PHP Job Trends in Belfast

PHP
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 47 36
Rank change year-on-year +11 -11 +42
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 0.30% 0.94% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.70% 2.42% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 £82,500 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,000 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +136.11% -50.34%
75th Percentile £65,000 £87,500 £39,000
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £85,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year -35.29% +136.11% -34.55%

All Programming Languages
Belfast

PHP falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 37 124 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 10.95% 38.75% 43.61%
Number of salaries quoted 22 57 76
10th Percentile £55,125 £38,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £62,203 £55,000 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% +39.13% +9.52%
75th Percentile £89,375 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £94,500 £100,000 £86,250
County Antrim median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +40.35% +8.57%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

PHP job vacancy trend in Belfast

PHP
Salary Trend in Belfast

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing PHP

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python