PHP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 160 98
Rank change year-on-year +4 -62 -36
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,870 2,376 5,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.90% 2.29% 3.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.63% 5.31% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,687 1,626 3,147
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,125 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% +14.44%
75th Percentile £63,109 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +17.65%

All Programming Languages
UK

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,199 44,762 84,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.70% 43.22% 53.81%
Number of salaries quoted 24,953 28,538 44,073
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,350
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.09% +6.70%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the UK

PHP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP.

Salary trend for PHP in the UK

PHP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 +14 1,710 £50,000 -9.09% 401
UK excluding London -12 1,509 £48,000 -4.00% 311
Work from Home +23 868 £51,500 -6.36% 247
North of England +38 485 £47,500 -5.00% 109
London +1 286 £63,218 +5.36% 104
South West +9 267 £45,000 -5.26% 53
South East -93 251 £55,000 +10.00% 50
North West +50 238 £50,000 -9.09% 65
Midlands +21 236 £45,000 -10.00% 54
Yorkshire +70 220 £47,500 +5.56% 36
East of England +53 169 £43,500 -33.08% 32
East Midlands +8 118 £45,000 -5.26% 25
West Midlands +14 117 £45,000 -14.29% 29
Scotland -110 49 £47,500 -13.64% 13
Wales +13 44 £50,000 +19.05% 6
North East -44 27 £45,000 -21.74% 9
Northern Ireland -10 9 £45,000 -21.74% 2

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 269 (14.39%) WordPress
2 114 (6.10%) CMS
3 80 (4.28%) Drupal
4 57 (3.05%) Apache
5 53 (2.83%) nginx
6 19 (1.02%) Confluence
7 17 (0.91%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.53%) Headless CMS
8 10 (0.53%) IIS
9 8 (0.43%) Moodle
10 6 (0.32%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
12 4 (0.21%) ColdFusion
12 4 (0.21%) SAS
13 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.11%) Joomla!
13 2 (0.11%) Liferay
13 2 (0.11%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.64%) Adobe XD
3 12 (0.64%) Photoshop
4 11 (0.59%) Simulink
5 8 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.053%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 74 (3.96%) Magento
2 46 (2.46%) Shopify
3 21 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.21%) CiviCRM
4 4 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 582 (31.12%) AWS
2 231 (12.35%) SaaS
3 119 (6.36%) Azure
4 90 (4.81%) GitHub
5 65 (3.48%) GCP
6 38 (2.03%) Serverless
7 37 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
8 36 (1.93%) Amazon S3
9 29 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
11 25 (1.34%) Power Platform
12 23 (1.23%) Figma
13 22 (1.18%) npm
14 21 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
15 17 (0.91%) Stripe
16 16 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
17 14 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
18 13 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
19 11 (0.59%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.03%) HTTP
2 27 (1.44%) Internet
3 25 (1.34%) LAN
3 25 (1.34%) WAN
4 23 (1.23%) DNS
5 13 (0.70%) SSL
6 12 (0.64%) Firewall
7 8 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (0.37%) VoIP
9 6 (0.32%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.27%) FTP
10 5 (0.27%) SSH
11 3 (0.16%) SMS
12 2 (0.11%) 3G
12 2 (0.11%) DHCP
12 2 (0.11%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.11%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.11%) IPv6
12 2 (0.11%) VPN
12 2 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 753 (40.27%) MySQL
2 103 (5.51%) SQL Server
3 90 (4.81%) Relational Database
4 81 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
5 51 (2.73%) MongoDB
6 46 (2.46%) MariaDB
7 44 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (1.71%) Redis
9 30 (1.60%) NoSQL
10 28 (1.50%) RDBMS
11 25 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (1.28%) DynamoDB
13 19 (1.02%) Power BI
14 17 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
14 17 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (0.48%) SQLite
16 8 (0.43%) Tableau
17 7 (0.37%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 477 (25.51%) Git
2 74 (3.96%) JIRA
3 40 (2.14%) Cypress.io
3 40 (2.14%) Jenkins
3 40 (2.14%) Selenium
4 34 (1.82%) GitLab
5 27 (1.44%) Postman
6 24 (1.28%) Subversion
7 21 (1.12%) webpack
8 15 (0.80%) PHPUnit
9 13 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
10 12 (0.64%) gulp
11 11 (0.59%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.48%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.43%) Eclipse
14 6 (0.32%) git-flow
15 5 (0.27%) Grunt
16 2 (0.11%) Bower
16 2 (0.11%) MSBuild
16 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 373 (19.95%) Social Skills
2 172 (9.20%) Marketing
3 133 (7.11%) Retail
4 106 (5.67%) Finance
5 69 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (2.73%) Games
7 40 (2.14%) Public Sector
7 40 (2.14%) Telecoms
8 34 (1.82%) Tech for Good
9 30 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 21 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (1.07%) Electronics
12 19 (1.02%) Legal
13 18 (0.96%) Banking
13 18 (0.96%) Law
14 12 (0.64%) Health Technology
15 11 (0.59%) German Language
16 10 (0.53%) Advertising
16 10 (0.53%) Retail Banking
17 9 (0.48%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 1,411 (75.45%) Developer
2 739 (39.52%) PHP Developer
3 375 (20.05%) Senior
4 321 (17.17%) Senior Developer
5 241 (12.89%) Full Stack Developer
6 189 (10.11%) Lead
7 168 (8.98%) Web Developer
8 151 (8.07%) Senior PHP Developer
9 135 (7.22%) Software Developer
10 120 (6.42%) Software Engineer
11 102 (5.45%) WordPress Developer
12 97 (5.19%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 90 (4.81%) Full Stack PHP Developer
14 79 (4.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 79 (4.22%) Junior
15 73 (3.90%) Junior Developer
15 73 (3.90%) Lead Developer
16 57 (3.05%) Technical Leader
17 55 (2.94%) PHP Web Developer
18 45 (2.41%) Junior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 857 (45.83%) Laravel
2 775 (41.44%) HTML
3 737 (39.41%) CSS
4 475 (25.40%) React
5 327 (17.49%) Vue
6 234 (12.51%) Symfony
7 231 (12.35%) jQuery
8 190 (10.16%) HTML5
9 185 (9.89%) Node.js
10 174 (9.30%) LAMP
11 149 (7.97%) AngularJS
12 128 (6.84%) CSS3
13 126 (6.74%) RESTful
14 115 (6.15%) REST
15 92 (4.92%) Web Services
16 89 (4.76%) JSON
17 84 (4.49%) Sass
18 78 (4.17%) .NET
19 70 (3.74%) XML
20 55 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 98 (5.24%) Greenfield Project
2 50 (2.67%) Mobile App
3 49 (2.62%) Onboarding
4 38 (2.03%) Cloud Native
5 34 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 32 (1.71%) Product Ownership
7 30 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.39%) IoT
10 24 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
12 19 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
13 16 (0.86%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.80%) Animation
15 14 (0.75%) Client/Server
15 14 (0.75%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.64%) Educational Technology
17 11 (0.59%) Low-Code
17 11 (0.59%) PropTech
18 10 (0.53%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 195 (10.43%) Linux
2 39 (2.09%) Windows
3 19 (1.02%) Ubuntu
4 14 (0.75%) Unix
5 10 (0.53%) Android
6 9 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.32%) Alpine Linux
8 6 (0.32%) CentOS
9 4 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.053%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.053%) Rocky
12 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (25.35%) Full Stack Development
2 422 (22.57%) Web Development
3 402 (21.50%) Agile
4 337 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
5 289 (15.45%) Software Engineering
6 252 (13.48%) OOP
7 249 (13.32%) E-Commerce
8 226 (12.09%) MVC
9 219 (11.71%) DevOps
10 195 (10.43%) User Experience
11 159 (8.50%) Computer Science
12 152 (8.13%) Front End Development
13 146 (7.81%) Mentoring
14 130 (6.95%) CI/CD
15 129 (6.90%) OO
15 129 (6.90%) TDD
16 110 (5.88%) Roadmaps
17 105 (5.61%) Clean Code
18 100 (5.35%) Project Management
19 96 (5.13%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 984 (52.62%) JavaScript
2 284 (15.19%) SQL
3 165 (8.82%) TypeScript
4 152 (8.13%) Python
5 148 (7.91%) C#
6 120 (6.42%) Java
7 47 (2.51%) C
8 42 (2.25%) Go
9 40 (2.14%) VB
10 30 (1.60%) Ruby
11 29 (1.55%) Bash
12 23 (1.23%) JSX
12 23 (1.23%) Rust
13 22 (1.18%) C++
14 18 (0.96%) PowerShell
15 16 (0.86%) T-SQL
16 14 (0.75%) Kotlin
17 13 (0.70%) Ada
18 11 (0.59%) Perl
18 11 (0.59%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 269 (14.39%) Degree
2 103 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (1.39%) Security Cleared
4 17 (0.91%) Azure Certification
5 13 (0.70%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.32%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.16%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.11%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.11%) MCSE
9 2 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.053%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.053%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.053%) MCP
10 1 (0.053%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (3.58%) QA
2 42 (2.25%) WCAG
3 40 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.07%) GDPR
5 5 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.11%) HL7
7 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.11%) SLA
8 1 (0.053%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.053%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.053%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.053%) NCSC
8 1 (0.053%) PMO
System Software
1 265 (14.17%) Docker
2 5 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.16%) Varnish
5 2 (0.11%) Firmware
5 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.053%) OpenSIPS
6 1 (0.053%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.053%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 116 (6.20%) Kubernetes
2 80 (4.28%) Terraform
3 24 (1.28%) Ansible
4 16 (0.86%) Puppet
5 13 (0.70%) Progress Chef
6 11 (0.59%) Grafana
7 8 (0.43%) cPanel
7 8 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.21%) Rancher
9 3 (0.16%) Galera Cluster
10 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.11%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.053%) Argo
11 1 (0.053%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.053%) Plesk
11 1 (0.053%) Podman
11 1 (0.053%) SCCM
11 1 (0.053%) systemd
Vendors
1 69 (3.69%) Microsoft
2 66 (3.53%) Google
3 54 (2.89%) WooCommerce
4 31 (1.66%) Adobe
5 15 (0.80%) Twitter
6 13 (0.70%) Zend
7 11 (0.59%) Oracle
8 9 (0.48%) New Relic
8 9 (0.48%) SAP
9 8 (0.43%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.37%) Facebook
10 7 (0.37%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.37%) SaltStack
11 6 (0.32%) Actuate
11 6 (0.32%) Sitecore
11 6 (0.32%) VMware
12 5 (0.27%) Apple
12 5 (0.27%) F5
12 5 (0.27%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.21%) Rackspace