PHP Developer Jobs

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 5 June 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
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 310 435
Rank change year-on-year -45 +125 -236
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 792 1,064 1,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 1.14% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 1.25% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 724 520 1,085
10th Percentile £29,825 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £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 £57,000 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £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 101,029 85,188 163,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 91.21% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 71,463 55,074 85,023
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,750
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 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 5 June 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 5 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
England -28 724 £45,000 -14.29% 142
UK excluding London -46 709 £45,000 -5.26% 119
Work from Home +31 364 £47,500 -9.52% 82
North of England +16 225 £45,000 - 44
Midlands -40 126 £42,500 -15.00% 21
South East -94 120 £50,000 - 14
North West +22 116 £50,000 - 31
South West -41 111 £45,000 -5.26% 19
Yorkshire +53 96 £42,500 -5.56% 10
East of England +31 82 £43,750 -27.08% 17
West Midlands -16 73 £42,500 -8.11% 15
London +4 59 £50,000 -16.67% 23
East Midlands -55 52 £42,500 -19.05% 6
Scotland -101 27 £45,000 - 5
Wales -4 14 £47,500 -17.39% 2
North East -32 13 £46,500 - 3
Northern Ireland +2 4 £33,500 -4.29%

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

For the 6 months to 5 June 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.

1 792 (100.00%) PHP
2 496 (62.63%) Laravel
3 436 (55.05%) JavaScript
4 405 (51.14%) MySQL
5 330 (41.67%) HTML
6 308 (38.89%) CSS
7 233 (29.42%) AWS
8 217 (27.40%) Git
9 201 (25.38%) Full Stack Development
10 189 (23.86%) React
11 172 (21.72%) Social Skills
12 171 (21.59%) Vue
13 168 (21.21%) Web Development
14 154 (19.44%) Agile
14 154 (19.44%) Symfony
15 141 (17.80%) OOP
16 128 (16.16%) jQuery
17 115 (14.52%) OO
17 115 (14.52%) MVC
18 111 (14.02%) SaaS
18 111 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
19 104 (13.13%) E-Commerce
20 101 (12.75%) Linux
21 96 (12.12%) TDD
21 96 (12.12%) Docker
22 85 (10.73%) WordPress
22 85 (10.73%) Software Engineering
22 85 (10.73%) SQL
23 74 (9.34%) HTML5
24 71 (8.96%) User Experience

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 85 (10.73%) WordPress
2 35 (4.42%) CMS
3 22 (2.78%) Apache
4 20 (2.53%) nginx
5 10 (1.26%) Drupal
6 6 (0.76%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.51%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.51%) ColdFusion
7 4 (0.51%) IIS
8 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.25%) Joomla!
9 2 (0.25%) Moodle
9 2 (0.25%) Totara
10 1 (0.13%) Confluence
10 1 (0.13%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 5 (0.63%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.51%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 27 (3.41%) Magento
2 12 (1.52%) Shopify
3 4 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.25%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 233 (29.42%) AWS
2 111 (14.02%) SaaS
3 30 (3.79%) GCP
4 22 (2.78%) GitHub
5 15 (1.89%) Azure
6 14 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (1.39%) npm
8 10 (1.26%) Stripe
9 8 (1.01%) Figma
9 8 (1.01%) Serverless
10 6 (0.76%) DigitalOcean
11 5 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (0.63%) Power Platform
12 4 (0.51%) Firebase
13 3 (0.38%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.38%) Google Tag Manager
14 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 2 (0.25%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (0.25%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (0.25%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.76%) VoIP
1 6 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (0.63%) SSH
3 3 (0.38%) HTTP
4 2 (0.25%) FTP
4 2 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 405 (51.14%) MySQL
2 38 (4.80%) Relational Database
3 31 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (3.16%) SQL Server
5 23 (2.90%) MariaDB
6 22 (2.78%) MongoDB
7 15 (1.89%) Redis
8 7 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.76%) GIS
9 6 (0.76%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.63%) Power BI
11 4 (0.51%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.38%) Looker
13 2 (0.25%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.25%) phpMyAdmin
14 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 217 (27.40%) Git
2 28 (3.54%) JIRA
3 18 (2.27%) webpack
4 13 (1.64%) Subversion
5 11 (1.39%) GitLab
6 10 (1.26%) PHPUnit
7 7 (0.88%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.63%) Selenium
9 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.38%) git-flow
10 3 (0.38%) Grunt
11 2 (0.25%) gulp
12 1 (0.13%) Appium
12 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.13%) Storybook
General
1 172 (21.72%) Social Skills
2 56 (7.07%) Marketing
3 51 (6.44%) Finance
4 27 (3.41%) Retail
5 25 (3.16%) Games
6 16 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (1.89%) Telecoms
8 11 (1.39%) Tech for Good
9 10 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.14%) Turkish Language
11 7 (0.88%) Law
12 6 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.63%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.38%) Legal
14 3 (0.38%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.25%) Aviation
15 2 (0.25%) Banking
15 2 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.13%) Advertising
16 1 (0.13%) Digital Healthcare
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 496 (62.63%) Laravel
2 330 (41.67%) HTML
3 308 (38.89%) CSS
4 189 (23.86%) React
5 171 (21.59%) Vue
6 154 (19.44%) Symfony
7 128 (16.16%) jQuery
8 74 (9.34%) HTML5
9 69 (8.71%) RESTful
10 68 (8.59%) LAMP
11 61 (7.70%) Node.js
12 54 (6.82%) REST
13 48 (6.06%) AngularJS
14 47 (5.93%) CSS3
15 38 (4.80%) SOAP
16 37 (4.67%) Sass
17 35 (4.42%) Web Services
18 29 (3.66%) Tailwind CSS
19 26 (3.28%) Doctrine
20 24 (3.03%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 56 (7.07%) Greenfield Project
2 32 (4.04%) Mobile App
3 25 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (1.77%) Product Ownership
5 14 (1.77%) PropTech
6 11 (1.39%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.14%) Animation
8 8 (1.01%) Legacy Code
9 7 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (0.88%) Video Editing
10 6 (0.76%) e-Learning
11 5 (0.63%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.63%) Cybercrime
11 5 (0.63%) Educational Technology
12 4 (0.51%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.38%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.38%) Photography
13 3 (0.38%) Solar Energy
Operating Systems
1 101 (12.75%) Linux
2 11 (1.39%) Windows
3 9 (1.14%) Ubuntu
4 6 (0.76%) Alpine Linux
5 5 (0.63%) Unix
6 2 (0.25%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) Android
7 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (25.38%) Full Stack Development
2 168 (21.21%) Web Development
3 154 (19.44%) Agile
4 141 (17.80%) OOP
5 115 (14.52%) MVC
5 115 (14.52%) OO
6 111 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
7 104 (13.13%) E-Commerce
8 96 (12.12%) TDD
9 85 (10.73%) Software Engineering
10 71 (8.96%) User Experience
11 69 (8.71%) Clean Code
12 62 (7.83%) DevOps
12 62 (7.83%) Unit Testing
13 57 (7.20%) Computer Science
13 57 (7.20%) OO PHP
14 53 (6.69%) Front End Development
15 47 (5.93%) Test Automation
16 41 (5.18%) Microservices
17 39 (4.92%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 792 (100.00%) PHP
2 436 (55.05%) JavaScript
3 85 (10.73%) SQL
4 54 (6.82%) TypeScript
5 17 (2.15%) Go
5 17 (2.15%) Java
6 15 (1.89%) Python
7 12 (1.52%) Ada
8 11 (1.39%) C#
9 9 (1.14%) Kotlin
9 9 (1.14%) VB
10 6 (0.76%) Rust
11 4 (0.51%) CFML
11 4 (0.51%) Ruby
11 4 (0.51%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 62 (7.83%) Degree
2 52 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.04%) QA
2 8 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 96 (12.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 19 (2.40%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.14%) Terraform
3 3 (0.38%) cPanel
4 1 (0.13%) Ansible
4 1 (0.13%) Plesk
Vendors
1 16 (2.02%) Adobe
2 13 (1.64%) Google
3 12 (1.52%) Microsoft
4 11 (1.39%) Zend
5 9 (1.14%) WooCommerce
6 8 (1.01%) Twitter
7 6 (0.76%) Actuate
7 6 (0.76%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.51%) HP
9 3 (0.38%) Facebook
9 3 (0.38%) Oracle
10 2 (0.25%) Progress
11 1 (0.13%) Apple
11 1 (0.13%) Panasonic
11 1 (0.13%) Sony