PHP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 150 154
Rank change year-on-year -151 +4 -46
Permanent jobs citing PHP 581 1,914 2,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.79% 2.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.44% 5.67% 5.66%
Number of salaries quoted 474 1,652 1,375
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,625 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £79,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% 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 16,884 33,730 36,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.37% 31.56% 41.39%
Number of salaries quoted 10,803 24,985 25,806
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

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 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 2025. 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 -155 535 £50,000 - 1,236
UK excluding London -130 447 £47,500 - 760
Work from Home -70 325 £48,000 -4.00% 773
North of England -141 128 £48,000 +1.05% 312
South East -52 118 £45,000 -18.18% 150
London -46 101 £60,000 -5.09% 519
North West -125 72 £52,500 +5.00% 201
Midlands -56 71 £40,000 -11.11% 96
South West -32 61 £58,750 +30.56% 88
East of England -59 51 £35,000 -22.22% 73
Yorkshire -71 43 £37,500 -16.67% 97
West Midlands -29 40 £54,250 +20.56% 48
East Midlands -32 30 £40,000 -8.57% 48
North East +29 13 £26,750 -37.06% 16
Scotland +54 12 £57,500 +21.05% 18
Wales -2 4 £55,000 +22.22% 25
Northern Ireland +33 2 £60,000 +79.10% 15

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 66 (11.36%) WordPress
2 39 (6.71%) CMS
3 23 (3.96%) Apache
4 10 (1.72%) Drupal
5 8 (1.38%) nginx
6 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.69%) Confluence
7 4 (0.69%) IIS
7 4 (0.69%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.52%) ColdFusion
8 3 (0.52%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.34%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.34%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.17%) Kentico
10 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (2.75%) Photoshop
2 15 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.55%) Adobe Illustrator
4 8 (1.38%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.69%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.52%) Elementor
6 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
7 2 (0.34%) Sketch
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.17%) InDesign
8 1 (0.17%) SPSS
8 1 (0.17%) Trello
8 1 (0.17%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 14 (2.41%) Magento
2 9 (1.55%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (1.38%) NetSuite
4 7 (1.20%) Shopify
5 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.34%) Odoo
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 141 (24.27%) AWS
2 94 (16.18%) Azure
3 47 (8.09%) GCP
4 24 (4.13%) GitHub
4 24 (4.13%) Serverless
5 20 (3.44%) SaaS
6 16 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (2.24%) Power Platform
8 12 (2.07%) Google Analytics
9 9 (1.55%) Cloudflare
9 9 (1.55%) Figma
9 9 (1.55%) npm
10 7 (1.20%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (1.20%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 7 (1.20%) Vercel
11 6 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (0.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.07%) Internet
2 9 (1.55%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.86%) VoIP
4 4 (0.69%) DNS
4 4 (0.69%) MPLS
5 3 (0.52%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.34%) HTTP
6 2 (0.34%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.34%) IPsec
6 2 (0.34%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.17%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.17%) Intranet
7 1 (0.17%) Multicast
7 1 (0.17%) RFID
7 1 (0.17%) RTP
7 1 (0.17%) RTSP
7 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (42.00%) MySQL
2 71 (12.22%) SQL Server
3 34 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (3.96%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.89%) MongoDB
6 10 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.20%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.20%) Power BI
7 7 (1.20%) Redis
8 6 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.86%) MariaDB
10 4 (0.69%) GIS
10 4 (0.69%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.69%) TimescaleDB
11 3 (0.52%) SQLite
12 2 (0.34%) Big Data
12 2 (0.34%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.34%) Mixpanel
13 1 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 127 (21.86%) Git
2 20 (3.44%) JIRA
3 15 (2.58%) PHPUnit
4 11 (1.89%) Selenium
5 10 (1.72%) Postman
6 8 (1.38%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.38%) SoapUI
7 5 (0.86%) webpack
8 4 (0.69%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.69%) Mocha
8 4 (0.69%) Subversion
9 3 (0.52%) git-flow
9 3 (0.52%) GitLab
9 3 (0.52%) Jasmine
9 3 (0.52%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.52%) Vite
10 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.17%) GDB
11 1 (0.17%) PhpStorm
11 1 (0.17%) WinDbg
General
1 162 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 92 (15.83%) Finance
3 49 (8.43%) Games
4 25 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.13%) Marketing
6 21 (3.61%) Law
7 18 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.93%) Retail
9 14 (2.41%) Legal
9 14 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.89%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.55%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.20%) Back Office
12 7 (1.20%) Public Sector
13 5 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.69%) Automotive
14 4 (0.69%) Electronics
15 3 (0.52%) Advertising
15 3 (0.52%) French Language
15 3 (0.52%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 336 (57.83%) Developer
2 165 (28.40%) PHP Developer
3 108 (18.59%) Senior
4 76 (13.08%) Senior Developer
5 52 (8.95%) Graduate
5 52 (8.95%) Graduate Developer
6 51 (8.78%) Web Developer
7 48 (8.26%) IT Graduate
8 47 (8.09%) Lead
9 42 (7.23%) Full-Stack Developer
10 37 (6.37%) Software Engineer
11 35 (6.02%) Senior PHP Developer
12 29 (4.99%) Junior
13 28 (4.82%) SQL Developer
14 24 (4.13%) Junior Developer
15 23 (3.96%) PHP Software Engineer
16 22 (3.79%) C# Developer
17 21 (3.61%) Graduate C# Developer
17 21 (3.61%) Graduate PHP Developer
17 21 (3.61%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (44.41%) HTML
2 253 (43.55%) CSS
3 179 (30.81%) Laravel
4 92 (15.83%) React
5 83 (14.29%) jQuery
6 79 (13.60%) .NET
7 76 (13.08%) Vue
8 60 (10.33%) Symfony
9 54 (9.29%) LAMP
10 53 (9.12%) ASP.NET
11 45 (7.75%) RESTful
12 42 (7.23%) AngularJS
12 42 (7.23%) Node.js
13 34 (5.85%) HTML5
14 29 (4.99%) CSS3
14 29 (4.99%) REST
15 22 (3.79%) Tailwind CSS
15 22 (3.79%) Web Services
16 17 (2.93%) CakePHP
16 17 (2.93%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.51%) Mobile App
2 21 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (2.93%) Virtual Team
4 12 (2.07%) IoT
5 10 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.72%) Product Ownership
6 9 (1.55%) e-Learning
6 9 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.38%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.38%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.20%) CCTV
8 7 (1.20%) Legacy Code
8 7 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.86%) Blog
10 5 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.69%) Educational Technology
11 4 (0.69%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 56 (9.64%) Linux
2 26 (4.48%) Windows
3 12 (2.07%) CentOS
3 12 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.72%) Android
4 10 (1.72%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.34%) Unix
7 1 (0.17%) Debian
7 1 (0.17%) Rocky
7 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (27.88%) Agile
2 135 (23.24%) Problem-Solving
3 132 (22.72%) Computer Science
4 122 (21.00%) OOP
4 122 (21.00%) Web Development
5 105 (18.07%) MVC
6 103 (17.73%) E-Commerce
7 98 (16.87%) OO
8 89 (15.32%) Software Engineering
9 77 (13.25%) Full-Stack Development
10 66 (11.36%) Artificial Intelligence
11 61 (10.50%) CI/CD
12 60 (10.33%) Machine Learning
13 57 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 55 (9.47%) User Experience
15 54 (9.29%) Front End Development
16 53 (9.12%) Data Privacy
17 52 (8.95%) DevOps
18 50 (8.61%) Mentoring
18 50 (8.61%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 325 (55.94%) JavaScript
2 174 (29.95%) SQL
3 125 (21.51%) Python
4 124 (21.34%) Java
5 123 (21.17%) C#
6 108 (18.59%) TypeScript
7 107 (18.42%) C++
8 60 (10.33%) C
9 50 (8.61%) Dart
9 50 (8.61%) MATLAB
9 50 (8.61%) R
9 50 (8.61%) Ruby
10 49 (8.43%) Rust
11 38 (6.54%) Go
12 7 (1.20%) Perl
13 5 (0.86%) Scala
14 4 (0.69%) Bash
14 4 (0.69%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.52%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 142 (24.44%) Degree
2 119 (20.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (2.58%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.72%) DV Cleared
5 4 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.69%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (0.52%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.34%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.17%) HND
8 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.17%) PMP
8 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.71%) QA
2 23 (3.96%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.41%) GDPR
4 9 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.69%) SLA
6 3 (0.52%) WCAG
7 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.17%) GMP
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 49 (8.43%) Docker
2 3 (0.52%) Samba
3 2 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.34%) Firmware
4 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.17%) Varnish
4 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (2.93%) Terraform
2 16 (2.75%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.58%) Ansible
4 4 (0.69%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (0.52%) Puppet
6 2 (0.34%) Grafana
6 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.17%) WMI
Vendors
1 33 (5.68%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.48%) Adobe
3 24 (4.13%) Google
4 12 (2.07%) Twitter
5 10 (1.72%) Cisco
5 10 (1.72%) WooCommerce
6 8 (1.38%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.20%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.03%) Meraki
8 6 (1.03%) New Relic
9 5 (0.86%) Ahrefs
9 5 (0.86%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.86%) SAP
9 5 (0.86%) Screaming Frog
10 3 (0.52%) Oracle
11 2 (0.34%) Apple
11 2 (0.34%) PayPal
11 2 (0.34%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.34%) Sage
11 2 (0.34%) Zoho