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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 155 168
Rank change year-on-year -87 +13 -72
Permanent jobs citing PHP 636 1,872 2,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.23% 1.91% 2.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.03% 5.64% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 573 1,691 1,641
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,109 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £49,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.52% -1.50% -

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 15,788 33,192 45,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.59% 33.81% 43.57%
Number of salaries quoted 11,630 25,038 29,105
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +1.85%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -102 574 £52,500 +5.00% 573
UK excluding London -54 502 £50,000 +1.52% 385
Work from Home -36 328 £55,000 +10.00% 418
North of England -95 138 £52,500 +10.53% 135
South East +10 116 £50,000 -9.09% 86
London -26 115 £60,000 -5.09% 217
South West +2 84 £60,000 +33.33% 45
North West -82 80 £52,500 +5.00% 71
Midlands -52 70 £40,000 -11.11% 84
East of England -32 46 £35,000 -19.54% 22
Yorkshire -49 42 £47,500 +1.06% 57
West Midlands -2 39 £55,500 +23.33% 42
East Midlands -25 30 £35,000 -24.32% 40
Scotland +106 25 £55,000 +15.79% 11
Wales +21 20 £32,500 -35.00% 8
North East +43 16 £55,000 +22.22% 8
Northern Ireland +32 3 £85,000 +88.89% 3

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 82 (12.89%) WordPress
2 62 (9.75%) CMS
3 17 (2.67%) nginx
4 14 (2.20%) Apache
4 14 (2.20%) Drupal
5 12 (1.89%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.63%) Joomla!
7 3 (0.47%) ColdFusion
7 3 (0.47%) IIS
7 3 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.31%) Confluence
8 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Kentico
9 1 (0.16%) SAS
9 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.57%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.79%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.63%) Adobe Premiere
4 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.31%) Trello
6 1 (0.16%) InVision
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.16%) Sketch
6 1 (0.16%) SPSS
6 1 (0.16%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 20 (3.14%) Shopify
2 10 (1.57%) Magento
2 10 (1.57%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (1.42%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.31%) Odoo
4 2 (0.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.16%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 203 (31.92%) AWS
2 83 (13.05%) Azure
3 77 (12.11%) GCP
4 55 (8.65%) GitHub
5 36 (5.66%) SaaS
6 30 (4.72%) Serverless
7 21 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (2.52%) Slack
9 14 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (2.20%) Zapier
10 13 (2.04%) Amazon S3
10 13 (2.04%) npm
11 12 (1.89%) Google Analytics
12 10 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.42%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 8 (1.26%) Stripe
15 7 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (1.10%) Figma
15 7 (1.10%) Power Platform
16 6 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.52%) DNS
2 15 (2.36%) Internet
2 15 (2.36%) TCP/IP
3 14 (2.20%) HTTPS
4 12 (1.89%) IPsec
5 5 (0.79%) VoIP
6 4 (0.63%) HTTP
6 4 (0.63%) MPLS
6 4 (0.63%) Network Security
7 3 (0.47%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.31%) FTP
8 2 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.31%) LoRaWAN
8 2 (0.31%) SSH
8 2 (0.31%) SSL
8 2 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.16%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.16%) RTP
9 1 (0.16%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (51.89%) MySQL
2 80 (12.58%) SQL Server
3 38 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 22 (3.46%) MongoDB
6 20 (3.14%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (1.89%) Couchbase
7 12 (1.89%) SQLite
8 10 (1.57%) Redis
9 8 (1.26%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.94%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.79%) Power BI
12 4 (0.63%) Big Data
12 4 (0.63%) TimescaleDB
13 3 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.31%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.31%) OLTP
14 2 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 195 (30.66%) Git
2 18 (2.83%) JIRA
3 16 (2.52%) Selenium
4 13 (2.04%) webpack
5 12 (1.89%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.89%) PHPUnit
6 10 (1.57%) Grunt
7 9 (1.42%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.26%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.10%) Postman
10 5 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.79%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.63%) GitLab
11 4 (0.63%) Subversion
12 3 (0.47%) git-flow
12 3 (0.47%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.47%) Mocha
12 3 (0.47%) Vite
13 2 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.16%) Android Studio
General
1 169 (26.57%) Social Skills
2 108 (16.98%) Finance
3 88 (13.84%) Games
4 33 (5.19%) Marketing
5 29 (4.56%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.25%) Retail
7 19 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (2.04%) Law
9 13 (2.04%) Legal
10 12 (1.89%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.57%) Back Office
12 8 (1.26%) Public Sector
13 7 (1.10%) Turkish Language
14 4 (0.63%) Automotive
14 4 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.63%) Electronics
14 4 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 401 (63.05%) Developer
2 200 (31.45%) PHP Developer
3 175 (27.52%) Senior
4 111 (17.45%) Senior Developer
5 68 (10.69%) Software Engineer
6 58 (9.12%) Full-Stack Developer
7 56 (8.81%) Web Developer
8 54 (8.49%) Senior PHP Developer
9 47 (7.39%) Lead
10 41 (6.45%) PHP Software Engineer
11 36 (5.66%) Graduate
11 36 (5.66%) Graduate Developer
12 34 (5.35%) IT Graduate
13 31 (4.87%) Junior
14 30 (4.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 30 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
15 26 (4.09%) Junior Developer
16 21 (3.30%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
17 19 (2.99%) SQL Developer
18 18 (2.83%) Junior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (47.80%) CSS
2 280 (44.03%) HTML
3 267 (41.98%) Laravel
4 134 (21.07%) React
5 108 (16.98%) Vue
6 90 (14.15%) LAMP
7 79 (12.42%) .NET
8 71 (11.16%) jQuery
9 68 (10.69%) Symfony
10 67 (10.53%) AngularJS
11 57 (8.96%) Node.js
12 48 (7.55%) RESTful
13 43 (6.76%) ASP.NET
14 41 (6.45%) HTML5
15 34 (5.35%) CSS3
16 33 (5.19%) Web Services
17 28 (4.40%) Sass
18 24 (3.77%) CakePHP
19 21 (3.30%) Tailwind CSS
20 19 (2.99%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.18%) Mobile App
2 27 (4.25%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (2.67%) Onboarding
4 15 (2.36%) IoT
5 13 (2.04%) Legacy Code
6 12 (1.89%) Product Ownership
6 12 (1.89%) Virtual Team
7 11 (1.73%) Cloud Native
8 10 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.10%) Learning Management System
10 7 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.79%) Blog
12 5 (0.79%) Educational Technology
13 4 (0.63%) CCTV
13 4 (0.63%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.63%) NHS
13 4 (0.63%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 49 (7.70%) Linux
2 26 (4.09%) Windows
3 15 (2.36%) Android
3 15 (2.36%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.10%) Unix
5 5 (0.79%) CentOS
6 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.47%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.31%) AIX
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Debian
8 1 (0.16%) Rocky
8 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (28.46%) E-Commerce
2 174 (27.36%) Agile
3 160 (25.16%) Web Development
4 156 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
5 147 (23.11%) Software Engineering
6 129 (20.28%) MVC
6 129 (20.28%) OOP
7 110 (17.30%) Full-Stack Development
8 92 (14.47%) Computer Science
9 86 (13.52%) OO
10 82 (12.89%) User Experience
11 72 (11.32%) Front End Development
12 70 (11.01%) Mentoring
12 70 (11.01%) TDD
13 68 (10.69%) DevOps
14 67 (10.53%) CI/CD
15 60 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
16 49 (7.70%) Microservices
16 49 (7.70%) Test Automation
17 42 (6.60%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 347 (54.56%) JavaScript
2 110 (17.30%) SQL
3 82 (12.89%) Python
4 80 (12.58%) Java
5 68 (10.69%) TypeScript
6 67 (10.53%) C#
7 50 (7.86%) C++
8 37 (5.82%) Go
9 17 (2.67%) C
10 10 (1.57%) Perl
11 8 (1.26%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.79%) Objective-C
12 5 (0.79%) Scala
13 4 (0.63%) Bash
13 4 (0.63%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.63%) VB
14 3 (0.47%) R
15 2 (0.31%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.31%) AWK
15 2 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (15.57%) Degree
2 68 (10.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (0.79%) DBS Check
3 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (0.79%) Security Cleared
4 4 (0.63%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (0.47%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.31%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.16%) HND
7 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.16%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.08%) QA
2 34 (5.35%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.67%) WCAG
4 12 (1.89%) GDPR
5 8 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.63%) GMP
7 3 (0.47%) SLA
8 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 73 (11.48%) Docker
2 3 (0.47%) Samba
3 2 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.31%) KVM
3 2 (0.31%) Postfix
3 2 (0.31%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 34 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.09%) Terraform
3 15 (2.36%) Ansible
4 4 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
4 4 (0.63%) Grafana
5 3 (0.47%) Puppet
6 2 (0.31%) Nagios
6 2 (0.31%) Nessus
6 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.16%) cPanel
7 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 42 (6.60%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.62%) Google
3 22 (3.46%) Adobe
3 22 (3.46%) Twitter
4 18 (2.83%) WooCommerce
5 9 (1.42%) New Relic
6 8 (1.26%) Cisco
6 8 (1.26%) SAP
7 6 (0.94%) Salesforce
8 5 (0.79%) Ahrefs
8 5 (0.79%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.79%) Screaming Frog
8 5 (0.79%) Xamarin
9 4 (0.63%) Apple
9 4 (0.63%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.63%) Meraki
9 4 (0.63%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.47%) Oracle
10 3 (0.47%) Sage
11 2 (0.31%) IBM