Senior PHP Developer Jobs

Senior PHP Developer
UK

The median Senior PHP Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 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 739 462 1016
Rank change year-on-year -277 +554 -420
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 169 596 246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.63% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.69% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 157 107 162
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,300 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +21.05%
75th Percentile £63,250 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £76,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +27.78%

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
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 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Senior PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior PHP Developer in the UK

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior PHP Developer in the UK

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior PHP Developer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior PHP Developer in the UK

Senior PHP Developer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior PHP Developer within the UK 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
England -248 154 £55,000 -4.35% 31
UK excluding London -283 152 £55,000 -4.35% 22
Work from Home +77 102 £55,000 -4.35% 17
North of England -64 58 £52,500 -4.55% 9
North West -10 44 £52,500 -4.55% 8
South East -65 31 £55,000 +10.00% 3
South West -69 28 £55,000 -4.35% 4
Yorkshire -4 14 £55,000 +27.91% 1
Midlands -125 14 £42,500 -22.73% 3
London +70 12 £80,000 +45.45% 8
East of England -10 11 £52,500 -40.00% 4
East Midlands -81 9 £42,500 -22.73% 1
Wales 0 7 £61,500 -
West Midlands -70 5 £70,000 +40.00% 2
Scotland -96 3 £52,500 +7.14% 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior PHP Developer in the job title.

1 169 (100.00%) PHP
2 119 (70.41%) Laravel
3 74 (43.79%) MySQL
4 70 (41.42%) JavaScript
5 66 (39.05%) AWS
6 55 (32.54%) React
7 49 (28.99%) HTML
8 46 (27.22%) Social Skills
9 45 (26.63%) CSS
10 41 (24.26%) Symfony
11 37 (21.89%) Git
12 36 (21.30%) Vue
13 34 (20.12%) Agile
14 32 (18.93%) Full Stack Development
15 31 (18.34%) SaaS
16 30 (17.75%) TDD
17 26 (15.38%) OOP
18 23 (13.61%) TypeScript
18 23 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
19 22 (13.02%) E-Commerce
19 22 (13.02%) MVC
20 20 (11.83%) RESTful
21 19 (11.24%) Web Development
22 18 (10.65%) Node.js
22 18 (10.65%) GCP
23 17 (10.06%) Docker
23 17 (10.06%) Clean Code
24 15 (8.88%) Collaborative Working
25 14 (8.28%) jQuery
25 14 (8.28%) Software Engineering

Senior 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 12 (7.10%) WordPress
2 10 (5.92%) CMS
3 2 (1.18%) Apache
3 2 (1.18%) Drupal
3 2 (1.18%) nginx
Business Applications
1 7 (4.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 66 (39.05%) AWS
2 31 (18.34%) SaaS
3 18 (10.65%) GCP
4 9 (5.33%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (4.73%) Azure
6 7 (4.14%) GitHub
7 4 (2.37%) Firebase
7 4 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.59%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.59%) Datadog
8 1 (0.59%) Discord
8 1 (0.59%) Serverless
8 1 (0.59%) Slack
8 1 (0.59%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (43.79%) MySQL
2 5 (2.96%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.37%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.37%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (21.89%) Git
2 6 (3.55%) PHPUnit
3 4 (2.37%) Cypress.io
3 4 (2.37%) Selenium
4 3 (1.78%) webpack
5 2 (1.18%) GitLab
6 1 (0.59%) Appium
6 1 (0.59%) git-flow
6 1 (0.59%) Storybook
General
1 46 (27.22%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.28%) Finance
3 11 (6.51%) Marketing
4 10 (5.92%) Retail
5 7 (4.14%) Games
6 5 (2.96%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.37%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.59%) Legal
9 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (70.41%) Laravel
2 55 (32.54%) React
3 49 (28.99%) HTML
4 45 (26.63%) CSS
5 41 (24.26%) Symfony
6 36 (21.30%) Vue
7 20 (11.83%) RESTful
8 18 (10.65%) Node.js
9 14 (8.28%) jQuery
10 13 (7.69%) LAMP
11 9 (5.33%) AngularJS
12 8 (4.73%) REST
12 8 (4.73%) Web Services
13 7 (4.14%) HTML5
14 6 (3.55%) JSON
14 6 (3.55%) Yii
15 4 (2.37%) CodeIgniter
15 4 (2.37%) Electron
15 4 (2.37%) Redux
15 4 (2.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.10%) PropTech
2 11 (6.51%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (5.92%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.37%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.37%) Cybercrime
4 4 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.37%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.78%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.78%) Solar Energy
6 2 (1.18%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.18%) NHS
7 1 (0.59%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (0.59%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (20.12%) Agile
2 32 (18.93%) Full Stack Development
3 30 (17.75%) TDD
4 26 (15.38%) OOP
5 23 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (13.02%) E-Commerce
6 22 (13.02%) MVC
7 19 (11.24%) Web Development
8 17 (10.06%) Clean Code
9 15 (8.88%) Collaborative Working
10 14 (8.28%) Software Engineering
11 12 (7.10%) Mentoring
11 12 (7.10%) Scrum
11 12 (7.10%) User Experience
12 11 (6.51%) API Development
13 8 (4.73%) CI/CD
13 8 (4.73%) Fintech
13 8 (4.73%) Kanban
13 8 (4.73%) Roadmaps
13 8 (4.73%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 169 (100.00%) PHP
2 70 (41.42%) JavaScript
3 23 (13.61%) TypeScript
4 4 (2.37%) Go
4 4 (2.37%) Python
4 4 (2.37%) Ruby
4 4 (2.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (4.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.78%) QA
System Software
1 17 (10.06%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 8 (4.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.37%) Terraform
3 1 (0.59%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (2.96%) Google
1 5 (2.96%) Twitter
2 1 (0.59%) Apple
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.59%) Panasonic
2 1 (0.59%) Sony
2 1 (0.59%) Zend