Senior PHP Developer Jobs in England

Senior PHP Developer
UK > England

The median Senior PHP Developer salary in England is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 689 468 990
Rank change year-on-year -221 +522 -415
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 147 524 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.61% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.66% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 138 106 130
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £91,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +26.32%

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 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £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%

Senior PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior PHP Developer in England

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior PHP Developer in England

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior PHP Developer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior PHP Developer in England

Senior 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 Senior PHP Developer 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 -47 58 £52,500 -4.55% 7
North West -1 44 £52,500 -4.55% 6
South West -70 28 £55,000 -4.35% 2
South East -62 27 £55,000 +10.00% 3
Yorkshire +12 14 £55,000 +27.91% 1
London +100 12 £77,500 +40.91% 12
Midlands -119 12 £42,500 -22.73% 4
East of England -16 10 £52,500 -40.00% 3
East Midlands -78 8 £42,500 -22.73% 1
West Midlands -47 4 £70,000 +40.00% 3
Senior PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior PHP Developer in the job title.

1 147 (100.00%) PHP
2 104 (70.75%) Laravel
3 67 (45.58%) JavaScript
3 67 (45.58%) MySQL
4 54 (36.73%) AWS
5 48 (32.65%) React
6 45 (30.61%) HTML
7 40 (27.21%) CSS
8 39 (26.53%) Social Skills
9 33 (22.45%) Vue
9 33 (22.45%) Symfony
10 30 (20.41%) Full Stack Development
11 28 (19.05%) Agile
12 27 (18.37%) SaaS
12 27 (18.37%) Git
13 24 (16.33%) OOP
14 21 (14.29%) MVC
15 20 (13.61%) TDD
16 18 (12.24%) Web Development
16 18 (12.24%) RESTful
17 17 (11.56%) TypeScript
17 17 (11.56%) E-Commerce
17 17 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
18 16 (10.88%) Clean Code
18 16 (10.88%) GCP
19 14 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
20 13 (8.84%) jQuery
20 13 (8.84%) LAMP
21 12 (8.16%) PropTech
22 11 (7.48%) Greenfield Project

Senior 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 10 (6.80%) WordPress
2 9 (6.12%) CMS
3 2 (1.36%) Apache
3 2 (1.36%) nginx
4 1 (0.68%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 7 (4.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 54 (36.73%) AWS
2 27 (18.37%) SaaS
3 16 (10.88%) GCP
4 9 (6.12%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (3.40%) GitHub
6 4 (2.72%) Azure
7 3 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.68%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.68%) Datadog
8 1 (0.68%) Discord
8 1 (0.68%) Firebase
8 1 (0.68%) Serverless
8 1 (0.68%) Slack
8 1 (0.68%) Twilio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (45.58%) MySQL
2 5 (3.40%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.72%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.72%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (18.37%) Git
2 3 (2.04%) PHPUnit
3 2 (1.36%) GitLab
3 2 (1.36%) Selenium
4 1 (0.68%) Appium
4 1 (0.68%) Storybook
General
1 39 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.48%) Marketing
3 10 (6.80%) Retail
4 7 (4.76%) Finance
4 7 (4.76%) Games
5 5 (3.40%) Tech for Good
6 4 (2.72%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.36%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.68%) Legal
8 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (70.75%) Laravel
2 48 (32.65%) React
3 45 (30.61%) HTML
4 40 (27.21%) CSS
5 33 (22.45%) Symfony
5 33 (22.45%) Vue
6 18 (12.24%) RESTful
7 13 (8.84%) jQuery
7 13 (8.84%) LAMP
8 10 (6.80%) Node.js
9 8 (5.44%) Web Services
10 6 (4.08%) HTML5
10 6 (4.08%) JSON
11 5 (3.40%) AngularJS
12 4 (2.72%) CodeIgniter
12 4 (2.72%) Electron
12 4 (2.72%) REST
12 4 (2.72%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 3 (2.04%) Yii
14 2 (1.36%) CakePHP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.16%) PropTech
2 11 (7.48%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (6.80%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.04%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.04%) Solar Energy
5 2 (1.36%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.36%) NHS
6 1 (0.68%) Cybercrime
6 1 (0.68%) Digital Wallet
6 1 (0.68%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.41%) Full Stack Development
2 28 (19.05%) Agile
3 24 (16.33%) OOP
4 21 (14.29%) MVC
5 20 (13.61%) TDD
6 18 (12.24%) Web Development
7 17 (11.56%) E-Commerce
7 17 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (10.88%) Clean Code
9 14 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (7.48%) Mentoring
10 11 (7.48%) Scrum
10 11 (7.48%) User Experience
11 10 (6.80%) API Development
11 10 (6.80%) Software Engineering
12 8 (5.44%) Computer Science
12 8 (5.44%) Fintech
12 8 (5.44%) Kanban
13 7 (4.76%) Roadmaps
13 7 (4.76%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 147 (100.00%) PHP
2 67 (45.58%) JavaScript
3 17 (11.56%) TypeScript
4 4 (2.72%) Python
4 4 (2.72%) Ruby
5 3 (2.04%) SQL
6 1 (0.68%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (5.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.36%) QA
System Software
1 10 (6.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.40%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.04%) Terraform
3 1 (0.68%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (3.40%) Google
1 5 (3.40%) Twitter
2 1 (0.68%) Apple
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.68%) Panasonic
2 1 (0.68%) Sony
2 1 (0.68%) Zend