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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 326 168
Rank change year-on-year -5 -158 +34
Permanent jobs citing PHP 614 409 1,229
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.82% 1.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.31% 3.12% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 536 303 856
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,125 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,563
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% -

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 18,548 13,113 24,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.36% 26.43% 30.79%
Number of salaries quoted 13,189 8,454 15,373
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 12 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 12 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 -3 561 £50,000 +11.11% 175
UK excluding London -1 488 £47,500 +18.75% 128
Work from Home -19 265 £37,500 -6.25% 609
North of England +13 160 £50,000 +25.00% 33
South East +33 156 £52,500 +40.00% 39
Yorkshire +9 102 £50,000 +33.33% 15
London -46 82 £92,500 +54.17% 65
Midlands -23 72 £37,500 -6.25% 15
North West -10 51 £45,000 -13.04% 14
South West -66 45 £44,750 -22.17% 17
East of England -21 41 £40,000 +21.21% 12
West Midlands -31 38 £45,000 +12.50% 7
East Midlands -30 34 £36,250 -9.38% 8
Wales -65 8 £35,000 -36.36% 3
North East -61 7 £31,000 +24.00% 5
Scotland +12 5 £32,500 -54.39% 8
Northern Ireland -75 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 54 (8.79%) WordPress
2 22 (3.58%) CMS
3 14 (2.28%) ColdFusion
4 12 (1.95%) Apache
5 9 (1.47%) Drupal
6 8 (1.30%) Confluence
7 6 (0.98%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.81%) IIS
8 5 (0.81%) nginx
9 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.33%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.16%) Moodle
11 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.49%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.33%) Elementor
4 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Shopify
2 4 (0.65%) Line 50
2 4 (0.65%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.49%) Magento
3 3 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 172 (28.01%) AWS
2 140 (22.80%) Azure
3 45 (7.33%) SaaS
4 28 (4.56%) Serverless
5 26 (4.23%) GCP
6 24 (3.91%) GitHub
7 20 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
8 19 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.44%) AWS Control Tower
12 14 (2.28%) Amazon EventBridge
12 14 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.12%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.63%) Figma
15 7 (1.14%) Amazon S3
16 6 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (0.98%) Amazon Kinesis
16 6 (0.98%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.72%) Internet
2 18 (2.93%) Network Security
3 12 (1.95%) DNS
4 10 (1.63%) VoIP
5 7 (1.14%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.98%) BGP
6 6 (0.98%) IPsec
6 6 (0.98%) VPN
7 5 (0.81%) Intranet
8 4 (0.65%) Firewall
8 4 (0.65%) LAN
8 4 (0.65%) WAN
9 2 (0.33%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.33%) Broadband
9 2 (0.33%) SSL
10 1 (0.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (23.45%) MySQL
2 95 (15.47%) SQL Server
3 24 (3.91%) MariaDB
4 19 (3.09%) Relational Database
5 18 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (2.28%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.30%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.30%) Redis
8 6 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.98%) Apache Hive
8 6 (0.98%) Big Data
8 6 (0.98%) Hadoop
8 6 (0.98%) HBase
9 5 (0.81%) Power BI
10 4 (0.65%) FileMaker
10 4 (0.65%) Metadata
11 3 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.33%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.33%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 80 (13.03%) Git
2 19 (3.09%) JIRA
3 12 (1.95%) GitLab
4 9 (1.47%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.14%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.14%) PHPUnit
6 4 (0.65%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.65%) Selenium
7 3 (0.49%) Appium
7 3 (0.49%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.33%) Bower
8 2 (0.33%) Postman
8 2 (0.33%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.33%) Vite
9 1 (0.16%) ESLint
9 1 (0.16%) Gatling
9 1 (0.16%) gulp
9 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.16%) webpack
General
1 127 (20.68%) Social Skills
2 98 (15.96%) Finance
3 27 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (3.91%) Public Sector
5 21 (3.42%) Marketing
6 8 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (0.98%) Military
9 5 (0.81%) Advertising
9 5 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (0.81%) Games
9 5 (0.81%) Law
9 5 (0.81%) Legal
9 5 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.49%) Publishing
10 3 (0.49%) Retail
11 2 (0.33%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.33%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 424 (69.06%) Developer
2 173 (28.18%) PHP Developer
3 157 (25.57%) Senior
4 113 (18.40%) Senior Developer
5 102 (16.61%) Software Developer
6 100 (16.29%) Graduate
7 75 (12.21%) Software Engineer
8 61 (9.93%) Graduate Developer
8 61 (9.93%) Graduate Software Developer
9 58 (9.45%) Web Developer
10 51 (8.31%) Full-Stack Developer
11 45 (7.33%) C# Developer
11 45 (7.33%) C# Software Developer
11 45 (7.33%) Graduate C# Developer
11 45 (7.33%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 43 (7.00%) Graduate SQL Developer
12 43 (7.00%) SQL Developer
13 39 (6.35%) Graduate Software Engineer
14 37 (6.03%) PHP Laravel Developer
15 34 (5.54%) PHP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (29.97%) CSS
2 182 (29.64%) Laravel
3 164 (26.71%) HTML
4 78 (12.70%) jQuery
5 70 (11.40%) React
6 62 (10.10%) .NET
7 60 (9.77%) Vue
8 44 (7.17%) Node.js
9 43 (7.00%) Terraform
10 28 (4.56%) HTML5
11 27 (4.40%) Symfony
12 26 (4.23%) LAMP
13 24 (3.91%) RESTful
14 22 (3.58%) CSS3
14 22 (3.58%) REST
15 17 (2.77%) JSON
16 16 (2.61%) Sass
17 14 (2.28%) AWS CDK
18 12 (1.95%) Ajax
18 12 (1.95%) CodeIgniter
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.05%) Greenfield Project
2 29 (4.72%) Virtual Team
3 25 (4.07%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.26%) Cloud Native
5 17 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.28%) Enterprise Cloud
7 13 (2.12%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (0.98%) Educational Technology
10 6 (0.98%) Product Ownership
10 6 (0.98%) Social Media
11 4 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.49%) Blog
12 3 (0.49%) Clustering
12 3 (0.49%) Culture of Ownership
12 3 (0.49%) IoT
12 3 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 58 (9.45%) Linux
2 24 (3.91%) Windows
3 13 (2.12%) Ubuntu
4 12 (1.95%) Debian
5 9 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.81%) CentOS
6 5 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.65%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.65%) Unix
7 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.49%) Android
8 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (24.43%) Agile
2 128 (20.85%) Computer Science
3 119 (19.38%) Software Engineering
4 102 (16.61%) Web Development
5 87 (14.17%) Full-Stack Development
5 87 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (13.19%) CI/CD
7 76 (12.38%) OOP
8 65 (10.59%) AI
9 54 (8.79%) DevOps
10 53 (8.63%) Clean Code
10 53 (8.63%) MVC
11 52 (8.47%) OO
12 44 (7.17%) Mentoring
13 39 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (6.35%) E-Commerce
14 38 (6.19%) SEO
15 35 (5.70%) Infrastructure as Code
16 33 (5.37%) Test Automation
17 31 (5.05%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 200 (32.57%) JavaScript
2 176 (28.66%) SQL
3 127 (20.68%) C#
4 103 (16.78%) Python
5 64 (10.42%) Java
6 40 (6.51%) TypeScript
7 32 (5.21%) Bash
8 24 (3.91%) C++
9 23 (3.75%) Ruby
10 17 (2.77%) Go
10 17 (2.77%) Perl
11 13 (2.12%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.14%) C
13 3 (0.49%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.49%) Scala
13 3 (0.49%) Swift
13 3 (0.49%) VBA
14 2 (0.33%) CFML
15 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.16%) VB6
Qualifications
1 101 (16.45%) Degree
2 85 (13.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (5.70%) Security Cleared
4 15 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 15 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (1.47%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.33%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.16%) HNC
9 1 (0.16%) HND
9 1 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.28%) Accessibility
2 17 (2.77%) QA
3 8 (1.30%) WCAG
4 6 (0.98%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.65%) ISO 14001
5 4 (0.65%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.33%) GDPR
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.16%) NCSC
7 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (8.14%) Docker
2 5 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.09%) Ansible
3 7 (1.14%) Grafana
4 6 (0.98%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (0.65%) Nagios
5 4 (0.65%) Podman
5 4 (0.65%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.65%) Puppet
6 3 (0.49%) Argo
6 3 (0.49%) Istio
6 3 (0.49%) Kustomize
6 3 (0.49%) Plesk
7 2 (0.33%) Kibana
8 1 (0.16%) Consul
8 1 (0.16%) Packer
8 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 36 (5.86%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.58%) Google
3 9 (1.47%) Adobe
4 8 (1.30%) Sage
5 6 (0.98%) HP
5 6 (0.98%) IBM
5 6 (0.98%) Oracle
5 6 (0.98%) SAP
5 6 (0.98%) WooCommerce
6 5 (0.81%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.65%) Apple
7 4 (0.65%) NEC
7 4 (0.65%) Splunk
8 2 (0.33%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.16%) Netlify
9 1 (0.16%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.16%) SGI
9 1 (0.16%) TOWER Software