PHP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 161 100
Rank change year-on-year 0 -61 -37
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,839 2,290 5,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.84% 2.31% 3.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.54% 5.33% 6.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,671 1,550 3,081
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +17.65%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,216 42,952 86,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 54.04%
Number of salaries quoted 24,896 27,477 43,381
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the UK

PHP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for PHP in the UK

PHP
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for PHP in the UK

PHP
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 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 +13 1,678 £50,000 -9.09% 460
UK excluding London -10 1,492 £48,000 -4.00% 345
Work from Home +18 859 £50,000 -9.09% 294
North of England +37 488 £47,500 -5.00% 96
London -9 273 £65,000 +8.33% 150
South West +9 266 £45,000 -5.26% 58
South East -89 249 £55,000 +10.00% 75
North West +38 239 £50,000 -9.09% 59
Yorkshire +71 222 £47,500 +5.56% 30
Midlands 0 218 £45,000 -14.29% 60
East of England +50 170 £43,500 -30.40% 36
West Midlands +15 120 £45,000 -14.29% 34
East Midlands -11 97 £45,000 -14.29% 26
Scotland -104 49 £46,250 -15.91% 15
Wales +12 44 £50,000 +13.64% 9
North East -45 27 £45,000 -21.74% 7
Northern Ireland -17 9 £45,000 -21.74% 4

PHP
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
1 264 (14.36%) WordPress
2 116 (6.31%) CMS
3 81 (4.40%) Drupal
4 54 (2.94%) Apache
5 52 (2.83%) nginx
6 19 (1.03%) Confluence
7 15 (0.82%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.49%) Headless CMS
9 8 (0.44%) IIS
10 6 (0.33%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.27%) Moodle
12 4 (0.22%) ColdFusion
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
12 4 (0.22%) SAS
13 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.11%) Joomla!
13 2 (0.11%) Liferay
13 2 (0.11%) Magnolia
14 1 (0.054%) Totara
Applications
1 20 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.65%) Adobe XD
3 12 (0.65%) Photoshop
4 11 (0.60%) Simulink
5 8 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.054%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 74 (4.02%) Magento
2 47 (2.56%) Shopify
3 21 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.22%) CiviCRM
4 4 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 577 (31.38%) AWS
2 224 (12.18%) SaaS
3 106 (5.76%) Azure
4 93 (5.06%) GitHub
5 64 (3.48%) GCP
6 38 (2.07%) Serverless
7 37 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
8 36 (1.96%) Amazon S3
9 27 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (1.41%) Amazon Kinesis
11 23 (1.25%) Figma
12 22 (1.20%) npm
13 20 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
13 20 (1.09%) Power Platform
14 17 (0.92%) Stripe
15 16 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
17 13 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
18 10 (0.54%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.90%) HTTP
2 27 (1.47%) Internet
3 18 (0.98%) DNS
4 13 (0.71%) SSL
5 12 (0.65%) Firewall
6 10 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.38%) VoIP
8 6 (0.33%) SSH
9 5 (0.27%) FTP
10 4 (0.22%) LAN
10 4 (0.22%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.22%) WAN
11 3 (0.16%) SMS
12 2 (0.11%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.11%) IPsec
12 2 (0.11%) VPN
12 2 (0.11%) Wireless
13 1 (0.054%) DNSSEC
13 1 (0.054%) IPv4
13 1 (0.054%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 761 (41.38%) MySQL
2 91 (4.95%) Relational Database
3 82 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
4 79 (4.30%) SQL Server
5 48 (2.61%) MongoDB
6 43 (2.34%) MariaDB
7 42 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
8 33 (1.79%) Redis
9 32 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (1.63%) NoSQL
11 28 (1.52%) RDBMS
12 25 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (1.31%) DynamoDB
14 18 (0.98%) Power BI
15 17 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
17 9 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 9 (0.49%) SQLite
18 7 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
18 7 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 487 (26.48%) Git
2 73 (3.97%) JIRA
3 40 (2.18%) Selenium
4 37 (2.01%) Jenkins
5 35 (1.90%) Cypress.io
5 35 (1.90%) GitLab
6 27 (1.47%) Postman
7 24 (1.31%) Subversion
8 20 (1.09%) webpack
9 18 (0.98%) PHPUnit
10 13 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
11 11 (0.60%) gulp
12 10 (0.54%) Visual Studio
13 9 (0.49%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.44%) Eclipse
15 6 (0.33%) git-flow
16 5 (0.27%) Grunt
17 3 (0.16%) Appium
18 2 (0.11%) Bower
18 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 371 (20.17%) Social Skills
2 171 (9.30%) Marketing
3 131 (7.12%) Retail
4 112 (6.09%) Finance
5 67 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (2.83%) Games
7 39 (2.12%) Telecoms
8 37 (2.01%) Public Sector
9 35 (1.90%) Tech for Good
10 28 (1.52%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.03%) Electronics
12 19 (1.03%) Legal
13 18 (0.98%) Banking
13 18 (0.98%) Law
14 13 (0.71%) Health Technology
15 11 (0.60%) German Language
16 10 (0.54%) Advertising
16 10 (0.54%) Retail Banking
17 9 (0.49%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 1,386 (75.37%) Developer
2 744 (40.46%) PHP Developer
3 379 (20.61%) Senior
4 325 (17.67%) Senior Developer
5 244 (13.27%) Full Stack Developer
6 192 (10.44%) Lead
7 169 (9.19%) Web Developer
8 156 (8.48%) Senior PHP Developer
9 120 (6.53%) Software Engineer
10 113 (6.14%) Software Developer
11 102 (5.55%) WordPress Developer
12 96 (5.22%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 90 (4.89%) Full Stack PHP Developer
14 77 (4.19%) Junior
15 74 (4.02%) Lead Developer
16 72 (3.92%) Junior Developer
17 71 (3.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 59 (3.21%) PHP Web Developer
19 58 (3.15%) Technical Leader
20 44 (2.39%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 858 (46.66%) Laravel
2 750 (40.78%) HTML
3 711 (38.66%) CSS
4 439 (23.87%) React
5 322 (17.51%) Vue
6 235 (12.78%) Symfony
7 230 (12.51%) jQuery
8 179 (9.73%) LAMP
9 162 (8.81%) Node.js
10 158 (8.59%) HTML5
11 127 (6.91%) RESTful
12 122 (6.63%) CSS3
13 119 (6.47%) AngularJS
14 114 (6.20%) REST
15 93 (5.06%) Web Services
16 84 (4.57%) JSON
17 83 (4.51%) Sass
18 75 (4.08%) .NET
19 54 (2.94%) SOAP
20 51 (2.77%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 99 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
2 49 (2.66%) Mobile App
3 44 (2.39%) Onboarding
4 38 (2.07%) Cloud Native
5 36 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 34 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 31 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.47%) IoT
10 24 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
12 19 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
13 16 (0.87%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.82%) Animation
15 14 (0.76%) Client/Server
15 14 (0.76%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.65%) PropTech
17 10 (0.54%) Data Structures
17 10 (0.54%) Educational Technology
17 10 (0.54%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 189 (10.28%) Linux
2 41 (2.23%) Windows
3 19 (1.03%) Ubuntu
4 14 (0.76%) Unix
5 8 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.38%) Android
7 6 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.11%) AIX
10 2 (0.11%) CentOS
10 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.054%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.054%) Rocky
11 1 (0.054%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (24.47%) Full Stack Development
2 403 (21.91%) Agile
3 395 (21.48%) Web Development
4 340 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
5 292 (15.88%) Software Engineering
6 259 (14.08%) E-Commerce
7 256 (13.92%) OOP
8 225 (12.23%) MVC
9 212 (11.53%) DevOps
10 197 (10.71%) User Experience
11 154 (8.37%) Computer Science
12 146 (7.94%) Mentoring
13 144 (7.83%) Front End Development
14 138 (7.50%) TDD
15 134 (7.29%) OO
16 121 (6.58%) CI/CD
17 109 (5.93%) Clean Code
18 105 (5.71%) Roadmaps
19 100 (5.44%) Project Management
20 94 (5.11%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 957 (52.04%) JavaScript
2 250 (13.59%) SQL
3 159 (8.65%) TypeScript
4 140 (7.61%) C#
5 125 (6.80%) Python
6 120 (6.53%) Java
7 46 (2.50%) Go
8 44 (2.39%) C
9 30 (1.63%) Ruby
10 27 (1.47%) Bash
11 24 (1.31%) Rust
12 21 (1.14%) C++
13 17 (0.92%) VB
14 16 (0.87%) PowerShell
15 14 (0.76%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.76%) T-SQL
16 13 (0.71%) Ada
17 11 (0.60%) MATLAB
17 11 (0.60%) VB.NET
18 8 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 239 (13.00%) Degree
2 102 (5.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (1.09%) Security Cleared
4 17 (0.92%) Azure Certification
5 9 (0.49%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.33%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.16%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.054%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.054%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.054%) MCP
9 1 (0.054%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (3.64%) QA
2 39 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.90%) WCAG
4 19 (1.03%) GDPR
5 4 (0.22%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.11%) HL7
6 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.11%) SLA
7 1 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.054%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.054%) PMO
System Software
1 256 (13.92%) Docker
2 5 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.16%) Varnish
5 2 (0.11%) Firmware
5 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.054%) OpenSIPS
6 1 (0.054%) PowerDNS
6 1 (0.054%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.054%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 112 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 77 (4.19%) Terraform
3 21 (1.14%) Ansible
4 16 (0.87%) Puppet
5 13 (0.71%) Progress Chef
6 11 (0.60%) Grafana
7 8 (0.44%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.38%) cPanel
9 4 (0.22%) Rancher
10 3 (0.16%) Galera Cluster
11 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.11%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.054%) Argo
12 1 (0.054%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.054%) Plesk
12 1 (0.054%) Podman
12 1 (0.054%) SCCM
12 1 (0.054%) systemd
Vendors
1 66 (3.59%) Google
2 54 (2.94%) WooCommerce
3 44 (2.39%) Microsoft
4 31 (1.69%) Adobe
5 15 (0.82%) Twitter
6 14 (0.76%) Zend
7 9 (0.49%) New Relic
7 9 (0.49%) Oracle
8 8 (0.44%) OpenAI
8 8 (0.44%) SAP
8 8 (0.44%) VMware
9 7 (0.38%) Facebook
9 7 (0.38%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.38%) SaltStack
10 6 (0.33%) Actuate
10 6 (0.33%) Sitecore
11 5 (0.27%) F5
11 5 (0.27%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.22%) Progress
12 4 (0.22%) YouTube