PHP Jobs in the West Midlands

PHP
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 135 159
Rank change year-on-year -23 +24 -58
Permanent jobs citing PHP 39 116 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.88% 1.60% 1.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.21% 6.18% 4.92%
Number of salaries quoted 32 89 57
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,750 £36,300
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,000 -
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 926 1,877 2,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.81% 25.88% 36.34%
Number of salaries quoted 599 1,630 1,242
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,000 £76,825 £79,900
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the West Midlands

PHP
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for PHP in the West Midlands

PHP
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP in the West Midlands

PHP
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Birmingham +21 22 £55,000 +15.79% 13
Staffordshire +16 8 £70,000 +40.00% 20
Shropshire +15 4 £50,000 +81.82% 1
Warwickshire -33 2 £54,750 +36.88% 5
Worcestershire +17 1 £55,000 +46.67%
Coventry -4 1 - - 3
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (5.13%) WordPress
2 1 (2.56%) ColdFusion
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) AWS
1 7 (17.95%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) GCP
3 3 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 3 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) Firebase
4 1 (2.56%) GitHub
4 1 (2.56%) Google Workspace
4 1 (2.56%) SaaS
4 1 (2.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) MPLS
1 2 (5.13%) VoIP
2 1 (2.56%) Bluetooth
2 1 (2.56%) tcpdump
2 1 (2.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (48.72%) MySQL
2 7 (17.95%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.69%) Big Data
3 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (33.33%) Git
2 7 (17.95%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) Subversion
4 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.56%) GDB
4 1 (2.56%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (2.56%) WinDbg
General
1 8 (20.51%) Games
2 7 (17.95%) Finance
3 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.13%) Automotive
5 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.13%) Law
5 2 (5.13%) Legal
5 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Back Office
6 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (53.85%) Developer
2 15 (38.46%) PHP Developer
3 8 (20.51%) Lead
4 6 (15.38%) Graduate
4 6 (15.38%) Graduate Developer
4 6 (15.38%) IT Graduate
4 6 (15.38%) IT Manager
4 6 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Development Manager
5 5 (12.82%) IT Development Manager
5 5 (12.82%) PHP Software Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Agile Developer
6 4 (10.26%) C# Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Graduate C# Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Graduate SQL Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Lead Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Lead PHP Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Senior
6 4 (10.26%) Senior Developer
6 4 (10.26%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (53.85%) Laravel
2 18 (46.15%) CSS
3 14 (35.90%) HTML
4 8 (20.51%) jQuery
5 7 (17.95%) .NET
5 7 (17.95%) React
6 6 (15.38%) ASP.NET
6 6 (15.38%) RESTful
6 6 (15.38%) Symfony
7 5 (12.82%) CodeIgniter
7 5 (12.82%) Node.js
7 5 (12.82%) Vue
8 4 (10.26%) LAMP
9 3 (7.69%) Next.js
10 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
10 2 (5.13%) Bootstrap
10 2 (5.13%) Web Services
11 1 (2.56%) ColdBox
11 1 (2.56%) JSON
11 1 (2.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 5 (12.82%) Onboarding
3 4 (10.26%) Virtual Team
4 2 (5.13%) CCTV
5 1 (2.56%) Clustering
5 1 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.56%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Android
1 6 (15.38%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.13%) Linux
3 1 (2.56%) CentOS
3 1 (2.56%) Debian
3 1 (2.56%) Unix
3 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Agile
2 13 (33.33%) MVC
3 12 (30.77%) Mentoring
3 12 (30.77%) OO
4 10 (25.64%) E-Commerce
4 10 (25.64%) Software Engineering
5 8 (20.51%) OOP
5 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
5 8 (20.51%) Web Development
6 7 (17.95%) Computer Science
6 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.38%) Android Development
7 6 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (15.38%) DevOps
7 6 (15.38%) Front End Development
7 6 (15.38%) iOS Development
7 6 (15.38%) SDLC
7 6 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (12.82%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 16 (41.03%) JavaScript
2 8 (20.51%) Java
3 7 (17.95%) C#
3 7 (17.95%) C++
3 7 (17.95%) SQL
4 1 (2.56%) C
4 1 (2.56%) CodeQL
4 1 (2.56%) Dart
4 1 (2.56%) Go
4 1 (2.56%) Python
4 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (17.95%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Postgraduate
3 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) GDPR
1 5 (12.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (12.82%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
1 1 (2.56%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (2.56%) Firmware
1 1 (2.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) OpenAI
2 2 (5.13%) Cisco
2 2 (5.13%) Google
2 2 (5.13%) Twitter
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.56%) WooCommerce