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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 161 97
Rank change year-on-year +2 -64 -34
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,835 2,341 5,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.85% 2.32% 3.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.53% 5.35% 6.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,671 1,596 3,130
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,375 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63,218 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +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 33,186 43,722 84,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.45% 43.28% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,983 27,941 43,470
10th Percentile £35,195 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £107,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +16 1,675 £50,000 -9.09% 396
UK excluding London -19 1,484 £48,500 -3.00% 297
Work from Home +18 860 £51,500 -6.36% 268
North of England +41 485 £47,500 -5.00% 100
London -2 278 £64,109 +6.85% 106
South West +8 268 £45,000 -5.26% 60
South East -86 251 £55,000 +10.00% 46
North West +36 238 £50,000 -9.09% 65
Yorkshire +71 220 £47,500 +5.56% 28
Midlands -10 210 £45,000 -12.20% 53
East of England +48 170 £43,500 -33.08% 27
West Midlands 0 114 £46,250 -11.90% 28
East Midlands -19 95 £45,000 -10.00% 25
Scotland -101 48 £45,000 -18.18% 12
Wales +10 44 £50,000 +16.28% 6
North East -43 27 £45,000 -21.74% 8
Northern Ireland -16 9 £45,000 -21.74% 1

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
1 265 (14.44%) WordPress
2 113 (6.16%) CMS
3 79 (4.31%) Drupal
4 56 (3.05%) Apache
5 52 (2.83%) nginx
6 19 (1.04%) Confluence
7 16 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.49%) Headless CMS
8 9 (0.49%) IIS
9 6 (0.33%) Apache Solr
9 6 (0.33%) Moodle
9 6 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.22%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.22%) SAS
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.11%) Joomla!
12 2 (0.11%) Liferay
12 2 (0.11%) Magnolia
13 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 (4.03%) Magento
2 46 (2.51%) 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 (31.44%) AWS
2 227 (12.37%) SaaS
3 111 (6.05%) Azure
4 91 (4.96%) GitHub
5 62 (3.38%) GCP
6 38 (2.07%) Serverless
7 37 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
8 36 (1.96%) Amazon S3
9 28 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (1.42%) Amazon Kinesis
11 23 (1.25%) Figma
11 23 (1.25%) Power Platform
12 22 (1.20%) npm
13 20 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (0.93%) Stripe
15 16 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (0.60%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.96%) HTTP
2 27 (1.47%) Internet
3 20 (1.09%) DNS
4 13 (0.71%) SSL
5 12 (0.65%) Firewall
6 8 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.38%) VoIP
8 5 (0.27%) FTP
8 5 (0.27%) SSH
9 4 (0.22%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.16%) SMS
11 2 (0.11%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.11%) IPsec
11 2 (0.11%) LAN
11 2 (0.11%) VPN
11 2 (0.11%) WAN
11 2 (0.11%) Wireless
12 1 (0.054%) DHCP
12 1 (0.054%) Intranet
12 1 (0.054%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 754 (41.09%) MySQL
2 90 (4.90%) Relational Database
3 79 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
4 77 (4.20%) SQL Server
5 51 (2.78%) MongoDB
6 43 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
6 43 (2.34%) MariaDB
7 32 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
7 32 (1.74%) Redis
8 29 (1.58%) NoSQL
9 28 (1.53%) RDBMS
10 25 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 24 (1.31%) DynamoDB
12 19 (1.04%) Power BI
13 17 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (0.49%) SQLite
16 8 (0.44%) Tableau
17 7 (0.38%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 482 (26.27%) Git
2 74 (4.03%) JIRA
3 40 (2.18%) Selenium
4 38 (2.07%) Cypress.io
4 38 (2.07%) Jenkins
5 34 (1.85%) GitLab
6 27 (1.47%) Postman
7 24 (1.31%) Subversion
8 20 (1.09%) webpack
9 16 (0.87%) 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%) Sonatype Nexus
18 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 370 (20.16%) Social Skills
2 172 (9.37%) Marketing
3 132 (7.19%) Retail
4 108 (5.89%) Finance
5 68 (3.71%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (2.78%) Games
7 39 (2.13%) Telecoms
8 38 (2.07%) Public Sector
9 35 (1.91%) Tech for Good
10 28 (1.53%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.04%) Electronics
12 19 (1.04%) 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 1,383 (75.37%) Developer
2 740 (40.33%) PHP Developer
3 374 (20.38%) Senior
4 321 (17.49%) Senior Developer
5 243 (13.24%) Full Stack Developer
6 188 (10.25%) Lead
7 167 (9.10%) Web Developer
8 152 (8.28%) Senior PHP Developer
9 118 (6.43%) Software Engineer
10 112 (6.10%) Software Developer
11 102 (5.56%) WordPress Developer
12 99 (5.40%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 90 (4.90%) Full Stack PHP Developer
14 77 (4.20%) Junior
15 74 (4.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 73 (3.98%) Lead Developer
17 72 (3.92%) Junior Developer
18 57 (3.11%) PHP Web Developer
18 57 (3.11%) Technical Leader
19 44 (2.40%) Junior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 853 (46.49%) Laravel
2 748 (40.76%) HTML
3 710 (38.69%) CSS
4 443 (24.14%) React
5 322 (17.55%) Vue
6 236 (12.86%) Symfony
7 230 (12.53%) jQuery
8 177 (9.65%) LAMP
9 164 (8.94%) Node.js
10 163 (8.88%) HTML5
11 127 (6.92%) RESTful
12 125 (6.81%) CSS3
13 122 (6.65%) AngularJS
14 115 (6.27%) REST
15 92 (5.01%) Web Services
16 87 (4.74%) JSON
17 83 (4.52%) Sass
18 76 (4.14%) .NET
19 55 (3.00%) SOAP
20 50 (2.72%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.29%) Greenfield Project
2 49 (2.67%) Mobile App
3 46 (2.51%) Onboarding
4 38 (2.07%) Cloud Native
5 34 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 33 (1.80%) Product Ownership
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 (1.04%) 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 11 (0.60%) Educational Technology
16 11 (0.60%) PropTech
17 10 (0.54%) Data Structures
17 10 (0.54%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 190 (10.35%) Linux
2 39 (2.13%) Windows
3 19 (1.04%) Ubuntu
4 14 (0.76%) Unix
5 8 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.38%) Android
7 6 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
7 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.27%) CentOS
9 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.054%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.054%) Rocky
12 1 (0.054%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (24.52%) Full Stack Development
2 398 (21.69%) Agile
3 393 (21.42%) Web Development
4 340 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
5 290 (15.80%) Software Engineering
6 255 (13.90%) E-Commerce
7 251 (13.68%) OOP
8 224 (12.21%) MVC
9 216 (11.77%) DevOps
10 194 (10.57%) User Experience
11 156 (8.50%) Computer Science
12 147 (8.01%) Front End Development
13 145 (7.90%) Mentoring
14 131 (7.14%) OO
15 130 (7.08%) TDD
16 123 (6.70%) CI/CD
17 108 (5.89%) Roadmaps
18 107 (5.83%) Clean Code
19 100 (5.45%) Project Management
20 94 (5.12%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 954 (51.99%) JavaScript
2 255 (13.90%) SQL
3 163 (8.88%) TypeScript
4 144 (7.85%) C#
5 125 (6.81%) Python
6 118 (6.43%) Java
7 44 (2.40%) C
7 44 (2.40%) Go
8 30 (1.63%) Ruby
9 27 (1.47%) Bash
10 24 (1.31%) Rust
11 21 (1.14%) C++
12 17 (0.93%) PowerShell
12 17 (0.93%) VB
13 15 (0.82%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.71%) Ada
14 13 (0.71%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.60%) MATLAB
15 11 (0.60%) VB.NET
16 10 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 242 (13.19%) Degree
2 102 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (1.20%) Security Cleared
4 17 (0.93%) Azure Certification
5 10 (0.54%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.33%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.16%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.054%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.054%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.054%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.054%) MCP
10 1 (0.054%) MCSE
10 1 (0.054%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (3.65%) QA
2 39 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 38 (2.07%) WCAG
4 19 (1.04%) GDPR
5 5 (0.27%) 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
1 258 (14.06%) 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%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.054%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 112 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 77 (4.20%) Terraform
3 23 (1.25%) 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 65 (3.54%) Google
2 54 (2.94%) WooCommerce
3 45 (2.45%) Microsoft
4 31 (1.69%) Adobe
5 15 (0.82%) Twitter
5 15 (0.82%) Zend
6 11 (0.60%) Oracle
7 9 (0.49%) New Relic
8 8 (0.44%) OpenAI
8 8 (0.44%) SAP
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
10 6 (0.33%) VMware
11 5 (0.27%) F5
11 5 (0.27%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.22%) HP
12 4 (0.22%) YouTube