Senior PHP Developer
UK

The median Senior PHP Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 741 475 1008
Rank change year-on-year -266 +533 -398
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 155 614 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.61% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.67% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 148 120 161
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,450 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +21.05%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £90,250 £72,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +27.78%

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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £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%

Senior PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior PHP Developer in the UK

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior PHP Developer in the UK

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior PHP Developer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior PHP Developer in the UK

Senior PHP Developer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior PHP Developer within the UK 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
England -223 141 £55,000 -4.35% 35
UK excluding London -286 138 £55,000 -4.35% 28
Work from Home +96 104 £55,000 -4.35% 24
North of England -59 57 £52,500 -4.55% 8
North West -1 43 £52,500 -4.55% 6
South West -69 28 £55,000 -4.35% 3
South East -60 26 £55,000 +10.00% 7
Yorkshire +21 14 £55,000 +27.91% 1
London +79 12 £77,500 +34.78% 9
Midlands -114 10 £42,500 -22.73% 5
East of England -14 8 £53,750 -36.76% 3
East Midlands -81 8 £42,500 -22.73% 1
Wales +4 7 £61,500 - 1
West Midlands -53 2 £70,000 +40.00% 4
Scotland -86 2 £52,500 +8.81% 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior PHP Developer in the job title.

1 155 (100.00%) PHP
2 115 (74.19%) Laravel
3 70 (45.16%) MySQL
4 69 (44.52%) JavaScript
5 63 (40.65%) AWS
6 53 (34.19%) React
7 47 (30.32%) HTML
8 44 (28.39%) Social Skills
9 43 (27.74%) CSS
10 38 (24.52%) Symfony
11 37 (23.87%) Vue
12 36 (23.23%) Git
13 30 (19.35%) SaaS
14 29 (18.71%) Agile
15 26 (16.77%) TDD
15 26 (16.77%) OOP
15 26 (16.77%) Full Stack Development
16 21 (13.55%) E-Commerce
16 21 (13.55%) MVC
16 21 (13.55%) RESTful
17 20 (12.90%) Web Development
17 20 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
18 17 (10.97%) Clean Code
18 17 (10.97%) TypeScript
19 16 (10.32%) GCP
20 15 (9.68%) Docker
20 15 (9.68%) Node.js
21 14 (9.03%) jQuery
21 14 (9.03%) LAMP
22 12 (7.74%) Scrum

Senior 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 10 (6.45%) CMS
2 9 (5.81%) WordPress
3 2 (1.29%) Apache
3 2 (1.29%) Drupal
3 2 (1.29%) nginx
Business Applications
1 7 (4.52%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 63 (40.65%) AWS
2 30 (19.35%) SaaS
3 16 (10.32%) GCP
4 9 (5.81%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (5.16%) Azure
6 4 (2.58%) Firebase
6 4 (2.58%) GitHub
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.65%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.65%) Datadog
7 1 (0.65%) Discord
7 1 (0.65%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.65%) Serverless
7 1 (0.65%) Slack
7 1 (0.65%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (45.16%) MySQL
2 5 (3.23%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.58%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (23.23%) Git
2 4 (2.58%) Cypress.io
2 4 (2.58%) PHPUnit
3 3 (1.94%) webpack
4 2 (1.29%) GitLab
4 2 (1.29%) Selenium
5 1 (0.65%) Appium
5 1 (0.65%) git-flow
5 1 (0.65%) Storybook
5 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (28.39%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.10%) Finance
2 11 (7.10%) Marketing
2 11 (7.10%) Retail
3 7 (4.52%) Games
4 5 (3.23%) Tech for Good
5 4 (2.58%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.65%) Legal
7 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (74.19%) Laravel
2 53 (34.19%) React
3 47 (30.32%) HTML
4 43 (27.74%) CSS
5 38 (24.52%) Symfony
6 37 (23.87%) Vue
7 21 (13.55%) RESTful
8 15 (9.68%) Node.js
9 14 (9.03%) jQuery
9 14 (9.03%) LAMP
10 10 (6.45%) Web Services
11 8 (5.16%) AngularJS
11 8 (5.16%) REST
12 6 (3.87%) JSON
12 6 (3.87%) Yii
13 4 (2.58%) Electron
13 4 (2.58%) GatsbyJS
13 4 (2.58%) HTML5
13 4 (2.58%) Redux
13 4 (2.58%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.74%) PropTech
2 11 (7.10%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.58%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.94%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.94%) Solar Energy
6 2 (1.29%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.29%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.29%) NHS
7 1 (0.65%) Cybercrime
7 1 (0.65%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (0.65%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (18.71%) Agile
2 26 (16.77%) Full Stack Development
2 26 (16.77%) OOP
2 26 (16.77%) TDD
3 21 (13.55%) E-Commerce
3 21 (13.55%) MVC
4 20 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (12.90%) Web Development
5 17 (10.97%) Clean Code
6 12 (7.74%) Collaborative Working
6 12 (7.74%) Mentoring
6 12 (7.74%) Scrum
7 11 (7.10%) API Development
8 9 (5.81%) Software Engineering
8 9 (5.81%) User Experience
9 8 (5.16%) Computer Science
9 8 (5.16%) Fintech
9 8 (5.16%) Kanban
10 7 (4.52%) Roadmaps
10 7 (4.52%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 155 (100.00%) PHP
2 69 (44.52%) JavaScript
3 17 (10.97%) TypeScript
4 6 (3.87%) SQL
5 4 (2.58%) Python
5 4 (2.58%) Ruby
6 1 (0.65%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (5.16%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.29%) QA
System Software
1 15 (9.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 5 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.65%) Ansible
2 1 (0.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (3.23%) Google
1 5 (3.23%) Twitter
2 1 (0.65%) Apple
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.65%) Panasonic
2 1 (0.65%) Sony
2 1 (0.65%) Zend