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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 256 144
Rank change year-on-year -14 -112 +2
Permanent jobs citing PHP 682 587 2,018
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.30% 1.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.03% 4.19% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 605 484 1,749
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £50,157 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% +0.31% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £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 16,935 13,997 34,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.91% 31.01% 31.52%
Number of salaries quoted 11,995 9,251 26,001
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 22 June 2026.

Salary histogram for PHP in the UK

PHP
Top 16 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 22 June 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 +3 628 £50,000 -1.96% 114
UK excluding London -19 533 £47,500 - 119
Work from Home -21 271 £40,000 -20.00% 43
North of England +13 170 £47,500 -4.52% 36
South East -16 136 £50,000 +11.11% 27
Midlands +9 115 £45,000 +12.50% 13
Yorkshire +27 104 £50,000 +33.33% 16
London -26 100 £75,000 +25.00% 15
West Midlands +13 73 £45,000 -18.92% 6
South West -66 60 £50,000 -13.04% 20
North West -8 57 £45,000 -14.29% 15
East Midlands -12 42 £37,500 -6.25% 7
East of England -22 41 £25,000 -28.57% 14
Wales -40 10 £35,000 -33.33% 5
North East -56 9 £31,000 +14.81% 5
Northern Ireland -35 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 61 (8.94%) WordPress
2 33 (4.84%) CMS
3 16 (2.35%) ColdFusion
4 14 (2.05%) Apache
5 11 (1.61%) nginx
6 9 (1.32%) Drupal
7 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.88%) Confluence
9 5 (0.73%) IIS
10 4 (0.59%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.29%) Moodle
11 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.15%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.15%) Liferay
12 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.03%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (2.05%) Shopify
2 11 (1.61%) Magento
3 4 (0.59%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.59%) Line 50
4 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 159 (23.31%) AWS
2 135 (19.79%) Azure
3 62 (9.09%) SaaS
4 25 (3.67%) GitHub
5 21 (3.08%) Figma
5 21 (3.08%) Serverless
6 15 (2.20%) GCP
7 13 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (1.91%) Power Platform
8 12 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (1.32%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (0.88%) Stripe
13 5 (0.73%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (0.73%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.23%) Internet
2 15 (2.20%) DNS
3 11 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.47%) Network Security
4 10 (1.47%) VoIP
5 7 (1.03%) HTTP
6 6 (0.88%) VPN
7 5 (0.73%) Intranet
8 4 (0.59%) DHCP
8 4 (0.59%) LAN
8 4 (0.59%) WAN
8 4 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.29%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.29%) BGP
9 2 (0.29%) IPsec
9 2 (0.29%) SSL
10 1 (0.15%) Broadband
10 1 (0.15%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (20.67%) MySQL
2 88 (12.90%) SQL Server
3 29 (4.25%) Relational Database
4 26 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (2.79%) MariaDB
6 15 (2.20%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.05%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.88%) Redis
10 4 (0.59%) FileMaker
10 4 (0.59%) Metadata
10 4 (0.59%) Power BI
11 3 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.29%) Big Data
12 2 (0.29%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.29%) HBase
12 2 (0.29%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.29%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 88 (12.90%) Git
2 22 (3.23%) JIRA
3 9 (1.32%) PHPUnit
4 7 (1.03%) Bitbucket
4 7 (1.03%) Claude Code
4 7 (1.03%) GitLab
5 6 (0.88%) Postman
6 5 (0.73%) Vite
7 4 (0.59%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.59%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.29%) Bower
8 2 (0.29%) Selenium
8 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.29%) webpack
9 1 (0.15%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.15%) Gatling
9 1 (0.15%) gulp
9 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 133 (19.50%) Social Skills
2 90 (13.20%) Finance
3 24 (3.52%) Marketing
4 21 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.20%) Public Sector
6 11 (1.61%) Tech for Good
7 8 (1.17%) Retail
8 7 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (0.88%) Law
9 6 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.73%) Advertising
10 5 (0.73%) Games
10 5 (0.73%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.73%) Legal
10 5 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (0.73%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.44%) Back Office
11 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 464 (68.04%) Developer
2 230 (33.72%) PHP Developer
3 152 (22.29%) Senior
4 124 (18.18%) Software Developer
5 115 (16.86%) Senior Developer
6 98 (14.37%) Graduate
7 82 (12.02%) Graduate Developer
8 80 (11.73%) Graduate Software Developer
9 69 (10.12%) Software Engineer
10 64 (9.38%) C# Developer
10 64 (9.38%) C# Software Developer
10 64 (9.38%) Graduate C# Developer
10 64 (9.38%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 62 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
11 62 (9.09%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 62 (9.09%) SQL Developer
12 53 (7.77%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 53 (7.77%) Web Developer
13 46 (6.74%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 46 (6.74%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (27.13%) CSS
2 183 (26.83%) Laravel
3 149 (21.85%) HTML
4 75 (11.00%) jQuery
5 73 (10.70%) Vue
6 69 (10.12%) React
7 56 (8.21%) .NET
8 47 (6.89%) Node.js
9 31 (4.55%) RESTful
10 28 (4.11%) REST
11 21 (3.08%) HTML5
11 21 (3.08%) JSON
11 21 (3.08%) Tailwind CSS
12 19 (2.79%) CSS3
13 18 (2.64%) AngularJS
13 18 (2.64%) LAMP
13 18 (2.64%) Symfony
14 12 (1.76%) Sass
15 11 (1.61%) Ajax
16 10 (1.47%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.11%) Virtual Team
2 27 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (2.93%) Cloud Native
4 17 (2.49%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.47%) Educational Technology
7 9 (1.32%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.17%) CCTV
9 7 (1.03%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.03%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.03%) Social Media
10 5 (0.73%) Driving Licence
10 5 (0.73%) IoT
10 5 (0.73%) Robotics
11 4 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.44%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 61 (8.94%) Linux
2 23 (3.37%) Windows
3 15 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.91%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.76%) CentOS
6 11 (1.61%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.32%) Debian
8 5 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.59%) Unix
9 4 (0.59%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.15%) Android
10 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (24.05%) Agile
2 133 (19.50%) Computer Science
3 105 (15.40%) Software Engineering
4 98 (14.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 94 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
6 90 (13.20%) Web Development
7 73 (10.70%) CI/CD
8 58 (8.50%) Mentoring
8 58 (8.50%) OOP
9 56 (8.21%) DevOps
10 52 (7.62%) Clean Code
11 51 (7.48%) MVC
12 50 (7.33%) E-Commerce
13 47 (6.89%) AI
14 44 (6.45%) Microservices
15 40 (5.87%) User Experience
16 39 (5.72%) OO
17 36 (5.28%) Continuous Improvement
18 33 (4.84%) SEO
19 30 (4.40%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 198 (29.03%) JavaScript
2 166 (24.34%) SQL
3 118 (17.30%) C#
4 95 (13.93%) Python
5 57 (8.36%) Java
6 54 (7.92%) TypeScript
7 30 (4.40%) C++
8 25 (3.67%) Bash
9 20 (2.93%) Go
10 14 (2.05%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.91%) Perl
12 10 (1.47%) Ruby
13 5 (0.73%) VBA
14 4 (0.59%) Delphi
14 4 (0.59%) Pascal
15 3 (0.44%) C
15 3 (0.44%) CFML
15 3 (0.44%) Rust
15 3 (0.44%) Scala
16 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 103 (15.10%) Degree
2 88 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (2.05%) Security Cleared
4 5 (0.73%) AWS Certification
4 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (0.73%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.29%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.29%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.15%) HNC
6 1 (0.15%) HND
6 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.87%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.64%) QA
3 7 (1.03%) ISO 9001
4 5 (0.73%) GDPR
4 5 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.73%) WCAG
5 4 (0.59%) ISO 14001
6 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.29%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (7.18%) Docker
2 5 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (3.81%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.52%) Terraform
3 15 (2.20%) Ansible
4 5 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (0.73%) Nagios
4 5 (0.73%) Podman
5 3 (0.44%) Plesk
6 2 (0.29%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.15%) Consul
7 1 (0.15%) Grafana
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.15%) Packer
7 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) Puppet
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (6.01%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.64%) Adobe
3 13 (1.91%) Google
4 7 (1.03%) Sage
4 7 (1.03%) WooCommerce
5 6 (0.88%) Apple
6 5 (0.73%) Splunk
7 4 (0.59%) HubSpot
7 4 (0.59%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.44%) Oracle
8 3 (0.44%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.44%) SAP
9 2 (0.29%) BT
9 2 (0.29%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.29%) HP
9 2 (0.29%) IBM
9 2 (0.29%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.29%) PayPal
9 2 (0.29%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.15%) Netlify