PHP Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median PHP Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 230 276
Rank change year-on-year -53 +46 -142
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 693 875 937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.91% 1.55% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.74% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 646 372 817
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +28 223 £45,000 - 39
Midlands -44 121 £42,500 -15.00% 19
North West +21 116 £50,000 -2.44% 27
South East -97 116 £50,000 - 18
South West -34 109 £45,000 -5.26% 17
Yorkshire +51 94 £42,500 -1.16% 12
East of England +43 80 £43,500 -28.98% 16
West Midlands -17 69 £42,500 -8.11% 14
East Midlands -53 51 £42,500 -19.05% 5
Scotland -98 26 £45,000 - 4
Wales +1 14 £47,500 -17.39% 1
North East -27 13 £46,500 -
Northern Ireland +2 4 £33,500 -4.29%
PHP Developer
UK

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 693 (100.00%) PHP
2 422 (60.89%) Laravel
3 398 (57.43%) JavaScript
4 367 (52.96%) MySQL
5 312 (45.02%) HTML
6 293 (42.28%) CSS
7 206 (29.73%) AWS
8 186 (26.84%) Git
9 175 (25.25%) Full Stack Development
10 160 (23.09%) Social Skills
10 160 (23.09%) React
11 153 (22.08%) Web Development
12 152 (21.93%) Vue
13 126 (18.18%) Symfony
13 126 (18.18%) Agile
14 125 (18.04%) jQuery
15 123 (17.75%) OOP
16 109 (15.73%) OO
17 103 (14.86%) MVC
17 103 (14.86%) SaaS
18 99 (14.29%) Linux
18 99 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
19 79 (11.40%) WordPress
19 79 (11.40%) SQL
20 78 (11.26%) TDD
21 77 (11.11%) E-Commerce
22 75 (10.82%) Docker
23 69 (9.96%) User Experience
23 69 (9.96%) HTML5
24 66 (9.52%) LAMP

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 79 (11.40%) WordPress
2 34 (4.91%) CMS
3 21 (3.03%) Apache
4 20 (2.89%) nginx
5 6 (0.87%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.58%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.58%) ColdFusion
6 4 (0.58%) Drupal
6 4 (0.58%) IIS
7 3 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.29%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.14%) Confluence
9 1 (0.14%) Moodle
9 1 (0.14%) PrestaShop
9 1 (0.14%) Totara
Applications
1 5 (0.72%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.58%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.58%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 26 (3.75%) Magento
2 12 (1.73%) Shopify
3 4 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.29%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 206 (29.73%) AWS
2 103 (14.86%) SaaS
3 30 (4.33%) GCP
4 22 (3.17%) GitHub
5 15 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
6 14 (2.02%) Azure
7 11 (1.59%) npm
8 8 (1.15%) Figma
8 8 (1.15%) Stripe
9 6 (0.87%) DigitalOcean
9 6 (0.87%) Serverless
10 5 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (0.72%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.43%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.43%) Google Tag Manager
12 2 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 2 (0.29%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.29%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.29%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.29%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.87%) VoIP
1 6 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (0.72%) SSH
3 2 (0.29%) FTP
3 2 (0.29%) Internet
4 1 (0.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 367 (52.96%) MySQL
2 34 (4.91%) Relational Database
3 25 (3.61%) SQL Server
4 24 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (3.32%) MariaDB
6 13 (1.88%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.87%) GIS
9 5 (0.72%) Power BI
10 4 (0.58%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.58%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.58%) Redis
11 3 (0.43%) Looker
12 2 (0.29%) phpMyAdmin
13 1 (0.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 186 (26.84%) Git
2 28 (4.04%) JIRA
3 14 (2.02%) webpack
4 13 (1.88%) Subversion
5 9 (1.30%) PHPUnit
6 8 (1.15%) GitLab
7 7 (1.01%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.58%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.58%) Selenium
9 3 (0.43%) Grunt
10 2 (0.29%) git-flow
10 2 (0.29%) gulp
11 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.14%) Storybook
General
1 160 (23.09%) Social Skills
2 53 (7.65%) Marketing
3 35 (5.05%) Finance
4 27 (3.90%) Retail
5 25 (3.61%) Games
6 14 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (1.73%) Telecoms
8 11 (1.59%) Tech for Good
9 10 (1.44%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.01%) Law
11 6 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.72%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.29%) Aviation
13 2 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.14%) Advertising
14 1 (0.14%) Digital Healthcare
14 1 (0.14%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 422 (60.89%) Laravel
2 312 (45.02%) HTML
3 293 (42.28%) CSS
4 160 (23.09%) React
5 152 (21.93%) Vue
6 126 (18.18%) Symfony
7 125 (18.04%) jQuery
8 69 (9.96%) HTML5
9 66 (9.52%) LAMP
10 65 (9.38%) RESTful
11 49 (7.07%) REST
12 48 (6.93%) Node.js
13 44 (6.35%) CSS3
14 40 (5.77%) AngularJS
15 38 (5.48%) SOAP
16 33 (4.76%) Web Services
17 32 (4.62%) Sass
18 28 (4.04%) Tailwind CSS
19 24 (3.46%) XML
20 21 (3.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.19%) Greenfield Project
2 28 (4.04%) Mobile App
3 25 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (1.88%) Product Ownership
4 13 (1.88%) PropTech
5 9 (1.30%) Animation
6 8 (1.15%) Legacy Code
7 7 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.01%) Video Editing
8 5 (0.72%) Algorithms
8 5 (0.72%) Educational Technology
9 4 (0.58%) Client/Server
9 4 (0.58%) Cybercrime
9 4 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.43%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.43%) Digital Media
10 3 (0.43%) e-Learning
10 3 (0.43%) Photography
10 3 (0.43%) Solar Energy
Operating Systems
1 99 (14.29%) Linux
2 11 (1.59%) Windows
3 9 (1.30%) Ubuntu
4 6 (0.87%) Alpine Linux
5 5 (0.72%) Unix
6 2 (0.29%) AIX
7 1 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (25.25%) Full Stack Development
2 153 (22.08%) Web Development
3 126 (18.18%) Agile
4 123 (17.75%) OOP
5 109 (15.73%) OO
6 103 (14.86%) MVC
7 99 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 78 (11.26%) TDD
9 77 (11.11%) E-Commerce
10 69 (9.96%) User Experience
11 65 (9.38%) Software Engineering
12 59 (8.51%) DevOps
13 56 (8.08%) OO PHP
14 51 (7.36%) Clean Code
14 51 (7.36%) Front End Development
15 48 (6.93%) Unit Testing
16 43 (6.20%) Test Automation
17 39 (5.63%) Microservices
18 37 (5.34%) Computer Science
19 33 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 693 (100.00%) PHP
2 398 (57.43%) JavaScript
3 79 (11.40%) SQL
4 41 (5.92%) TypeScript
5 17 (2.45%) Java
6 16 (2.31%) Go
7 15 (2.16%) Python
8 12 (1.73%) Ada
9 9 (1.30%) VB
10 7 (1.01%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.87%) C#
11 6 (0.87%) Rust
12 4 (0.58%) CFML
12 4 (0.58%) Ruby
12 4 (0.58%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 42 (6.06%) Degree
2 32 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.47%) QA
2 7 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.87%) GDPR
System Software
1 75 (10.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 18 (2.60%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.44%) Terraform
3 3 (0.43%) cPanel
4 1 (0.14%) Ansible
4 1 (0.14%) Plesk
Vendors
1 16 (2.31%) Adobe
2 13 (1.88%) Google
3 10 (1.44%) Microsoft
3 10 (1.44%) Zend
4 8 (1.15%) Twitter
4 8 (1.15%) WooCommerce
5 6 (0.87%) Actuate
6 5 (0.72%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.58%) HP
8 3 (0.43%) Facebook
8 3 (0.43%) Oracle
9 2 (0.29%) Progress