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 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 310 398
Rank change year-on-year -60 +88 -206
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 741 1,116 1,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 1.10% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.20% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 696 564 1,126
10th Percentile £29,875 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,188 £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 £61,563 £65,000
90th Percentile £63,250 £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 93,937 92,745 151,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,282 58,546 84,308
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 £80,627 £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 12 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 12 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 -23 673 £45,000 -14.29% 148
UK excluding London -67 657 £45,000 -5.26% 120
Work from Home +36 361 £48,500 -7.62% 100
North of England +54 220 £45,000 - 45
North West +34 115 £50,000 -6.98% 30
South East -98 110 £50,000 - 19
Midlands -43 108 £42,500 -10.53% 23
South West -44 103 £45,000 -5.26% 19
Yorkshire +71 92 £42,500 +6.25% 13
East of England +40 72 £43,500 -33.08% 11
West Midlands +11 61 £42,500 -2.86% 16
London +18 59 £55,000 -8.33% 30
East Midlands -46 46 £40,000 -23.81% 7
Scotland -88 26 £45,000 -2.70% 3
Wales +6 14 £47,500 +5.56% 2
North East -23 13 £46,500 +29.17% 2
Northern Ireland +4 4 £33,500 -4.29% 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 741 (100.00%) PHP
2 483 (65.18%) Laravel
3 418 (56.41%) JavaScript
4 382 (51.55%) MySQL
5 314 (42.38%) HTML
6 295 (39.81%) CSS
7 227 (30.63%) AWS
8 202 (27.26%) Git
9 179 (24.16%) Full Stack Development
10 177 (23.89%) React
11 174 (23.48%) Vue
12 165 (22.27%) Social Skills
13 158 (21.32%) Web Development
14 149 (20.11%) Symfony
15 146 (19.70%) Agile
16 136 (18.35%) OOP
17 124 (16.73%) jQuery
18 113 (15.25%) MVC
19 112 (15.11%) SaaS
20 108 (14.57%) OO
21 100 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
22 98 (13.23%) E-Commerce
23 96 (12.96%) Docker
24 92 (12.42%) Linux
25 88 (11.88%) TDD
26 87 (11.74%) SQL
27 80 (10.80%) Software Engineering
28 77 (10.39%) WordPress
29 71 (9.58%) LAMP
30 70 (9.45%) 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 77 (10.39%) WordPress
2 33 (4.45%) CMS
3 23 (3.10%) Apache
4 20 (2.70%) 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 (3.37%) Magento
2 13 (1.75%) Shopify
3 3 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.27%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 227 (30.63%) AWS
2 112 (15.11%) SaaS
3 26 (3.51%) GCP
4 20 (2.70%) Azure
5 19 (2.56%) GitHub
6 15 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (1.48%) npm
8 10 (1.35%) Serverless
8 10 (1.35%) 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%) Google Tag Manager
14 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 2 (0.27%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (0.27%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.81%) VoIP
1 6 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (0.54%) SSH
3 2 (0.27%) FTP
3 2 (0.27%) HTTP
3 2 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 382 (51.55%) MySQL
2 32 (4.32%) Relational Database
3 26 (3.51%) MariaDB
4 25 (3.37%) MongoDB
5 23 (3.10%) SQL Server
6 20 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (1.89%) Redis
8 8 (1.08%) NoSQL
9 7 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.81%) GIS
11 5 (0.67%) Power BI
12 4 (0.54%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.40%) Looker
14 2 (0.27%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.27%) phpMyAdmin
15 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
15 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 202 (27.26%) Git
2 29 (3.91%) JIRA
3 17 (2.29%) webpack
4 13 (1.75%) Subversion
5 9 (1.21%) GitLab
6 7 (0.94%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.94%) PHPUnit
7 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.40%) git-flow
8 3 (0.40%) Grunt
9 2 (0.27%) gulp
9 2 (0.27%) Selenium
10 1 (0.13%) Appium
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.13%) Storybook
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.13%) WiX
General
1 165 (22.27%) Social Skills
2 49 (6.61%) Marketing
3 44 (5.94%) Finance
4 29 (3.91%) Retail
5 23 (3.10%) Games
6 16 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (2.16%) Telecoms
7 11 (1.48%) Tech for Good
8 10 (1.35%) 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
1 483 (65.18%) Laravel
2 314 (42.38%) HTML
3 295 (39.81%) CSS
4 177 (23.89%) React
5 174 (23.48%) Vue
6 149 (20.11%) Symfony
7 124 (16.73%) jQuery
8 71 (9.58%) LAMP
9 70 (9.45%) HTML5
10 66 (8.91%) RESTful
11 54 (7.29%) Node.js
11 54 (7.29%) REST
12 46 (6.21%) AngularJS
13 45 (6.07%) CSS3
14 40 (5.40%) SOAP
15 36 (4.86%) Web Services
16 33 (4.45%) Sass
17 30 (4.05%) Tailwind CSS
18 29 (3.91%) Doctrine
19 23 (3.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (4.05%) Mobile App
3 25 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.48%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.48%) PropTech
7 9 (1.21%) Animation
8 7 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (0.94%) Video Editing
9 5 (0.67%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.67%) Educational Technology
9 5 (0.67%) e-Learning
9 5 (0.67%) Legacy Code
10 4 (0.54%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.40%) Blog
11 3 (0.40%) Digital Media
11 3 (0.40%) NHS
11 3 (0.40%) Photography
11 3 (0.40%) Solar Energy
Operating Systems
1 92 (12.42%) Linux
2 10 (1.35%) 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
1 179 (24.16%) Full Stack Development
2 158 (21.32%) Web Development
3 146 (19.70%) Agile
4 136 (18.35%) OOP
5 113 (15.25%) MVC
6 108 (14.57%) OO
7 100 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
8 98 (13.23%) E-Commerce
9 88 (11.88%) TDD
10 80 (10.80%) Software Engineering
11 65 (8.77%) User Experience
12 64 (8.64%) Clean Code
13 63 (8.50%) DevOps
13 63 (8.50%) Unit Testing
14 59 (7.96%) OO PHP
15 56 (7.56%) Computer Science
16 51 (6.88%) Front End Development
17 45 (6.07%) Test Automation
18 43 (5.80%) Microservices
19 39 (5.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 741 (100.00%) PHP
2 418 (56.41%) JavaScript
3 87 (11.74%) SQL
4 46 (6.21%) TypeScript
5 18 (2.43%) Java
6 15 (2.02%) Python
7 12 (1.62%) Ada
7 12 (1.62%) C#
7 12 (1.62%) Go
8 9 (1.21%) Kotlin
8 9 (1.21%) VB
9 6 (0.81%) Rust
10 4 (0.54%) CFML
10 4 (0.54%) Ruby
10 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 61 (8.23%) Degree
2 51 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.32%) QA
2 6 (0.81%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 96 (12.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 16 (2.16%) 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 (1.62%) Microsoft
4 8 (1.08%) Twitter
4 8 (1.08%) WooCommerce
4 8 (1.08%) Zend
5 6 (0.81%) Actuate
6 5 (0.67%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.54%) HP
8 3 (0.40%) Facebook
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle
9 2 (0.27%) Progress
10 1 (0.13%) Apple
10 1 (0.13%) Panasonic
10 1 (0.13%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.13%) Sony