Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 27 October 2021

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 27 October 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

PHP
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
27 Oct 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 49 39 44
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 0
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,663 413 455
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.92% 6.27% 5.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.38% 9.83% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,386 373 440
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +5.88%

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,018 4,203 4,497
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.98% 63.76% 58.86%
Number of salaries quoted 12,763 3,830 4,073
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

PHP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PHP trend for jobs with a WFH option

PHP
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PHP.

PHP salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

PHP
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PHP over the 6 months to 27 October 2021.

PHP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 27 October 2021, PHP job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for PHP.

1 1,061 (63.80%) JavaScript
2 684 (41.13%) MySQL
3 627 (37.70%) HTML
4 582 (35.00%) CSS
5 478 (28.74%) Agile Software Development
6 467 (28.08%) Docker
7 462 (27.78%) React
8 455 (27.36%) Laravel
9 414 (24.89%) Git (software)
10 411 (24.71%) Full Stack Development
11 402 (24.17%) AWS
12 369 (22.19%) MVC
13 368 (22.13%) Linux
14 323 (19.42%) SQL
15 313 (18.82%) Software Engineering
16 294 (17.68%) jQuery
17 284 (17.08%) Go
18 279 (16.78%) E-Commerce
19 274 (16.48%) Greenfield Project
20 271 (16.30%) Fintech
21 265 (15.94%) Symfony
22 264 (15.87%) OO
23 259 (15.57%) Social Skills
24 250 (15.03%) Node.js
25 247 (14.85%) TDD
26 237 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
27 234 (14.07%) NoSQL
28 224 (13.47%) Web Development
29 221 (13.29%) RESTful
30 209 (12.57%) SaaS

PHP
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 164 (9.86%) WordPress
2 94 (5.65%) CMS
3 91 (5.47%) Elasticsearch
4 80 (4.81%) Apache
5 71 (4.27%) nginx
6 66 (3.97%) Apache Solr
7 62 (3.73%) Drupal
8 16 (0.96%) IIS
9 13 (0.78%) MODX
10 9 (0.54%) EPiServer
11 7 (0.42%) Moodle
12 6 (0.36%) Confluence
12 6 (0.36%) Umbraco
13 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.18%) Gunicorn
15 2 (0.12%) ColdFusion
15 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.12%) Kentico
16 1 (0.060%) Apache Pig
16 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (0.54%) Photoshop
3 7 (0.42%) Sketch
4 6 (0.36%) InDesign
4 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.12%) Figma
Business Applications
1 54 (3.25%) Magento
2 35 (2.10%) NetSuite
3 27 (1.62%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 18 (1.08%) Shopify
5 15 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.30%) Salesforce.com CRM
7 4 (0.24%) Summit
8 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.12%) JDE OneWorld
8 2 (0.12%) osCommerce
9 1 (0.060%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 402 (24.17%) AWS
2 209 (12.57%) SaaS
3 144 (8.66%) Azure
4 99 (5.95%) GitHub
5 84 (5.05%) GCP
6 75 (4.51%) Serverless
7 39 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
8 38 (2.29%) Amazon S3
9 31 (1.86%) PaaS
10 30 (1.80%) Datadog
11 27 (1.62%) Linode
12 23 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 22 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (1.26%) Firebase
15 20 (1.20%) Rackspace Cloud
16 18 (1.08%) Amazon SQS
16 18 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
17 15 (0.90%) Google Analytics
18 14 (0.84%) npm
19 12 (0.72%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.61%) HTTP
2 42 (2.53%) DNS
3 31 (1.86%) Internet
4 25 (1.50%) Firewall
5 19 (1.14%) VPN
6 18 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (0.78%) SSL
8 12 (0.72%) DHCP
8 12 (0.72%) IPv6
9 10 (0.60%) MQTT
9 10 (0.60%) SSH
10 6 (0.36%) LAN
11 5 (0.30%) Intranet
11 5 (0.30%) IPv4
11 5 (0.30%) WAN
12 4 (0.24%) Broadband
12 4 (0.24%) Network Security
13 2 (0.12%) SNMP
13 2 (0.12%) TCP/IP
14 1 (0.060%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 684 (41.13%) MySQL
2 234 (14.07%) NoSQL
3 205 (12.33%) MongoDB
4 141 (8.48%) Redis
5 107 (6.43%) SQL Server
6 50 (3.01%) Couchbase
7 49 (2.95%) MariaDB
8 44 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
9 38 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
9 38 (2.29%) Relational Database
10 22 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (0.90%) Amazon DynamoDB
12 14 (0.84%) CouchDB
13 11 (0.66%) Power BI
14 9 (0.54%) Big Data
14 9 (0.54%) RDBMS
14 9 (0.54%) Tableau
15 5 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
16 4 (0.24%) Blockchain
Development Applications
1 414 (24.89%) Git (software)
2 85 (5.11%) PHPUnit
3 64 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 63 (3.79%) JIRA
5 28 (1.68%) Bitbucket
6 27 (1.62%) gulp
6 27 (1.62%) WebStorm
7 22 (1.32%) GitLab
7 22 (1.32%) webpack
8 20 (1.20%) PhpStorm
9 13 (0.78%) Subversion
10 10 (0.60%) Mocha
11 9 (0.54%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.54%) GoCD
12 8 (0.48%) Mercurial
13 7 (0.42%) git-flow
14 6 (0.36%) Babel
14 6 (0.36%) Cactus
14 6 (0.36%) Xdebug
15 5 (0.30%) Selenium
General
1 259 (15.57%) Social Skills
2 184 (11.06%) Finance
3 119 (7.16%) Marketing
4 67 (4.03%) Retail
5 48 (2.89%) Games
6 39 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (0.84%) French Language
7 14 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (0.78%) Telecoms
9 10 (0.60%) Automotive
9 10 (0.60%) Banking
10 9 (0.54%) Public Sector
11 8 (0.48%) Law
12 4 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.18%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.18%) Electronics
13 3 (0.18%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.18%) Publishing
14 2 (0.12%) Billing
14 2 (0.12%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,332 (80.10%) Developer
2 944 (56.76%) PHP Developer
3 223 (13.41%) Full Stack Developer
4 194 (11.67%) Senior Developer
5 139 (8.36%) Senior PHP Developer
6 125 (7.52%) Lead Developer
7 121 (7.28%) Software Developer
8 114 (6.86%) React Developer
9 92 (5.53%) Principal Developer
10 82 (4.93%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 79 (4.75%) Lead PHP Developer
12 67 (4.03%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 65 (3.91%) Software Engineer
14 64 (3.85%) Web Developer
15 62 (3.73%) JavaScript Developer
16 54 (3.25%) Senior Software Developer
17 53 (3.19%) Team Leader
18 49 (2.95%) WordPress Developer
19 48 (2.89%) PHP Team Leader
20 45 (2.71%) E-Commerce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 627 (37.70%) HTML
2 582 (35.00%) CSS
3 462 (27.78%) React
4 455 (27.36%) Laravel
5 294 (17.68%) jQuery
6 265 (15.94%) Symfony
7 250 (15.03%) Node.js
8 221 (13.29%) RESTful
9 182 (10.94%) Vue.js
10 179 (10.76%) AngularJS
11 174 (10.46%) REST
12 155 (9.32%) LAMP
13 154 (9.26%) Web Services
14 148 (8.90%) HTML5
15 147 (8.84%) CodeIgniter
16 128 (7.70%) XML
17 106 (6.37%) JSON
18 86 (5.17%) Sass
19 81 (4.87%) CSS3
20 78 (4.69%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 274 (16.48%) Greenfield Project
2 113 (6.79%) User Experience
3 80 (4.81%) e-Learning
4 61 (3.67%) Mobile App
5 57 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
6 53 (3.19%) Legacy Code
7 22 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 22 (1.32%) Management Information System
8 16 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
10 10 (0.60%) Data Structures
10 10 (0.60%) NHS
11 9 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (0.54%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (0.48%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.42%) EPoS
13 7 (0.42%) VLE
14 6 (0.36%) Blog
14 6 (0.36%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 368 (22.13%) Linux
2 77 (4.63%) Windows
3 48 (2.89%) Android
4 45 (2.71%) Apple iOS
5 29 (1.74%) Windows Server
6 27 (1.62%) Unix
7 20 (1.20%) CentOS
7 20 (1.20%) Debian
8 18 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
8 18 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
9 14 (0.84%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.36%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.36%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.36%) Windows 8
12 5 (0.30%) Fedora
13 3 (0.18%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.060%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (28.74%) Agile Software Development
2 411 (24.71%) Full Stack Development
3 369 (22.19%) MVC
4 313 (18.82%) Software Engineering
5 279 (16.78%) E-Commerce
6 271 (16.30%) Fintech
7 264 (15.87%) OO
8 247 (14.85%) TDD
9 237 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
10 224 (13.47%) Web Development
11 206 (12.39%) OOP
12 198 (11.91%) DevOps
13 191 (11.49%) Scrum
14 182 (10.94%) Microservices
15 173 (10.40%) Technology Roadmap
16 155 (9.32%) Unit Testing
17 149 (8.96%) Product Roadmap
18 147 (8.84%) Project Delivery
19 144 (8.66%) Technical Architecture
20 138 (8.30%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1,061 (63.80%) JavaScript
2 323 (19.42%) SQL
3 284 (17.08%) Go
4 194 (11.67%) Python
5 135 (8.12%) Java
6 125 (7.52%) PHP 7
7 105 (6.31%) C#
8 80 (4.81%) Dart
9 65 (3.91%) Ruby
10 55 (3.31%) TypeScript
11 44 (2.65%) PHP 5
12 41 (2.47%) Bash Shell
13 36 (2.16%) C++
14 34 (2.04%) Perl
15 32 (1.92%) Shell Script
16 30 (1.80%) PowerShell
17 29 (1.74%) Groovy
18 21 (1.26%) ES6
19 15 (0.90%) Kotlin
19 15 (0.90%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (3.19%) Degree
2 38 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (0.54%) Analytics IQ
4 3 (0.18%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.18%) CEH
4 3 (0.18%) CISM
4 3 (0.18%) CISSP
4 3 (0.18%) GCFE
4 3 (0.18%) GIAC
4 3 (0.18%) GISP
4 3 (0.18%) GSEC
4 3 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.060%) ISEB
5 1 (0.060%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.060%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.060%) MCSE
5 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.060%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.060%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.060%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (3.31%) QA
2 26 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.66%) WCAG
4 9 (0.54%) SLA
5 2 (0.12%) GDPR
5 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.060%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.060%) PMO
System Software
1 467 (28.08%) Docker
2 19 (1.14%) KVM
3 8 (0.48%) vSphere
4 3 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) iptables
6 1 (0.060%) GlusterFS
6 1 (0.060%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.060%) QEMU
6 1 (0.060%) Varnish
6 1 (0.060%) vCloud
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 105 (6.31%) Kubernetes
2 82 (4.93%) Terraform
3 78 (4.69%) Ansible
4 33 (1.98%) Puppet
5 32 (1.92%) Rancher
6 29 (1.74%) Grafana
7 28 (1.68%) Opscode Chef
8 21 (1.26%) Kibana
9 9 (0.54%) Matomo
10 7 (0.42%) Salt
11 5 (0.30%) Pingdom
11 5 (0.30%) SCCM
12 4 (0.24%) Packer
12 4 (0.24%) Prometheus
13 3 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.18%) Istio
13 3 (0.18%) QRadar
14 2 (0.12%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.12%) ZABBIX
15 1 (0.060%) Scalr
Vendors
1 149 (8.96%) Zend
2 85 (5.11%) Google
3 40 (2.41%) WooCommerce
4 36 (2.16%) SAP
5 34 (2.04%) Microsoft
6 32 (1.92%) Oracle
7 28 (1.68%) Adobe
8 20 (1.20%) Rackspace
9 10 (0.60%) Salesforce.com
9 10 (0.60%) VMware
10 9 (0.54%) Okta
10 9 (0.54%) Snowplow
11 8 (0.48%) JD Edwards
12 7 (0.42%) New Relic
13 6 (0.36%) IBM
13 6 (0.36%) PagerDuty
14 5 (0.30%) Alibaba
14 5 (0.30%) HubSpot
15 4 (0.24%) Sage
15 4 (0.24%) Splunk