PHP Jobs in England

PHP
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 156 113
Rank change year-on-year +8 -43 -48
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,800 1,930 4,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.88% 2.35% 3.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.15% 5.58% 6.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,565 1,308 2,675
10th Percentile £30,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £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 falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 29,257 34,595 76,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.61% 42.15% 53.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23,047 23,522 38,712
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £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 £100,502
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 12 June 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 12 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
North of England +27 510 £47,500 -5.00% 92
London +6 278 £64,109 +6.85% 99
South East -91 278 £55,000 +10.00% 54
South West +1 275 £45,000 -5.26% 59
Midlands +2 261 £45,000 -14.29% 66
North West +33 252 £50,000 -9.09% 54
Yorkshire +58 227 £47,000 +4.44% 32
East of England +51 184 £43,750 -20.45% 34
West Midlands +18 147 £45,000 -14.29% 40
East Midlands -16 113 £47,500 -9.52% 26
North East -50 31 £42,500 -26.09% 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
1 255 (14.17%) WordPress
2 106 (5.89%) CMS
3 73 (4.06%) Drupal
4 55 (3.06%) Apache
5 47 (2.61%) nginx
6 15 (0.83%) Confluence
7 9 (0.50%) Headless CMS
8 8 (0.44%) Moodle
9 7 (0.39%) IIS
9 7 (0.39%) SharePoint
10 6 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.22%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.22%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.22%) SAS
11 4 (0.22%) Totara
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.11%) Joomla!
12 2 (0.11%) Liferay
12 2 (0.11%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.67%) Adobe XD
4 11 (0.61%) Simulink
5 10 (0.56%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.056%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 84 (4.67%) Magento
2 49 (2.72%) Shopify
3 24 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.22%) CiviCRM
4 4 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.056%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 532 (29.56%) AWS
2 214 (11.89%) SaaS
3 94 (5.22%) Azure
4 83 (4.61%) GitHub
5 67 (3.72%) GCP
6 35 (1.94%) Amazon S3
7 30 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
8 25 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (1.39%) npm
9 24 (1.33%) Figma
10 20 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
11 16 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (0.89%) Power Platform
11 16 (0.89%) Stripe
12 15 (0.83%) Serverless
13 13 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (0.61%) Cloudflare
14 11 (0.61%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.94%) HTTP
2 27 (1.50%) Internet
3 15 (0.83%) DNS
4 13 (0.72%) SSL
5 12 (0.67%) Firewall
6 11 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.39%) LAN
7 7 (0.39%) WAN
8 6 (0.33%) SSH
8 6 (0.33%) VoIP
9 5 (0.28%) FTP
10 2 (0.11%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.11%) VPN
10 2 (0.11%) Wireless
11 1 (0.056%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.056%) IPv4
11 1 (0.056%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 756 (42.00%) MySQL
2 95 (5.28%) Relational Database
3 91 (5.06%) SQL Server
4 84 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
5 49 (2.72%) MongoDB
6 40 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (2.06%) MariaDB
8 31 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (1.67%) NoSQL
10 27 (1.50%) RDBMS
10 27 (1.50%) Redis
11 25 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (0.89%) Power BI
13 13 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
13 13 (0.72%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (0.50%) SQLite
16 7 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
17 6 (0.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 495 (27.50%) Git
2 70 (3.89%) JIRA
3 42 (2.33%) Selenium
4 36 (2.00%) GitLab
5 32 (1.78%) Jenkins
6 30 (1.67%) Cypress.io
7 26 (1.44%) Postman
8 24 (1.33%) Subversion
9 17 (0.94%) PHPUnit
9 17 (0.94%) webpack
10 13 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
11 11 (0.61%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.61%) gulp
12 9 (0.50%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.44%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.22%) git-flow
14 4 (0.22%) Grunt
15 3 (0.17%) Appium
16 2 (0.11%) Bower
16 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 367 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 185 (10.28%) Marketing
3 124 (6.89%) Retail
4 112 (6.22%) Finance
5 65 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (2.61%) Games
7 44 (2.44%) Tech for Good
8 30 (1.67%) Telecoms
9 28 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 26 (1.44%) Public Sector
11 21 (1.17%) Law
12 20 (1.11%) Electronics
12 20 (1.11%) Legal
12 20 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
13 19 (1.06%) Banking
14 16 (0.89%) Health Technology
15 12 (0.67%) Automotive
16 11 (0.61%) German Language
17 10 (0.56%) Retail Banking
18 9 (0.50%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 1,365 (75.83%) Developer
2 750 (41.67%) PHP Developer
3 372 (20.67%) Senior
4 326 (18.11%) Senior Developer
5 259 (14.39%) Full Stack Developer
6 174 (9.67%) Web Developer
7 170 (9.44%) Lead
8 165 (9.17%) Senior PHP Developer
9 127 (7.06%) Software Engineer
10 100 (5.56%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 97 (5.39%) Full Stack PHP Developer
12 96 (5.33%) WordPress Developer
13 89 (4.94%) Software Developer
14 69 (3.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 69 (3.83%) Junior
15 65 (3.61%) Junior Developer
16 63 (3.50%) Lead Developer
17 60 (3.33%) PHP Web Developer
18 53 (2.94%) Technical Leader
19 48 (2.67%) Magento Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 831 (46.17%) Laravel
2 753 (41.83%) HTML
3 703 (39.06%) CSS
4 442 (24.56%) React
5 301 (16.72%) Vue
6 223 (12.39%) Symfony
7 222 (12.33%) jQuery
8 174 (9.67%) LAMP
9 168 (9.33%) HTML5
10 154 (8.56%) Node.js
11 130 (7.22%) RESTful
12 122 (6.78%) CSS3
13 110 (6.11%) REST
14 106 (5.89%) AngularJS
15 91 (5.06%) Web Services
16 81 (4.50%) Sass
17 79 (4.39%) JSON
18 74 (4.11%) .NET
19 51 (2.83%) SOAP
19 51 (2.83%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
2 55 (3.06%) Mobile App
3 40 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 37 (2.06%) Cloud Native
5 34 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 32 (1.78%) Product Ownership
7 30 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.44%) IoT
10 22 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
12 19 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
13 17 (0.94%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.83%) Animation
15 14 (0.78%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.67%) PropTech
17 11 (0.61%) Legacy Code
18 10 (0.56%) Data Structures
18 10 (0.56%) Driving Licence
18 10 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 194 (10.78%) Linux
2 45 (2.50%) Windows
3 20 (1.11%) Ubuntu
4 9 (0.50%) Unix
5 8 (0.44%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
7 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.22%) Android
9 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.11%) AIX
10 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.056%) CentOS
11 1 (0.056%) Rocky
11 1 (0.056%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (25.83%) Full Stack Development
2 409 (22.72%) Web Development
3 387 (21.50%) Agile
4 325 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
5 295 (16.39%) Software Engineering
6 258 (14.33%) OOP
7 257 (14.28%) E-Commerce
8 232 (12.89%) MVC
9 198 (11.00%) DevOps
10 191 (10.61%) User Experience
11 151 (8.39%) Computer Science
12 145 (8.06%) Front End Development
13 143 (7.94%) OO
14 136 (7.56%) TDD
15 133 (7.39%) Mentoring
16 115 (6.39%) CI/CD
17 114 (6.33%) Roadmaps
18 111 (6.17%) Clean Code
19 98 (5.44%) Project Management
20 88 (4.89%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 948 (52.67%) JavaScript
2 251 (13.94%) SQL
3 155 (8.61%) TypeScript
4 126 (7.00%) C#
5 123 (6.83%) Python
6 112 (6.22%) Java
7 46 (2.56%) Go
8 40 (2.22%) C
9 27 (1.50%) Ruby
10 25 (1.39%) C++
11 23 (1.28%) Bash
12 22 (1.22%) Rust
13 17 (0.94%) VB
14 15 (0.83%) Ada
14 15 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 13 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.67%) PowerShell
16 12 (0.67%) VB.NET
17 11 (0.61%) MATLAB
18 7 (0.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 223 (12.39%) Degree
2 100 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (0.94%) Security Cleared
4 16 (0.89%) Azure Certification
5 6 (0.33%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.17%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.11%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.056%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.056%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.056%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.056%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.056%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (2.94%) QA
2 40 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.89%) WCAG
4 18 (1.00%) GDPR
5 2 (0.11%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.11%) HL7
5 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.11%) SLA
6 1 (0.056%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.056%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.056%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.056%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.056%) PMO
System Software
1 242 (13.44%) Docker
2 7 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.11%) Firmware
4 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.056%) PowerDNS
5 1 (0.056%) Varnish
5 1 (0.056%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.056%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 109 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 76 (4.22%) Terraform
3 19 (1.06%) Ansible
4 14 (0.78%) Puppet
5 11 (0.61%) Grafana
5 11 (0.61%) Progress Chef
6 10 (0.56%) cPanel
7 8 (0.44%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.28%) Plesk
9 4 (0.22%) Rancher
10 2 (0.11%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.056%) Argo
11 1 (0.056%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.056%) Podman
11 1 (0.056%) SCCM
11 1 (0.056%) systemd
Vendors
1 71 (3.94%) Google
2 45 (2.50%) WooCommerce
3 42 (2.33%) Microsoft
4 30 (1.67%) Adobe
5 17 (0.94%) Zend
6 14 (0.78%) Twitter
7 12 (0.67%) New Relic
8 11 (0.61%) VMware
9 10 (0.56%) Oracle
10 9 (0.50%) SAP
11 8 (0.44%) F5
12 7 (0.39%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.39%) SaltStack
13 6 (0.33%) Actuate
13 6 (0.33%) Facebook
13 6 (0.33%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.33%) Sitecore
14 5 (0.28%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.28%) MuleSoft
15 4 (0.22%) YouTube