PHP Developer Jobs in the South East

PHP Developer
England > South East

The median PHP Developer salary in the South East is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 176 256
Rank change year-on-year -101 +80 -74
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 127 235 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.68% 1.77% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 1.97% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 119 149 261
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 17,582 11,899 20,479
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 89.64% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,383 7,812 12,372
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the South East

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in the South East.

Salary trend for PHP Developer in the South East

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the South East

PHP Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Hampshire -103 36 £50,000 +17.65% 1
East Sussex +10 29 £52,500 +5.00% 2
Thames Valley -14 27 £50,000 -9.09% 5
Buckinghamshire -4 15 £50,000 -9.09% 4
West Sussex +19 13 £40,000 +6.67% 4
Kent -25 13 £47,500 -9.52% 4
Berkshire -10 10 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Surrey -10 8 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Oxfordshire -7 2 £40,000 -27.27%
Sussex - 1 £50,000 - 2
PHP Developer
England

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 13 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 South East region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 127 (100.00%) PHP
2 83 (65.35%) Laravel
3 82 (64.57%) JavaScript
4 80 (62.99%) MySQL
5 76 (59.84%) HTML
5 76 (59.84%) CSS
6 59 (46.46%) Git
7 51 (40.16%) AWS
8 45 (35.43%) jQuery
9 43 (33.86%) Symfony
10 42 (33.07%) OOP
11 36 (28.35%) Web Development
12 32 (25.20%) Vue
13 29 (22.83%) HTML5
14 28 (22.05%) Agile
14 28 (22.05%) React
15 27 (21.26%) OO
15 27 (21.26%) MVC
15 27 (21.26%) Linux
15 27 (21.26%) SaaS
16 26 (20.47%) Docker
17 23 (18.11%) SOAP
18 22 (17.32%) Full Stack Development
19 21 (16.54%) GCP
20 20 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
20 20 (15.75%) Legacy Systems
20 20 (15.75%) Unit Testing
21 19 (14.96%) REST
21 19 (14.96%) TDD
22 18 (14.17%) JIRA

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (7.09%) Apache
2 5 (3.94%) nginx
3 4 (3.15%) Apache Solr
3 4 (3.15%) CMS
3 4 (3.15%) ColdFusion
3 4 (3.15%) IIS
3 4 (3.15%) WordPress
4 3 (2.36%) Drupal
4 3 (2.36%) Moodle
4 3 (2.36%) Totara
5 2 (1.57%) Joomla!
Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Magento
2 1 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 51 (40.16%) AWS
2 27 (21.26%) SaaS
3 21 (16.54%) GCP
4 14 (11.02%) GitHub
5 5 (3.94%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.57%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.79%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.79%) Discord
7 1 (0.79%) Figma
7 1 (0.79%) Slack
7 1 (0.79%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (62.99%) MySQL
2 14 (11.02%) SQL Server
3 13 (10.24%) Relational Database
4 11 (8.66%) MariaDB
5 5 (3.94%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.15%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.15%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.57%) Power BI
9 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (46.46%) Git
2 18 (14.17%) JIRA
3 4 (3.15%) PHPUnit
3 4 (3.15%) Selenium
4 2 (1.57%) git-flow
General
1 18 (14.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (4.72%) Finance
3 5 (3.94%) Marketing
4 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.79%) Games
5 1 (0.79%) Health Technology
5 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.79%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (65.35%) Laravel
2 76 (59.84%) CSS
2 76 (59.84%) HTML
3 45 (35.43%) jQuery
4 43 (33.86%) Symfony
5 32 (25.20%) Vue
6 29 (22.83%) HTML5
7 28 (22.05%) React
8 23 (18.11%) SOAP
9 19 (14.96%) REST
10 17 (13.39%) CSS3
10 17 (13.39%) LAMP
11 16 (12.60%) AngularJS
11 16 (12.60%) Web Services
12 12 (9.45%) RESTful
13 10 (7.87%) OAuth
13 10 (7.87%) Sass
14 7 (5.51%) Yii
15 6 (4.72%) CodeIgniter
16 5 (3.94%) CakePHP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.75%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (6.30%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.72%) Cybercrime
4 4 (3.15%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.36%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.36%) Digital Media
5 3 (2.36%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.36%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.36%) Solar Energy
6 2 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.79%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (21.26%) Linux
2 4 (3.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.07%) OOP
2 36 (28.35%) Web Development
3 28 (22.05%) Agile
4 27 (21.26%) MVC
4 27 (21.26%) OO
5 22 (17.32%) Full Stack Development
6 20 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (15.75%) Unit Testing
7 19 (14.96%) TDD
8 17 (13.39%) E-Commerce
9 15 (11.81%) DevOps
9 15 (11.81%) User Experience
10 12 (9.45%) Code Quality
10 12 (9.45%) Deadline-Driven
10 12 (9.45%) High Availability
10 12 (9.45%) OO PHP
11 11 (8.66%) Software Engineering
11 11 (8.66%) Test Automation
12 10 (7.87%) CRM
12 10 (7.87%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (100.00%) PHP
2 82 (64.57%) JavaScript
3 18 (14.17%) Go
4 13 (10.24%) SQL
5 4 (3.15%) CFML
5 4 (3.15%) Java
6 1 (0.79%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.45%) QA
2 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (20.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.94%) Terraform
3 1 (0.79%) Ansible
3 1 (0.79%) cPanel
3 1 (0.79%) Plesk
Vendors
1 5 (3.94%) Adobe
2 4 (3.15%) Google
3 1 (0.79%) Facebook
3 1 (0.79%) Twitter
3 1 (0.79%) Zend