PHP Jobs in England

PHP
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 156 111
Rank change year-on-year +7 -45 -48
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,689 1,989 4,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.90% 2.30% 3.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.03% 5.34% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,526 1,358 2,697
10th Percentile £31,125 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63,218 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 28,024 37,268 74,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.54% 43.05% 53.52%
Number of salaries quoted 22,545 24,192 38,932
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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 28 May 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 28 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 +27 494 £47,500 -5.00% 87
South West +10 265 £45,000 -5.26% 54
London -5 263 £65,000 +8.33% 127
South East -85 251 £55,000 +10.00% 47
North West +42 241 £50,000 -9.09% 54
Midlands +10 227 £45,000 -14.29% 65
Yorkshire +61 225 £47,500 +5.56% 30
East of England +50 176 £43,750 -27.08% 35
West Midlands +19 127 £45,000 -14.29% 45
East Midlands -16 99 £45,000 -14.29% 20
North East -42 28 £43,750 -23.91% 3
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
1 242 (14.33%) WordPress
2 102 (6.04%) CMS
3 71 (4.20%) Drupal
4 53 (3.14%) Apache
5 48 (2.84%) nginx
6 17 (1.01%) Confluence
7 9 (0.53%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.41%) IIS
9 6 (0.36%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.24%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.24%) Moodle
11 4 (0.24%) SAS
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.12%) Joomla!
13 2 (0.12%) Liferay
13 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
14 1 (0.059%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 19 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.71%) Adobe XD
4 11 (0.65%) Simulink
5 10 (0.59%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.12%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.059%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 78 (4.62%) Magento
2 47 (2.78%) Shopify
3 21 (1.24%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.24%) CiviCRM
4 4 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.059%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 509 (30.14%) AWS
2 193 (11.43%) SaaS
3 91 (5.39%) Azure
4 84 (4.97%) GitHub
5 60 (3.55%) GCP
6 35 (2.07%) Amazon S3
7 32 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (1.48%) Amazon Kinesis
8 25 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.30%) Figma
9 22 (1.30%) npm
10 21 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
11 17 (1.01%) Power Platform
11 17 (1.01%) Serverless
12 15 (0.89%) Stripe
13 14 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
16 11 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (0.59%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.95%) HTTP
2 27 (1.60%) Internet
3 16 (0.95%) DNS
4 13 (0.77%) SSL
5 12 (0.71%) Firewall
6 9 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.36%) SSH
7 6 (0.36%) VoIP
8 5 (0.30%) FTP
8 5 (0.30%) LAN
8 5 (0.30%) WAN
9 3 (0.18%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.12%) VPN
10 2 (0.12%) Wireless
11 1 (0.059%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.059%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.059%) IPsec
11 1 (0.059%) IPv4
11 1 (0.059%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 713 (42.21%) MySQL
2 87 (5.15%) Relational Database
3 79 (4.68%) SQL Server
4 74 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
5 47 (2.78%) MongoDB
6 41 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
7 39 (2.31%) MariaDB
8 30 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (1.60%) RDBMS
9 27 (1.60%) Redis
10 25 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 25 (1.48%) NoSQL
11 17 (1.01%) Power BI
12 15 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
13 13 (0.77%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (0.53%) SQLite
16 8 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 7 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
18 6 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 463 (27.41%) Git
2 71 (4.20%) JIRA
3 40 (2.37%) Selenium
4 33 (1.95%) GitLab
4 33 (1.95%) Jenkins
5 31 (1.84%) Cypress.io
6 26 (1.54%) Postman
7 24 (1.42%) Subversion
8 16 (0.95%) webpack
9 15 (0.89%) PHPUnit
10 13 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
11 11 (0.65%) gulp
12 10 (0.59%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.53%) Visual Studio
14 8 (0.47%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.24%) git-flow
15 4 (0.24%) Grunt
16 3 (0.18%) Appium
17 2 (0.12%) Bower
17 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 343 (20.31%) Social Skills
2 171 (10.12%) Marketing
3 125 (7.40%) Retail
4 101 (5.98%) Finance
5 59 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (2.72%) Games
7 37 (2.19%) Tech for Good
8 30 (1.78%) Telecoms
9 28 (1.66%) Manufacturing
10 26 (1.54%) Public Sector
11 19 (1.12%) Electronics
11 19 (1.12%) Law
11 19 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.07%) Banking
12 18 (1.07%) Legal
13 14 (0.83%) Health Technology
14 11 (0.65%) German Language
15 10 (0.59%) Retail Banking
16 9 (0.53%) Turkish Language
17 8 (0.47%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 1,263 (74.78%) Developer
2 690 (40.85%) PHP Developer
3 346 (20.49%) Senior
4 303 (17.94%) Senior Developer
5 237 (14.03%) Full Stack Developer
6 170 (10.07%) Lead
7 163 (9.65%) Web Developer
8 147 (8.70%) Senior PHP Developer
9 122 (7.22%) Software Engineer
10 91 (5.39%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 90 (5.33%) WordPress Developer
12 89 (5.27%) Software Developer
13 88 (5.21%) Full Stack PHP Developer
14 70 (4.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 70 (4.14%) Junior
15 66 (3.91%) Junior Developer
16 61 (3.61%) Lead Developer
17 56 (3.32%) PHP Web Developer
18 54 (3.20%) Technical Leader
19 43 (2.55%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 781 (46.24%) Laravel
2 699 (41.39%) HTML
3 657 (38.90%) CSS
4 407 (24.10%) React
5 288 (17.05%) Vue
6 215 (12.73%) jQuery
7 207 (12.26%) Symfony
8 175 (10.36%) LAMP
9 158 (9.35%) HTML5
10 139 (8.23%) Node.js
11 120 (7.10%) CSS3
12 118 (6.99%) RESTful
13 106 (6.28%) REST
14 104 (6.16%) AngularJS
15 87 (5.15%) Web Services
16 77 (4.56%) JSON
17 74 (4.38%) Sass
18 67 (3.97%) .NET
19 52 (3.08%) SOAP
20 49 (2.90%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 89 (5.27%) Greenfield Project
2 49 (2.90%) Mobile App
3 40 (2.37%) Onboarding
4 36 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 34 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 31 (1.84%) Product Ownership
7 30 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (1.36%) IoT
10 21 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
12 19 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
13 15 (0.89%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.89%) Animation
14 13 (0.77%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.71%) PropTech
16 10 (0.59%) Client/Server
16 10 (0.59%) Data Structures
16 10 (0.59%) Video Editing
17 9 (0.53%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 180 (10.66%) Linux
2 40 (2.37%) Windows
3 19 (1.12%) Ubuntu
4 9 (0.53%) Unix
5 6 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
6 5 (0.30%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.12%) AIX
8 2 (0.12%) Android
8 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.059%) CentOS
9 1 (0.059%) Rocky
9 1 (0.059%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (25.28%) Full Stack Development
2 376 (22.26%) Web Development
3 369 (21.85%) Agile
4 301 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
5 282 (16.70%) Software Engineering
6 247 (14.62%) OOP
7 238 (14.09%) E-Commerce
8 222 (13.14%) MVC
9 192 (11.37%) DevOps
10 176 (10.42%) User Experience
11 150 (8.88%) Computer Science
12 140 (8.29%) Front End Development
13 132 (7.82%) Mentoring
14 128 (7.58%) OO
14 128 (7.58%) TDD
15 109 (6.45%) CI/CD
16 108 (6.39%) Roadmaps
17 103 (6.10%) Clean Code
18 92 (5.45%) Project Management
19 85 (5.03%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 882 (52.22%) JavaScript
2 232 (13.74%) SQL
3 141 (8.35%) TypeScript
4 124 (7.34%) C#
5 117 (6.93%) Python
6 108 (6.39%) Java
7 39 (2.31%) Go
8 38 (2.25%) C
9 27 (1.60%) Ruby
10 24 (1.42%) Bash
11 22 (1.30%) Rust
12 21 (1.24%) C++
13 16 (0.95%) VB
14 14 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 13 (0.77%) Ada
16 12 (0.71%) PowerShell
16 12 (0.71%) VB.NET
17 11 (0.65%) MATLAB
18 10 (0.59%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.41%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 224 (13.26%) Degree
2 98 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (1.07%) Security Cleared
4 16 (0.95%) Azure Certification
5 7 (0.41%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.18%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.059%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.059%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.059%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (3.20%) QA
2 35 (2.07%) Accessibility
2 35 (2.07%) WCAG
3 17 (1.01%) GDPR
4 3 (0.18%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.12%) HL7
5 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.12%) SLA
6 1 (0.059%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.059%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.059%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.059%) PMO
System Software
1 238 (14.09%) Docker
2 4 (0.24%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.12%) Firmware
3 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.059%) PowerDNS
4 1 (0.059%) Varnish
4 1 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.059%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 106 (6.28%) Kubernetes
2 76 (4.50%) Terraform
3 20 (1.18%) Ansible
4 14 (0.83%) Puppet
5 11 (0.65%) Grafana
5 11 (0.65%) Progress Chef
6 8 (0.47%) cPanel
6 8 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.24%) Rancher
8 2 (0.12%) Plesk
8 2 (0.12%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.059%) Argo
9 1 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.059%) Podman
9 1 (0.059%) SCCM
9 1 (0.059%) systemd
Vendors
1 64 (3.79%) Google
2 44 (2.61%) WooCommerce
3 42 (2.49%) Microsoft
4 28 (1.66%) Adobe
5 14 (0.83%) Twitter
5 14 (0.83%) Zend
6 10 (0.59%) New Relic
6 10 (0.59%) Oracle
7 9 (0.53%) VMware
8 8 (0.47%) SAP
9 7 (0.41%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.41%) SaltStack
10 6 (0.36%) Actuate
10 6 (0.36%) Facebook
10 6 (0.36%) Sitecore
11 5 (0.30%) F5
11 5 (0.30%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.30%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.24%) HP
12 4 (0.24%) YouTube