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 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 313 428
Rank change year-on-year -46 +115 -232
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 778 1,072 1,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 1.13% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 1.24% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 719 528 1,093
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,750 £32,650
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 £74,125 £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 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
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 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

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 2 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 2 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 -13 711 £45,000 -14.29% 141
UK excluding London -61 695 £45,000 -5.26% 110
Work from Home +34 360 £47,500 -9.52% 80
North of England +25 223 £45,000 - 38
Midlands -40 121 £42,500 -15.00% 20
South East -107 118 £50,000 - 18
North West +11 116 £50,000 -2.44% 26
South West -35 109 £45,000 -5.26% 17
Yorkshire +51 94 £42,500 -1.16% 12
East of England +38 80 £43,500 -27.50% 16
West Midlands -13 69 £42,500 -8.11% 15
London +16 59 £50,000 -16.67% 31
East Midlands -50 51 £42,500 -19.05% 5
Scotland -101 26 £45,000 - 4
Wales -3 14 £47,500 -17.39% 1
North East -28 13 £46,500 -
Northern Ireland +1 4 £33,500 -4.29%

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 778 (100.00%) PHP
2 490 (62.98%) Laravel
3 425 (54.63%) JavaScript
4 398 (51.16%) MySQL
5 322 (41.39%) HTML
6 301 (38.69%) CSS
7 230 (29.56%) AWS
8 214 (27.51%) Git
9 196 (25.19%) Full Stack Development
10 183 (23.52%) React
11 172 (22.11%) Social Skills
12 171 (21.98%) Vue
13 161 (20.69%) Web Development
14 153 (19.67%) Agile
15 151 (19.41%) Symfony
16 138 (17.74%) OOP
17 126 (16.20%) jQuery
18 114 (14.65%) MVC
19 111 (14.27%) OO
19 111 (14.27%) SaaS
20 109 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
21 101 (12.98%) E-Commerce
22 99 (12.72%) Linux
23 95 (12.21%) TDD
24 94 (12.08%) Docker
25 84 (10.80%) Software Engineering
26 83 (10.67%) SQL
26 83 (10.67%) WordPress
27 73 (9.38%) HTML5
28 70 (9.00%) 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 83 (10.67%) WordPress
2 34 (4.37%) CMS
3 22 (2.83%) Apache
4 20 (2.57%) nginx
5 9 (1.16%) Drupal
6 6 (0.77%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.51%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.51%) ColdFusion
7 4 (0.51%) IIS
8 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.26%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.13%) Confluence
10 1 (0.13%) Moodle
10 1 (0.13%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.13%) Totara
Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.51%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 27 (3.47%) Magento
2 12 (1.54%) Shopify
3 4 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.26%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 230 (29.56%) AWS
2 111 (14.27%) SaaS
3 30 (3.86%) GCP
4 22 (2.83%) GitHub
5 15 (1.93%) Azure
5 15 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (1.41%) npm
7 10 (1.29%) Stripe
8 8 (1.03%) Figma
8 8 (1.03%) Serverless
9 6 (0.77%) DigitalOcean
10 5 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (0.64%) Power Platform
11 4 (0.51%) Firebase
12 3 (0.39%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.39%) Google Tag Manager
13 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 2 (0.26%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.26%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.26%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.77%) VoIP
1 6 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (0.64%) SSH
3 2 (0.26%) FTP
3 2 (0.26%) HTTP
3 2 (0.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 398 (51.16%) MySQL
2 35 (4.50%) Relational Database
3 27 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (3.21%) SQL Server
5 24 (3.08%) MariaDB
6 22 (2.83%) MongoDB
7 15 (1.93%) Redis
8 7 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.77%) GIS
9 6 (0.77%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.64%) Power BI
11 4 (0.51%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.39%) Looker
13 2 (0.26%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.26%) phpMyAdmin
14 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 214 (27.51%) Git
2 28 (3.60%) JIRA
3 17 (2.19%) webpack
4 13 (1.67%) Subversion
5 10 (1.29%) PHPUnit
6 9 (1.16%) GitLab
7 7 (0.90%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.64%) Selenium
9 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.39%) git-flow
10 3 (0.39%) Grunt
11 2 (0.26%) gulp
12 1 (0.13%) Appium
12 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.13%) Storybook
General
1 172 (22.11%) Social Skills
2 54 (6.94%) Marketing
3 51 (6.56%) Finance
4 27 (3.47%) Retail
5 25 (3.21%) Games
6 16 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (1.93%) Telecoms
8 11 (1.41%) Tech for Good
9 10 (1.29%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.16%) Turkish Language
11 7 (0.90%) Law
12 6 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.64%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.39%) Legal
14 3 (0.39%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.26%) Aviation
15 2 (0.26%) Banking
15 2 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.13%) Advertising
16 1 (0.13%) Digital Healthcare
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 490 (62.98%) Laravel
2 322 (41.39%) HTML
3 301 (38.69%) CSS
4 183 (23.52%) React
5 171 (21.98%) Vue
6 151 (19.41%) Symfony
7 126 (16.20%) jQuery
8 73 (9.38%) HTML5
9 68 (8.74%) LAMP
9 68 (8.74%) RESTful
10 58 (7.46%) Node.js
11 53 (6.81%) REST
12 47 (6.04%) AngularJS
13 46 (5.91%) CSS3
14 38 (4.88%) SOAP
15 35 (4.50%) Sass
16 33 (4.24%) Web Services
17 29 (3.73%) Tailwind CSS
18 26 (3.34%) Doctrine
19 24 (3.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.33%) Greenfield Project
2 32 (4.11%) Mobile App
3 25 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (1.80%) Product Ownership
6 13 (1.67%) PropTech
7 11 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.16%) Animation
9 8 (1.03%) Legacy Code
10 7 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (0.90%) Video Editing
11 5 (0.64%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.64%) Cybercrime
11 5 (0.64%) Educational Technology
11 5 (0.64%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.51%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.39%) Blog
13 3 (0.39%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.39%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 99 (12.72%) Linux
2 11 (1.41%) Windows
3 9 (1.16%) Ubuntu
4 6 (0.77%) Alpine Linux
5 5 (0.64%) Unix
6 2 (0.26%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) Android
7 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (25.19%) Full Stack Development
2 161 (20.69%) Web Development
3 153 (19.67%) Agile
4 138 (17.74%) OOP
5 114 (14.65%) MVC
6 111 (14.27%) OO
7 109 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
8 101 (12.98%) E-Commerce
9 95 (12.21%) TDD
10 84 (10.80%) Software Engineering
11 70 (9.00%) User Experience
12 68 (8.74%) Clean Code
13 63 (8.10%) Unit Testing
14 62 (7.97%) DevOps
15 58 (7.46%) OO PHP
16 56 (7.20%) Computer Science
17 52 (6.68%) Front End Development
18 47 (6.04%) Test Automation
19 41 (5.27%) Microservices
20 38 (4.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 778 (100.00%) PHP
2 425 (54.63%) JavaScript
3 83 (10.67%) SQL
4 54 (6.94%) TypeScript
5 17 (2.19%) Go
5 17 (2.19%) Java
6 15 (1.93%) Python
7 12 (1.54%) Ada
8 11 (1.41%) C#
9 9 (1.16%) Kotlin
9 9 (1.16%) VB
10 6 (0.77%) Rust
11 4 (0.51%) CFML
11 4 (0.51%) Ruby
11 4 (0.51%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 61 (7.84%) Degree
2 51 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.11%) QA
2 7 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.77%) GDPR
System Software
1 94 (12.08%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 18 (2.31%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.29%) Terraform
3 3 (0.39%) cPanel
4 1 (0.13%) Ansible
4 1 (0.13%) Plesk
Vendors
1 16 (2.06%) Adobe
2 13 (1.67%) Google
3 12 (1.54%) Microsoft
4 11 (1.41%) Zend
5 8 (1.03%) Twitter
5 8 (1.03%) WooCommerce
6 6 (0.77%) Actuate
6 6 (0.77%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.51%) HP
8 3 (0.39%) Facebook
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle
9 2 (0.26%) Progress
10 1 (0.13%) Apple
10 1 (0.13%) Panasonic
10 1 (0.13%) Sony