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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 339 165
Rank change year-on-year -32 -174 +36
Permanent jobs citing PHP 554 379 1,154
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.77% 1.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.00% 3.05% 5.17%
Number of salaries quoted 472 276 722
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,438 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,125 £73,975
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -15.79% -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 18,479 12,433 22,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.62% 25.34% 31.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,087 8,073 13,339
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.10% -0.77%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -33 501 £50,000 +11.11% 315
UK excluding London -28 431 £50,000 +25.00% 179
Work from Home -44 221 £41,000 +2.50% 188
South East +41 161 £55,000 +7.32% 53
North of England -2 135 £50,000 +19.05% 46
Yorkshire +18 89 £50,000 +29.03% 18
London -51 78 £70,000 +21.74% 137
South West -53 48 £53,750 -2.27% 18
Midlands -77 40 £37,500 -6.25% 25
North West -24 39 £50,000 -9.09% 22
East of England -33 35 £42,500 +17.24% 17
West Midlands -56 21 £37,500 -3.85% 11
East Midlands -43 19 £36,250 -9.38% 14
North East -67 7 £31,000 +24.00% 6
Wales -70 6 £45,000 -18.18% 6
Scotland +7 5 £32,500 -54.39% 6
Northern Ireland -75 1 - - 8

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 48 (8.66%) WordPress
2 23 (4.15%) CMS
3 18 (3.25%) Drupal
4 11 (1.99%) Apache
5 8 (1.44%) ColdFusion
5 8 (1.44%) Umbraco
6 7 (1.26%) Confluence
7 6 (1.08%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.72%) IIS
8 4 (0.72%) nginx
9 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.18%) Moodle
11 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.54%) Elementor
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.08%) Shopify
2 4 (0.72%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.36%) Line 50
5 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 168 (30.32%) AWS
2 117 (21.12%) Azure
3 40 (7.22%) SaaS
4 27 (4.87%) Serverless
5 22 (3.97%) GCP
5 22 (3.97%) GitHub
6 19 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (2.71%) Power Platform
10 14 (2.53%) Amazon EventBridge
10 14 (2.53%) AWS Control Tower
10 14 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.62%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (1.08%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (1.08%) Datadog
13 6 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.78%) Internet
2 16 (2.89%) Network Security
3 12 (2.17%) DNS
4 8 (1.44%) VoIP
5 7 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.08%) BGP
6 6 (1.08%) IPsec
6 6 (1.08%) VPN
7 5 (0.90%) Intranet
8 4 (0.72%) Firewall
8 4 (0.72%) LAN
8 4 (0.72%) WAN
9 3 (0.54%) SSL
10 2 (0.36%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.36%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (22.74%) MySQL
2 77 (13.90%) SQL Server
3 29 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (3.97%) Relational Database
5 21 (3.79%) MariaDB
6 10 (1.81%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.62%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.62%) Power BI
7 9 (1.62%) Redis
8 6 (1.08%) Apache Hive
8 6 (1.08%) Big Data
8 6 (1.08%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.08%) HBase
9 5 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.90%) Metadata
10 4 (0.72%) ClickHouse
10 4 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.54%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.36%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 77 (13.90%) Git
2 16 (2.89%) JIRA
3 14 (2.53%) GitLab
4 10 (1.81%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.26%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.08%) PHPUnit
7 5 (0.90%) Vite
8 4 (0.72%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.72%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.54%) Appium
10 2 (0.36%) Bower
10 2 (0.36%) ESLint
10 2 (0.36%) Selenium
10 2 (0.36%) Storybook
10 2 (0.36%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.18%) gulp
11 1 (0.18%) Postman
11 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.18%) webpack
General
1 114 (20.58%) Social Skills
2 77 (13.90%) Finance
3 24 (4.33%) Public Sector
4 23 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.97%) Marketing
6 9 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.26%) Retail
8 6 (1.08%) Military
8 6 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (0.90%) Games
9 5 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.72%) Legal
11 3 (0.54%) Advertising
11 3 (0.54%) Law
11 3 (0.54%) Publishing
11 3 (0.54%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.36%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.18%) Automotive
13 1 (0.18%) Banking
Job Titles
1 365 (65.88%) Developer
2 171 (30.87%) Senior
3 151 (27.26%) PHP Developer
4 114 (20.58%) Senior Developer
5 87 (15.70%) Software Engineer
6 80 (14.44%) Software Developer
7 73 (13.18%) Graduate
8 54 (9.75%) Web Developer
9 46 (8.30%) Full-Stack Developer
10 45 (8.12%) PHP Software Engineer
11 40 (7.22%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 33 (5.96%) Graduate Developer
12 33 (5.96%) Graduate Software Developer
12 33 (5.96%) Senior PHP Developer
13 30 (5.42%) PHP Laravel Developer
14 26 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
15 25 (4.51%) Azure Software Engineer
15 25 (4.51%) C# Software Engineer
16 21 (3.79%) C# Developer
16 21 (3.79%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (31.95%) Laravel
2 148 (26.71%) CSS
3 140 (25.27%) HTML
4 71 (12.82%) React
5 61 (11.01%) Vue
6 58 (10.47%) .NET
7 52 (9.39%) jQuery
8 46 (8.30%) Node.js
9 45 (8.12%) Terraform
10 38 (6.86%) Symfony
11 28 (5.05%) REST
12 25 (4.51%) HTML5
13 22 (3.97%) LAMP
14 19 (3.43%) RESTful
15 18 (3.25%) CSS3
16 17 (3.07%) JSON
17 15 (2.71%) Ajax
17 15 (2.71%) Sass
18 14 (2.53%) AWS CDK
19 13 (2.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.87%) Greenfield Project
1 27 (4.87%) Onboarding
2 17 (3.07%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.07%) Virtual Team
3 14 (2.53%) Enterprise Cloud
4 12 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (2.17%) Mobile App
5 9 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.44%) IoT
7 7 (1.26%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.08%) Educational Technology
9 5 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.72%) PMI
11 3 (0.54%) Blog
11 3 (0.54%) Clustering
11 3 (0.54%) Culture of Ownership
11 3 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.54%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 59 (10.65%) Linux
2 21 (3.79%) Windows
3 13 (2.35%) Ubuntu
4 12 (2.17%) Debian
5 7 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.72%) Android
6 4 (0.72%) CentOS
6 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.36%) macOS
8 2 (0.36%) Unix
9 1 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (24.73%) Software Engineering
2 132 (23.83%) Agile
3 97 (17.51%) Computer Science
4 92 (16.61%) Web Development
5 86 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
6 79 (14.26%) CI/CD
6 79 (14.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 76 (13.72%) AI
8 57 (10.29%) OOP
9 50 (9.03%) DevOps
10 43 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (7.22%) Clean Code
12 37 (6.68%) Mentoring
12 37 (6.68%) SEO
13 36 (6.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 36 (6.50%) OO
13 36 (6.50%) Test Automation
14 33 (5.96%) Microservices
15 30 (5.42%) E-Commerce
16 29 (5.23%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 189 (34.12%) JavaScript
2 141 (25.45%) SQL
3 100 (18.05%) C#
4 90 (16.25%) Python
5 52 (9.39%) Java
6 44 (7.94%) TypeScript
7 33 (5.96%) Bash
8 23 (4.15%) Ruby
9 16 (2.89%) Perl
10 13 (2.35%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.17%) C++
12 10 (1.81%) Go
13 7 (1.26%) C
14 3 (0.54%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.54%) Scala
14 3 (0.54%) Swift
15 2 (0.36%) VBA
16 1 (0.18%) CFML
16 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (13.72%) Degree
2 61 (11.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (6.32%) Security Cleared
4 14 (2.53%) AWS Certification
4 14 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (1.62%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.44%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.72%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.36%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.18%) HNC
9 1 (0.18%) HND
9 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (11.01%) Accessibility
2 24 (4.33%) QA
3 11 (1.99%) WCAG
4 6 (1.08%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.36%) ISO 14001
5 2 (0.36%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.18%) GDPR
6 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 53 (9.57%) Docker
2 4 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (6.68%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.43%) Ansible
3 7 (1.26%) Grafana
4 6 (1.08%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (0.72%) Nagios
5 4 (0.72%) Podman
5 4 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.54%) Argo
6 3 (0.54%) Istio
6 3 (0.54%) Kustomize
6 3 (0.54%) Puppet
7 2 (0.36%) Kibana
7 2 (0.36%) Plesk
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (4.51%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.43%) Google
3 7 (1.26%) WooCommerce
4 6 (1.08%) HP
4 6 (1.08%) IBM
4 6 (1.08%) Oracle
4 6 (1.08%) SAP
5 5 (0.90%) OpenAI
5 5 (0.90%) Sage
6 4 (0.72%) Adobe
6 4 (0.72%) NEC
6 4 (0.72%) Splunk
7 2 (0.36%) Apple
7 2 (0.36%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.18%) Cisco
8 1 (0.18%) Meraki
8 1 (0.18%) Netlify
8 1 (0.18%) Plaid
8 1 (0.18%) SGI