PHP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 156 161
Rank change year-on-year -90 +5 -63
Permanent jobs citing PHP 628 1,869 2,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.21% 1.90% 2.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.02% 5.62% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 565 1,688 1,632
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +7.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -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 15,622 33,278 45,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.02% 33.79% 43.37%
Number of salaries quoted 11,533 25,047 28,788
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +2.33%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -92 568 £52,500 +5.00% 1,096
UK excluding London -68 495 £50,000 +5.26% 933
Work from Home -25 325 £55,000 +6.80% 837
North of England -91 137 £52,500 +10.53% 284
South East +4 114 £50,000 -9.09% 235
London -29 114 £60,000 -5.09% 256
South West -9 83 £60,000 +33.33% 106
North West -82 79 £52,500 +5.00% 166
Midlands -49 69 £40,000 -11.11% 182
East of England -39 46 £35,000 -19.54% 112
Yorkshire -50 42 £47,500 +1.06% 98
West Midlands -22 39 £55,500 +23.33% 89
East Midlands -32 29 £35,000 -22.22% 80
Scotland +106 24 £55,000 +15.79% 28
Wales +21 19 £32,500 -35.00% 21
North East +40 16 £55,000 +22.22% 21
Northern Ireland +29 3 £85,000 +88.89% 7

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 82 (13.06%) WordPress
2 59 (9.39%) CMS
3 17 (2.71%) nginx
4 14 (2.23%) Apache
5 13 (2.07%) Drupal
6 12 (1.91%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.64%) Joomla!
8 3 (0.48%) ColdFusion
8 3 (0.48%) IIS
8 3 (0.48%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.32%) Confluence
9 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.16%) Kentico
10 1 (0.16%) SAS
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.59%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.80%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.64%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.64%) Adobe Premiere
4 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.32%) Trello
6 1 (0.16%) InVision
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.16%) Sketch
6 1 (0.16%) SPSS
6 1 (0.16%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 19 (3.03%) Shopify
2 10 (1.59%) Magento
2 10 (1.59%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (1.43%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.32%) Odoo
4 2 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.16%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 201 (32.01%) AWS
2 83 (13.22%) Azure
3 77 (12.26%) GCP
4 52 (8.28%) GitHub
5 35 (5.57%) SaaS
6 30 (4.78%) Serverless
7 21 (3.34%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (2.39%) Slack
9 14 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (2.07%) Amazon S3
10 13 (2.07%) Zapier
11 12 (1.91%) Google Analytics
11 12 (1.91%) npm
12 10 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.43%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 8 (1.27%) Stripe
15 7 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (1.11%) Figma
15 7 (1.11%) Power Platform
16 6 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.55%) DNS
2 15 (2.39%) Internet
2 15 (2.39%) TCP/IP
3 14 (2.23%) HTTPS
4 12 (1.91%) IPsec
5 5 (0.80%) VoIP
6 4 (0.64%) HTTP
6 4 (0.64%) MPLS
6 4 (0.64%) Network Security
7 3 (0.48%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.32%) FTP
8 2 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.32%) LoRaWAN
8 2 (0.32%) SSH
8 2 (0.32%) SSL
8 2 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.16%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.16%) RTP
9 1 (0.16%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (51.75%) MySQL
2 79 (12.58%) SQL Server
3 38 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (3.82%) Relational Database
5 22 (3.50%) MongoDB
6 20 (3.18%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (1.91%) Couchbase
8 11 (1.75%) SQLite
9 10 (1.59%) Redis
10 8 (1.27%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.80%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.80%) Power BI
12 4 (0.64%) Big Data
12 4 (0.64%) TimescaleDB
13 3 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.32%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.32%) OLTP
14 2 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 191 (30.41%) Git
2 18 (2.87%) JIRA
3 15 (2.39%) Selenium
4 12 (1.91%) PHPUnit
4 12 (1.91%) webpack
5 11 (1.75%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.43%) Grunt
7 7 (1.11%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.11%) Postman
8 5 (0.80%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.80%) SoapUI
9 4 (0.64%) GitLab
9 4 (0.64%) Subversion
10 3 (0.48%) git-flow
10 3 (0.48%) Jasmine
10 3 (0.48%) Mocha
10 3 (0.48%) Vite
11 2 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.16%) Android Studio
General
1 167 (26.59%) Social Skills
2 108 (17.20%) Finance
3 88 (14.01%) Games
4 33 (5.25%) Marketing
5 28 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.30%) Retail
7 19 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (2.23%) Legal
8 14 (2.23%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.07%) Law
9 13 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (1.91%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.59%) Back Office
12 8 (1.27%) Public Sector
13 7 (1.11%) Turkish Language
14 4 (0.64%) Automotive
14 4 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.64%) Electronics
15 3 (0.48%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 393 (62.58%) Developer
2 197 (31.37%) PHP Developer
3 174 (27.71%) Senior
4 110 (17.52%) Senior Developer
5 68 (10.83%) Software Engineer
6 57 (9.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 56 (8.92%) Web Developer
8 54 (8.60%) Senior PHP Developer
9 47 (7.48%) Lead
10 41 (6.53%) PHP Software Engineer
11 36 (5.73%) Graduate
11 36 (5.73%) Graduate Developer
12 34 (5.41%) IT Graduate
13 31 (4.94%) Junior
14 30 (4.78%) Senior Software Engineer
15 29 (4.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 26 (4.14%) Junior Developer
17 21 (3.34%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
18 19 (3.03%) SQL Developer
19 18 (2.87%) Junior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (48.25%) CSS
2 278 (44.27%) HTML
3 263 (41.88%) Laravel
4 132 (21.02%) React
5 106 (16.88%) Vue
6 90 (14.33%) LAMP
7 79 (12.58%) .NET
8 71 (11.31%) jQuery
9 67 (10.67%) AngularJS
10 65 (10.35%) Symfony
11 57 (9.08%) Node.js
12 48 (7.64%) RESTful
13 43 (6.85%) ASP.NET
14 40 (6.37%) HTML5
15 33 (5.25%) CSS3
15 33 (5.25%) Web Services
16 27 (4.30%) Sass
17 23 (3.66%) CakePHP
18 21 (3.34%) Tailwind CSS
19 19 (3.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.28%) Mobile App
2 27 (4.30%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (2.71%) Onboarding
4 15 (2.39%) IoT
5 12 (1.91%) Legacy Code
5 12 (1.91%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.75%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.59%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (1.11%) Learning Management System
9 7 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.80%) Blog
11 5 (0.80%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.80%) Educational Technology
12 4 (0.64%) CCTV
12 4 (0.64%) NHS
12 4 (0.64%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 49 (7.80%) Linux
2 27 (4.30%) Windows
3 15 (2.39%) Android
3 15 (2.39%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.11%) Unix
5 5 (0.80%) CentOS
6 3 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.32%) AIX
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Debian
8 1 (0.16%) Rocky
8 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (28.34%) E-Commerce
2 173 (27.55%) Agile
3 159 (25.32%) Web Development
4 153 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
5 145 (23.09%) Software Engineering
6 129 (20.54%) MVC
6 129 (20.54%) OOP
7 107 (17.04%) Full-Stack Development
8 90 (14.33%) Computer Science
9 85 (13.54%) OO
10 80 (12.74%) User Experience
11 70 (11.15%) Front End Development
11 70 (11.15%) Mentoring
12 67 (10.67%) DevOps
12 67 (10.67%) TDD
13 65 (10.35%) CI/CD
14 60 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
15 49 (7.80%) Microservices
15 49 (7.80%) Test Automation
16 41 (6.53%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 346 (55.10%) JavaScript
2 109 (17.36%) SQL
3 81 (12.90%) Python
4 79 (12.58%) Java
5 66 (10.51%) C#
5 66 (10.51%) TypeScript
6 50 (7.96%) C++
7 37 (5.89%) Go
8 17 (2.71%) C
9 10 (1.59%) Perl
10 8 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.80%) Objective-C
11 5 (0.80%) Scala
12 4 (0.64%) Bash
12 4 (0.64%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.64%) VB
13 3 (0.48%) R
14 2 (0.32%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.32%) AWK
14 2 (0.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (15.61%) Degree
2 67 (10.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (0.80%) DBS Check
3 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (0.80%) Security Cleared
4 4 (0.64%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (0.48%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.32%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.16%) HND
7 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.16%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.17%) QA
2 34 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.55%) WCAG
4 13 (2.07%) GDPR
5 8 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.64%) GMP
7 3 (0.48%) SLA
8 2 (0.32%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 70 (11.15%) Docker
2 3 (0.48%) Samba
3 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.32%) KVM
3 2 (0.32%) Postfix
3 2 (0.32%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (5.25%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.14%) Terraform
3 15 (2.39%) Ansible
4 4 (0.64%) Cisco CUCM
4 4 (0.64%) Grafana
5 3 (0.48%) Puppet
6 2 (0.32%) Nagios
6 2 (0.32%) Nessus
6 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.16%) cPanel
7 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 42 (6.69%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.66%) Google
3 22 (3.50%) Adobe
3 22 (3.50%) Twitter
4 17 (2.71%) WooCommerce
5 9 (1.43%) Cisco
5 9 (1.43%) New Relic
6 8 (1.27%) SAP
7 6 (0.96%) Salesforce
8 5 (0.80%) Ahrefs
8 5 (0.80%) Meraki
8 5 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.80%) Screaming Frog
8 5 (0.80%) Xamarin
9 4 (0.64%) Apple
9 4 (0.64%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.64%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.48%) Oracle
10 3 (0.48%) Sage
11 2 (0.32%) IBM