PHP Jobs in Manchester

PHP
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 80 113
Rank change year-on-year -36 +33 -10
Permanent jobs citing PHP 53 162 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.15% 2.77% 2.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.02% 8.56% 7.08%
Number of salaries quoted 49 145 101
10th Percentile £38,100 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £69,500 £70,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

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 880 1,893 1,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 35.63% 32.36% 41.65%
Number of salaries quoted 565 1,426 1,237
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £84,000
North West median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +4.55%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Manchester

PHP
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for PHP in Manchester

PHP
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 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 +14 7 £55,000 - 4
Bury - 2 £52,500 - 17
Salford - 2 £39,500 -
PHP
North West

PHP
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 3 (5.66%) WordPress
2 2 (3.77%) CMS
3 1 (1.89%) Apache
3 1 (1.89%) Confluence
3 1 (1.89%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 26 (49.06%) AWS
2 10 (18.87%) Serverless
3 9 (16.98%) Azure
4 8 (15.09%) GCP
5 7 (13.21%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (11.32%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (11.32%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (9.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (9.43%) GitHub
8 4 (7.55%) AWS IoT
9 2 (3.77%) Google Analytics
9 2 (3.77%) SaaS
10 1 (1.89%) Datadog
10 1 (1.89%) npm
10 1 (1.89%) PaaS
10 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.89%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) DNS
1 2 (3.77%) LoRaWAN
1 2 (3.77%) MPLS
1 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.77%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.85%) MySQL
2 7 (13.21%) SQL Server
3 5 (9.43%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (7.55%) GIS
4 4 (7.55%) TimescaleDB
5 3 (5.66%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (26.42%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.89%) Postman
3 1 (1.89%) Selenium
3 1 (1.89%) SoapUI
General
1 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Finance
3 6 (11.32%) Games
4 5 (9.43%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.77%) Law
5 2 (3.77%) Legal
5 2 (3.77%) Marketing
5 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.77%) Retail
5 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (1.89%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 28 (52.83%) Developer
2 17 (32.08%) PHP Developer
3 13 (24.53%) Senior
4 10 (18.87%) Senior Developer
5 9 (16.98%) Lead
6 7 (13.21%) Software Engineer
7 6 (11.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (11.32%) Senior PHP Developer
8 5 (9.43%) PHP Web Developer
8 5 (9.43%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 5 (9.43%) SQL Developer
8 5 (9.43%) Web Developer
9 4 (7.55%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (7.55%) Team Leader
10 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
10 3 (5.66%) Software Engineering Team Leader
10 3 (5.66%) Software Team Leader
10 3 (5.66%) Technical Leader
11 2 (3.77%) IT Graduate
11 2 (3.77%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (37.74%) CSS
2 18 (33.96%) Vue
3 17 (32.08%) AngularJS
3 17 (32.08%) HTML
3 17 (32.08%) Laravel
4 16 (30.19%) React
5 8 (15.09%) jQuery
6 6 (11.32%) LAMP
6 6 (11.32%) Node.js
6 6 (11.32%) RESTful
7 5 (9.43%) Symfony
8 4 (7.55%) NestJS
9 3 (5.66%) .NET
9 3 (5.66%) Bootstrap
9 3 (5.66%) Serverless Framework
9 3 (5.66%) Tailwind CSS
10 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET
10 2 (3.77%) Django
10 2 (3.77%) JSON
10 2 (3.77%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (7.55%) IoT
2 4 (7.55%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.77%) CCTV
3 2 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.89%) Animation
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.85%) Software Engineering
2 12 (22.64%) Agile
2 12 (22.64%) Code Quality
2 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (20.75%) OOP
3 11 (20.75%) Web Development
4 10 (18.87%) User Experience
5 9 (16.98%) CI/CD
6 8 (15.09%) Computer Science
6 8 (15.09%) Market Research
6 8 (15.09%) Mentoring
6 8 (15.09%) Test Automation
7 7 (13.21%) Data Visualisation
7 7 (13.21%) Visualisation
8 6 (11.32%) Analytics
8 6 (11.32%) Coaching
8 6 (11.32%) E-Commerce
8 6 (11.32%) Microservices
8 6 (11.32%) Open Source
8 6 (11.32%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (69.81%) JavaScript
2 19 (35.85%) SQL
3 17 (32.08%) TypeScript
4 11 (20.75%) Python
5 6 (11.32%) Java
6 4 (7.55%) C#
6 4 (7.55%) C++
6 4 (7.55%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (13.21%) Degree
2 2 (3.77%) Chartered Engineer
2 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.77%) QA
System Software
1 6 (11.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (13.21%) Terraform
2 2 (3.77%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (3.77%) Puppet
3 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.66%) Google
2 3 (5.66%) Twitter
3 2 (3.77%) Cisco
3 2 (3.77%) Sage
3 2 (3.77%) SAP
4 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.89%) Zend