PHP Job Trends in Manchester

PHP
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 85 76
Rank change year-on-year -20 -9 +118
Permanent jobs citing PHP 29 78 67
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.05% 2.83% 2.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.46% 8.42% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 27 44 63
10th Percentile £31,150 £35,075 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £63,500 £72,500 £68,750
North West median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 531 926 975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 19.27% 33.62% 43.05%
Number of salaries quoted 452 483 799
10th Percentile £33,263 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +0.80% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,800 £86,250 £82,548
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

PHP job vacancy trend in Manchester

PHP
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP in Manchester

PHP
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 within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Bury - 4 £52,500 - 3
Altrincham - 3 £35,000 - 3
PHP
North West

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) WordPress
2 3 (10.34%) nginx
3 2 (6.90%) Apache Solr
4 1 (3.45%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (3.45%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (3.45%) Adobe XD
1 1 (3.45%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) Azure
2 11 (37.93%) AWS
3 5 (17.24%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) Cloudflare
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub
4 2 (6.90%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (44.83%) MySQL
2 4 (13.79%) Relational Database
2 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.45%) Postman
2 1 (3.45%) Selenium
2 1 (3.45%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (17.24%) Marketing
2 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Games
4 1 (3.45%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (72.41%) Developer
2 15 (51.72%) PHP Developer
3 7 (24.14%) Software Developer
3 7 (24.14%) Software Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Senior
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Senior PHP Developer
5 3 (10.34%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 3 (10.34%) PHP WordPress Developer
5 3 (10.34%) WordPress Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Applications Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Backend Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Graduate
6 2 (6.90%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Integration Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior WordPress Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Junior
7 1 (3.45%) Lead Developer
7 1 (3.45%) QA Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) CSS
1 10 (34.48%) HTML
1 10 (34.48%) Laravel
2 6 (20.69%) React
3 3 (10.34%) .NET
3 3 (10.34%) jQuery
3 3 (10.34%) Node.js
3 3 (10.34%) Vue
4 2 (6.90%) .NET Framework
4 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.90%) JSON
4 2 (6.90%) REST
5 1 (3.45%) CSS3
5 1 (3.45%) HTML5
5 1 (3.45%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (3.45%) pytest
5 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.45%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (3.45%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (3.45%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Software Engineering
2 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (17.24%) Clean Code
3 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
3 5 (17.24%) Integrated Marketing
4 4 (13.79%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
5 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
5 3 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (10.34%) OO
5 3 (10.34%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
6 2 (6.90%) Agile
6 2 (6.90%) AI
6 2 (6.90%) Image Processing
6 2 (6.90%) MVC
6 2 (6.90%) Project Management
6 2 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (6.90%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) JavaScript
2 5 (17.24%) C#
2 5 (17.24%) Python
3 4 (13.79%) SQL
4 1 (3.45%) Go
4 1 (3.45%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) cPanel
1 3 (10.34%) Plesk
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Adobe
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) HubSpot