PHP Job Trends

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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 165 201
Rank change year-on-year -174 +36 -43
Permanent jobs citing PHP 379 1,154 950
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.77% 1.62% 1.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.05% 5.17% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 276 722 846
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,125 £73,975 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% -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 12,433 22,339 23,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.34% 31.29% 40.90%
Number of salaries quoted 8,073 13,339 18,980
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -0.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -168 342 £45,000 -10.00% 209
UK excluding London -170 270 £40,000 -15.79% 193
Work from Home -42 217 £40,000 -15.79% 114
London +9 75 £57,500 -4.17% 41
North of England -113 71 £42,000 -6.67% 71
South East -104 68 £51,250 -2.38% 46
Midlands -34 64 £40,000 -5.88% 37
Yorkshire +6 36 £38,750 -13.89% 24
West Midlands -28 36 £39,000 -8.24% 24
East of England -70 32 £36,250 -23.68% 19
East Midlands -12 30 £40,000 -5.88% 13
North West -112 30 £55,000 +22.22% 42
South West -46 28 £55,000 +15.79% 17
North East 0 5 £25,000 -35.48% 6
Wales -9 4 £55,000 +69.23% 3
Scotland -24 2 £71,250 +29.55% 2
Northern Ireland 0 1 £60,000 +106.90% 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 30 (7.92%) WordPress
2 23 (6.07%) Apache
3 19 (5.01%) IIS
4 13 (3.43%) CMS
5 8 (2.11%) Apache Solr
6 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.58%) nginx
8 5 (1.32%) Anypoint
9 4 (1.06%) Drupal
10 3 (0.79%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.79%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.53%) Confluence
12 1 (0.26%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 9 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.85%) Adobe Illustrator
2 7 (1.85%) Adobe XD
2 7 (1.85%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.79%) Elementor
4 2 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.26%) InDesign
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.26%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (2.11%) Magento
2 3 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.79%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (20.05%) Azure
2 74 (19.53%) AWS
3 39 (10.29%) SaaS
4 15 (3.96%) GitHub
5 13 (3.43%) GCP
6 11 (2.90%) Power Automate
7 9 (2.37%) Cloudflare
8 8 (2.11%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.85%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.85%) npm
10 6 (1.58%) Figma
10 6 (1.58%) Serverless
11 5 (1.32%) Datadog
11 5 (1.32%) Google Analytics
11 5 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.32%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.32%) Vercel
12 4 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.06%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.64%) Internet
2 7 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (1.06%) Intranet
4 3 (0.79%) DNS
5 1 (0.26%) Broadband
5 1 (0.26%) DHCP
5 1 (0.26%) FTP
5 1 (0.26%) HTTP
5 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.26%) IPsec
5 1 (0.26%) IPv6
5 1 (0.26%) RFID
5 1 (0.26%) SSL
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (36.15%) MySQL
2 65 (17.15%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.96%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (2.37%) MariaDB
6 9 (2.37%) Redis
7 4 (1.06%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.79%) GIS
8 3 (0.79%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.53%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.53%) Power BI
10 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.26%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.26%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 63 (16.62%) Git
2 13 (3.43%) JIRA
3 10 (2.64%) Postman
4 8 (2.11%) PHPUnit
5 5 (1.32%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.32%) Selenium
5 5 (1.32%) SoapUI
6 4 (1.06%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.79%) git-flow
8 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.53%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.53%) GitLab
8 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.53%) Vite
8 2 (0.53%) webpack
9 1 (0.26%) Mocha
9 1 (0.26%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.26%) MSI
9 1 (0.26%) PhpStorm
9 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 123 (32.45%) Social Skills
2 57 (15.04%) Finance
3 23 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (5.54%) Law
5 16 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.43%) Legal
7 10 (2.64%) Marketing
8 9 (2.37%) Games
9 7 (1.85%) Automotive
10 6 (1.58%) Retail
11 4 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.79%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.79%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.53%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.26%) Advertising
14 1 (0.26%) Local Government
14 1 (0.26%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 201 (53.03%) Developer
2 81 (21.37%) PHP Developer
3 43 (11.35%) Graduate
4 42 (11.08%) Graduate Developer
5 39 (10.29%) Senior
6 35 (9.23%) IT Graduate
7 34 (8.97%) Senior Developer
8 28 (7.39%) Lead
9 22 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
10 21 (5.54%) Software Developer
11 17 (4.49%) Web Developer
12 16 (4.22%) Technical Support
13 15 (3.96%) Applications Support
13 15 (3.96%) Support Specialist
14 14 (3.69%) C# Developer
14 14 (3.69%) SQL Developer
14 14 (3.69%) Support Engineer
15 13 (3.43%) Graduate C# Developer
15 13 (3.43%) Graduate PHP Developer
15 13 (3.43%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (37.47%) HTML
2 127 (33.51%) CSS
3 90 (23.75%) Laravel
4 61 (16.09%) .NET
5 59 (15.57%) jQuery
6 46 (12.14%) React
7 45 (11.87%) Symfony
8 38 (10.03%) ASP.NET
9 36 (9.50%) Vue
10 31 (8.18%) REST
11 27 (7.12%) RESTful
12 23 (6.07%) LAMP
13 22 (5.80%) Node.js
14 17 (4.49%) HTML5
15 14 (3.69%) CSS3
15 14 (3.69%) Tailwind CSS
16 12 (3.17%) CakePHP
17 10 (2.64%) CodeIgniter
17 10 (2.64%) SOAP
18 9 (2.37%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.54%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (5.28%) Driving Licence
3 16 (4.22%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.69%) Virtual Team
5 13 (3.43%) CCTV
6 12 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (2.11%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.11%) e-Learning
7 8 (2.11%) IoT
7 8 (2.11%) Legacy Code
7 8 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.58%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.79%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.79%) NHS
10 3 (0.79%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 52 (13.72%) Linux
2 27 (7.12%) Windows
3 15 (3.96%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.37%) CentOS
4 9 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.79%) Android
5 3 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (29.02%) Problem-Solving
2 109 (28.76%) Agile
3 104 (27.44%) Computer Science
4 75 (19.79%) OO
5 71 (18.73%) AI
6 65 (17.15%) Machine Learning
7 61 (16.09%) MVC
7 61 (16.09%) OOP
8 53 (13.98%) Data Privacy
9 50 (13.19%) Full-Stack Development
10 44 (11.61%) DevOps
11 43 (11.35%) CI/CD
11 43 (11.35%) Web Development
12 39 (10.29%) Test Automation
13 35 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (9.23%) Software Engineering
14 33 (8.71%) User Experience
15 29 (7.65%) Mentoring
15 29 (7.65%) Roadmaps
16 27 (7.12%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 201 (53.03%) JavaScript
2 144 (37.99%) SQL
3 116 (30.61%) C#
4 109 (28.76%) Python
5 103 (27.18%) Java
6 86 (22.69%) C++
7 84 (22.16%) TypeScript
8 51 (13.46%) C
8 51 (13.46%) Ruby
9 50 (13.19%) Rust
10 49 (12.93%) Dart
10 49 (12.93%) MATLAB
10 49 (12.93%) R
11 11 (2.90%) Go
12 7 (1.85%) Perl
13 5 (1.32%) DataWeave
13 5 (1.32%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.79%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 117 (30.87%) Degree
2 101 (26.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.43%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.11%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.53%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.26%) MCSE
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.49%) QA
2 12 (3.17%) GDPR
3 7 (1.85%) SLA
4 6 (1.58%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (8.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.26%) Firmware
2 1 (0.26%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 19 (5.01%) Ansible
2 12 (3.17%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.11%) Terraform
4 5 (1.32%) CloudHub
5 3 (0.79%) Grafana
6 2 (0.53%) Argo
6 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.26%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.26%) WMI
Vendors
1 42 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.01%) Oracle
3 14 (3.69%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.17%) Adobe
4 12 (3.17%) Google
5 10 (2.64%) HubSpot
6 9 (2.37%) Cisco
6 9 (2.37%) Meraki
7 8 (2.11%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.58%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.32%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.32%) WooCommerce
10 3 (0.79%) SAP
10 3 (0.79%) Twitter
11 2 (0.53%) Netlify
11 2 (0.53%) PayPal
12 1 (0.26%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.26%) Freshdesk
12 1 (0.26%) Progress