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 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 747 478 1005
Rank change year-on-year -269 +527 -408
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 164 599 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.62% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.67% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 154 109 159
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,400 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £63,250 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £92,500 £76,500
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 97,915 88,821 160,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 91.42% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 69,754 56,171 84,699
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

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 29 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 29 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 -231 149 £55,000 -4.35% 29
UK excluding London -286 146 £55,000 -4.35% 20
Work from Home +87 103 £55,000 -4.35% 17
North of England -69 58 £52,500 -4.55% 7
North West -9 44 £52,500 -4.55% 6
South West -62 28 £55,000 -4.35% 2
South East -69 27 £55,000 +10.00% 3
Yorkshire +12 14 £55,000 +27.91% 1
London +57 13 £77,500 +40.91% 9
Midlands -130 13 £42,500 -22.73% 4
East of England -12 10 £52,500 -41.67% 3
East Midlands -87 9 £42,500 -22.73% 1
Wales -3 7 £61,500 - 1
West Midlands -57 4 £70,000 +40.00% 3
Scotland -92 3 £52,500 +7.14% 1

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 164 (100.00%) PHP
2 117 (71.34%) Laravel
3 72 (43.90%) MySQL
4 70 (42.68%) JavaScript
5 65 (39.63%) AWS
6 55 (33.54%) React
7 48 (29.27%) HTML
8 46 (28.05%) Social Skills
9 44 (26.83%) CSS
10 41 (25.00%) Symfony
11 36 (21.95%) Vue
12 35 (21.34%) Git
13 32 (19.51%) SaaS
14 31 (18.90%) Agile
14 31 (18.90%) Full Stack Development
15 27 (16.46%) TDD
16 24 (14.63%) OOP
17 22 (13.41%) TypeScript
17 22 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
18 21 (12.80%) E-Commerce
18 21 (12.80%) MVC
19 20 (12.20%) RESTful
20 19 (11.59%) Web Development
21 18 (10.98%) Node.js
22 17 (10.37%) Clean Code
23 16 (9.76%) GCP
24 15 (9.15%) Docker
25 14 (8.54%) jQuery
25 14 (8.54%) Collaborative Working
26 13 (7.93%) LAMP

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 11 (6.71%) WordPress
2 10 (6.10%) CMS
3 2 (1.22%) Apache
3 2 (1.22%) Drupal
3 2 (1.22%) nginx
Business Applications
1 7 (4.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 65 (39.63%) AWS
2 32 (19.51%) SaaS
3 16 (9.76%) GCP
4 9 (5.49%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (4.88%) Azure
6 6 (3.66%) GitHub
7 4 (2.44%) Firebase
8 3 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.61%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.61%) Datadog
9 1 (0.61%) Discord
9 1 (0.61%) Serverless
9 1 (0.61%) Slack
9 1 (0.61%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (43.90%) MySQL
2 5 (3.05%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.44%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (21.34%) Git
2 4 (2.44%) Cypress.io
2 4 (2.44%) PHPUnit
3 3 (1.83%) webpack
4 2 (1.22%) GitLab
4 2 (1.22%) Selenium
5 1 (0.61%) Appium
5 1 (0.61%) git-flow
5 1 (0.61%) Storybook
General
1 46 (28.05%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.71%) Finance
2 11 (6.71%) Marketing
3 10 (6.10%) Retail
4 7 (4.27%) Games
5 5 (3.05%) Tech for Good
6 4 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.22%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.61%) Legal
8 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (71.34%) Laravel
2 55 (33.54%) React
3 48 (29.27%) HTML
4 44 (26.83%) CSS
5 41 (25.00%) Symfony
6 36 (21.95%) Vue
7 20 (12.20%) RESTful
8 18 (10.98%) Node.js
9 14 (8.54%) jQuery
10 13 (7.93%) LAMP
11 9 (5.49%) AngularJS
12 8 (4.88%) REST
12 8 (4.88%) Web Services
13 6 (3.66%) HTML5
13 6 (3.66%) JSON
13 6 (3.66%) Yii
14 4 (2.44%) CodeIgniter
14 4 (2.44%) Electron
14 4 (2.44%) GatsbyJS
14 4 (2.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.32%) PropTech
2 11 (6.71%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (6.10%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.44%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.83%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.83%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.83%) Solar Energy
6 2 (1.22%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.22%) NHS
7 1 (0.61%) Cybercrime
7 1 (0.61%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (0.61%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (18.90%) Agile
1 31 (18.90%) Full Stack Development
2 27 (16.46%) TDD
3 24 (14.63%) OOP
4 22 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (12.80%) E-Commerce
5 21 (12.80%) MVC
6 19 (11.59%) Web Development
7 17 (10.37%) Clean Code
8 14 (8.54%) Collaborative Working
9 12 (7.32%) Mentoring
9 12 (7.32%) Scrum
10 11 (6.71%) API Development
10 11 (6.71%) Software Engineering
10 11 (6.71%) User Experience
11 8 (4.88%) CI/CD
11 8 (4.88%) Computer Science
11 8 (4.88%) Fintech
11 8 (4.88%) Kanban
11 8 (4.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 164 (100.00%) PHP
2 70 (42.68%) JavaScript
3 22 (13.41%) TypeScript
4 4 (2.44%) Python
4 4 (2.44%) Ruby
4 4 (2.44%) SQL
5 1 (0.61%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (4.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.83%) QA
System Software
1 15 (9.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 6 (3.66%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.83%) Terraform
3 1 (0.61%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (3.05%) Google
1 5 (3.05%) Twitter
2 1 (0.61%) Apple
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.61%) Panasonic
2 1 (0.61%) Sony
2 1 (0.61%) Zend