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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 285 166
Rank change year-on-year +4 -119 -4
Permanent jobs citing PHP 716 502 1,332
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.01% 1.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.85% 3.58% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 629 396 1,084
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -6.01%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.22% -3.00%

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 18,574 14,028 25,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.50% 28.18% 30.49%
Number of salaries quoted 13,152 9,204 17,821
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +6 655 £50,000 - 163
UK excluding London +13 573 £47,500 +5.56% 110
Work from Home -12 306 £37,500 -16.67% 74
North of England +17 181 £50,000 +5.26% 24
South East +18 163 £50,000 +11.11% 37
Yorkshire +38 115 £50,000 +33.33% 10
Midlands -6 107 £45,000 +12.50% 14
London -41 94 £92,500 +54.17% 72
West Midlands -5 64 £45,000 +5.88% 3
South West -59 60 £42,784 -25.59% 9
North West -20 57 £45,000 -14.29% 12
East of England -27 45 £25,000 -28.57% 20
East Midlands -11 43 £37,500 -6.25% 11
Wales -50 11 £35,000 -36.36% 2
North East -56 9 £31,000 +24.00% 3
Scotland +8 5 £32,500 -50.00% 7
Northern Ireland -71 1 - - 1

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 65 (9.08%) WordPress
2 24 (3.35%) CMS
3 16 (2.23%) ColdFusion
4 12 (1.68%) Apache
5 8 (1.12%) Confluence
5 8 (1.12%) Drupal
6 6 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.84%) nginx
7 5 (0.70%) IIS
8 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.28%) Moodle
9 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.56%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.28%) Elementor
3 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.12%) Shopify
2 4 (0.56%) Line 50
2 4 (0.56%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.42%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 188 (26.26%) AWS
2 154 (21.51%) Azure
3 56 (7.82%) SaaS
4 33 (4.61%) Serverless
5 26 (3.63%) GCP
5 26 (3.63%) GitHub
6 22 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (3.07%) Figma
7 21 (2.93%) Amazon ECS
8 18 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (2.09%) AWS Control Tower
11 14 (1.96%) Amazon EventBridge
11 14 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (1.68%) Power Platform
14 11 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (1.54%) Amazon S3
15 6 (0.84%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (0.84%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.77%) Internet
2 19 (2.65%) Network Security
3 17 (2.37%) DNS
4 10 (1.40%) VoIP
5 9 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.12%) VPN
7 6 (0.84%) BGP
7 6 (0.84%) IPsec
8 5 (0.70%) Intranet
9 4 (0.56%) Firewall
9 4 (0.56%) HTTP
9 4 (0.56%) LAN
9 4 (0.56%) WAN
10 2 (0.28%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.28%) Broadband
10 2 (0.28%) DHCP
10 2 (0.28%) SSL
10 2 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (23.04%) MySQL
2 102 (14.25%) SQL Server
3 25 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (3.35%) MariaDB
5 23 (3.21%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.23%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.26%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.12%) Redis
9 6 (0.84%) Apache Hive
9 6 (0.84%) Big Data
9 6 (0.84%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.84%) HBase
10 4 (0.56%) FileMaker
10 4 (0.56%) Metadata
10 4 (0.56%) Power BI
11 3 (0.42%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.28%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 89 (12.43%) Git
2 25 (3.49%) JIRA
3 13 (1.82%) PHPUnit
4 10 (1.40%) GitLab
5 8 (1.12%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.98%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.84%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.56%) Postman
8 4 (0.56%) Selenium
9 3 (0.42%) Appium
10 2 (0.28%) Bower
10 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.28%) Vite
10 2 (0.28%) webpack
11 1 (0.14%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.14%) JMeter
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.14%) Vagrant
General
1 144 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 120 (16.76%) Finance
3 26 (3.63%) Marketing
3 26 (3.63%) Public Sector
4 25 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (0.98%) Law
7 7 (0.98%) Retail
8 6 (0.84%) Military
9 5 (0.70%) Advertising
9 5 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (0.70%) Games
9 5 (0.70%) Health Technology
9 5 (0.70%) Legal
9 5 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (0.56%) Publishing
10 4 (0.56%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 486 (67.88%) Developer
2 222 (31.01%) PHP Developer
3 178 (24.86%) Senior
4 131 (18.30%) Senior Developer
5 120 (16.76%) Software Developer
6 117 (16.34%) Graduate
7 80 (11.17%) Graduate Developer
7 80 (11.17%) Graduate Software Developer
8 79 (11.03%) Software Engineer
9 64 (8.94%) C# Developer
9 64 (8.94%) C# Software Developer
9 64 (8.94%) Graduate C# Developer
9 64 (8.94%) Graduate C# Software Developer
10 62 (8.66%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 62 (8.66%) SQL Developer
11 60 (8.38%) Web Developer
12 54 (7.54%) Full-Stack Developer
13 52 (7.26%) Graduate PHP Developer
14 42 (5.87%) PHP Laravel Developer
15 37 (5.17%) Graduate Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (29.61%) CSS
2 197 (27.51%) Laravel
3 183 (25.56%) HTML
4 84 (11.73%) jQuery
5 80 (11.17%) React
6 70 (9.78%) Vue
7 66 (9.22%) .NET
8 47 (6.56%) Node.js
9 30 (4.19%) Symfony
10 29 (4.05%) LAMP
11 27 (3.77%) HTML5
11 27 (3.77%) RESTful
12 23 (3.21%) REST
13 22 (3.07%) CSS3
14 18 (2.51%) JSON
15 14 (1.96%) AngularJS
15 14 (1.96%) AWS CDK
15 14 (1.96%) Sass
15 14 (1.96%) Tailwind CSS
16 12 (1.68%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 31 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (4.19%) Virtual Team
3 28 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 24 (3.35%) Cloud Native
5 20 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.40%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.12%) Social Media
9 7 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (0.98%) Educational Technology
10 6 (0.84%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.70%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.70%) Robotics
12 4 (0.56%) IoT
12 4 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.42%) Blog
13 3 (0.42%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 60 (8.38%) Linux
2 25 (3.49%) Windows
3 12 (1.68%) Debian
3 12 (1.68%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.12%) CentOS
5 8 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.56%) Unix
6 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.42%) Android
7 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (24.44%) Agile
2 144 (20.11%) Computer Science
3 127 (17.74%) Software Engineering
4 106 (14.80%) Web Development
5 98 (13.69%) Full-Stack Development
6 97 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
7 86 (12.01%) CI/CD
8 84 (11.73%) OOP
9 67 (9.36%) AI
10 61 (8.52%) DevOps
11 57 (7.96%) MVC
12 56 (7.82%) Clean Code
13 55 (7.68%) Mentoring
14 51 (7.12%) E-Commerce
14 51 (7.12%) OO
15 41 (5.73%) Microservices
16 40 (5.59%) SEO
17 38 (5.31%) Continuous Improvement
18 37 (5.17%) Infrastructure as Code
19 32 (4.47%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 216 (30.17%) JavaScript
2 201 (28.07%) SQL
3 146 (20.39%) C#
4 110 (15.36%) Python
5 72 (10.06%) Java
6 47 (6.56%) TypeScript
7 35 (4.89%) Bash
8 30 (4.19%) C++
9 24 (3.35%) Ruby
10 21 (2.93%) Go
11 20 (2.79%) Perl
12 14 (1.96%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.98%) C
14 3 (0.42%) CFML
14 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.42%) Rust
14 3 (0.42%) Scala
14 3 (0.42%) Swift
14 3 (0.42%) VBA
15 2 (0.28%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 107 (14.94%) Degree
2 90 (12.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (4.61%) Security Cleared
4 15 (2.09%) AWS Certification
4 15 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (1.12%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.84%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.42%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.14%) HNC
9 1 (0.14%) HND
9 1 (0.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (7.26%) Accessibility
2 20 (2.79%) QA
3 8 (1.12%) PCI DSS
3 8 (1.12%) WCAG
4 7 (0.98%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.56%) ISO 14001
5 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.42%) GDPR
7 2 (0.28%) SLA
8 1 (0.14%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (7.54%) Docker
2 5 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 42 (5.87%) Kubernetes
1 42 (5.87%) Terraform
2 18 (2.51%) Ansible
3 8 (1.12%) Grafana
4 6 (0.84%) Hadoop YARN
5 5 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (0.56%) Nagios
6 4 (0.56%) Podman
6 4 (0.56%) Puppet
7 3 (0.42%) Argo
7 3 (0.42%) Istio
7 3 (0.42%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.42%) Plesk
8 2 (0.28%) Kibana
9 1 (0.14%) Consul
9 1 (0.14%) Packer
9 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 40 (5.59%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.93%) Google
3 10 (1.40%) Adobe
4 8 (1.12%) Sage
5 7 (0.98%) Oracle
6 6 (0.84%) Apple
6 6 (0.84%) HP
6 6 (0.84%) IBM
6 6 (0.84%) SAP
6 6 (0.84%) WooCommerce
7 5 (0.70%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.56%) NEC
8 4 (0.56%) Splunk
9 2 (0.28%) BT
9 2 (0.28%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.28%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.14%) Netlify
10 1 (0.14%) New Relic
10 1 (0.14%) PayPal
10 1 (0.14%) TOWER Software