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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 282 166
Rank change year-on-year -4 -116 -12
Permanent jobs citing PHP 724 514 1,339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.04% 1.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.92% 3.64% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 636 405 1,102
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,250 £63,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £75,000
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 18,470 14,138 25,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.59% 28.50% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13,121 9,294 17,967
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,125
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 £101,250
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 7 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 7 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 0 661 £50,000 - 152
UK excluding London +15 579 £47,500 +5.56% 103
Work from Home +2 309 £37,500 -15.73% 65
North of England +17 180 £50,000 +5.26% 21
South East +25 165 £52,500 +16.67% 31
Yorkshire +44 114 £50,000 +33.33% 11
Midlands +13 112 £45,000 +12.50% 15
London -39 94 £92,500 +54.17% 67
West Midlands +2 67 £45,000 +5.88% 5
South West -54 61 £44,892 -21.93% 9
North West -16 57 £45,000 -14.29% 8
East Midlands -12 45 £37,500 -6.25% 10
East of England -28 44 £25,000 -28.57% 19
Wales -52 11 £35,000 -36.36% 2
North East -51 9 £31,000 +24.00% 3
Scotland +13 5 £32,500 -48.00% 7
Northern Ireland -73 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 (8.98%) WordPress
2 25 (3.45%) CMS
3 16 (2.21%) ColdFusion
4 13 (1.80%) Apache
5 9 (1.24%) Confluence
5 9 (1.24%) Drupal
6 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.83%) nginx
8 5 (0.69%) IIS
9 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.28%) Moodle
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.55%) 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 (1.10%) Shopify
2 4 (0.55%) Line 50
2 4 (0.55%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.41%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 189 (26.10%) AWS
2 154 (21.27%) Azure
3 56 (7.73%) SaaS
4 33 (4.56%) Serverless
5 26 (3.59%) GCP
5 26 (3.59%) GitHub
6 22 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (3.04%) Figma
7 21 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (2.07%) AWS Control Tower
11 14 (1.93%) Amazon EventBridge
11 14 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (1.66%) Power Platform
14 11 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.38%) Amazon S3
16 6 (0.83%) Amazon Kinesis
16 6 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.73%) Internet
2 19 (2.62%) Network Security
3 18 (2.49%) DNS
4 10 (1.38%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.38%) VoIP
5 9 (1.24%) VPN
6 6 (0.83%) BGP
6 6 (0.83%) Intranet
6 6 (0.83%) IPsec
7 4 (0.55%) Firewall
7 4 (0.55%) HTTP
7 4 (0.55%) LAN
7 4 (0.55%) WAN
8 3 (0.41%) DHCP
8 3 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.28%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.28%) Broadband
9 2 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (22.79%) MySQL
2 103 (14.23%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 24 (3.31%) MariaDB
6 16 (2.21%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.24%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.10%) Redis
9 6 (0.83%) Apache Hive
9 6 (0.83%) Big Data
9 6 (0.83%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.83%) HBase
10 4 (0.55%) FileMaker
10 4 (0.55%) Metadata
10 4 (0.55%) Power BI
11 3 (0.41%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.28%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 93 (12.85%) Git
2 26 (3.59%) JIRA
3 13 (1.80%) PHPUnit
4 11 (1.52%) GitLab
5 8 (1.10%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.97%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.83%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.55%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.55%) Postman
8 4 (0.55%) Selenium
9 3 (0.41%) 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
1 145 (20.03%) Social Skills
2 120 (16.57%) Finance
3 27 (3.73%) Public Sector
4 26 (3.59%) Marketing
5 25 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (0.97%) Law
8 7 (0.97%) Retail
9 6 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (0.83%) Military
10 5 (0.69%) Advertising
10 5 (0.69%) Games
10 5 (0.69%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.69%) Legal
10 5 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (0.69%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.55%) Publishing
12 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 493 (68.09%) Developer
2 227 (31.35%) PHP Developer
3 177 (24.45%) Senior
4 133 (18.37%) Senior Developer
5 121 (16.71%) Software Developer
6 118 (16.30%) Graduate
7 81 (11.19%) Graduate Developer
8 80 (11.05%) Graduate Software Developer
9 78 (10.77%) Software Engineer
10 64 (8.84%) C# Developer
10 64 (8.84%) C# Software Developer
10 64 (8.84%) Graduate C# Developer
10 64 (8.84%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 62 (8.56%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 62 (8.56%) SQL Developer
12 61 (8.43%) Web Developer
13 55 (7.60%) Full-Stack Developer
14 52 (7.18%) Graduate PHP Developer
15 42 (5.80%) PHP Laravel Developer
16 40 (5.52%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (29.70%) CSS
2 198 (27.35%) Laravel
3 186 (25.69%) HTML
4 85 (11.74%) jQuery
5 80 (11.05%) React
6 71 (9.81%) Vue
7 65 (8.98%) .NET
8 47 (6.49%) Node.js
9 30 (4.14%) Symfony
10 29 (4.01%) LAMP
10 29 (4.01%) RESTful
11 27 (3.73%) HTML5
12 23 (3.18%) REST
13 22 (3.04%) CSS3
14 18 (2.49%) JSON
15 14 (1.93%) AngularJS
15 14 (1.93%) AWS CDK
15 14 (1.93%) Sass
15 14 (1.93%) Tailwind CSS
16 12 (1.66%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.14%) Virtual Team
2 29 (4.01%) Greenfield Project
2 29 (4.01%) Onboarding
3 23 (3.18%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (1.93%) Enterprise Cloud
6 10 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (1.38%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.10%) Educational Technology
7 8 (1.10%) Social Media
8 7 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (0.83%) Product Ownership
10 5 (0.69%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.69%) Robotics
11 4 (0.55%) IoT
11 4 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.41%) Blog
12 3 (0.41%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 62 (8.56%) Linux
2 28 (3.87%) Windows
3 13 (1.80%) Ubuntu
4 12 (1.66%) Debian
5 11 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.24%) CentOS
6 9 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.55%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.55%) Unix
9 3 (0.41%) Android
9 3 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (24.86%) Agile
2 145 (20.03%) Computer Science
3 125 (17.27%) Software Engineering
4 107 (14.78%) Web Development
5 99 (13.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 99 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
6 89 (12.29%) CI/CD
7 85 (11.74%) OOP
8 68 (9.39%) AI
9 63 (8.70%) DevOps
10 58 (8.01%) MVC
11 56 (7.73%) Clean Code
11 56 (7.73%) Mentoring
12 52 (7.18%) OO
13 51 (7.04%) E-Commerce
14 42 (5.80%) Microservices
15 40 (5.52%) SEO
16 37 (5.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (5.11%) Infrastructure as Code
17 32 (4.42%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 220 (30.39%) JavaScript
2 202 (27.90%) SQL
3 146 (20.17%) C#
4 110 (15.19%) Python
5 71 (9.81%) Java
6 47 (6.49%) TypeScript
7 36 (4.97%) Bash
8 30 (4.14%) C++
9 24 (3.31%) Ruby
10 21 (2.90%) Go
11 20 (2.76%) Perl
12 16 (2.21%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.97%) C
14 3 (0.41%) CFML
14 3 (0.41%) Delphi
14 3 (0.41%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.41%) Pascal
14 3 (0.41%) Rust
14 3 (0.41%) Scala
14 3 (0.41%) Swift
Qualifications
1 108 (14.92%) Degree
2 90 (12.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (4.56%) Security Cleared
4 15 (2.07%) AWS Certification
4 15 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (0.97%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.83%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.41%) 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 (7.18%) Accessibility
2 20 (2.76%) QA
3 8 (1.10%) PCI DSS
3 8 (1.10%) WCAG
4 7 (0.97%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.55%) ISO 14001
5 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.41%) GDPR
7 2 (0.28%) SLA
8 1 (0.14%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (7.73%) Docker
2 5 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (5.94%) Terraform
2 41 (5.66%) Kubernetes
3 19 (2.62%) Ansible
4 7 (0.97%) Grafana
5 6 (0.83%) Hadoop YARN
6 5 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (0.69%) Nagios
6 5 (0.69%) Podman
7 4 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.55%) Puppet
8 3 (0.41%) Argo
8 3 (0.41%) Istio
8 3 (0.41%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.41%) Plesk
9 1 (0.14%) Consul
9 1 (0.14%) Kibana
9 1 (0.14%) Packer
9 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (5.66%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.90%) Google
3 10 (1.38%) Adobe
4 8 (1.10%) Sage
5 7 (0.97%) Oracle
5 7 (0.97%) SAP
6 6 (0.83%) Apple
6 6 (0.83%) HP
6 6 (0.83%) IBM
6 6 (0.83%) OpenAI
6 6 (0.83%) WooCommerce
7 5 (0.69%) Splunk
8 4 (0.55%) NEC
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