02%) PowerShell
14 16 (0.86%) T-SQL
15 14 (0.75%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.70%) Ada
16 13 (0.70%) Perl
17 11 (0.59%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 271 (14.59%) Degree
2 104 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (1.51%) Security Cleared
4 17 (0.91%) Azure Certification
5 15 (0.81%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (0.32%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.22%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.11%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.11%) MCSE
10 1 (0.054%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.054%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.054%) MCP
10 1 (0.054%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.054%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (3.71%) QA
2 42 (2.26%) WCAG
3 41 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.08%) GDPR
5 5 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.11%) HL7
7 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.11%) SLA
8 1 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.054%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.054%) NCSC
8 1 (0.054%) PMO
System Software
1 265 (14.26%) Docker
2 5 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.11%) Firmware
4 2 (0.11%) OpenSIPS
4 2 (0.11%) Varnish
4 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.054%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.054%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 115 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 81 (4.36%) Terraform
3 24 (1.29%) Ansible
4 15 (0.81%) Puppet
5 13 (0.70%) Progress Chef
6 11 (0.59%) Grafana
7 8 (0.43%) cPanel
7 8 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.22%) Rancher
9 3 (0.16%) Galera Cluster
10 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.11%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.054%) Argo
11 1 (0.054%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.054%) Plesk
11 1 (0.054%) Podman
11 1 (0.054%) SCCM
11 1 (0.054%) systemd
Vendors
1 69 (3.71%) Microsoft
2 66 (3.55%) Google
3 55 (2.96%) WooCommerce
4 31 (1.67%) Adobe
5 15 (0.81%) Twitter
6 12 (0.65%) Zend
7 11 (0.59%) Oracle
8 9 (0.48%) New Relic
8 9 (0.48%) SAP
9 8 (0.43%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.38%) Facebook
10 7 (0.38%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.38%) SaltStack
11 6 (0.32%) Actuate
11 6 (0.32%) Sitecore
11 6 (0.32%) VMware
12 5 (0.27%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.22%) F5
13 4 (0.22%) Rackspace
13 4 (0.22%) YouTube