PHP Developer
UK

The median PHP Developer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 317 417
Rank change year-on-year -51 +100 -227
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 744 1,105 1,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 1.11% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.22% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 697 550 1,116
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £67,125
90th Percentile £62,800 £75,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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
England -32 676 £45,000 -14.29% 161
UK excluding London -60 661 £45,000 -5.26% 136
Work from Home +20 358 £47,500 -9.52% 100
North of England +52 221 £45,000 - 46
North West +33 116 £50,000 -4.76% 29
Midlands -47 111 £42,500 -15.00% 23
South East -99 109 £50,000 - 22
South West -41 103 £45,000 -5.26% 19
Yorkshire +75 92 £42,500 +6.25% 12
East of England +31 73 £43,500 -33.08% 16
West Midlands +2 63 £42,500 -8.11% 17
London +2 58 £54,500 -9.17% 38
East Midlands -45 47 £42,500 -19.05% 6
Scotland -96 26 £45,000 - 7
Wales -2 14 £47,500 +5.56% 4
North East -24 13 £46,500 +29.17% 5
Northern Ireland +2 4 £33,500 -4.29% 2

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 744 (100.00%) PHP
2 484 (65.05%) Laravel
3 419 (56.32%) JavaScript
4 386 (51.88%) MySQL
5 316 (42.47%) HTML
6 297 (39.92%) CSS
7 226 (30.38%) AWS
8 206 (27.69%) Git
9 180 (24.19%) Full Stack Development
10 175 (23.52%) React
11 173 (23.25%) Vue
12 169 (22.72%) Social Skills
13 158 (21.24%) Web Development
14 149 (20.03%) Agile
14 149 (20.03%) Symfony
15 138 (18.55%) OOP
16 123 (16.53%) jQuery
17 113 (15.19%) MVC
18 110 (14.78%) SaaS
19 109 (14.65%) OO
20 103 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
21 100 (13.44%) E-Commerce
22 95 (12.77%) Docker
23 94 (12.63%) Linux
24 91 (12.23%) TDD
25 85 (11.42%) SQL
26 81 (10.89%) Software Engineering
27 79 (10.62%) WordPress
28 70 (9.41%) LAMP
29 68 (9.14%) HTML5

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 79 (10.62%) WordPress
2 35 (4.70%) CMS
3 22 (2.96%) Apache
4 20 (2.69%) nginx
5 8 (1.08%) Drupal
6 6 (0.81%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.54%) ColdFusion
7 4 (0.54%) IIS
8 3 (0.40%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.27%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.13%) Confluence
10 1 (0.13%) Moodle
10 1 (0.13%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.13%) Totara
Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.54%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 25 (3.36%) Magento
2 13 (1.75%) Shopify
3 3 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.27%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 226 (30.38%) AWS
2 110 (14.78%) SaaS
3 28 (3.76%) GCP
4 20 (2.69%) GitHub
5 18 (2.42%) Azure
6 15 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (1.48%) npm
8 10 (1.34%) Serverless
8 10 (1.34%) Stripe
9 8 (1.08%) Figma
10 6 (0.81%) DigitalOcean
11 5 (0.67%) Power Platform
12 4 (0.54%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.54%) Firebase
13 3 (0.40%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.40%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.40%) Google Tag Manager
14 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 2 (0.27%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.81%) VoIP
1 6 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (0.67%) SSH
3 2 (0.27%) FTP
3 2 (0.27%) HTTP
3 2 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 386 (51.88%) MySQL
2 34 (4.57%) Relational Database
3 26 (3.49%) MariaDB
4 23 (3.09%) MongoDB
4 23 (3.09%) SQL Server
5 22 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.88%) Redis
7 8 (1.08%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.81%) GIS
10 5 (0.67%) Power BI
11 4 (0.54%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.40%) Looker
13 2 (0.27%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.27%) phpMyAdmin
14 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 206 (27.69%) Git
2 28 (3.76%) JIRA
3 17 (2.28%) webpack
4 13 (1.75%) Subversion
5 9 (1.21%) GitLab
6 8 (1.08%) PHPUnit
7 7 (0.94%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.40%) git-flow
9 3 (0.40%) Grunt
9 3 (0.40%) Selenium
10 2 (0.27%) gulp
11 1 (0.13%) Appium
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.13%) Storybook
11 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.13%) WiX
General
1 169 (22.72%) Social Skills
2 50 (6.72%) Marketing
3 45 (6.05%) Finance
4 29 (3.90%) Retail
5 24 (3.23%) Games
6 16 (2.15%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (2.15%) Telecoms
7 11 (1.48%) Tech for Good
8 10 (1.34%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.21%) Turkish Language
10 7 (0.94%) Law
11 6 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.54%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.40%) Legal
13 3 (0.40%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.27%) Aviation
14 2 (0.27%) Banking
15 1 (0.13%) Advertising
15 1 (0.13%) Digital Healthcare
15 1 (0.13%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 484 (65.05%) Laravel
2 316 (42.47%) HTML
3 297 (39.92%) CSS
4 175 (23.52%) React
5 173 (23.25%) Vue
6 149 (20.03%) Symfony
7 123 (16.53%) jQuery
8 70 (9.41%) LAMP
9 68 (9.14%) HTML5
10 66 (8.87%) RESTful
11 53 (7.12%) Node.js
11 53 (7.12%) REST
12 45 (6.05%) AngularJS
12 45 (6.05%) CSS3
13 39 (5.24%) SOAP
14 36 (4.84%) Web Services
15 34 (4.57%) Sass
16 31 (4.17%) Tailwind CSS
17 29 (3.90%) Doctrine
18 23 (3.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.66%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (4.03%) Mobile App
3 25 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (1.88%) Product Ownership
6 12 (1.61%) PropTech
7 11 (1.48%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.21%) Animation
9 7 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (0.94%) Video Editing
10 6 (0.81%) Legacy Code
11 5 (0.67%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.67%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.54%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.54%) Educational Technology
13 3 (0.40%) Blog
13 3 (0.40%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.40%) Solar Energy
13 3 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 94 (12.63%) Linux
2 10 (1.34%) Windows
3 9 (1.21%) Ubuntu
4 6 (0.81%) Alpine Linux
5 5 (0.67%) Unix
6 2 (0.27%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) Android
7 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (24.19%) Full Stack Development
2 158 (21.24%) Web Development
3 149 (20.03%) Agile
4 138 (18.55%) OOP
5 113 (15.19%) MVC
6 109 (14.65%) OO
7 103 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (13.44%) E-Commerce
9 91 (12.23%) TDD
10 81 (10.89%) Software Engineering
11 68 (9.14%) User Experience
12 66 (8.87%) Clean Code
13 62 (8.33%) Unit Testing
14 61 (8.20%) DevOps
15 58 (7.80%) OO PHP
16 56 (7.53%) Computer Science
17 51 (6.85%) Front End Development
18 46 (6.18%) Test Automation
19 43 (5.78%) Microservices
20 37 (4.97%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 744 (100.00%) PHP
2 419 (56.32%) JavaScript
3 85 (11.42%) SQL
4 47 (6.32%) TypeScript
5 17 (2.28%) Java
6 15 (2.02%) Python
7 13 (1.75%) Go
8 12 (1.61%) Ada
9 11 (1.48%) C#
10 9 (1.21%) Kotlin
10 9 (1.21%) VB
11 6 (0.81%) Rust
12 4 (0.54%) CFML
12 4 (0.54%) Ruby
12 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 61 (8.20%) Degree
2 51 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.30%) QA
2 6 (0.81%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 95 (12.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 17 (2.28%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.08%) Terraform
3 2 (0.27%) cPanel
4 1 (0.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (2.02%) Adobe
2 13 (1.75%) Google
3 12 (1.61%) Microsoft
4 9 (1.21%) Zend
5 8 (1.08%) Twitter
5 8 (1.08%) WooCommerce
6 6 (0.81%) Actuate
7 5 (0.67%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.54%) HP
9 3 (0.40%) Facebook
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle
10 2 (0.27%) Progress
11 1 (0.13%) Apple
11 1 (0.13%) Panasonic
11 1 (0.13%) Rollbar
11 1 (0.13%) Sony