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 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 231 277
Rank change year-on-year -57 +46 -147
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 663 894 946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.93% 1.51% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 1.69% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 626 388 829
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
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 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £83,000
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 67,966 52,773 69,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.23% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47,979 30,132 42,817
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +42 222 £45,000 - 50
North West +26 116 £50,000 -4.76% 34
Midlands -48 111 £42,500 -15.00% 29
South East -92 108 £50,000 - 27
South West -39 105 £45,000 -5.26% 16
Yorkshire +74 93 £42,500 +6.25% 12
East of England +32 73 £43,500 -33.08% 18
West Midlands +2 63 £42,500 -10.53% 22
East Midlands -55 47 £42,500 -19.05% 7
Scotland -98 26 £45,000 - 7
Wales 0 14 £47,500 +5.56% 4
North East -19 13 £46,500 +29.17% 4
Northern Ireland +12 4 £33,500 -4.29% 2
PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 663 (100.00%) PHP
2 417 (62.90%) Laravel
3 391 (58.97%) JavaScript
4 356 (53.70%) MySQL
5 307 (46.30%) HTML
6 290 (43.74%) CSS
7 203 (30.62%) AWS
8 182 (27.45%) Git
9 163 (24.59%) Full Stack Development
10 155 (23.38%) Social Skills
10 155 (23.38%) Vue
11 154 (23.23%) React
12 151 (22.78%) Web Development
13 126 (19.00%) Symfony
14 123 (18.55%) Agile
14 123 (18.55%) OOP
14 123 (18.55%) jQuery
15 108 (16.29%) OO
16 104 (15.69%) MVC
17 101 (15.23%) SaaS
18 94 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
19 93 (14.03%) Linux
20 80 (12.07%) SQL
21 77 (11.61%) WordPress
21 77 (11.61%) E-Commerce
22 75 (11.31%) Docker
23 74 (11.16%) TDD
24 68 (10.26%) LAMP
25 67 (10.11%) User Experience
26 64 (9.65%) RESTful

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 77 (11.61%) WordPress
2 35 (5.28%) CMS
3 21 (3.17%) Apache
4 20 (3.02%) nginx
5 6 (0.90%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.60%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.60%) ColdFusion
6 4 (0.60%) IIS
7 3 (0.45%) Drupal
7 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.30%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.15%) Confluence
9 1 (0.15%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 5 (0.75%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.60%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 25 (3.77%) Magento
2 13 (1.96%) Shopify
3 3 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.30%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 203 (30.62%) AWS
2 101 (15.23%) SaaS
3 28 (4.22%) GCP
4 20 (3.02%) GitHub
5 16 (2.41%) Azure
6 15 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (1.66%) npm
8 8 (1.21%) Figma
8 8 (1.21%) Serverless
8 8 (1.21%) Stripe
9 6 (0.90%) DigitalOcean
10 5 (0.75%) Power Platform
11 4 (0.60%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.45%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.45%) Google Tag Manager
13 2 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 2 (0.30%) BigCommerce
13 2 (0.30%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.90%) VoIP
1 6 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (0.75%) SSH
3 2 (0.30%) FTP
3 2 (0.30%) Internet
4 1 (0.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (53.70%) MySQL
2 33 (4.98%) Relational Database
3 24 (3.62%) MariaDB
3 24 (3.62%) SQL Server
4 21 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (2.11%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.90%) GIS
7 6 (0.90%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.75%) Power BI
9 4 (0.60%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.45%) Looker
10 3 (0.45%) Redis
11 2 (0.30%) phpMyAdmin
12 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 182 (27.45%) Git
2 28 (4.22%) JIRA
3 14 (2.11%) webpack
4 13 (1.96%) Subversion
5 8 (1.21%) GitLab
6 7 (1.06%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.06%) PHPUnit
7 4 (0.60%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.45%) Grunt
9 2 (0.30%) git-flow
9 2 (0.30%) gulp
9 2 (0.30%) Selenium
10 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.15%) Storybook
10 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 155 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 49 (7.39%) Marketing
3 30 (4.52%) Finance
4 29 (4.37%) Retail
5 24 (3.62%) Games
6 14 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (1.96%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.51%) Manufacturing
8 10 (1.51%) Tech for Good
9 7 (1.06%) Law
10 6 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.60%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.30%) Aviation
13 1 (0.15%) Advertising
13 1 (0.15%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.15%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.15%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 417 (62.90%) Laravel
2 307 (46.30%) HTML
3 290 (43.74%) CSS
4 155 (23.38%) Vue
5 154 (23.23%) React
6 126 (19.00%) Symfony
7 123 (18.55%) jQuery
8 68 (10.26%) LAMP
9 64 (9.65%) HTML5
9 64 (9.65%) RESTful
10 49 (7.39%) REST
11 44 (6.64%) Node.js
12 43 (6.49%) CSS3
13 39 (5.88%) SOAP
14 38 (5.73%) AngularJS
15 36 (5.43%) Web Services
16 32 (4.83%) Sass
17 30 (4.52%) Tailwind CSS
18 23 (3.47%) XML
19 21 (3.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.43%) Greenfield Project
2 26 (3.92%) Mobile App
3 25 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 12 (1.81%) PropTech
6 9 (1.36%) Animation
7 7 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.06%) Video Editing
8 6 (0.90%) Legacy Code
9 5 (0.75%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.75%) Educational Technology
10 4 (0.60%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.45%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.45%) Digital Media
11 3 (0.45%) Photography
11 3 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.45%) Solar Energy
12 2 (0.30%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 93 (14.03%) Linux
2 10 (1.51%) Windows
3 9 (1.36%) Ubuntu
4 6 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
5 5 (0.75%) Unix
6 2 (0.30%) AIX
7 1 (0.15%) Android
7 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (24.59%) Full Stack Development
2 151 (22.78%) Web Development
3 123 (18.55%) Agile
3 123 (18.55%) OOP
4 108 (16.29%) OO
5 104 (15.69%) MVC
6 94 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
7 77 (11.61%) E-Commerce
8 74 (11.16%) TDD
9 67 (10.11%) User Experience
10 63 (9.50%) Software Engineering
11 58 (8.75%) DevOps
12 57 (8.60%) OO PHP
13 50 (7.54%) Front End Development
14 49 (7.39%) Clean Code
15 47 (7.09%) Unit Testing
16 42 (6.33%) Test Automation
17 41 (6.18%) Microservices
18 37 (5.58%) Computer Science
19 33 (4.98%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 663 (100.00%) PHP
2 391 (58.97%) JavaScript
3 80 (12.07%) SQL
4 37 (5.58%) TypeScript
5 17 (2.56%) Java
6 15 (2.26%) Python
7 13 (1.96%) Go
8 12 (1.81%) Ada
9 9 (1.36%) VB
10 7 (1.06%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.90%) C#
11 6 (0.90%) Rust
12 4 (0.60%) CFML
12 4 (0.60%) Ruby
12 4 (0.60%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.15%) RPG
Qualifications
1 42 (6.33%) Degree
2 32 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.68%) QA
2 6 (0.90%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 75 (11.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 17 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.21%) Terraform
3 2 (0.30%) cPanel
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (2.26%) Adobe
2 13 (1.96%) Google
3 10 (1.51%) Microsoft
4 8 (1.21%) Twitter
4 8 (1.21%) WooCommerce
4 8 (1.21%) Zend
5 6 (0.90%) Actuate
6 5 (0.75%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.60%) HP
8 3 (0.45%) Facebook
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle
9 2 (0.30%) Progress
10 1 (0.15%) Rollbar