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 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 134 124 94
Rank change year-on-year -10 -30 -48
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,514 1,641 2,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.05% 2.82% 3.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.65% 7.12% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,364 1,013 2,085
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £62,743
90th Percentile £71,100 £72,500 £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 22,775 23,032 33,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.78% 39.65% 45.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16,521 13,122 21,146
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 28 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 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
North of England +27 494 £47,500 -5.00% 87
South West +10 265 £45,000 -5.26% 54
South East -85 251 £55,000 +10.00% 47
North West +42 241 £50,000 -9.09% 54
Midlands +10 227 £45,000 -14.29% 65
Yorkshire +61 225 £47,500 +5.56% 30
East of England +50 176 £43,750 -27.08% 35
West Midlands +19 127 £45,000 -14.29% 45
East Midlands -16 99 £45,000 -14.29% 20
Scotland -97 48 £45,000 -18.18% 12
Wales +11 44 £50,000 +2.56% 8
North East -42 28 £43,750 -23.91% 3
Northern Ireland -16 10 £39,250 -31.74% 1
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
1 219 (14.46%) WordPress
2 83 (5.48%) CMS
3 48 (3.17%) Apache
3 48 (3.17%) nginx
4 27 (1.78%) Drupal
5 14 (0.92%) Confluence
6 10 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.59%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.46%) IIS
9 6 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.33%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.26%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.26%) SAS
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.13%) Joomla!
13 2 (0.13%) Liferay
13 2 (0.13%) Magnolia
14 1 (0.066%) PrestaShop
14 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.79%) Adobe XD
2 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.73%) Simulink
4 10 (0.66%) Photoshop
5 8 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.13%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.066%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 74 (4.89%) Magento
2 44 (2.91%) Shopify
3 20 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 448 (29.59%) AWS
2 185 (12.22%) SaaS
3 79 (5.22%) Azure
4 65 (4.29%) GitHub
5 55 (3.63%) GCP
6 31 (2.05%) Amazon S3
7 26 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
8 24 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.52%) npm
9 23 (1.52%) Serverless
10 21 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
10 21 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
10 21 (1.39%) Figma
11 15 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (0.79%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (0.79%) Power Platform
12 12 (0.79%) Stripe
13 11 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (0.66%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.99%) DNS
2 13 (0.86%) SSL
3 12 (0.79%) Firewall
4 11 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (0.53%) Internet
6 6 (0.40%) SSH
6 6 (0.40%) VoIP
7 5 (0.33%) FTP
8 4 (0.26%) HTTP
8 4 (0.26%) LAN
8 4 (0.26%) WAN
9 3 (0.20%) SMS
10 2 (0.13%) Wireless
11 1 (0.066%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.066%) Intranet
11 1 (0.066%) IPsec
11 1 (0.066%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.066%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 673 (44.45%) MySQL
2 82 (5.42%) Relational Database
3 78 (5.15%) SQL Server
4 70 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (2.64%) MariaDB
6 37 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (2.18%) MongoDB
8 25 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (1.59%) RDBMS
10 21 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (1.25%) NoSQL
12 17 (1.12%) Redis
13 15 (0.99%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.79%) Power BI
15 11 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (0.53%) SQLite
17 7 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 6 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
18 6 (0.40%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 417 (27.54%) Git
2 62 (4.10%) JIRA
3 38 (2.51%) Selenium
4 35 (2.31%) Cypress.io
5 29 (1.92%) GitLab
6 23 (1.52%) Jenkins
7 22 (1.45%) Postman
7 22 (1.45%) Subversion
8 17 (1.12%) webpack
9 16 (1.06%) PHPUnit
10 11 (0.73%) gulp
10 11 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.66%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.59%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.53%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.33%) Grunt
15 4 (0.26%) git-flow
16 2 (0.13%) Appium
16 2 (0.13%) Bower
16 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 323 (21.33%) Social Skills
2 167 (11.03%) Marketing
3 127 (8.39%) Retail
4 83 (5.48%) Finance
5 52 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (3.30%) Games
7 37 (2.44%) Tech for Good
8 27 (1.78%) Manufacturing
9 26 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 19 (1.25%) Law
11 18 (1.19%) Electronics
12 16 (1.06%) Banking
13 15 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (0.92%) Legal
14 14 (0.92%) Public Sector
15 13 (0.86%) Health Technology
16 10 (0.66%) Retail Banking
17 8 (0.53%) German Language
17 8 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 7 (0.46%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,185 (78.27%) Developer
2 675 (44.58%) PHP Developer
3 309 (20.41%) Senior
4 276 (18.23%) Senior Developer
5 217 (14.33%) Full Stack Developer
6 163 (10.77%) Web Developer
7 145 (9.58%) Senior PHP Developer
8 138 (9.11%) Lead
9 97 (6.41%) Software Developer
10 89 (5.88%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 83 (5.48%) Full Stack PHP Developer
11 83 (5.48%) Software Engineer
12 82 (5.42%) WordPress Developer
13 63 (4.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 59 (3.90%) PHP Web Developer
15 54 (3.57%) Junior
15 54 (3.57%) Junior Developer
16 49 (3.24%) Technical Leader
17 44 (2.91%) Team Leader
18 41 (2.71%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 705 (46.57%) Laravel
2 682 (45.05%) HTML
3 640 (42.27%) CSS
4 373 (24.64%) React
5 284 (18.76%) Vue
6 218 (14.40%) jQuery
7 188 (12.42%) Symfony
8 152 (10.04%) LAMP
9 143 (9.45%) HTML5
10 125 (8.26%) Node.js
11 114 (7.53%) RESTful
12 107 (7.07%) CSS3
13 90 (5.94%) AngularJS
14 80 (5.28%) REST
15 75 (4.95%) Web Services
16 71 (4.69%) JSON
17 66 (4.36%) Sass
18 60 (3.96%) .NET
19 49 (3.24%) SOAP
20 47 (3.10%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 71 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
2 41 (2.71%) Mobile App
3 34 (2.25%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.11%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 27 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 22 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (1.39%) IoT
9 19 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
10 17 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.06%) Algorithms
12 14 (0.92%) Animation
12 14 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (0.86%) PropTech
14 10 (0.66%) Legacy Code
14 10 (0.66%) Video Editing
15 8 (0.53%) Digital Media
15 8 (0.53%) Driving Licence
16 7 (0.46%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 169 (11.16%) Linux
2 34 (2.25%) Windows
3 18 (1.19%) Ubuntu
4 9 (0.59%) Unix
5 6 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
6 5 (0.33%) Android
6 5 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.066%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (24.77%) Full Stack Development
2 367 (24.24%) Web Development
3 339 (22.39%) Agile
4 292 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
5 216 (14.27%) OOP
6 215 (14.20%) Software Engineering
7 206 (13.61%) E-Commerce
8 199 (13.14%) MVC
9 181 (11.96%) User Experience
10 160 (10.57%) DevOps
11 134 (8.85%) Front End Development
12 131 (8.65%) OO
13 117 (7.73%) Computer Science
14 112 (7.40%) TDD
15 110 (7.27%) Mentoring
16 90 (5.94%) Clean Code
17 89 (5.88%) UX Design
18 88 (5.81%) CI/CD
19 77 (5.09%) Roadmaps
20 76 (5.02%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 850 (56.14%) JavaScript
2 192 (12.68%) SQL
3 129 (8.52%) TypeScript
4 124 (8.19%) C#
5 98 (6.47%) Java
6 95 (6.27%) Python
7 42 (2.77%) C
8 35 (2.31%) Go
9 24 (1.59%) Ruby
10 19 (1.25%) C++
10 19 (1.25%) Rust
11 16 (1.06%) Bash
11 16 (1.06%) VB
12 13 (0.86%) Ada
13 12 (0.79%) VB.NET
14 11 (0.73%) MATLAB
15 10 (0.66%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.66%) PowerShell
15 10 (0.66%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.40%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 192 (12.68%) Degree
2 73 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (0.99%) Azure Certification
4 11 (0.73%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.13%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.066%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.066%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.066%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (3.63%) QA
2 34 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 31 (2.05%) WCAG
4 17 (1.12%) GDPR
5 3 (0.20%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.13%) HL7
6 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.13%) SLA
7 1 (0.066%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 186 (12.29%) Docker
2 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.20%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.066%) Firmware
4 1 (0.066%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 90 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.76%) Terraform
3 12 (0.79%) Ansible
3 12 (0.79%) Progress Chef
4 11 (0.73%) Puppet
5 8 (0.53%) Grafana
6 7 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.40%) cPanel
8 4 (0.26%) Rancher
9 3 (0.20%) Galera Cluster
10 2 (0.13%) Plesk
11 1 (0.066%) Argo
11 1 (0.066%) Podman
11 1 (0.066%) systemd
Vendors
1 56 (3.70%) Google
2 47 (3.10%) WooCommerce
3 40 (2.64%) Microsoft
4 33 (2.18%) Adobe
5 14 (0.92%) Twitter
6 11 (0.73%) Zend
7 9 (0.59%) New Relic
8 8 (0.53%) OpenAI
8 8 (0.53%) Oracle
9 7 (0.46%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.46%) SAP
9 7 (0.46%) VMware
10 6 (0.40%) Actuate
10 6 (0.40%) Facebook
10 6 (0.40%) SaltStack
10 6 (0.40%) Sitecore
11 5 (0.33%) F5
12 4 (0.26%) HP
12 4 (0.26%) Progress
12 4 (0.26%) YouTube