PHPUnit Job Trends

PHPUnit
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring PHPUnit skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 670 695
Rank change year-on-year +39 +25 +280
Permanent jobs citing PHPUnit 4 39 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.071% 0.025%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.11% 0.69% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2 25 12
10th Percentile £38,550 £45,000 £41,625
25th Percentile £39,000 £48,750 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £44,500 £56,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £44,650 £57,000 £84,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +10.53% +18.75%

All Development Application Skills
UK

PHPUnit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,639 5,635 6,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.14% 10.26% 12.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,391 3,268 5,132
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £58,175
% change year-on-year -6.36% -5.46% +5.77%

PHPUnit
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHPUnit relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

PHPUnit job vacancy trend in the UK

PHPUnit
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PHPUnit.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PHPUnit

PHPUnit
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHPUnit within the UK over the 6 months to 2 January 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 +25 4 £42,000 -20.00% 12
UK excluding London +16 4 £42,000 -20.00% 11
South East +12 2 - - 1
Work from Home +66 1 £41,500 -10.27% 9
North West +18 1 £41,500 -20.95% 2
North of England +1 1 £41,500 -20.95% 3
West Midlands - 1 £42,500 - 4
Midlands - 1 £42,500 - 6

PHPUnit
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (25.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Laravel
2 3 (75.00%) Symfony
3 2 (50.00%) Alpine.js
3 2 (50.00%) Vue
4 1 (25.00%) CSS
4 1 (25.00%) HTML
4 1 (25.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) LAMP
4 1 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) API Integration
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL Certification
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Zend