PHP Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median PHP Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 230 292
Rank change year-on-year -40 +62 -156
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 715 869 934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.91% 1.56% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.76% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 656 365 812
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 74,776 49,490 72,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 88.82% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 52,251 29,308 43,150
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +5.94% +6.32%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England +14 228 £45,000 - 50
Midlands -56 129 £42,500 -15.00% 27
South East -88 121 £50,000 +5.26% 21
North West +20 120 £50,000 - 34
South West -37 110 £45,000 -5.26% 18
Yorkshire +63 95 £42,500 -5.56% 13
East of England +34 82 £43,750 -27.08% 17
West Midlands -3 75 £42,500 -5.56% 17
East Midlands -64 53 £42,500 -20.93% 10
Scotland -88 27 £45,000 - 6
Wales 0 14 £47,500 -17.39% 2
North East -33 13 £46,500 - 3
Northern Ireland +2 4 £33,500 -4.29%
PHP Developer
UK

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 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 UK excluding London region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 715 (100.00%) PHP
2 430 (60.14%) Laravel
3 410 (57.34%) JavaScript
4 377 (52.73%) MySQL
5 319 (44.62%) HTML
6 299 (41.82%) CSS
7 211 (29.51%) AWS
8 190 (26.57%) Git
9 178 (24.90%) Full Stack Development
10 167 (23.36%) React
11 163 (22.80%) Web Development
12 160 (22.38%) Social Skills
13 150 (20.98%) Vue
14 128 (17.90%) Symfony
14 128 (17.90%) Agile
15 127 (17.76%) OOP
15 127 (17.76%) jQuery
16 114 (15.94%) OO
17 105 (14.69%) SaaS
18 104 (14.55%) MVC
19 103 (14.41%) Linux
20 102 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
21 82 (11.47%) SQL
22 81 (11.33%) TDD
22 81 (11.33%) WordPress
23 79 (11.05%) E-Commerce
24 78 (10.91%) Docker
25 71 (9.93%) User Experience
26 70 (9.79%) HTML5
27 67 (9.37%) Software Engineering

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 81 (11.33%) WordPress
2 35 (4.90%) CMS
3 21 (2.94%) Apache
4 20 (2.80%) nginx
5 6 (0.84%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.56%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.56%) ColdFusion
6 4 (0.56%) Drupal
6 4 (0.56%) IIS
7 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.28%) Joomla!
8 2 (0.28%) Moodle
8 2 (0.28%) Totara
9 1 (0.14%) Confluence
9 1 (0.14%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 5 (0.70%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 26 (3.64%) Magento
2 11 (1.54%) Shopify
3 5 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.28%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 211 (29.51%) AWS
2 105 (14.69%) SaaS
3 31 (4.34%) GCP
4 23 (3.22%) GitHub
5 14 (1.96%) Azure
5 14 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (1.54%) npm
7 8 (1.12%) Figma
7 8 (1.12%) Stripe
8 6 (0.84%) DigitalOcean
8 6 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (0.84%) Serverless
9 5 (0.70%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.42%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.42%) Google Tag Manager
11 2 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 2 (0.28%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.28%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.28%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.84%) VoIP
1 6 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (0.70%) SSH
3 2 (0.28%) FTP
3 2 (0.28%) HTTP
3 2 (0.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 377 (52.73%) MySQL
2 38 (5.31%) Relational Database
3 27 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (3.50%) SQL Server
5 22 (3.08%) MariaDB
6 13 (1.82%) MongoDB
7 7 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.84%) GIS
9 5 (0.70%) Power BI
10 4 (0.56%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.56%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.56%) Redis
11 3 (0.42%) Looker
12 2 (0.28%) phpMyAdmin
13 1 (0.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 190 (26.57%) Git
2 28 (3.92%) JIRA
3 15 (2.10%) webpack
4 13 (1.82%) Subversion
5 10 (1.40%) GitLab
6 9 (1.26%) PHPUnit
7 7 (0.98%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.70%) Selenium
9 4 (0.56%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.42%) Grunt
11 2 (0.28%) git-flow
11 2 (0.28%) gulp
12 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.14%) Storybook
General
1 160 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 57 (7.97%) Marketing
3 38 (5.31%) Finance
4 27 (3.78%) Retail
5 25 (3.50%) Games
6 15 (2.10%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (1.68%) Telecoms
8 11 (1.54%) Tech for Good
9 9 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 7 (0.98%) Law
11 6 (0.84%) Health Technology
11 6 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.28%) Aviation
12 2 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.14%) Advertising
13 1 (0.14%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.14%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 430 (60.14%) Laravel
2 319 (44.62%) HTML
3 299 (41.82%) CSS
4 167 (23.36%) React
5 150 (20.98%) Vue
6 128 (17.90%) Symfony
7 127 (17.76%) jQuery
8 70 (9.79%) HTML5
9 66 (9.23%) LAMP
9 66 (9.23%) RESTful
10 51 (7.13%) Node.js
10 51 (7.13%) REST
11 45 (6.29%) CSS3
12 41 (5.73%) AngularJS
13 38 (5.31%) SOAP
14 35 (4.90%) Web Services
15 34 (4.76%) Sass
16 28 (3.92%) Tailwind CSS
17 25 (3.50%) XML
18 21 (2.94%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 28 (3.92%) Mobile App
3 25 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (1.96%) PropTech
5 13 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 9 (1.26%) Animation
6 9 (1.26%) Legacy Code
7 7 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (0.98%) Video Editing
8 6 (0.84%) Cybercrime
9 5 (0.70%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.70%) Educational Technology
10 4 (0.56%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.56%) e-Learning
10 4 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.42%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.42%) Digital Media
11 3 (0.42%) Photography
11 3 (0.42%) Solar Energy
Operating Systems
1 103 (14.41%) Linux
2 11 (1.54%) Windows
3 9 (1.26%) Ubuntu
4 6 (0.84%) Alpine Linux
5 5 (0.70%) Unix
6 2 (0.28%) AIX
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (24.90%) Full Stack Development
2 163 (22.80%) Web Development
3 128 (17.90%) Agile
4 127 (17.76%) OOP
5 114 (15.94%) OO
6 104 (14.55%) MVC
7 102 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (11.33%) TDD
9 79 (11.05%) E-Commerce
10 71 (9.93%) User Experience
11 67 (9.37%) Software Engineering
12 59 (8.25%) DevOps
13 55 (7.69%) OO PHP
14 52 (7.27%) Front End Development
15 51 (7.13%) Clean Code
16 47 (6.57%) Unit Testing
17 43 (6.01%) Test Automation
18 38 (5.31%) Computer Science
18 38 (5.31%) Microservices
19 34 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 715 (100.00%) PHP
2 410 (57.34%) JavaScript
3 82 (11.47%) SQL
4 42 (5.87%) TypeScript
5 18 (2.52%) Go
6 17 (2.38%) Java
7 15 (2.10%) Python
8 12 (1.68%) Ada
9 9 (1.26%) VB
10 7 (0.98%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.84%) Rust
12 5 (0.70%) C#
12 5 (0.70%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.56%) CFML
13 4 (0.56%) Ruby
14 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 43 (6.01%) Degree
2 33 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.34%) QA
2 8 (1.12%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.84%) GDPR
System Software
1 78 (10.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 20 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.40%) Terraform
3 3 (0.42%) cPanel
4 1 (0.14%) Ansible
4 1 (0.14%) Plesk
Vendors
1 16 (2.24%) Adobe
2 13 (1.82%) Google
3 10 (1.40%) Microsoft
4 9 (1.26%) WooCommerce
4 9 (1.26%) Zend
5 8 (1.12%) Twitter
6 6 (0.84%) Actuate
7 5 (0.70%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.56%) HP
8 4 (0.56%) Oracle
9 3 (0.42%) Facebook
10 2 (0.28%) Progress