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 11 December 2024.

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

6 months to
11 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 685 696 950
Rank change year-on-year +11 +254 -147
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 88 40 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.077% 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.080% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 71 36 90
10th Percentile £45,651 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £75,938
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +9.09%

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 65,159 49,884 116,652
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 95.43% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 32,152 36,466 73,525
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

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 11 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior PHP Developer in the UK

Senior PHP Developer
Top 14 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 11 December 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 +3 78 £52,500 -4.55% 23
UK excluding London -21 75 £55,000 +10.00% 21
Work from Home +15 29 £55,000 +4.76% 10
North of England -27 27 £52,500 - 6
North West -34 24 £52,500 - 5
South East -26 15 £60,000 - 4
London -2 13 £48,825 -33.80% 6
South West +13 11 £60,000 +14.29% 3
Scotland +3 10 £55,000 +10.00% 3
East of England -53 8 £65,000 - 1
Midlands -32 4 £70,000 +40.00%
Yorkshire +8 3 £60,000 +20.00% 1
West Midlands -41 3 £70,000 +40.00%
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 11 December 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 88 (100.00%) PHP
2 66 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 66 (75.00%) MySQL
3 53 (60.23%) Laravel
4 51 (57.95%) CSS
5 44 (50.00%) HTML
6 43 (48.86%) E-Commerce
7 40 (45.45%) React
8 39 (44.32%) OOP
9 36 (40.91%) Git
9 36 (40.91%) AWS
10 33 (37.50%) Web Development
11 30 (34.09%) LAMP
12 29 (32.95%) MVC
13 27 (30.68%) GCP
14 26 (29.55%) Symfony
14 26 (29.55%) Design Patterns
15 25 (28.41%) Software Engineering
16 24 (27.27%) Social Skills
17 20 (22.73%) Linux
18 19 (21.59%) TypeScript
19 18 (20.45%) LEMP Stack
19 18 (20.45%) Apache
19 18 (20.45%) Retail
20 17 (19.32%) Google
20 17 (19.32%) nginx
20 17 (19.32%) Agile
20 17 (19.32%) Datadog
20 17 (19.32%) PHPUnit
21 16 (18.18%) DevOps

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 18 (20.45%) Apache
2 17 (19.32%) nginx
3 7 (7.95%) Confluence
4 4 (4.55%) WordPress
5 3 (3.41%) CMS
6 1 (1.14%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Magento
1 1 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (40.91%) AWS
2 27 (30.68%) GCP
3 17 (19.32%) Datadog
4 14 (15.91%) SaaS
5 3 (3.41%) Azure
6 2 (2.27%) GitHub
7 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.14%) Heroku
7 1 (1.14%) Jelastic
7 1 (1.14%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) AMQP
1 1 (1.14%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (75.00%) MySQL
2 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (40.91%) Git
2 17 (19.32%) PHPUnit
3 8 (9.09%) JIRA
4 7 (7.95%) Mercurial
5 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 24 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.45%) Retail
3 10 (11.36%) Finance
4 9 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.23%) Games
5 6 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.27%) Marketing
7 1 (1.14%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (60.23%) Laravel
2 51 (57.95%) CSS
3 44 (50.00%) HTML
4 40 (45.45%) React
5 30 (34.09%) LAMP
6 26 (29.55%) Symfony
7 18 (20.45%) LEMP Stack
8 14 (15.91%) Vue
9 12 (13.64%) AngularJS
10 11 (12.50%) jQuery
11 9 (10.23%) CakePHP
12 7 (7.95%) LESS
12 7 (7.95%) Node.js
12 7 (7.95%) Sass
13 6 (6.82%) RESTful
14 4 (4.55%) HTML5
15 3 (3.41%) Ajax
15 3 (3.41%) CSS3
15 3 (3.41%) JSON
15 3 (3.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.91%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (10.23%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (10.23%) Mobile App
3 8 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (7.95%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.27%) Social Media
6 1 (1.14%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (48.86%) E-Commerce
2 39 (44.32%) OOP
3 33 (37.50%) Web Development
4 29 (32.95%) MVC
5 26 (29.55%) Design Patterns
6 25 (28.41%) Software Engineering
7 17 (19.32%) Agile
8 16 (18.18%) DevOps
9 13 (14.77%) Microservices
10 12 (13.64%) Mentoring
11 11 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (10.23%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (10.23%) Test Automation
13 8 (9.09%) OO
13 8 (9.09%) Scrum
14 7 (7.95%) Clean Code
14 7 (7.95%) Full-Stack Development
14 7 (7.95%) Kanban
14 7 (7.95%) Manual Testing
14 7 (7.95%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 88 (100.00%) PHP
2 66 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 19 (21.59%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (7.95%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.41%) WCAG
2 2 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 11 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) Google
2 7 (7.95%) Twitter
3 2 (2.27%) Facebook
3 2 (2.27%) Zend