PHP Jobs in Scotland

PHP
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 236 139 127
Rank change year-on-year -97 -12 -67
Permanent jobs citing PHP 48 92 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.71% 2.06% 2.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.29% 4.90% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 39 50 114
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,909 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,875 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £54,375 £61,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £63,000 - £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
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,712 1,879 2,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 54.66% 42.01% 44.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,139 1,031 1,582
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,000
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Scotland

PHP
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for PHP in Scotland

PHP
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for PHP in Scotland

PHP
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 within the Scotland 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
Dundee - 16 £47,500 - 1
Glasgow -151 14 £45,000 -21.74% 5
Edinburgh +11 5 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Fife -4 4 - -
Aberdeen -10 4 £42,500 -
Renfrewshire -3 1 £52,500 +28.51%
Stirling - 1 £50,000 - 2
PHP
UK

PHP
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 (10.42%) WordPress
2 4 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (62.50%) AWS
2 14 (29.17%) SaaS
3 7 (14.58%) Serverless
4 5 (10.42%) Azure
5 4 (8.33%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.17%) GCP
6 2 (4.17%) IaaS
6 2 (4.17%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (45.83%) MySQL
2 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Git
General
1 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.17%) Retail
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 43 (89.58%) Developer
2 26 (54.17%) PHP Developer
3 11 (22.92%) Software Developer
4 9 (18.75%) Senior
5 7 (14.58%) Senior Developer
6 6 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
7 5 (10.42%) Lead
8 3 (6.25%) Full Stack PHP Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Senior PHP Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Development Team Leader
9 2 (4.17%) Lead Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Senior Full Stack Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Team Leader
10 1 (2.08%) Junior
10 1 (2.08%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 1 (2.08%) PHP Symfony Developer
10 1 (2.08%) React Developer
10 1 (2.08%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (41.67%) Laravel
2 17 (35.42%) Vue
3 16 (33.33%) CSS
3 16 (33.33%) HTML
4 13 (27.08%) React
5 11 (22.92%) AngularJS
6 10 (20.83%) Node.js
7 7 (14.58%) Serverless Framework
8 3 (6.25%) Symfony
9 2 (4.17%) .NET
9 2 (4.17%) jQuery
9 2 (4.17%) LAMP
9 2 (4.17%) REST
9 2 (4.17%) RESTful
10 1 (2.08%) CSS3
10 1 (2.08%) HTML5
10 1 (2.08%) Twig
10 1 (2.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 1 (2.08%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.17%) Life Science
3 1 (2.08%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
2 2 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.25%) User Experience
2 14 (29.17%) UX Design
3 13 (27.08%) Agile
3 13 (27.08%) Full Stack Development
4 12 (25.00%) DevOps
5 9 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 8 (16.67%) Microservices
7 7 (14.58%) OOP
8 6 (12.50%) Clean Code
8 6 (12.50%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
8 6 (12.50%) OO
8 6 (12.50%) OO PHP
8 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (10.42%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (8.33%) Unit Testing
11 3 (6.25%) Computer Science
11 3 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (6.25%) Project Management
11 3 (6.25%) TDD
12 2 (4.17%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (47.92%) JavaScript
2 10 (20.83%) TypeScript
3 9 (18.75%) Java
4 7 (14.58%) C#
5 6 (12.50%) C
6 4 (8.33%) SQL
7 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.17%) Python
7 2 (4.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (20.83%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.17%) Progress Chef
2 2 (4.17%) Puppet