PHP Jobs in England

PHP
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 209 151
Rank change year-on-year +42 -58 -76
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,159 954 3,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.60% 1.70% 2.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.31% 4.15% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 768 854 2,091
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +12.63%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21,821 23,015 64,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.12% 40.94% 49.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13,569 18,242 36,271
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £63,956
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.63% +6.59%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £61,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.38% +4.00% +8.70%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in England

PHP
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for PHP in England

PHP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in England over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP in England

PHP
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 20 September 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 +48 297 £47,500 -2.56% 71
South East -39 248 £52,500 +5.00% 39
Midlands +73 185 £42,500 -15.00% 45
North West +52 184 £50,000 - 44
South West +32 164 £45,000 -10.00% 41
East of England +47 127 £50,000 -4.76% 29
London -60 124 £62,500 +4.17% 50
West Midlands +58 121 £43,750 -12.50% 34
Yorkshire +11 86 £51,500 +3.00% 18
East Midlands +8 64 £42,500 -22.73% 11
North East -2 27 £35,000 -3.45% 9
PHP
UK

PHP
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
1 153 (13.20%) WordPress
2 85 (7.33%) CMS
3 42 (3.62%) Apache
4 33 (2.85%) nginx
5 31 (2.67%) Drupal
6 27 (2.33%) Confluence
7 15 (1.29%) Totara
8 14 (1.21%) Moodle
9 6 (0.52%) SharePoint
10 5 (0.43%) ColdFusion
10 5 (0.43%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.35%) IIS
11 4 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.35%) SAS
12 3 (0.26%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.17%) Joomla!
13 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
14 1 (0.086%) Apache Spark
14 1 (0.086%) PrestaShop
14 1 (0.086%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (1.73%) Photoshop
2 19 (1.64%) Adobe XD
3 15 (1.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 15 (1.29%) Adobe Illustrator
4 12 (1.04%) Sketch
5 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
7 7 (0.60%) Elementor
8 5 (0.43%) Simulink
9 4 (0.35%) InVision
9 4 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.35%) Zeplin
10 2 (0.17%) InDesign
10 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.086%) SketchUp
11 1 (0.086%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 50 (4.31%) Magento
2 31 (2.67%) Shopify
3 19 (1.64%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.78%) SAP ERP
4 9 (0.78%) SAP SD
5 6 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.26%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.086%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 316 (27.26%) AWS
2 126 (10.87%) SaaS
3 106 (9.15%) Azure
4 105 (9.06%) GitHub
5 81 (6.99%) GCP
6 39 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (2.59%) Amazon S3
8 28 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (2.24%) Serverless
10 24 (2.07%) Amazon Kinesis
11 19 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (1.55%) Figma
12 18 (1.55%) Google Analytics
13 15 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (1.29%) npm
14 14 (1.21%) Datadog
14 14 (1.21%) Slack
14 14 (1.21%) Zapier
15 13 (1.12%) PaaS
16 12 (1.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.59%) Internet
2 18 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
3 13 (1.12%) DNS
4 12 (1.04%) Wireless
5 9 (0.78%) HTTP
5 9 (0.78%) LAN
5 9 (0.78%) SNMP
5 9 (0.78%) WAN
6 8 (0.69%) Firewall
7 7 (0.60%) BGP
7 7 (0.60%) MPLS
7 7 (0.60%) OSPF
8 6 (0.52%) Network Security
8 6 (0.52%) SSH
9 5 (0.43%) Modbus
10 4 (0.35%) SMTP
11 3 (0.26%) SMS
12 2 (0.17%) AMQP
12 2 (0.17%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.086%) DNSSEC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 558 (48.14%) MySQL
2 98 (8.46%) SQL Server
3 77 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
4 75 (6.47%) Relational Database
5 36 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 26 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (2.16%) NoSQL
8 25 (2.16%) RDBMS
9 24 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 23 (1.98%) MariaDB
11 18 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (1.47%) Redis
13 16 (1.38%) SQLite
14 12 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (1.04%) Power BI
15 9 (0.78%) Big Data
16 6 (0.52%) Tableau
17 5 (0.43%) DynamoDB
18 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 365 (31.49%) Git
2 57 (4.92%) JIRA
3 51 (4.40%) Selenium
4 47 (4.06%) PHPUnit
5 34 (2.93%) Bitbucket
6 32 (2.76%) Jenkins
7 30 (2.59%) GitLab
8 28 (2.42%) Cypress.io
9 25 (2.16%) Postman
10 12 (1.04%) Mercurial
11 7 (0.60%) gulp
11 7 (0.60%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.52%) Mocha
13 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 5 (0.43%) webpack
14 4 (0.35%) Babel
14 4 (0.35%) Crucible
14 4 (0.35%) Grunt
14 4 (0.35%) rollup.js
14 4 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 267 (23.04%) Social Skills
2 106 (9.15%) Finance
3 102 (8.80%) Marketing
4 81 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (4.57%) Retail
6 35 (3.02%) Tech for Good
7 23 (1.98%) Automotive
7 23 (1.98%) Games
8 18 (1.55%) Law
9 15 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
10 14 (1.21%) Legal
10 14 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.04%) Health Technology
11 12 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 10 (0.86%) Electronics
13 9 (0.78%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.60%) Advertising
15 6 (0.52%) Banking
16 5 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 4 (0.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 857 (73.94%) Developer
2 468 (40.38%) PHP Developer
3 278 (23.99%) Senior
4 211 (18.21%) Senior Developer
5 158 (13.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 155 (13.37%) Web Developer
7 114 (9.84%) Senior PHP Developer
8 93 (8.02%) Lead
9 86 (7.42%) Software Engineer
10 68 (5.87%) PHP Web Developer
11 66 (5.69%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
12 60 (5.18%) WordPress Developer
13 48 (4.14%) PHP Laravel Developer
14 43 (3.71%) Senior Web Developer
15 40 (3.45%) Software Developer
16 39 (3.36%) Technical Leader
17 35 (3.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 29 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
19 28 (2.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
20 27 (2.33%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 517 (44.61%) HTML
2 489 (42.19%) CSS
3 418 (36.07%) Laravel
4 315 (27.18%) React
5 187 (16.13%) Vue
6 160 (13.81%) Symfony
7 130 (11.22%) HTML5
8 128 (11.04%) jQuery
9 113 (9.75%) LAMP
10 107 (9.23%) Node.js
11 82 (7.08%) CSS3
12 80 (6.90%) AngularJS
13 73 (6.30%) .NET
13 73 (6.30%) RESTful
14 65 (5.61%) REST
15 56 (4.83%) Sass
15 56 (4.83%) Web Services
16 39 (3.36%) JSON
17 34 (2.93%) Jest
18 31 (2.67%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 44 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
2 38 (3.28%) Mobile App
3 37 (3.19%) IoT
4 35 (3.02%) Cybercrime
5 32 (2.76%) Cloud Native
6 31 (2.67%) Management Information System
7 25 (2.16%) Product Ownership
8 23 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.81%) Virtual Team
10 20 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.55%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.21%) e-Learning
13 11 (0.95%) Data Centre
13 11 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (0.95%) Social Media
14 10 (0.86%) Graphic Design
14 10 (0.86%) Legacy Code
15 9 (0.78%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
17 7 (0.60%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 172 (14.84%) Linux
2 39 (3.36%) Windows
3 16 (1.38%) Android
3 16 (1.38%) Apple iOS
3 16 (1.38%) Ubuntu
4 13 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.04%) CentOS
6 9 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.43%) Unix
9 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.086%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.086%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (25.71%) Full-Stack Development
1 298 (25.71%) Web Development
2 279 (24.07%) Agile
3 254 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
4 214 (18.46%) Software Engineering
5 193 (16.65%) E-Commerce
6 171 (14.75%) OOP
7 156 (13.46%) Computer Science
8 149 (12.86%) DevOps
9 132 (11.39%) MVC
10 128 (11.04%) OO
11 126 (10.87%) User Experience
12 110 (9.49%) CI/CD
13 100 (8.63%) Roadmaps
14 97 (8.37%) Front End Development
15 92 (7.94%) TDD
16 90 (7.77%) Project Management
17 85 (7.33%) Clean Code
18 77 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
19 74 (6.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 665 (57.38%) JavaScript
2 201 (17.34%) SQL
3 132 (11.39%) TypeScript
4 126 (10.87%) Python
5 98 (8.46%) Java
6 95 (8.20%) C#
7 36 (3.11%) C++
8 31 (2.67%) Go
9 21 (1.81%) C
10 16 (1.38%) Bash
10 16 (1.38%) Perl
11 15 (1.29%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.12%) Ruby
13 11 (0.95%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.78%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.60%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.60%) Objective-C
15 7 (0.60%) VB.NET
16 6 (0.52%) Bicep
16 6 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 193 (16.65%) Degree
2 97 (8.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (0.86%) Master's Degree
3 10 (0.86%) Security Cleared
4 9 (0.78%) Azure Certification
5 7 (0.60%) CCNP
5 7 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (0.52%) JNCIS
7 5 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
7 5 (0.43%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.43%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.086%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.086%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.086%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.086%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.086%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.086%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.28%) Accessibility
2 25 (2.16%) WCAG
3 14 (1.21%) QA
4 8 (0.69%) GDPR
5 6 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.35%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.086%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.086%) SLA
System Software
1 180 (15.53%) Docker
2 8 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.17%) Varnish
5 1 (0.086%) GlusterFS
5 1 (0.086%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 73 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 58 (5.00%) Terraform
3 13 (1.12%) cPanel
4 7 (0.60%) Ansible
5 6 (0.52%) Grafana
6 5 (0.43%) Cacti
6 5 (0.43%) Nagios
6 5 (0.43%) Plesk
7 4 (0.35%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.26%) Galera Cluster
9 1 (0.086%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.086%) Puppet
9 1 (0.086%) systemd
Vendors
1 87 (7.51%) Google
2 30 (2.59%) WooCommerce
3 27 (2.33%) Adobe
4 21 (1.81%) Microsoft
4 21 (1.81%) Zend
5 14 (1.21%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.12%) SAP
6 13 (1.12%) VMware
7 11 (0.95%) Sage
8 9 (0.78%) OpenAI
8 9 (0.78%) Oracle
8 9 (0.78%) Twitter
9 8 (0.69%) New Relic
10 7 (0.60%) Atlassian
10 7 (0.60%) F5
10 7 (0.60%) Xamarin
11 6 (0.52%) Openreach
12 5 (0.43%) Databricks
13 3 (0.26%) DevExpress
13 3 (0.26%) Facebook