PHP Jobs in the UK excluding London

PHP
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 120 87
Rank change year-on-year -13 -33 -40
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,488 1,679 2,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.10% 2.82% 3.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.64% 7.05% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,353 1,057 2,113
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £31,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,416 23,806 32,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.63% 39.92% 45.96%
Number of salaries quoted 16,326 13,415 21,223
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,779
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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 +39 488 £47,500 -5.00% 99
South West +8 268 £45,000 -5.26% 64
South East -90 251 £55,000 +10.00% 51
North West +44 240 £50,000 -9.09% 65
Yorkshire +71 221 £47,500 +5.56% 28
Midlands +1 211 £45,000 -12.20% 58
East of England +45 170 £43,500 -33.08% 29
West Midlands +5 115 £45,000 -14.29% 32
East Midlands -17 95 £45,000 -10.00% 26
Scotland -98 48 £45,000 -18.18% 11
Wales +17 44 £50,000 +16.28% 6
North East -42 27 £45,000 -21.74% 7
Northern Ireland -8 9 £45,000 -21.74% 3
PHP
UK

PHP
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
1 216 (14.52%) WordPress
2 84 (5.65%) CMS
3 50 (3.36%) Apache
4 49 (3.29%) nginx
5 26 (1.75%) Drupal
6 14 (0.94%) Confluence
7 11 (0.74%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.60%) Headless CMS
8 9 (0.60%) IIS
9 6 (0.40%) Apache Solr
9 6 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.27%) ColdFusion
10 4 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
10 4 (0.27%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.13%) Joomla!
11 2 (0.13%) Liferay
11 2 (0.13%) Magnolia
12 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.067%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 20 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.81%) Adobe XD
4 11 (0.74%) Simulink
5 10 (0.67%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.13%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.067%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 71 (4.77%) Magento
2 43 (2.89%) Shopify
3 20 (1.34%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 449 (30.17%) AWS
2 184 (12.37%) SaaS
3 80 (5.38%) Azure
4 63 (4.23%) GitHub
5 51 (3.43%) GCP
6 32 (2.15%) Amazon S3
7 27 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.55%) Serverless
10 22 (1.48%) npm
11 21 (1.41%) Amazon Kinesis
11 21 (1.41%) Figma
12 20 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (0.87%) Power Platform
14 12 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (0.74%) Stripe
16 10 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (0.67%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.14%) DNS
2 13 (0.87%) SSL
3 12 (0.81%) Firewall
4 9 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (0.54%) Internet
6 6 (0.40%) VoIP
7 5 (0.34%) FTP
7 5 (0.34%) SSH
8 4 (0.27%) HTTP
9 3 (0.20%) SMS
10 2 (0.13%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.13%) IPsec
10 2 (0.13%) LAN
10 2 (0.13%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.13%) WAN
10 2 (0.13%) Wireless
11 1 (0.067%) DHCP
11 1 (0.067%) Intranet
11 1 (0.067%) IPv6
11 1 (0.067%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 656 (44.09%) MySQL
2 78 (5.24%) Relational Database
3 72 (4.84%) SQL Server
4 67 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (2.76%) MariaDB
6 38 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (2.42%) MongoDB
8 26 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (1.61%) RDBMS
10 21 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (1.34%) NoSQL
12 15 (1.01%) DynamoDB
13 14 (0.94%) Redis
14 12 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.81%) Power BI
15 8 (0.54%) SQLite
16 7 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 6 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
17 6 (0.40%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 413 (27.76%) Git
2 62 (4.17%) JIRA
3 39 (2.62%) Selenium
4 37 (2.49%) Cypress.io
5 29 (1.95%) GitLab
6 23 (1.55%) Jenkins
7 22 (1.48%) Postman
7 22 (1.48%) Subversion
8 17 (1.14%) webpack
9 15 (1.01%) PHPUnit
10 11 (0.74%) gulp
10 11 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.67%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.60%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.54%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.34%) Grunt
15 4 (0.27%) git-flow
16 2 (0.13%) Appium
16 2 (0.13%) Bower
16 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 317 (21.30%) Social Skills
2 164 (11.02%) Marketing
3 129 (8.67%) Retail
4 79 (5.31%) Finance
5 55 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (3.29%) Games
7 34 (2.28%) Tech for Good
8 27 (1.81%) Manufacturing
9 26 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 18 (1.21%) Electronics
10 18 (1.21%) Law
11 16 (1.08%) Banking
12 14 (0.94%) Legal
12 14 (0.94%) Public Sector
13 13 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (0.74%) Health Technology
15 10 (0.67%) Retail Banking
16 8 (0.54%) German Language
16 8 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 6 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,167 (78.43%) Developer
2 661 (44.42%) PHP Developer
3 299 (20.09%) Senior
4 269 (18.08%) Senior Developer
5 209 (14.05%) Full Stack Developer
6 157 (10.55%) Web Developer
7 138 (9.27%) Senior PHP Developer
8 133 (8.94%) Lead
9 97 (6.52%) Software Developer
10 88 (5.91%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 83 (5.58%) WordPress Developer
12 81 (5.44%) Software Engineer
13 80 (5.38%) Full Stack PHP Developer
14 65 (4.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 58 (3.90%) Junior
15 58 (3.90%) PHP Web Developer
16 57 (3.83%) Junior Developer
17 47 (3.16%) Technical Leader
18 42 (2.82%) Lead Developer
18 42 (2.82%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 695 (46.71%) Laravel
2 676 (45.43%) HTML
3 636 (42.74%) CSS
4 368 (24.73%) React
5 278 (18.68%) Vue
6 215 (14.45%) jQuery
7 182 (12.23%) Symfony
8 150 (10.08%) LAMP
9 143 (9.61%) HTML5
10 124 (8.33%) Node.js
11 109 (7.33%) CSS3
12 108 (7.26%) RESTful
13 88 (5.91%) AngularJS
14 79 (5.31%) REST
15 76 (5.11%) Web Services
16 72 (4.84%) JSON
17 65 (4.37%) Sass
18 58 (3.90%) .NET
19 50 (3.36%) SOAP
20 47 (3.16%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 72 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
2 38 (2.55%) Mobile App
3 34 (2.28%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.15%) Onboarding
5 29 (1.95%) Product Ownership
6 27 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (1.75%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.48%) IoT
9 20 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
11 18 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.08%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.94%) Animation
15 12 (0.81%) PropTech
16 10 (0.67%) Video Editing
17 8 (0.54%) Digital Media
17 8 (0.54%) Driving Licence
18 7 (0.47%) BBC
18 7 (0.47%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 167 (11.22%) Linux
2 32 (2.15%) Windows
3 18 (1.21%) Ubuntu
4 9 (0.60%) Unix
5 6 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
6 5 (0.34%) Android
6 5 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.13%) AIX
8 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.067%) CentOS
9 1 (0.067%) VMS
9 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (24.19%) Web Development
2 358 (24.06%) Full Stack Development
3 336 (22.58%) Agile
4 289 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
5 215 (14.45%) Software Engineering
6 213 (14.31%) OOP
7 204 (13.71%) E-Commerce
8 200 (13.44%) MVC
9 175 (11.76%) User Experience
10 162 (10.89%) DevOps
11 132 (8.87%) Front End Development
12 126 (8.47%) OO
13 116 (7.80%) Computer Science
14 111 (7.46%) Mentoring
15 107 (7.19%) TDD
16 89 (5.98%) CI/CD
17 83 (5.58%) UX Design
18 82 (5.51%) Clean Code
19 76 (5.11%) CRM
20 75 (5.04%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 834 (56.05%) JavaScript
2 197 (13.24%) SQL
3 128 (8.60%) C#
4 126 (8.47%) TypeScript
5 95 (6.38%) Java
5 95 (6.38%) Python
6 43 (2.89%) C
7 34 (2.28%) Go
8 24 (1.61%) Ruby
9 19 (1.28%) C++
9 19 (1.28%) Rust
10 17 (1.14%) Bash
11 16 (1.08%) VB
12 13 (0.87%) Ada
13 11 (0.74%) MATLAB
13 11 (0.74%) PowerShell
13 11 (0.74%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.67%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.60%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 193 (12.97%) Degree
2 70 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (1.01%) Azure Certification
4 12 (0.81%) Security Cleared
5 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.13%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.067%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.067%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.067%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.067%) MCP
7 1 (0.067%) MCSE
7 1 (0.067%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (3.63%) QA
2 33 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 33 (2.22%) WCAG
3 17 (1.14%) GDPR
4 4 (0.27%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.13%) HL7
5 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.13%) SLA
6 1 (0.067%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 188 (12.63%) Docker
2 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.13%) Varnish
5 1 (0.067%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 91 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.83%) Terraform
3 13 (0.87%) Ansible
4 12 (0.81%) Progress Chef
5 11 (0.74%) Puppet
6 8 (0.54%) Grafana
7 7 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.34%) cPanel
9 4 (0.27%) Rancher
10 3 (0.20%) Galera Cluster
11 1 (0.067%) Argo
11 1 (0.067%) Plesk
11 1 (0.067%) Podman
11 1 (0.067%) systemd
Vendors
1 53 (3.56%) Google
2 48 (3.23%) WooCommerce
3 40 (2.69%) Microsoft
4 31 (2.08%) Adobe
5 15 (1.01%) Twitter
6 9 (0.60%) Zend
7 8 (0.54%) New Relic
7 8 (0.54%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.47%) Oracle
8 7 (0.47%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.47%) SAP
9 6 (0.40%) Actuate
9 6 (0.40%) Facebook
9 6 (0.40%) SaltStack
9 6 (0.40%) Sitecore
10 5 (0.34%) F5
10 5 (0.34%) VMware
11 4 (0.27%) HP
11 4 (0.27%) Progress
11 4 (0.27%) YouTube