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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 330 159
Rank change year-on-year -22 -171 +40
Permanent jobs citing PHP 587 388 1,220
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.79% 1.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.13% 3.04% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 507 283 776
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,688 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
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 18,742 12,752 23,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.93% 25.98% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 13,251 8,179 14,131
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -22 533 £50,000 +17.65% 267
UK excluding London -3 464 £50,000 +25.00% 181
Work from Home -24 245 £37,500 - 168
South East +28 165 £55,000 +46.67% 33
North of England -6 147 £50,000 +25.00% 47
Yorkshire +22 97 £50,000 +33.33% 17
London -63 79 £77,500 +29.17% 103
Midlands -60 54 £37,500 -6.25% 28
South West -63 47 £53,750 -6.52% 21
North West -13 43 £47,500 -9.52% 21
East of England -26 37 £40,000 +17.65% 21
West Midlands -52 28 £45,000 +13.92% 14
East Midlands -45 26 £35,000 -12.50% 14
Wales -67 8 £35,000 -36.36% 9
North East -67 7 £31,000 +24.00% 10
Scotland +15 5 £32,500 -54.39% 15
Northern Ireland -85 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 (8.18%) WordPress
2 22 (3.75%) CMS
3 13 (2.21%) Drupal
4 12 (2.04%) ColdFusion
5 11 (1.87%) Apache
6 7 (1.19%) Confluence
7 6 (1.02%) Apache Spark
7 6 (1.02%) IIS
8 5 (0.85%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.68%) nginx
10 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.17%) Moodle
12 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.51%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.34%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 6 (1.02%) Shopify
2 4 (0.68%) Line 50
2 4 (0.68%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.34%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 173 (29.47%) AWS
2 131 (22.32%) Azure
3 42 (7.16%) SaaS
4 27 (4.60%) Serverless
5 25 (4.26%) GCP
6 23 (3.92%) GitHub
7 19 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
8 18 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.39%) Amazon EventBridge
11 14 (2.39%) AWS Control Tower
11 14 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (2.39%) Power Platform
12 12 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.02%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (1.02%) Amazon S3
14 6 (1.02%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.45%) Internet
2 18 (3.07%) Network Security
3 11 (1.87%) DNS
4 10 (1.70%) VoIP
5 7 (1.19%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.02%) BGP
6 6 (1.02%) IPsec
6 6 (1.02%) VPN
7 5 (0.85%) Intranet
8 4 (0.68%) Firewall
8 4 (0.68%) LAN
8 4 (0.68%) WAN
9 2 (0.34%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.34%) Broadband
9 2 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (23.17%) MySQL
2 86 (14.65%) SQL Server
3 27 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (3.92%) Relational Database
5 21 (3.58%) MariaDB
6 11 (1.87%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.36%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.36%) Power BI
8 7 (1.19%) Redis
9 6 (1.02%) Apache Hive
9 6 (1.02%) Big Data
9 6 (1.02%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.02%) HBase
10 5 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.68%) ClickHouse
11 4 (0.68%) FileMaker
11 4 (0.68%) Metadata
12 3 (0.51%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.34%) Neo4j
13 2 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 76 (12.95%) Git
2 18 (3.07%) JIRA
3 14 (2.39%) GitLab
4 10 (1.70%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.19%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.02%) PHPUnit
7 4 (0.68%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.68%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.51%) Appium
8 3 (0.51%) Selenium
8 3 (0.51%) Vite
9 2 (0.34%) Bower
9 2 (0.34%) ESLint
9 2 (0.34%) Postman
9 2 (0.34%) Storybook
9 2 (0.34%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.17%) gulp
10 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.17%) webpack
General
1 117 (19.93%) Social Skills
2 89 (15.16%) Finance
3 24 (4.09%) Public Sector
4 23 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.75%) Marketing
6 8 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.02%) Games
8 6 (1.02%) Military
9 5 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (0.85%) Retail
10 4 (0.68%) Advertising
10 4 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.68%) Law
10 4 (0.68%) Legal
11 3 (0.51%) Publishing
12 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.34%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.17%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.17%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 398 (67.80%) Developer
2 166 (28.28%) Senior
3 164 (27.94%) PHP Developer
4 114 (19.42%) Senior Developer
5 96 (16.35%) Software Developer
6 89 (15.16%) Graduate
7 85 (14.48%) Software Engineer
8 54 (9.20%) Web Developer
9 49 (8.35%) Graduate Developer
9 49 (8.35%) Graduate Software Developer
10 48 (8.18%) Full-Stack Developer
11 41 (6.98%) PHP Software Engineer
12 40 (6.81%) Graduate Software Engineer
13 33 (5.62%) C# Developer
13 33 (5.62%) C# Software Developer
13 33 (5.62%) Graduate C# Developer
13 33 (5.62%) Graduate C# Software Developer
13 33 (5.62%) Graduate SQL Developer
13 33 (5.62%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 33 (5.62%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (31.35%) Laravel
2 157 (26.75%) CSS
3 147 (25.04%) HTML
4 74 (12.61%) React
5 63 (10.73%) jQuery
6 62 (10.56%) .NET
7 61 (10.39%) Vue
8 44 (7.50%) Node.js
8 44 (7.50%) Terraform
9 36 (6.13%) Symfony
10 26 (4.43%) HTML5
11 24 (4.09%) LAMP
11 24 (4.09%) REST
12 20 (3.41%) RESTful
13 18 (3.07%) CSS3
14 17 (2.90%) JSON
15 14 (2.39%) AWS CDK
16 13 (2.21%) Ajax
16 13 (2.21%) Sass
17 12 (2.04%) CodeIgniter
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
2 26 (4.43%) Onboarding
3 20 (3.41%) Virtual Team
4 19 (3.24%) Cloud Native
5 15 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.39%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.70%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.19%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.02%) Educational Technology
10 6 (1.02%) IoT
11 5 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.85%) Social Media
12 4 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.68%) PMI
13 3 (0.51%) Blog
13 3 (0.51%) Clustering
13 3 (0.51%) Culture of Ownership
13 3 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 61 (10.39%) Linux
2 24 (4.09%) Windows
3 13 (2.21%) Ubuntu
4 12 (2.04%) Debian
5 8 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.68%) CentOS
6 4 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.68%) Unix
6 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.51%) Android
7 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (24.53%) Agile
2 132 (22.49%) Software Engineering
3 116 (19.76%) Computer Science
4 94 (16.01%) Web Development
5 84 (14.31%) Full-Stack Development
5 84 (14.31%) Problem-Solving
6 83 (14.14%) CI/CD
7 77 (13.12%) AI
8 67 (11.41%) OOP
9 54 (9.20%) DevOps
10 44 (7.50%) Clean Code
11 42 (7.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (7.16%) OO
12 40 (6.81%) MVC
13 37 (6.30%) SEO
14 35 (5.96%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (5.96%) Mentoring
15 34 (5.79%) Microservices
16 33 (5.62%) E-Commerce
17 32 (5.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 193 (32.88%) JavaScript
2 163 (27.77%) SQL
3 116 (19.76%) C#
4 94 (16.01%) Python
5 56 (9.54%) Java
6 42 (7.16%) TypeScript
7 33 (5.62%) Bash
8 23 (3.92%) Ruby
9 16 (2.73%) C++
9 16 (2.73%) Perl
10 14 (2.39%) Go
11 13 (2.21%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.19%) C
13 3 (0.51%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.51%) Scala
13 3 (0.51%) Swift
13 3 (0.51%) VBA
14 2 (0.34%) CFML
15 1 (0.17%) Rust
15 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (15.33%) Degree
2 74 (12.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (5.96%) Security Cleared
4 14 (2.39%) AWS Certification
4 14 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (1.53%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.36%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.68%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.34%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.17%) HNC
9 1 (0.17%) HND
9 1 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (10.05%) Accessibility
2 21 (3.58%) QA
3 9 (1.53%) WCAG
4 6 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.68%) ISO 14001
5 4 (0.68%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.34%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.17%) GDPR
7 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (9.37%) Docker
2 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.24%) Ansible
3 7 (1.19%) Grafana
4 6 (1.02%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (0.68%) Nagios
5 4 (0.68%) Podman
5 4 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.51%) Argo
6 3 (0.51%) Istio
6 3 (0.51%) Kustomize
6 3 (0.51%) Plesk
6 3 (0.51%) Puppet
7 2 (0.34%) Kibana
Vendors
1 27 (4.60%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.24%) Google
3 9 (1.53%) Adobe
4 7 (1.19%) Sage
5 6 (1.02%) HP
5 6 (1.02%) IBM
5 6 (1.02%) Oracle
5 6 (1.02%) SAP
5 6 (1.02%) WooCommerce
6 5 (0.85%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.68%) Apple
7 4 (0.68%) NEC
7 4 (0.68%) Splunk
8 2 (0.34%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.17%) Netlify
9 1 (0.17%) SGI