PHP Developer Jobs in Manchester

PHP Developer
North West > Manchester

The median PHP Developer salary in Manchester is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 132 177
Rank change year-on-year -19 +45 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 17 92 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.69% 1.57% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 1.65% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16 84 40
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £42,375
25th Percentile £50,625 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,563 £60,000
90th Percentile £61,875 £66,750 £67,625
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 2,246 5,578 3,963
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.04% 95.12% 92.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,336 4,073 2,590
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,784 £67,968 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,200 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in Manchester

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for PHP Developer in Manchester

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in Manchester

PHP Developer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 5 July 2025. 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
Stockport - 6 £55,000 - 4
PHP Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, 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 Manchester region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) PHP
2 14 (82.35%) JavaScript
3 11 (64.71%) CSS
4 9 (52.94%) OOP
4 9 (52.94%) HTML
5 7 (41.18%) MySQL
5 7 (41.18%) SQL
5 7 (41.18%) jQuery
5 7 (41.18%) AWS
5 7 (41.18%) React
6 6 (35.29%) GCP
6 6 (35.29%) Vue
6 6 (35.29%) Git
6 6 (35.29%) Test Automation
6 6 (35.29%) Linux
6 6 (35.29%) E-Commerce
6 6 (35.29%) LAMP
6 6 (35.29%) Games
6 6 (35.29%) Finance
7 5 (29.41%) Regression Testing
7 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
7 5 (29.41%) Web Development
7 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
7 5 (29.41%) Code Quality
7 5 (29.41%) Project Delivery
7 5 (29.41%) SOLID
7 5 (29.41%) AngularJS
8 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (23.53%) Symfony
8 4 (23.53%) Degree

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) nginx
1 1 (5.88%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) Datadog
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) MySQL
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
1 6 (35.29%) Games
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Law
3 1 (5.88%) Mandarin Language
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) CSS
2 9 (52.94%) HTML
3 7 (41.18%) jQuery
3 7 (41.18%) React
4 6 (35.29%) LAMP
4 6 (35.29%) Vue
5 5 (29.41%) AngularJS
6 4 (23.53%) Symfony
7 3 (17.65%) Bootstrap
7 3 (17.65%) Laravel
7 3 (17.65%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (11.76%) RESTful
9 1 (5.88%) .NET
9 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
9 1 (5.88%) HTML5
9 1 (5.88%) HTML5 Canvas
9 1 (5.88%) LEMP Stack
9 1 (5.88%) Playwright
9 1 (5.88%) REST
9 1 (5.88%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) OOP
2 6 (35.29%) E-Commerce
2 6 (35.29%) Test Automation
3 5 (29.41%) Code Quality
3 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
3 5 (29.41%) Project Delivery
3 5 (29.41%) Regression Testing
3 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
3 5 (29.41%) SOLID
3 5 (29.41%) Web Development
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Clean Code
4 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (17.65%) OO
5 2 (11.76%) API Integration
5 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.76%) ERP
5 2 (11.76%) MVC
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) PHP
2 14 (82.35%) JavaScript
3 7 (41.18%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Twitter
2 2 (11.76%) Sage
2 2 (11.76%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Zend