PHP Jobs in England

PHP
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 164 108
Rank change year-on-year +15 -56 -44
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,678 2,032 4,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.94% 2.30% 3.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.06% 5.30% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,527 1,402 2,718
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.91% +12.22%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,700 £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
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,671 38,352 73,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.00% 43.35% 53.39%
Number of salaries quoted 22,367 24,763 39,036
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in England

PHP
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for PHP in England

PHP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP in England

PHP
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England +39 489 £47,500 -5.00% 105
London -11 271 £63,218 +5.36% 162
South West +12 268 £45,000 -5.26% 56
South East -87 248 £55,000 +10.00% 83
North West +31 239 £50,000 -9.09% 66
Yorkshire +65 223 £47,500 +5.56% 33
Midlands -6 218 £45,000 -14.29% 70
East of England +50 170 £43,500 -30.40% 42
West Midlands +19 120 £45,000 -14.29% 43
East Midlands -19 97 £45,000 -14.29% 27
North East -40 27 £45,000 -21.74% 6
PHP
UK

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 241 (14.36%) WordPress
2 106 (6.32%) CMS
3 73 (4.35%) Drupal
4 53 (3.16%) Apache
5 49 (2.92%) nginx
6 18 (1.07%) Confluence
7 9 (0.54%) Headless CMS
8 8 (0.48%) IIS
9 7 (0.42%) SharePoint
10 6 (0.36%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.24%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.24%) Moodle
11 4 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.24%) SAS
12 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.12%) Joomla!
12 2 (0.12%) Liferay
12 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
13 1 (0.060%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 20 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.72%) Adobe XD
3 12 (0.72%) Photoshop
4 11 (0.66%) Simulink
5 8 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.12%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.060%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 74 (4.41%) Magento
2 47 (2.80%) Shopify
3 21 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.24%) CiviCRM
4 4 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.060%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 510 (30.39%) AWS
2 192 (11.44%) SaaS
3 94 (5.60%) Azure
4 86 (5.13%) GitHub
5 60 (3.58%) GCP
6 36 (2.15%) Amazon S3
7 33 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (1.49%) Amazon Kinesis
10 23 (1.37%) Figma
11 21 (1.25%) npm
12 20 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (1.13%) Power Platform
13 19 (1.13%) Serverless
14 14 (0.83%) Stripe
15 13 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (0.60%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.03%) HTTP
2 27 (1.61%) Internet
3 18 (1.07%) DNS
4 13 (0.77%) SSL
5 12 (0.72%) Firewall
6 8 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.42%) VoIP
8 6 (0.36%) SSH
9 5 (0.30%) FTP
10 4 (0.24%) LAN
10 4 (0.24%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.24%) WAN
11 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.12%) IPsec
11 2 (0.12%) VPN
11 2 (0.12%) Wireless
12 1 (0.060%) DNSSEC
12 1 (0.060%) IPv4
12 1 (0.060%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 705 (42.01%) MySQL
2 85 (5.07%) Relational Database
3 74 (4.41%) SQL Server
4 72 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
5 47 (2.80%) MongoDB
6 42 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
7 38 (2.26%) MariaDB
8 31 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (1.73%) NoSQL
10 27 (1.61%) RDBMS
11 25 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 25 (1.49%) Redis
12 18 (1.07%) Power BI
13 16 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
14 13 (0.77%) DynamoDB
14 13 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (0.54%) SQLite
16 8 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 7 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
17 7 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 465 (27.71%) Git
2 71 (4.23%) JIRA
3 42 (2.50%) Selenium
4 34 (2.03%) GitLab
4 34 (2.03%) Jenkins
5 33 (1.97%) Cypress.io
6 26 (1.55%) Postman
7 24 (1.43%) Subversion
8 16 (0.95%) webpack
9 15 (0.89%) PHPUnit
10 13 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
11 11 (0.66%) gulp
12 10 (0.60%) Visual Studio
13 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.48%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.24%) git-flow
15 4 (0.24%) Grunt
16 3 (0.18%) Appium
17 2 (0.12%) Bower
17 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 340 (20.26%) Social Skills
2 167 (9.95%) Marketing
3 127 (7.57%) Retail
4 100 (5.96%) Finance
5 61 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (2.74%) Games
7 34 (2.03%) Tech for Good
8 31 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 28 (1.67%) Manufacturing
10 26 (1.55%) Public Sector
11 19 (1.13%) Electronics
12 18 (1.07%) Banking
12 18 (1.07%) Law
12 18 (1.07%) Legal
12 18 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (0.77%) Health Technology
14 11 (0.66%) German Language
15 10 (0.60%) Retail Banking
16 9 (0.54%) Turkish Language
17 8 (0.48%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 1,250 (74.49%) Developer
2 678 (40.41%) PHP Developer
3 341 (20.32%) Senior
4 297 (17.70%) Senior Developer
5 226 (13.47%) Full Stack Developer
6 171 (10.19%) Lead
7 160 (9.54%) Web Developer
8 142 (8.46%) Senior PHP Developer
9 121 (7.21%) Software Engineer
10 90 (5.36%) Software Developer
10 90 (5.36%) WordPress Developer
11 88 (5.24%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 84 (5.01%) Full Stack PHP Developer
13 74 (4.41%) Junior
14 73 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 69 (4.11%) Junior Developer
16 63 (3.75%) Lead Developer
17 56 (3.34%) PHP Web Developer
18 53 (3.16%) Technical Leader
19 43 (2.56%) Junior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 777 (46.31%) Laravel
2 701 (41.78%) HTML
3 660 (39.33%) CSS
4 406 (24.20%) React
5 283 (16.87%) Vue
6 215 (12.81%) jQuery
7 203 (12.10%) Symfony
8 175 (10.43%) LAMP
9 157 (9.36%) HTML5
10 135 (8.05%) Node.js
11 122 (7.27%) CSS3
12 113 (6.73%) RESTful
13 106 (6.32%) AngularJS
13 106 (6.32%) REST
14 89 (5.30%) Web Services
15 78 (4.65%) JSON
16 74 (4.41%) Sass
17 64 (3.81%) .NET
18 53 (3.16%) SOAP
19 50 (2.98%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 92 (5.48%) Greenfield Project
2 45 (2.68%) Mobile App
3 41 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 36 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 34 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 32 (1.91%) Product Ownership
7 30 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (1.37%) IoT
10 21 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
11 19 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
12 15 (0.89%) Algorithms
12 15 (0.89%) Animation
13 13 (0.77%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.72%) PropTech
15 10 (0.60%) Client/Server
15 10 (0.60%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.60%) Educational Technology
15 10 (0.60%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 182 (10.85%) Linux
2 39 (2.32%) Windows
3 19 (1.13%) Ubuntu
4 10 (0.60%) Unix
5 6 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
6 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.18%) Android
7 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.12%) AIX
8 2 (0.12%) CentOS
8 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.060%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.060%) Rocky
9 1 (0.060%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (24.67%) Full Stack Development
2 376 (22.41%) Web Development
3 372 (22.17%) Agile
4 299 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
5 281 (16.75%) Software Engineering
6 246 (14.66%) OOP
7 238 (14.18%) E-Commerce
8 222 (13.23%) MVC
9 194 (11.56%) DevOps
10 175 (10.43%) User Experience
11 150 (8.94%) Computer Science
12 140 (8.34%) Front End Development
13 135 (8.05%) Mentoring
14 129 (7.69%) TDD
15 125 (7.45%) OO
16 112 (6.67%) CI/CD
17 104 (6.20%) Roadmaps
18 96 (5.72%) Clean Code
19 91 (5.42%) Project Management
20 83 (4.95%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 880 (52.44%) JavaScript
2 234 (13.95%) SQL
3 139 (8.28%) TypeScript
4 128 (7.63%) C#
5 120 (7.15%) Python
6 109 (6.50%) Java
7 39 (2.32%) Go
8 38 (2.26%) C
9 28 (1.67%) Ruby
10 25 (1.49%) Bash
11 23 (1.37%) Rust
12 21 (1.25%) C++
13 16 (0.95%) VB
14 14 (0.83%) PowerShell
14 14 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 13 (0.77%) Ada
16 11 (0.66%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.66%) MATLAB
16 11 (0.66%) VB.NET
17 7 (0.42%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 226 (13.47%) Degree
2 96 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (1.07%) Security Cleared
4 16 (0.95%) Azure Certification
5 7 (0.42%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.30%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.18%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.060%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.060%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.060%) MCP
9 1 (0.060%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (3.34%) QA
2 37 (2.21%) WCAG
3 34 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.01%) GDPR
5 4 (0.24%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.12%) HL7
6 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.12%) SLA
7 1 (0.060%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.060%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.060%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.060%) PMO
System Software
1 239 (14.24%) Docker
2 5 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.12%) Firmware
4 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.060%) OpenSIPS
5 1 (0.060%) PowerDNS
5 1 (0.060%) Varnish
5 1 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.060%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 110 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 76 (4.53%) Terraform
3 21 (1.25%) Ansible
4 14 (0.83%) Puppet
5 11 (0.66%) Grafana
5 11 (0.66%) Progress Chef
6 8 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.42%) cPanel
8 4 (0.24%) Rancher
9 2 (0.12%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.060%) Argo
10 1 (0.060%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.060%) Plesk
10 1 (0.060%) Podman
10 1 (0.060%) SCCM
10 1 (0.060%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.060%) systemd
Vendors
1 63 (3.75%) Google
2 44 (2.62%) Microsoft
2 44 (2.62%) WooCommerce
3 26 (1.55%) Adobe
4 15 (0.89%) Twitter
5 14 (0.83%) Zend
6 9 (0.54%) New Relic
6 9 (0.54%) Oracle
7 8 (0.48%) SAP
7 8 (0.48%) VMware
8 7 (0.42%) Facebook
8 7 (0.42%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.42%) SaltStack
9 6 (0.36%) Actuate
9 6 (0.36%) Sitecore
10 5 (0.30%) F5
10 5 (0.30%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.30%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.24%) HP
11 4 (0.24%) YouTube