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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 262 150
Rank change year-on-year -11 -112 -6
Permanent jobs citing PHP 709 583 1,867
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 1.20% 1.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.02% 4.04% 5.73%
Number of salaries quoted 626 474 1,605
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £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 17,618 14,438 32,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.03% 29.63% 31.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,514 9,618 24,412
10th Percentile £37,500 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,784
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.39% -0.39%

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 July 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 9 July 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 -11 649 £50,000 - 125
UK excluding London -11 553 £47,500 - 127
Work from Home -19 289 £40,000 -16.67% 60
North of England +3 163 £45,000 -6.25% 45
South East -9 151 £50,000 +11.11% 29
Midlands +10 114 £45,000 +12.50% 17
Yorkshire +25 105 £50,000 +33.33% 22
London -19 104 £78,750 +31.25% 24
West Midlands +7 71 £45,000 -17.05% 7
South West -55 68 £49,000 -14.78% 12
North West -26 50 £45,000 -14.29% 17
East Midlands -15 43 £37,500 -6.25% 10
East of England -24 43 £25,000 -28.57% 13
Wales -42 11 £35,000 -36.36% 2
North East -49 8 £31,000 +15.89% 6
Scotland -3 2 £36,250 -39.58% 10
Northern Ireland -62 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 64 (9.03%) WordPress
2 32 (4.51%) CMS
3 16 (2.26%) ColdFusion
4 15 (2.12%) Apache
5 9 (1.27%) Drupal
5 9 (1.27%) nginx
6 8 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.85%) Confluence
8 5 (0.71%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.71%) IIS
9 4 (0.56%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Moodle
10 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.14%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (0.28%) Elementor
4 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.55%) Shopify
2 4 (0.56%) Line 50
2 4 (0.56%) Magento
2 4 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.28%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.14%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 178 (25.11%) AWS
2 140 (19.75%) Azure
3 58 (8.18%) SaaS
4 32 (4.51%) Serverless
5 27 (3.81%) GitHub
6 21 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (2.96%) Figma
7 20 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (2.40%) GCP
9 15 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (1.97%) Power Platform
11 13 (1.83%) AWS Control Tower
12 12 (1.69%) Amazon EventBridge
12 12 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.41%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
16 6 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.53%) Internet
2 18 (2.54%) DNS
2 18 (2.54%) Network Security
3 11 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.41%) VoIP
5 9 (1.27%) VPN
6 6 (0.85%) HTTP
6 6 (0.85%) Intranet
7 5 (0.71%) BGP
7 5 (0.71%) IPsec
8 4 (0.56%) DHCP
8 4 (0.56%) LAN
8 4 (0.56%) WAN
8 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.28%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.28%) Broadband
9 2 (0.28%) Firewall
9 2 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (21.44%) MySQL
2 90 (12.69%) SQL Server
3 31 (4.37%) Relational Database
4 26 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (2.96%) MariaDB
6 18 (2.54%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.97%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.85%) Redis
10 5 (0.71%) Apache Hive
10 5 (0.71%) Big Data
10 5 (0.71%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.71%) HBase
10 5 (0.71%) Power BI
11 4 (0.56%) FileMaker
11 4 (0.56%) Metadata
12 3 (0.42%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.28%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 90 (12.69%) Git
2 22 (3.10%) JIRA
3 11 (1.55%) PHPUnit
4 10 (1.41%) GitLab
5 7 (0.99%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.99%) Claude Code
5 7 (0.99%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.56%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.42%) Postman
7 3 (0.42%) Vite
8 2 (0.28%) Bower
8 2 (0.28%) Selenium
8 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.28%) webpack
9 1 (0.14%) Gatling
9 1 (0.14%) gulp
9 1 (0.14%) JMeter
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 143 (20.17%) Social Skills
2 105 (14.81%) Finance
3 25 (3.53%) Marketing
4 24 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (3.24%) Public Sector
6 9 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (1.27%) Tech for Good
7 7 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (0.99%) Law
7 7 (0.99%) Retail
8 6 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (0.85%) Legal
8 6 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (0.71%) Advertising
9 5 (0.71%) Games
9 5 (0.71%) Health Technology
9 5 (0.71%) Military
9 5 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.42%) Back Office
10 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 482 (67.98%) Developer
2 228 (32.16%) PHP Developer
3 165 (23.27%) Senior
4 125 (17.63%) Software Developer
5 121 (17.07%) Senior Developer
6 107 (15.09%) Graduate
7 82 (11.57%) Graduate Developer
8 80 (11.28%) Graduate Software Developer
9 70 (9.87%) Software Engineer
10 64 (9.03%) C# Developer
10 64 (9.03%) C# Software Developer
10 64 (9.03%) Graduate C# Developer
10 64 (9.03%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 63 (8.89%) Full-Stack Developer
12 62 (8.74%) Graduate SQL Developer
12 62 (8.74%) SQL Developer
13 58 (8.18%) Web Developer
14 53 (7.48%) Graduate PHP Developer
15 42 (5.92%) PHP Laravel Developer
16 39 (5.50%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (28.35%) CSS
2 194 (27.36%) Laravel
3 166 (23.41%) HTML
4 81 (11.42%) jQuery
5 75 (10.58%) Vue
6 74 (10.44%) React
7 59 (8.32%) .NET
8 51 (7.19%) Node.js
9 31 (4.37%) RESTful
10 26 (3.67%) REST
11 24 (3.39%) LAMP
12 23 (3.24%) Symfony
13 21 (2.96%) HTML5
14 19 (2.68%) CSS3
14 19 (2.68%) JSON
14 19 (2.68%) Tailwind CSS
15 18 (2.54%) AngularJS
16 14 (1.97%) Sass
17 12 (1.69%) Ajax
17 12 (1.69%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.23%) Virtual Team
2 28 (3.95%) Onboarding
3 25 (3.53%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 11 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.13%) Educational Technology
7 8 (1.13%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.13%) Social Media
8 7 (0.99%) AI Agents
8 7 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (0.85%) CCTV
9 6 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.85%) IoT
9 6 (0.85%) Product Ownership
10 5 (0.71%) Driving Licence
10 5 (0.71%) Robotics
11 4 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 67 (9.45%) Linux
2 28 (3.95%) Windows
3 14 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.83%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.55%) CentOS
5 11 (1.55%) Debian
5 11 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.56%) Unix
7 4 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (23.98%) Agile
2 139 (19.61%) Computer Science
3 111 (15.66%) Software Engineering
4 105 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 100 (14.10%) Web Development
6 96 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (11.42%) CI/CD
8 72 (10.16%) OOP
9 62 (8.74%) AI
10 59 (8.32%) DevOps
11 57 (8.04%) Mentoring
12 55 (7.76%) E-Commerce
13 54 (7.62%) Clean Code
13 54 (7.62%) MVC
14 48 (6.77%) OO
15 43 (6.06%) Microservices
16 36 (5.08%) SEO
17 34 (4.80%) Infrastructure as Code
17 34 (4.80%) User Experience
18 33 (4.65%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 210 (29.62%) JavaScript
2 190 (26.80%) SQL
3 130 (18.34%) C#
4 107 (15.09%) Python
5 64 (9.03%) Java
6 53 (7.48%) TypeScript
7 34 (4.80%) Bash
8 30 (4.23%) C++
9 22 (3.10%) Go
10 21 (2.96%) Ruby
11 20 (2.82%) Perl
12 17 (2.40%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.85%) C
14 4 (0.56%) Delphi
14 4 (0.56%) Pascal
15 3 (0.42%) CFML
15 3 (0.42%) Rust
15 3 (0.42%) Scala
15 3 (0.42%) VBA
16 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 111 (15.66%) Degree
2 91 (12.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (3.53%) Security Cleared
4 13 (1.83%) AWS Certification
4 13 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (0.71%) DV Cleared
5 5 (0.71%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.28%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.14%) HNC
7 1 (0.14%) HND
7 1 (0.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.49%) Accessibility
2 17 (2.40%) QA
3 7 (0.99%) ISO 9001
4 6 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.71%) GDPR
5 5 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.71%) WCAG
6 4 (0.56%) ISO 14001
7 2 (0.28%) SLA
8 1 (0.14%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (6.63%) Docker
2 6 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (5.50%) Terraform
2 30 (4.23%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.54%) Ansible
4 5 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (0.71%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (0.71%) Nagios
4 5 (0.71%) Podman
5 3 (0.42%) Plesk
5 3 (0.42%) Puppet
6 2 (0.28%) Grafana
6 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.14%) Argo
7 1 (0.14%) Consul
7 1 (0.14%) Istio
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.14%) Packer
7 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (6.21%) Microsoft
2 13 (1.83%) Google
3 11 (1.55%) Adobe
4 8 (1.13%) Sage
5 6 (0.85%) Apple
5 6 (0.85%) Oracle
5 6 (0.85%) SAP
5 6 (0.85%) WooCommerce
6 5 (0.71%) HP
6 5 (0.71%) IBM
6 5 (0.71%) Splunk
7 4 (0.56%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.42%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.28%) BT
9 2 (0.28%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.28%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.28%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.28%) PayPal
9 2 (0.28%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.14%) New Relic