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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 120 92
Rank change year-on-year -13 -28 -46
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,548 1,631 2,659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.04% 2.88% 3.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.73% 7.42% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,381 1,001 2,071
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 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,750 £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 23,016 21,974 33,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.29% 38.86% 45.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16,658 12,979 20,973
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 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +26 498 £47,500 -5.00% 94
South West +8 270 £45,000 -5.26% 52
South East -94 259 £55,000 +10.00% 51
North West +37 245 £50,000 -9.09% 58
Midlands +3 240 £45,000 -14.29% 60
Yorkshire +63 225 £47,500 +5.56% 32
East of England +57 179 £44,000 -23.48% 30
West Midlands +8 133 £45,000 -14.29% 40
East Midlands -10 106 £47,500 -9.52% 20
Scotland -103 49 £45,000 -18.18% 8
Wales +20 44 £50,000 -4.76% 6
North East -47 28 £43,750 -23.91% 4
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
1 224 (14.47%) WordPress
2 84 (5.43%) CMS
3 48 (3.10%) Apache
3 48 (3.10%) nginx
4 29 (1.87%) Drupal
5 14 (0.90%) Confluence
6 10 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.58%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.45%) IIS
9 6 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.32%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.26%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.26%) SAS
12 3 (0.19%) 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 (0.065%) PrestaShop
14 1 (0.065%) Totara
Applications
1 19 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.78%) Adobe XD
2 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.71%) Simulink
4 10 (0.65%) Photoshop
5 8 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.13%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.065%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 76 (4.91%) Magento
2 44 (2.84%) Shopify
3 22 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 457 (29.52%) AWS
2 190 (12.27%) SaaS
3 79 (5.10%) Azure
4 66 (4.26%) GitHub
5 59 (3.81%) GCP
6 31 (2.00%) Amazon S3
7 26 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
8 24 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (1.55%) npm
9 22 (1.42%) Figma
9 22 (1.42%) Serverless
10 21 (1.36%) Amazon Kinesis
10 21 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
11 16 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (0.78%) Power Platform
12 12 (0.78%) Stripe
13 10 (0.65%) Cloudflare
13 10 (0.65%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.97%) DNS
2 13 (0.84%) SSL
3 12 (0.78%) Firewall
3 12 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (0.52%) Internet
5 6 (0.39%) SSH
5 6 (0.39%) VoIP
6 5 (0.32%) FTP
6 5 (0.32%) LAN
6 5 (0.32%) WAN
7 4 (0.26%) HTTP
8 3 (0.19%) SMS
9 2 (0.13%) Wireless
10 1 (0.065%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.065%) Intranet
10 1 (0.065%) IPsec
10 1 (0.065%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.065%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 689 (44.51%) MySQL
2 83 (5.36%) Relational Database
3 81 (5.23%) SQL Server
4 73 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (2.52%) MariaDB
6 37 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (2.13%) MongoDB
8 25 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (1.55%) RDBMS
10 21 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (1.29%) NoSQL
12 17 (1.10%) Redis
13 15 (0.97%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.78%) Power BI
15 11 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (0.52%) SQLite
17 7 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 6 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
18 6 (0.39%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 423 (27.33%) Git
2 63 (4.07%) JIRA
3 38 (2.45%) Selenium
4 33 (2.13%) Cypress.io
5 29 (1.87%) GitLab
6 23 (1.49%) Jenkins
7 22 (1.42%) Postman
7 22 (1.42%) Subversion
8 18 (1.16%) PHPUnit
9 17 (1.10%) webpack
10 11 (0.71%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.71%) gulp
10 11 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (0.58%) Visual Studio
12 8 (0.52%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.32%) Grunt
14 4 (0.26%) git-flow
15 2 (0.13%) Appium
15 2 (0.13%) Bower
15 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 333 (21.51%) Social Skills
2 171 (11.05%) Marketing
3 126 (8.14%) Retail
4 88 (5.68%) Finance
5 54 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (3.23%) Games
7 40 (2.58%) Tech for Good
8 27 (1.74%) Manufacturing
9 25 (1.61%) Telecoms
10 20 (1.29%) Law
11 18 (1.16%) Electronics
12 16 (1.03%) Banking
12 16 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (0.97%) Legal
14 14 (0.90%) Public Sector
15 13 (0.84%) Health Technology
16 10 (0.65%) Retail Banking
17 9 (0.58%) Automotive
17 9 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 8 (0.52%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,213 (78.36%) Developer
2 693 (44.77%) PHP Developer
3 318 (20.54%) Senior
4 282 (18.22%) Senior Developer
5 222 (14.34%) Full Stack Developer
6 163 (10.53%) Web Developer
7 152 (9.82%) Senior PHP Developer
8 139 (8.98%) Lead
9 96 (6.20%) Software Developer
10 92 (5.94%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 85 (5.49%) Full Stack PHP Developer
11 85 (5.49%) Software Engineer
12 84 (5.43%) WordPress Developer
13 61 (3.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 58 (3.75%) PHP Web Developer
15 54 (3.49%) Junior
15 54 (3.49%) Junior Developer
16 50 (3.23%) Technical Leader
17 44 (2.84%) Team Leader
18 42 (2.71%) Magento Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 720 (46.51%) Laravel
2 696 (44.96%) HTML
3 651 (42.05%) CSS
4 382 (24.68%) React
5 288 (18.60%) Vue
6 223 (14.41%) jQuery
7 189 (12.21%) Symfony
8 153 (9.88%) LAMP
9 147 (9.50%) HTML5
10 129 (8.33%) Node.js
11 114 (7.36%) RESTful
12 106 (6.85%) CSS3
13 91 (5.88%) AngularJS
14 81 (5.23%) REST
15 76 (4.91%) Web Services
16 71 (4.59%) JSON
17 67 (4.33%) Sass
18 61 (3.94%) .NET
19 48 (3.10%) SOAP
20 47 (3.04%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 72 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
2 44 (2.84%) Mobile App
3 35 (2.26%) Cloud Native
4 33 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 32 (2.07%) Onboarding
6 27 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (1.68%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (1.36%) IoT
10 19 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
11 17 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.03%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.90%) Animation
13 14 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.84%) PropTech
15 11 (0.71%) Legacy Code
16 10 (0.65%) Video Editing
17 8 (0.52%) Digital Media
17 8 (0.52%) Driving Licence
18 7 (0.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 176 (11.37%) Linux
2 36 (2.33%) Windows
3 19 (1.23%) Ubuntu
4 9 (0.58%) Unix
5 6 (0.39%) Alpine Linux
6 5 (0.32%) Android
6 5 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.32%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.065%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (25.13%) Full Stack Development
2 372 (24.03%) Web Development
3 344 (22.22%) Agile
4 299 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
5 221 (14.28%) OOP
6 220 (14.21%) Software Engineering
7 211 (13.63%) E-Commerce
8 201 (12.98%) MVC
9 186 (12.02%) User Experience
10 163 (10.53%) DevOps
11 132 (8.53%) Front End Development
11 132 (8.53%) OO
12 115 (7.43%) Computer Science
12 115 (7.43%) TDD
13 112 (7.24%) Mentoring
14 91 (5.88%) Clean Code
14 91 (5.88%) UX Design
15 90 (5.81%) CI/CD
16 77 (4.97%) Collaborative Working
16 77 (4.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 865 (55.88%) JavaScript
2 195 (12.60%) SQL
3 131 (8.46%) TypeScript
4 122 (7.88%) C#
5 99 (6.40%) Java
6 96 (6.20%) Python
7 42 (2.71%) C
8 38 (2.45%) Go
9 24 (1.55%) Ruby
10 19 (1.23%) C++
10 19 (1.23%) Rust
11 16 (1.03%) Bash
11 16 (1.03%) VB
12 14 (0.90%) Ada
13 12 (0.78%) VB.NET
14 11 (0.71%) Kotlin
14 11 (0.71%) MATLAB
15 10 (0.65%) PowerShell
15 10 (0.65%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 190 (12.27%) Degree
2 73 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (0.97%) Azure Certification
4 11 (0.71%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.13%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.065%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.065%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.065%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (3.49%) QA
2 34 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 29 (1.87%) WCAG
4 18 (1.16%) GDPR
5 3 (0.19%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.13%) HL7
6 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.13%) SLA
7 1 (0.065%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 185 (11.95%) Docker
2 4 (0.26%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.065%) Firmware
3 1 (0.065%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 90 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 59 (3.81%) Terraform
3 12 (0.78%) Ansible
3 12 (0.78%) Progress Chef
4 11 (0.71%) Puppet
5 8 (0.52%) Grafana
6 7 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.39%) cPanel
8 4 (0.26%) Rancher
9 3 (0.19%) Galera Cluster
10 2 (0.13%) Plesk
11 1 (0.065%) Argo
11 1 (0.065%) Podman
11 1 (0.065%) systemd
Vendors
1 56 (3.62%) Google
2 48 (3.10%) WooCommerce
3 40 (2.58%) Microsoft
4 33 (2.13%) Adobe
5 14 (0.90%) Twitter
6 13 (0.84%) Zend
7 11 (0.71%) New Relic
8 8 (0.52%) OpenAI
8 8 (0.52%) Oracle
8 8 (0.52%) VMware
9 7 (0.45%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.45%) SAP
10 6 (0.39%) Actuate
10 6 (0.39%) Facebook
10 6 (0.39%) SaltStack
10 6 (0.39%) Sitecore
11 5 (0.32%) F5
12 4 (0.26%) HP
12 4 (0.26%) Progress
12 4 (0.26%) YouTube