PHP Developer Jobs in England

PHP Developer
UK > England

The median PHP Developer salary in England is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 309 399
Rank change year-on-year -30 +90 -215
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 676 982 1,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.78% 1.11% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 1.22% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 629 517 1,021
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,669 80,804 129,735
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.51% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 60,824 51,446 74,737
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in England

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for PHP Developer in England

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in England

PHP Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
North of England +50 221 £45,000 - 46
North West +28 116 £50,000 -4.76% 29
Midlands -48 111 £42,500 -15.00% 24
South East -106 109 £50,000 - 23
South West -36 103 £45,000 -5.26% 20
Yorkshire +65 92 £42,500 +6.25% 12
East of England +37 73 £43,500 -33.08% 17
West Midlands +6 63 £42,500 -5.56% 17
London +10 58 £54,500 -9.17% 38
East Midlands -47 47 £42,500 -19.05% 7
North East -21 13 £46,500 +29.17% 5
PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 across the England region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 676 (100.00%) PHP
2 445 (65.83%) Laravel
3 392 (57.99%) JavaScript
4 360 (53.25%) MySQL
5 301 (44.53%) HTML
6 282 (41.72%) CSS
7 200 (29.59%) AWS
8 194 (28.70%) Git
9 161 (23.82%) Full Stack Development
10 159 (23.52%) React
11 154 (22.78%) Vue
12 153 (22.63%) Social Skills
13 152 (22.49%) Web Development
14 136 (20.12%) OOP
15 133 (19.67%) Agile
16 132 (19.53%) Symfony
17 118 (17.46%) jQuery
18 111 (16.42%) MVC
19 100 (14.79%) OO
20 97 (14.35%) SaaS
21 93 (13.76%) Linux
22 91 (13.46%) E-Commerce
23 88 (13.02%) Docker
24 87 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
25 83 (12.28%) TDD
26 82 (12.13%) SQL
27 78 (11.54%) Software Engineering
28 69 (10.21%) LAMP
28 69 (10.21%) WordPress
29 67 (9.91%) HTML5

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 69 (10.21%) WordPress
2 29 (4.29%) CMS
3 22 (3.25%) Apache
4 20 (2.96%) nginx
5 6 (0.89%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.59%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.59%) ColdFusion
6 4 (0.59%) IIS
7 3 (0.44%) Drupal
7 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.30%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.15%) Confluence
9 1 (0.15%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 5 (0.74%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.59%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 25 (3.70%) Magento
2 13 (1.92%) Shopify
3 3 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.30%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 200 (29.59%) AWS
2 97 (14.35%) SaaS
3 28 (4.14%) GCP
4 18 (2.66%) GitHub
5 15 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
6 14 (2.07%) Azure
7 10 (1.48%) npm
7 10 (1.48%) Stripe
8 8 (1.18%) Figma
8 8 (1.18%) Serverless
9 6 (0.89%) DigitalOcean
10 5 (0.74%) Power Platform
11 4 (0.59%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.44%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.44%) Google Tag Manager
13 2 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 2 (0.30%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.30%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.30%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.89%) VoIP
1 6 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (0.74%) SSH
3 2 (0.30%) FTP
3 2 (0.30%) Internet
4 1 (0.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 360 (53.25%) MySQL
2 33 (4.88%) Relational Database
3 25 (3.70%) MariaDB
4 23 (3.40%) SQL Server
5 22 (3.25%) MongoDB
6 20 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.78%) Redis
8 8 (1.18%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.89%) GIS
11 5 (0.74%) Power BI
12 4 (0.59%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.44%) Looker
14 2 (0.30%) phpMyAdmin
15 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 194 (28.70%) Git
2 28 (4.14%) JIRA
3 13 (1.92%) Subversion
3 13 (1.92%) webpack
4 9 (1.33%) GitLab
5 6 (0.89%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.74%) PHPUnit
7 3 (0.44%) Selenium
8 2 (0.30%) git-flow
8 2 (0.30%) Grunt
8 2 (0.30%) gulp
9 1 (0.15%) Appium
9 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.15%) Storybook
9 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.15%) WiX
General
1 153 (22.63%) Social Skills
2 48 (7.10%) Marketing
3 40 (5.92%) Finance
4 29 (4.29%) Retail
5 24 (3.55%) Games
6 14 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.07%) Telecoms
7 10 (1.48%) Manufacturing
7 10 (1.48%) Tech for Good
8 9 (1.33%) Turkish Language
9 7 (1.04%) Law
10 4 (0.59%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.44%) Legal
12 2 (0.30%) Aviation
12 2 (0.30%) Banking
13 1 (0.15%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.15%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.15%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 445 (65.83%) Laravel
2 301 (44.53%) HTML
3 282 (41.72%) CSS
4 159 (23.52%) React
5 154 (22.78%) Vue
6 132 (19.53%) Symfony
7 118 (17.46%) jQuery
8 69 (10.21%) LAMP
9 67 (9.91%) HTML5
10 64 (9.47%) RESTful
11 47 (6.95%) REST
12 44 (6.51%) CSS3
12 44 (6.51%) Node.js
13 42 (6.21%) AngularJS
14 38 (5.62%) SOAP
15 35 (5.18%) Web Services
16 31 (4.59%) Sass
17 30 (4.44%) Tailwind CSS
18 28 (4.14%) Doctrine
19 22 (3.25%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.40%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (4.44%) Mobile App
3 24 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (2.07%) Product Ownership
6 12 (1.78%) PropTech
7 10 (1.48%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.33%) Animation
9 7 (1.04%) Video Editing
10 6 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.74%) Legacy Code
12 4 (0.59%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.59%) Educational Technology
12 4 (0.59%) e-Learning
13 3 (0.44%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.44%) Digital Media
13 3 (0.44%) Photography
13 3 (0.44%) Solar Energy
14 2 (0.30%) Low-Code
14 2 (0.30%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 93 (13.76%) Linux
2 10 (1.48%) Windows
3 9 (1.33%) Ubuntu
4 6 (0.89%) Alpine Linux
5 5 (0.74%) Unix
6 2 (0.30%) AIX
7 1 (0.15%) Android
7 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (23.82%) Full Stack Development
2 152 (22.49%) Web Development
3 136 (20.12%) OOP
4 133 (19.67%) Agile
5 111 (16.42%) MVC
6 100 (14.79%) OO
7 91 (13.46%) E-Commerce
8 87 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
9 83 (12.28%) TDD
10 78 (11.54%) Software Engineering
11 60 (8.88%) User Experience
12 59 (8.73%) Clean Code
13 55 (8.14%) Computer Science
14 54 (7.99%) Unit Testing
15 51 (7.54%) OO PHP
16 49 (7.25%) DevOps
17 46 (6.80%) Front End Development
18 45 (6.66%) Test Automation
19 37 (5.47%) Roadmaps
20 36 (5.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 676 (100.00%) PHP
2 392 (57.99%) JavaScript
3 82 (12.13%) SQL
4 34 (5.03%) TypeScript
5 17 (2.51%) Java
6 15 (2.22%) Python
7 13 (1.92%) Go
8 12 (1.78%) Ada
9 9 (1.33%) VB
10 7 (1.04%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.89%) C#
11 6 (0.89%) Rust
12 4 (0.59%) CFML
12 4 (0.59%) Ruby
12 4 (0.59%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.15%) RPG
Qualifications
1 60 (8.88%) Degree
2 50 (7.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.99%) QA
2 6 (0.89%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 88 (13.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (2.37%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.18%) Terraform
3 2 (0.30%) cPanel
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (1.92%) Google
2 12 (1.78%) Adobe
2 12 (1.78%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.33%) Zend
4 8 (1.18%) Twitter
4 8 (1.18%) WooCommerce
5 6 (0.89%) Actuate
6 5 (0.74%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.59%) HP
8 3 (0.44%) Facebook
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle
9 2 (0.30%) Progress
10 1 (0.15%) Apple
10 1 (0.15%) Panasonic
10 1 (0.15%) Sony