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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 305 421
Rank change year-on-year -43 +116 -225
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 709 947 1,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.78% 1.13% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.23% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 650 488 993
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,750
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 £61,563 £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 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £81,250 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +28 223 £45,000 - 40
Midlands -44 121 £42,500 -15.00% 19
North West +21 116 £50,000 -2.44% 28
South East -97 116 £50,000 - 18
South West -34 109 £45,000 -5.26% 18
Yorkshire +51 94 £42,500 -1.16% 12
East of England +43 80 £43,500 -28.98% 16
West Midlands -17 69 £42,500 -8.11% 14
London +23 59 £50,000 -16.67% 30
East Midlands -53 51 £42,500 -19.05% 5
North East -27 13 £46,500 -
PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 709 (100.00%) PHP
2 453 (63.89%) Laravel
3 399 (56.28%) JavaScript
4 372 (52.47%) MySQL
5 309 (43.58%) HTML
6 288 (40.62%) CSS
7 204 (28.77%) AWS
8 202 (28.49%) Git
9 177 (24.96%) Full Stack Development
10 165 (23.27%) React
11 156 (22.00%) Social Skills
12 153 (21.58%) Web Development
13 152 (21.44%) Vue
14 137 (19.32%) Agile
14 137 (19.32%) OOP
15 135 (19.04%) Symfony
16 120 (16.93%) jQuery
17 113 (15.94%) MVC
18 102 (14.39%) OO
19 99 (13.96%) SaaS
20 98 (13.82%) Linux
21 93 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
22 91 (12.83%) E-Commerce
23 87 (12.27%) TDD
24 86 (12.13%) Docker
25 80 (11.28%) Software Engineering
25 80 (11.28%) SQL
26 73 (10.30%) WordPress
27 72 (10.16%) HTML5
28 67 (9.45%) LAMP

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 73 (10.30%) WordPress
2 29 (4.09%) CMS
3 22 (3.10%) Apache
4 20 (2.82%) nginx
5 6 (0.85%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.56%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.56%) ColdFusion
6 4 (0.56%) Drupal
6 4 (0.56%) IIS
7 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.28%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.14%) Confluence
9 1 (0.14%) Moodle
9 1 (0.14%) PrestaShop
9 1 (0.14%) Totara
Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 26 (3.67%) Magento
2 12 (1.69%) Shopify
3 4 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.28%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 204 (28.77%) AWS
2 99 (13.96%) SaaS
3 30 (4.23%) GCP
4 20 (2.82%) GitHub
5 15 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (1.55%) Azure
7 10 (1.41%) npm
7 10 (1.41%) Stripe
8 8 (1.13%) Figma
9 6 (0.85%) DigitalOcean
9 6 (0.85%) Serverless
10 5 (0.71%) Power Platform
11 4 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.42%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.42%) Google Tag Manager
13 2 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 2 (0.28%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.28%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.28%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.28%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.85%) VoIP
1 6 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (0.71%) SSH
3 2 (0.28%) FTP
3 2 (0.28%) Internet
4 1 (0.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (52.47%) MySQL
2 34 (4.80%) Relational Database
3 25 (3.53%) SQL Server
4 24 (3.39%) MariaDB
4 24 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (2.96%) MongoDB
6 13 (1.83%) Redis
7 7 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.85%) GIS
8 6 (0.85%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.71%) Power BI
10 4 (0.56%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.42%) Looker
12 2 (0.28%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 202 (28.49%) Git
2 28 (3.95%) JIRA
3 13 (1.83%) Subversion
3 13 (1.83%) webpack
4 9 (1.27%) GitLab
5 7 (0.99%) PHPUnit
6 6 (0.85%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.71%) Selenium
8 2 (0.28%) git-flow
8 2 (0.28%) Grunt
8 2 (0.28%) gulp
9 1 (0.14%) Appium
9 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.14%) Storybook
General
1 156 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 52 (7.33%) Marketing
3 45 (6.35%) Finance
4 27 (3.81%) Retail
5 25 (3.53%) Games
6 15 (2.12%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (1.83%) Telecoms
8 11 (1.55%) Tech for Good
9 10 (1.41%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.27%) Turkish Language
11 7 (0.99%) Law
12 5 (0.71%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.42%) Legal
14 2 (0.28%) Aviation
14 2 (0.28%) Banking
14 2 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.14%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 453 (63.89%) Laravel
2 309 (43.58%) HTML
3 288 (40.62%) CSS
4 165 (23.27%) React
5 152 (21.44%) Vue
6 135 (19.04%) Symfony
7 120 (16.93%) jQuery
8 72 (10.16%) HTML5
9 67 (9.45%) LAMP
10 65 (9.17%) RESTful
11 48 (6.77%) Node.js
12 47 (6.63%) REST
13 45 (6.35%) CSS3
14 42 (5.92%) AngularJS
15 37 (5.22%) SOAP
16 32 (4.51%) Sass
16 32 (4.51%) Web Services
17 28 (3.95%) Tailwind CSS
18 25 (3.53%) Doctrine
19 23 (3.24%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.05%) Greenfield Project
2 32 (4.51%) Mobile App
3 24 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (1.97%) Product Ownership
6 12 (1.69%) PropTech
7 10 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.27%) Animation
9 7 (0.99%) Legacy Code
9 7 (0.99%) Video Editing
10 6 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.71%) Educational Technology
11 5 (0.71%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.56%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.56%) Cybercrime
13 3 (0.42%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.42%) Digital Media
13 3 (0.42%) Photography
13 3 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.42%) Solar Energy
Operating Systems
1 98 (13.82%) Linux
2 11 (1.55%) Windows
3 9 (1.27%) Ubuntu
4 6 (0.85%) Alpine Linux
5 5 (0.71%) Unix
6 2 (0.28%) AIX
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (24.96%) Full Stack Development
2 153 (21.58%) Web Development
3 137 (19.32%) Agile
3 137 (19.32%) OOP
4 113 (15.94%) MVC
5 102 (14.39%) OO
6 93 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (12.83%) E-Commerce
8 87 (12.27%) TDD
9 80 (11.28%) Software Engineering
10 62 (8.74%) User Experience
11 61 (8.60%) Clean Code
12 55 (7.76%) Computer Science
12 55 (7.76%) Unit Testing
13 51 (7.19%) OO PHP
14 49 (6.91%) DevOps
15 47 (6.63%) Front End Development
16 46 (6.49%) Test Automation
17 38 (5.36%) Roadmaps
18 34 (4.80%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 709 (100.00%) PHP
2 399 (56.28%) JavaScript
3 80 (11.28%) SQL
4 41 (5.78%) TypeScript
5 17 (2.40%) Java
6 16 (2.26%) Go
7 15 (2.12%) Python
8 12 (1.69%) Ada
9 9 (1.27%) VB
10 7 (0.99%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.85%) C#
11 6 (0.85%) Rust
12 4 (0.56%) CFML
12 4 (0.56%) Ruby
12 4 (0.56%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 60 (8.46%) Degree
2 50 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.67%) QA
2 7 (0.99%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 86 (12.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (2.26%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.41%) Terraform
3 3 (0.42%) cPanel
4 1 (0.14%) Ansible
4 1 (0.14%) Plesk
Vendors
1 13 (1.83%) Adobe
1 13 (1.83%) Google
2 12 (1.69%) Microsoft
3 11 (1.55%) Zend
4 8 (1.13%) Twitter
4 8 (1.13%) WooCommerce
5 6 (0.85%) Actuate
5 6 (0.85%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.56%) HP
7 3 (0.42%) Facebook
7 3 (0.42%) Oracle
8 2 (0.28%) Progress
9 1 (0.14%) Apple
9 1 (0.14%) Panasonic
9 1 (0.14%) Sony