PHP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 159 97
Rank change year-on-year 0 -62 -34
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1,844 2,345 5,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.86% 2.31% 3.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.56% 5.35% 6.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 1,599 3,119
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63,218 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +17.65%

All Programming Languages
UK

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,162 43,852 84,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.46% 43.27% 54.01%
Number of salaries quoted 24,974 27,985 43,449
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,275 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.55% +6.22%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the UK

PHP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for PHP in the UK

PHP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP in the UK

PHP
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +9 1,684 £50,000 -9.09% 399
UK excluding London -16 1,489 £48,500 -3.00% 306
Work from Home +16 862 £51,500 -6.36% 253
North of England +41 485 £47,500 -5.00% 104
London -6 280 £63,218 +5.36% 103
South West +5 267 £45,000 -5.26% 54
South East -93 252 £55,000 +10.00% 51
North West +40 238 £50,000 -9.09% 69
Yorkshire +72 220 £47,500 +5.56% 29
Midlands -2 215 £45,000 -10.00% 57
East of England +55 170 £43,500 -33.08% 29
West Midlands +10 119 £45,000 -12.20% 31
East Midlands -16 95 £45,000 -10.00% 26
Scotland -110 48 £45,000 -18.18% 12
Wales +5 44 £50,000 +19.05% 6
North East -43 27 £45,000 -21.74% 7
Northern Ireland -11 9 £45,000 -21.74% 1

PHP
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
1 267 (14.48%) WordPress
2 115 (6.24%) CMS
3 79 (4.28%) Drupal
4 56 (3.04%) Apache
5 52 (2.82%) nginx
6 19 (1.03%) Confluence
7 17 (0.92%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.54%) Headless CMS
8 10 (0.54%) IIS
9 6 (0.33%) Apache Solr
9 6 (0.33%) Moodle
9 6 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.22%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.22%) SAS
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.11%) Joomla!
12 2 (0.11%) Liferay
12 2 (0.11%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.65%) Adobe XD
3 12 (0.65%) Photoshop
4 11 (0.60%) Simulink
5 8 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.054%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 74 (4.01%) Magento
2 46 (2.49%) Shopify
3 21 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.22%) CiviCRM
4 4 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 579 (31.40%) AWS
2 228 (12.36%) SaaS
3 114 (6.18%) Azure
4 90 (4.88%) GitHub
5 64 (3.47%) GCP
6 38 (2.06%) Serverless
7 37 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
8 36 (1.95%) Amazon S3
9 29 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (1.41%) Amazon Kinesis
11 24 (1.30%) Power Platform
12 23 (1.25%) Figma
13 22 (1.19%) npm
14 20 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
15 17 (0.92%) Stripe
16 16 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
17 13 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
17 13 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
18 11 (0.60%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.06%) HTTP
2 27 (1.46%) Internet
3 23 (1.25%) DNS
4 13 (0.70%) SSL
5 12 (0.65%) Firewall
6 8 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.38%) VoIP
8 6 (0.33%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.27%) FTP
9 5 (0.27%) SSH
10 3 (0.16%) SMS
11 2 (0.11%) 3G
11 2 (0.11%) DHCP
11 2 (0.11%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.11%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.11%) IPv6
11 2 (0.11%) LAN
11 2 (0.11%) VPN
11 2 (0.11%) WAN
11 2 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 758 (41.11%) MySQL
2 90 (4.88%) Relational Database
3 79 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
4 78 (4.23%) SQL Server
5 51 (2.77%) MongoDB
6 44 (2.39%) MariaDB
7 43 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (1.74%) Redis
9 29 (1.57%) NoSQL
10 28 (1.52%) RDBMS
11 25 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (1.30%) DynamoDB
13 19 (1.03%) Power BI
14 17 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
14 17 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (0.49%) SQLite
16 8 (0.43%) Tableau
17 7 (0.38%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 482 (26.14%) Git
2 74 (4.01%) JIRA
3 40 (2.17%) Selenium
4 38 (2.06%) Cypress.io
4 38 (2.06%) Jenkins
5 34 (1.84%) GitLab
6 27 (1.46%) Postman
7 24 (1.30%) Subversion
8 21 (1.14%) webpack
9 16 (0.87%) PHPUnit
10 13 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
11 12 (0.65%) gulp
12 10 (0.54%) Visual Studio
13 9 (0.49%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.43%) Eclipse
15 6 (0.33%) git-flow
16 5 (0.27%) Grunt
17 3 (0.16%) Appium
18 2 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
18 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 372 (20.17%) Social Skills
2 174 (9.44%) Marketing
3 132 (7.16%) Retail
4 110 (5.97%) Finance
5 68 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (2.77%) Games
7 41 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 40 (2.17%) Public Sector
9 35 (1.90%) Tech for Good
10 30 (1.63%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.14%) Electronics
11 21 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.03%) Legal
13 18 (0.98%) Banking
13 18 (0.98%) Law
14 13 (0.70%) Health Technology
15 11 (0.60%) German Language
16 10 (0.54%) Advertising
16 10 (0.54%) Retail Banking
17 9 (0.49%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 1,388 (75.27%) Developer
2 744 (40.35%) PHP Developer
3 376 (20.39%) Senior
4 322 (17.46%) Senior Developer
5 243 (13.18%) Full Stack Developer
6 189 (10.25%) Lead
7 167 (9.06%) Web Developer
8 153 (8.30%) Senior PHP Developer
9 120 (6.51%) Software Engineer
10 111 (6.02%) Software Developer
11 103 (5.59%) WordPress Developer
12 99 (5.37%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 90 (4.88%) Full Stack PHP Developer
14 78 (4.23%) Junior
15 76 (4.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 74 (4.01%) Lead Developer
17 73 (3.96%) Junior Developer
18 57 (3.09%) PHP Web Developer
18 57 (3.09%) Technical Leader
19 45 (2.44%) Junior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 857 (46.48%) Laravel
2 753 (40.84%) HTML
3 715 (38.77%) CSS
4 446 (24.19%) React
5 323 (17.52%) Vue
6 237 (12.85%) Symfony
7 232 (12.58%) jQuery
8 177 (9.60%) LAMP
9 165 (8.95%) HTML5
10 163 (8.84%) Node.js
11 128 (6.94%) RESTful
12 125 (6.78%) CSS3
13 123 (6.67%) AngularJS
14 115 (6.24%) REST
15 92 (4.99%) Web Services
16 88 (4.77%) JSON
17 84 (4.56%) Sass
18 77 (4.18%) .NET
19 55 (2.98%) SOAP
20 51 (2.77%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 98 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
2 49 (2.66%) Mobile App
3 47 (2.55%) Onboarding
4 38 (2.06%) Cloud Native
5 34 (1.84%) Management Information System
6 33 (1.79%) Product Ownership
7 31 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.41%) IoT
10 24 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
12 19 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
13 16 (0.87%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.81%) Animation
15 14 (0.76%) Client/Server
15 14 (0.76%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.60%) Educational Technology
16 11 (0.60%) PropTech
17 10 (0.54%) Data Structures
17 10 (0.54%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 193 (10.47%) Linux
2 39 (2.11%) Windows
3 19 (1.03%) Ubuntu
4 14 (0.76%) Unix
5 9 (0.49%) Android
6 8 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
8 6 (0.33%) CentOS
9 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.054%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.054%) Rocky
12 1 (0.054%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (24.46%) Full Stack Development
2 398 (21.58%) Agile
3 395 (21.42%) Web Development
4 340 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
5 292 (15.84%) Software Engineering
6 255 (13.83%) E-Commerce
7 252 (13.67%) OOP
8 225 (12.20%) MVC
9 217 (11.77%) DevOps
10 194 (10.52%) User Experience
11 156 (8.46%) Computer Science
12 149 (8.08%) Front End Development
13 147 (7.97%) Mentoring
14 131 (7.10%) OO
15 130 (7.05%) TDD
16 125 (6.78%) CI/CD
17 108 (5.86%) Clean Code
17 108 (5.86%) Roadmaps
18 100 (5.42%) Project Management
19 94 (5.10%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 960 (52.06%) JavaScript
2 258 (13.99%) SQL
3 163 (8.84%) TypeScript
4 145 (7.86%) C#
5 126 (6.83%) Python
6 118 (6.40%) Java
7 46 (2.49%) C
8 43 (2.33%) Go
9 30 (1.63%) Ruby
10 28 (1.52%) Bash
11 23 (1.25%) Rust
12 21 (1.14%) C++
13 18 (0.98%) PowerShell
14 17 (0.92%) VB
15 15 (0.81%) T-SQL
16 13 (0.70%) Ada
16 13 (0.70%) Kotlin
17 11 (0.60%) MATLAB
17 11 (0.60%) Perl
17 11 (0.60%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 243 (13.18%) Degree
2 102 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (1.19%) Security Cleared
4 17 (0.92%) Azure Certification
5 10 (0.54%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.33%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.16%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.11%) MCSE
10 2 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.054%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.054%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.054%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.054%) MCP
11 1 (0.054%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (3.63%) QA
2 39 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 38 (2.06%) WCAG
4 19 (1.03%) GDPR
5 5 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.11%) HL7
6 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.11%) SLA
7 1 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.054%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.054%) PMO
System Software
1 259 (14.05%) Docker
2 5 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.16%) Varnish
5 2 (0.11%) Firmware
5 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.054%) OpenSIPS
6 1 (0.054%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.054%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 112 (6.07%) Kubernetes
2 77 (4.18%) Terraform
3 24 (1.30%) Ansible
4 16 (0.87%) Puppet
5 13 (0.70%) Progress Chef
6 11 (0.60%) Grafana
7 8 (0.43%) cPanel
7 8 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.22%) Rancher
9 3 (0.16%) Galera Cluster
10 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.11%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.054%) Argo
11 1 (0.054%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.054%) Plesk
11 1 (0.054%) Podman
11 1 (0.054%) SCCM
11 1 (0.054%) systemd
Vendors
1 65 (3.52%) Google
2 54 (2.93%) WooCommerce
3 45 (2.44%) Microsoft
4 31 (1.68%) Adobe
5 16 (0.87%) Zend
6 15 (0.81%) Twitter
7 11 (0.60%) Oracle
8 10 (0.54%) SAP
9 9 (0.49%) New Relic
10 8 (0.43%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.38%) Facebook
11 7 (0.38%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.38%) SaltStack
12 6 (0.33%) Actuate
12 6 (0.33%) Sitecore
12 6 (0.33%) VMware
13 5 (0.27%) Apple
13 5 (0.27%) F5
13 5 (0.27%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.22%) Rackspace