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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 112 81
Rank change year-on-year -21 -31 +36
Permanent jobs citing PHP 49 51 147
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.83% 2.38% 2.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.12% 6.25% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 48 47 137
10th Percentile £24,000 £37,950 £33,450
25th Percentile £40,938 £45,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £59,375 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,341 £79,750 £68,750
North West median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +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 957 816 1,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.27% 38.15% 33.18%
Number of salaries quoted 769 506 1,413
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,389 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +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 28 May 2026.

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 28 May 2026. 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
Altrincham - 1 £35,000 - 1
Oldham - 1 £69,973 -
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 7 (14.29%) WordPress
2 2 (4.08%) nginx
3 1 (2.04%) Apache
3 1 (2.04%) CMS
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.86%) Azure
2 20 (40.82%) AWS
3 6 (12.24%) Figma
4 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.04%) GCP
4 1 (2.04%) npm
4 1 (2.04%) SaaS
4 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Git
General
1 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (6.12%) Finance
1 3 (6.12%) Health Technology
1 3 (6.12%) Pharmaceutical
1 3 (6.12%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.08%) Marketing
2 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.04%) Billing
3 1 (2.04%) Law
3 1 (2.04%) Legal
3 1 (2.04%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (53.06%) Developer
2 14 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) PHP Developer
3 9 (18.37%) Software Developer
4 8 (16.33%) Graduate
4 8 (16.33%) Graduate Developer
4 8 (16.33%) Graduate Software Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Designer
5 6 (12.24%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (12.24%) HTML CSS Designer
5 6 (12.24%) Web Designer
6 5 (10.20%) Senior
6 5 (10.20%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.12%) C# Developer
7 3 (6.12%) C# Software Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Development Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Graduate C# Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Graduate C# Software Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Software Development Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.57%) CSS
1 14 (28.57%) HTML
2 13 (26.53%) Laravel
3 4 (8.16%) React
4 3 (6.12%) jQuery
4 3 (6.12%) RESTful
4 3 (6.12%) Vue
5 2 (4.08%) .NET
5 2 (4.08%) CSS3
5 2 (4.08%) HTML5
5 2 (4.08%) LAMP
5 2 (4.08%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (4.08%) Symfony
6 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.04%) LESS
6 1 (2.04%) Node.js
6 1 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.04%) REST
6 1 (2.04%) Sass
6 1 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Robotics
2 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.08%) NHS
3 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) Software Engineering
2 8 (16.33%) Computer Science
3 7 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (12.24%) Mentoring
5 5 (10.20%) CI/CD
5 5 (10.20%) Clean Code
5 5 (10.20%) Fintech
5 5 (10.20%) Microservices
5 5 (10.20%) OO
6 4 (8.16%) Agile
6 4 (8.16%) Code Quality
6 4 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (8.16%) MVC
7 3 (6.12%) OOP
7 3 (6.12%) SDET
7 3 (6.12%) Secure Coding
7 3 (6.12%) Software Testing
7 3 (6.12%) TDD
8 2 (4.08%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.41%) C#
2 9 (18.37%) SQL
3 8 (16.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.20%) Python
5 3 (6.12%) Java
6 1 (2.04%) C++
6 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (16.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) QA
1 1 (2.04%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) Adobe
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.04%) Sage