Whereabouts in the UK are you? I'm in York and in 2003 entry level PHP programmers were on around £18k, IT support was around £14k. Neither has moved much in the last few years.
This was in London! Front-end web development if that makes any difference, though the company had a bunch of FTSE 100s as clients so it was a good ‘CV’ company. Only stayed 10 months: found the same job but paying £22.5k in Portsmouth.
