PHP Developer Jobs in the South East

PHP Developer
England > South East

The median PHP Developer salary in the South East is £50,000 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 283 186 246
Rank change year-on-year -97 +60 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 116 243 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.65% 1.77% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.96% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 111 158 264
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,375 £77,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 16,769 12,374 19,894
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 89.99% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,915 7,936 12,370
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the South East

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in the South East.

Salary trend for PHP Developer in the South East

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the South East

PHP Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the South East 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
Hampshire -102 34 £50,000 +14.29% 2
East Sussex +6 27 £52,500 +5.00% 5
Thames Valley -16 25 £47,500 -13.64% 4
Buckinghamshire -12 13 £46,250 -15.91% 4
West Sussex +25 12 £40,000 +6.67% 3
Berkshire -5 10 £65,000 +18.18%
Kent -17 10 £47,500 -9.52% 2
Surrey -4 8 £55,000 +10.00%
Oxfordshire +5 2 £40,000 -27.27%
PHP Developer
England

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 116 (100.00%) PHP
2 80 (68.97%) Laravel
3 77 (66.38%) JavaScript
4 74 (63.79%) MySQL
5 72 (62.07%) HTML
5 72 (62.07%) CSS
6 54 (46.55%) Git
7 49 (42.24%) AWS
8 46 (39.66%) jQuery
9 43 (37.07%) Symfony
10 40 (34.48%) OOP
11 35 (30.17%) Web Development
12 32 (27.59%) Vue
13 29 (25.00%) HTML5
14 28 (24.14%) Agile
14 28 (24.14%) React
15 27 (23.28%) SaaS
16 26 (22.41%) OO
16 26 (22.41%) MVC
17 24 (20.69%) Linux
18 23 (19.83%) SOAP
18 23 (19.83%) Docker
19 21 (18.10%) Unit Testing
19 21 (18.10%) Full Stack Development
20 20 (17.24%) Legacy Systems
20 20 (17.24%) GCP
21 19 (16.38%) REST
21 19 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
22 18 (15.52%) Social Skills
22 18 (15.52%) TDD

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (7.76%) Apache
2 5 (4.31%) nginx
3 4 (3.45%) Apache Solr
3 4 (3.45%) CMS
3 4 (3.45%) ColdFusion
3 4 (3.45%) IIS
3 4 (3.45%) WordPress
4 2 (1.72%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.86%) Drupal
5 1 (0.86%) Moodle
5 1 (0.86%) Totara
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.45%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Magento
1 1 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (42.24%) AWS
2 27 (23.28%) SaaS
3 20 (17.24%) GCP
4 14 (12.07%) GitHub
5 6 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.72%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.86%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.86%) Discord
7 1 (0.86%) Figma
7 1 (0.86%) Slack
7 1 (0.86%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (63.79%) MySQL
2 15 (12.93%) SQL Server
3 13 (11.21%) Relational Database
4 12 (10.34%) MariaDB
5 5 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.45%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.72%) Power BI
8 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 54 (46.55%) Git
2 18 (15.52%) JIRA
3 3 (2.59%) PHPUnit
3 3 (2.59%) Selenium
4 2 (1.72%) git-flow
General
1 18 (15.52%) Social Skills
2 5 (4.31%) Marketing
3 4 (3.45%) Finance
4 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.86%) Games
5 1 (0.86%) Health Technology
5 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (68.97%) Laravel
2 72 (62.07%) CSS
2 72 (62.07%) HTML
3 46 (39.66%) jQuery
4 43 (37.07%) Symfony
5 32 (27.59%) Vue
6 29 (25.00%) HTML5
7 28 (24.14%) React
8 23 (19.83%) SOAP
9 19 (16.38%) REST
10 17 (14.66%) CSS3
11 16 (13.79%) AngularJS
11 16 (13.79%) LAMP
12 14 (12.07%) Web Services
13 11 (9.48%) RESTful
14 10 (8.62%) OAuth
14 10 (8.62%) Sass
15 8 (6.90%) Yii
16 6 (5.17%) CodeIgniter
17 4 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.24%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.45%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.45%) Cybercrime
4 3 (2.59%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.59%) Digital Media
4 3 (2.59%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.59%) Solar Energy
5 2 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.86%) Digital Wallet
6 1 (0.86%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.86%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (20.69%) Linux
2 4 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (34.48%) OOP
2 35 (30.17%) Web Development
3 28 (24.14%) Agile
4 26 (22.41%) MVC
4 26 (22.41%) OO
5 21 (18.10%) Full Stack Development
5 21 (18.10%) Unit Testing
6 19 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (15.52%) TDD
8 15 (12.93%) DevOps
8 15 (12.93%) User Experience
9 13 (11.21%) OO PHP
10 12 (10.34%) Code Quality
10 12 (10.34%) Deadline-Driven
10 12 (10.34%) E-Commerce
10 12 (10.34%) High Availability
11 11 (9.48%) Test Automation
12 10 (8.62%) CRM
12 10 (8.62%) Integration Testing
12 10 (8.62%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (100.00%) PHP
2 77 (66.38%) JavaScript
3 16 (13.79%) Go
4 13 (11.21%) SQL
5 4 (3.45%) CFML
5 4 (3.45%) Java
6 1 (0.86%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.34%) QA
2 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (19.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.17%) Kubernetes
1 6 (5.17%) Terraform
2 1 (0.86%) Ansible
2 1 (0.86%) cPanel
2 1 (0.86%) Plesk
Vendors
1 5 (4.31%) Adobe
2 4 (3.45%) Google
3 1 (0.86%) Facebook
3 1 (0.86%) Twitter
3 1 (0.86%) Zend