Senior PHP Developer Jobs

Senior PHP Developer
UK

The median Senior PHP Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 697 468 1063
Rank change year-on-year -229 +595 -398
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 145 505 212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.63% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.68% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 133 85 136
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,550 £45,625
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +21.05%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Senior PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior PHP Developer in the UK

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior PHP Developer in the UK

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior PHP Developer over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior PHP Developer in the UK

Senior PHP Developer
Top 15 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 26 July 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 -210 138 £55,000 - 10
UK excluding London -255 132 £55,000 - 9
Work from Home +56 62 £55,000 -4.35% 10
North of England -76 47 £52,500 -4.55% 5
North West -12 35 £52,500 -8.70% 5
South East -40 34 £59,250 +18.50%
South West -43 20 £55,000 -4.35% 2
Midlands -114 20 £51,250 -6.82%
Yorkshire -2 12 £53,750 +2.38%
East Midlands -79 12 £42,500 -22.73%
London +45 9 £80,000 +45.45% 3
East of England -7 8 £57,500 -23.33%
West Midlands -48 8 £70,000 +40.00%
Wales +18 2 £53,250 -
Scotland -69 1 £55,000 +12.24%

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Senior PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior PHP Developer in the job title.

1 145 (100.00%) PHP
2 86 (59.31%) Laravel
3 76 (52.41%) MySQL
4 73 (50.34%) JavaScript
5 53 (36.55%) HTML
6 50 (34.48%) CSS
7 43 (29.66%) AWS
8 39 (26.90%) React
9 38 (26.21%) Social Skills
10 35 (24.14%) Symfony
11 34 (23.45%) Git
12 33 (22.76%) E-Commerce
13 32 (22.07%) OOP
14 27 (18.62%) MVC
14 27 (18.62%) Full Stack Development
15 26 (17.93%) Agile
16 23 (15.86%) TDD
16 23 (15.86%) Web Development
16 23 (15.86%) TypeScript
17 20 (13.79%) SaaS
17 20 (13.79%) GCP
17 20 (13.79%) LAMP
17 20 (13.79%) Clean Code
18 19 (13.10%) Vue
19 18 (12.41%) RESTful
20 17 (11.72%) Software Engineering
20 17 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
21 15 (10.34%) Retail
22 14 (9.66%) Node.js
22 14 (9.66%) Docker

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
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 11 (7.59%) WordPress
2 7 (4.83%) Apache
2 7 (4.83%) CMS
2 7 (4.83%) nginx
Business Applications
1 7 (4.83%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 43 (29.66%) AWS
2 20 (13.79%) GCP
2 20 (13.79%) SaaS
3 9 (6.21%) Cloud Computing
3 9 (6.21%) GitHub
4 6 (4.14%) Datadog
4 6 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (3.45%) Azure
6 2 (1.38%) Firebase
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.69%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.69%) Discord
7 1 (0.69%) Serverless
7 1 (0.69%) Slack
7 1 (0.69%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (52.41%) MySQL
2 3 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.07%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (23.45%) Git
2 12 (8.28%) PHPUnit
3 5 (3.45%) Selenium
4 2 (1.38%) GitLab
5 1 (0.69%) Appium
5 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.69%) git-flow
5 1 (0.69%) Storybook
5 1 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 38 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.34%) Retail
3 12 (8.28%) Finance
4 8 (5.52%) Marketing
5 7 (4.83%) Games
6 5 (3.45%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.38%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (59.31%) Laravel
2 53 (36.55%) HTML
3 50 (34.48%) CSS
4 39 (26.90%) React
5 35 (24.14%) Symfony
6 20 (13.79%) LAMP
7 19 (13.10%) Vue
8 18 (12.41%) RESTful
9 14 (9.66%) Node.js
10 12 (8.28%) jQuery
11 10 (6.90%) CakePHP
12 9 (6.21%) HTML5
13 8 (5.52%) Web Services
14 6 (4.14%) LEMP Stack
14 6 (4.14%) REST
15 5 (3.45%) AngularJS
15 5 (3.45%) Yii
16 4 (2.76%) CodeIgniter
16 4 (2.76%) Electron
16 4 (2.76%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.21%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (6.21%) PropTech
3 6 (4.14%) Cybercrime
3 6 (4.14%) Legacy Code
4 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.38%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.38%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.38%) NHS
6 1 (0.69%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.69%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (22.76%) E-Commerce
2 32 (22.07%) OOP
3 27 (18.62%) Full Stack Development
3 27 (18.62%) MVC
4 26 (17.93%) Agile
5 23 (15.86%) TDD
5 23 (15.86%) Web Development
6 20 (13.79%) Clean Code
7 17 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (11.72%) Software Engineering
8 12 (8.28%) Collaborative Working
9 11 (7.59%) User Experience
10 10 (6.90%) Roadmaps
11 9 (6.21%) Product Roadmap
12 8 (5.52%) Computer Science
13 7 (4.83%) API Development
13 7 (4.83%) CI/CD
13 7 (4.83%) Design Patterns
13 7 (4.83%) OO
13 7 (4.83%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 145 (100.00%) PHP
2 73 (50.34%) JavaScript
3 23 (15.86%) TypeScript
4 6 (4.14%) Go
5 4 (2.76%) Python
5 4 (2.76%) Ruby
6 3 (2.07%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (5.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.07%) QA
System Software
1 14 (9.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.52%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.14%) Terraform
3 1 (0.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (4.14%) Google
2 4 (2.76%) Twitter
3 2 (1.38%) Zend
4 1 (0.69%) Apple
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.69%) Panasonic
4 1 (0.69%) Sony