Senior PHP Developer Job Trends

Senior PHP Developer
UK

The median Senior PHP Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 649 669
Rank change year-on-year +9 +20 +285
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 14 93 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.025% 0.15% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.16% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 13 74 37
10th Percentile £50,500 £45,651 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile - £67,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 50,704 58,391 48,070
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.90% 94.00% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 31,404 32,367 37,457
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

Senior PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior PHP Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior PHP Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior PHP Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior PHP Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior PHP Developer over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior PHP Developer in the UK

Senior PHP Developer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior PHP Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 December 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 +33 13 £60,000 +14.28% 18
UK excluding London +24 10 £60,000 +9.09% 16
Work from Home +59 6 £60,000 +9.09% 11
London +60 4 £60,000 +22.89% 2
South West +20 4 £62,500 +4.17%
North of England +8 4 £60,000 +14.29% 10
North West +22 3 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Midlands +30 1 £45,000 -25.00% 1
East Midlands +12 1 £45,000 -25.00%
Yorkshire -7 1 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £60,000 -

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 December 2025, Senior PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior PHP Developer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) PHP
2 8 (57.14%) Laravel
3 6 (42.86%) AWS
3 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 5 (35.71%) Clean Code
4 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
4 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) React
5 4 (28.57%) CSS
5 4 (28.57%) HTML
5 4 (28.57%) MySQL
6 3 (21.43%) Agile
6 3 (21.43%) Azure
6 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (21.43%) cPanel
6 3 (21.43%) DevOps
6 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
6 3 (21.43%) GCP
6 3 (21.43%) Git
6 3 (21.43%) High Availability
6 3 (21.43%) Integrated Marketing
6 3 (21.43%) Plesk
6 3 (21.43%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (21.43%) Python
6 3 (21.43%) RESTful
6 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
6 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 3 (21.43%) TypeScript

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
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 2 (14.29%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) DigitalOcean
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Games
1 3 (21.43%) Marketing
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Advertising
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.14%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) Laravel
2 5 (35.71%) React
3 4 (28.57%) CSS
3 4 (28.57%) HTML
4 3 (21.43%) RESTful
5 2 (14.29%) Vue
6 1 (7.14%) CakePHP
6 1 (7.14%) CodeIgniter
6 1 (7.14%) JWT
6 1 (7.14%) OAuth
6 1 (7.14%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Clean Code
1 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
1 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
2 3 (21.43%) High Availability
2 3 (21.43%) Integrated Marketing
2 3 (21.43%) Product Roadmap
2 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
2 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
3 2 (14.29%) BDD
3 2 (14.29%) Code Quality
3 2 (14.29%) MVC
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (14.29%) Secure Coding
3 2 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) PHP
2 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 3 (21.43%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 2 (14.29%) Go
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) cPanel
1 3 (21.43%) Plesk
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes