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 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 752 478 995
Rank change year-on-year -274 +517 -405
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 156 608 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.61% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.67% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 148 115 163
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,188 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £91,500 £75,000
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 94,634 91,081 154,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,599 57,631 84,466
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,974 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%

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 19 May 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 19 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 -232 142 £55,000 -4.35% 44
UK excluding London -275 139 £55,000 -4.35% 34
Work from Home +90 103 £55,000 -4.35% 27
North of England -53 56 £53,750 -2.27% 8
North West -5 42 £52,500 -4.55% 6
South West -53 28 £55,000 -4.35% 3
South East -70 26 £55,000 +10.00% 8
Yorkshire +15 14 £55,000 +27.91% 1
London +52 12 £77,500 +34.78% 18
Midlands -118 11 £42,500 -22.73% 5
East of England -15 9 £52,500 -38.24% 6
East Midlands -75 8 £42,500 -22.73% 1
Wales -4 7 £61,500 - 2
West Midlands -44 3 £70,000 +40.00% 4
Scotland -102 2 £52,500 +7.14% 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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.

1 156 (100.00%) PHP
2 116 (74.36%) Laravel
3 71 (45.51%) MySQL
4 70 (44.87%) JavaScript
5 63 (40.38%) AWS
6 52 (33.33%) React
7 48 (30.77%) HTML
8 45 (28.85%) Social Skills
9 44 (28.21%) CSS
10 38 (24.36%) Symfony
11 37 (23.72%) Vue
12 36 (23.08%) Git
13 30 (19.23%) SaaS
13 30 (19.23%) Agile
14 27 (17.31%) TDD
14 27 (17.31%) Full Stack Development
15 26 (16.67%) OOP
16 22 (14.10%) MVC
17 21 (13.46%) E-Commerce
17 21 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
18 20 (12.82%) Web Development
18 20 (12.82%) RESTful
19 18 (11.54%) TypeScript
20 17 (10.90%) Clean Code
21 16 (10.26%) GCP
22 15 (9.62%) Node.js
23 14 (8.97%) jQuery
23 14 (8.97%) Docker
23 14 (8.97%) LAMP
24 13 (8.33%) Collaborative Working

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 10 (6.41%) CMS
1 10 (6.41%) WordPress
2 2 (1.28%) Apache
2 2 (1.28%) Drupal
2 2 (1.28%) nginx
Business Applications
1 7 (4.49%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 63 (40.38%) AWS
2 30 (19.23%) SaaS
3 16 (10.26%) GCP
4 9 (5.77%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (5.13%) Azure
6 5 (3.21%) GitHub
7 4 (2.56%) Firebase
8 2 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.64%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.64%) Datadog
9 1 (0.64%) Discord
9 1 (0.64%) Serverless
9 1 (0.64%) Slack
9 1 (0.64%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (45.51%) MySQL
2 5 (3.21%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.21%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.56%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (23.08%) Git
2 4 (2.56%) Cypress.io
2 4 (2.56%) PHPUnit
3 3 (1.92%) webpack
4 2 (1.28%) GitLab
4 2 (1.28%) Selenium
5 1 (0.64%) Appium
5 1 (0.64%) git-flow
5 1 (0.64%) Storybook
5 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.05%) Finance
2 11 (7.05%) Marketing
2 11 (7.05%) Retail
3 7 (4.49%) Games
4 5 (3.21%) Tech for Good
5 4 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.28%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.64%) Legal
7 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (74.36%) Laravel
2 52 (33.33%) React
3 48 (30.77%) HTML
4 44 (28.21%) CSS
5 38 (24.36%) Symfony
6 37 (23.72%) Vue
7 20 (12.82%) RESTful
8 15 (9.62%) Node.js
9 14 (8.97%) jQuery
9 14 (8.97%) LAMP
10 10 (6.41%) Web Services
11 8 (5.13%) AngularJS
11 8 (5.13%) REST
12 6 (3.85%) JSON
12 6 (3.85%) Yii
13 5 (3.21%) HTML5
14 4 (2.56%) CodeIgniter
14 4 (2.56%) Electron
14 4 (2.56%) Redux
14 4 (2.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.69%) PropTech
2 11 (7.05%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (6.41%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.56%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.92%) Solar Energy
6 2 (1.28%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.28%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.28%) NHS
7 1 (0.64%) Cybercrime
7 1 (0.64%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (0.64%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (19.23%) Agile
2 27 (17.31%) Full Stack Development
2 27 (17.31%) TDD
3 26 (16.67%) OOP
4 22 (14.10%) MVC
5 21 (13.46%) E-Commerce
5 21 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (12.82%) Web Development
7 17 (10.90%) Clean Code
8 13 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
9 12 (7.69%) Mentoring
9 12 (7.69%) Scrum
10 11 (7.05%) API Development
11 10 (6.41%) User Experience
12 9 (5.77%) Software Engineering
13 8 (5.13%) Computer Science
13 8 (5.13%) Fintech
13 8 (5.13%) Kanban
14 7 (4.49%) CI/CD
14 7 (4.49%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 156 (100.00%) PHP
2 70 (44.87%) JavaScript
3 18 (11.54%) TypeScript
4 5 (3.21%) SQL
5 4 (2.56%) Python
5 4 (2.56%) Ruby
6 1 (0.64%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (5.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 14 (8.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 5 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.28%) Terraform
3 1 (0.64%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (3.21%) Google
1 5 (3.21%) Twitter
2 1 (0.64%) Apple
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.64%) Panasonic
2 1 (0.64%) Sony
2 1 (0.64%) Zend