PHP Developer Jobs in Scotland

PHP Developer
UK > Scotland

The median PHP Developer salary in Scotland 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 247 149 198
Rank change year-on-year -98 +49 -71
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 26 60 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.38% 1.38% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 1.54% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 26 23 53
10th Percentile - £39,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £38,750 - £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £56,000 £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
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,635 3,895 5,814
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.03% 89.52% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,785 2,120 3,050
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,652 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in Scotland

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for PHP Developer in Scotland

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in Scotland

PHP Developer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -138 7 £45,000 - 1
Dundee - 6 £45,000 -
Edinburgh +12 5 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Aberdeen - 4 £42,500 -
Stirling - 1 £50,000 - 2
Renfrewshire - 1 £52,500 -
PHP Developer
UK

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

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 Scotland region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) PHP
2 15 (57.69%) MySQL
2 15 (57.69%) AWS
2 15 (57.69%) Laravel
3 12 (46.15%) DevOps
4 11 (42.31%) Agile
5 10 (38.46%) Full Stack Development
6 9 (34.62%) React
6 9 (34.62%) SaaS
7 8 (30.77%) Vue
8 7 (26.92%) TypeScript
8 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
9 6 (23.08%) User Experience
9 6 (23.08%) Microservices
9 6 (23.08%) OO PHP
9 6 (23.08%) UX Design
9 6 (23.08%) QA
9 6 (23.08%) OO
9 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
10 5 (19.23%) HTML
10 5 (19.23%) CSS
10 5 (19.23%) WordPress
10 5 (19.23%) Clean Code
10 5 (19.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (19.23%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (11.54%) Git
11 3 (11.54%) Symfony
12 2 (7.69%) Workflow
12 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (19.23%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) AWS
2 9 (34.62%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (57.69%) MySQL
2 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Git
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.85%) Digital Healthcare
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (57.69%) Laravel
2 9 (34.62%) React
3 8 (30.77%) Vue
4 5 (19.23%) CSS
4 5 (19.23%) HTML
5 3 (11.54%) Symfony
6 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
6 2 (7.69%) jQuery
6 2 (7.69%) REST
7 1 (3.85%) CSS3
7 1 (3.85%) HTML5
7 1 (3.85%) Node.js
7 1 (3.85%) RESTful
7 1 (3.85%) Twig
7 1 (3.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 1 (3.85%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.85%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) DevOps
2 11 (42.31%) Agile
3 10 (38.46%) Full Stack Development
4 6 (23.08%) Microservices
4 6 (23.08%) OO
4 6 (23.08%) OO PHP
4 6 (23.08%) User Experience
4 6 (23.08%) UX Design
5 5 (19.23%) Clean Code
5 5 (19.23%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (7.69%) E-Commerce
6 2 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (7.69%) TDD
6 2 (7.69%) Unit Testing
6 2 (7.69%) Workflow
7 1 (3.85%) Customer Experience
7 1 (3.85%) Project Planning
7 1 (3.85%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) PHP
2 7 (26.92%) TypeScript
3 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes