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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 89 74
Rank change year-on-year -21 -15 +71
Permanent jobs citing PHP 41 56 140
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.00% 2.62% 3.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.05% 7.25% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 41 50 135
10th Percentile £34,500 £37,500 £32,700
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,563 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,500 £77,625 £67,750
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -13.64%

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 678 772 1,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.57% 36.13% 36.80%
Number of salaries quoted 568 553 1,375
10th Percentile £36,750 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +10.62% -5.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 - 3 £35,000 -
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 8 (19.51%) WordPress
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.44%) CMS
2 1 (2.44%) nginx
Business Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 22 (53.66%) AWS
2 20 (48.78%) Azure
3 5 (12.20%) Figma
4 4 (9.76%) GCP
5 2 (4.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) MySQL
2 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
2 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.44%) Postman
2 1 (2.44%) Selenium
2 1 (2.44%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (12.20%) Marketing
2 3 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Finance
3 2 (4.88%) Health Technology
3 2 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (4.88%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Billing
4 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 19 (46.34%) Developer
2 14 (34.15%) Software Engineer
3 10 (24.39%) PHP Developer
4 8 (19.51%) Senior
4 8 (19.51%) Senior Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Designer
5 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (12.20%) HTML CSS Designer
5 5 (12.20%) Senior PHP Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Web Designer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Applications Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Development Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Graduate
7 2 (4.88%) Head of Engineering
7 2 (4.88%) Senior WordPress Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Software Development Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Test Development Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) CSS
1 11 (26.83%) Laravel
2 10 (24.39%) HTML
3 5 (12.20%) React
4 3 (7.32%) .NET
4 3 (7.32%) Vue
5 2 (4.88%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.88%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.44%) CodeIgniter
6 1 (2.44%) jQuery
6 1 (2.44%) LAMP
6 1 (2.44%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (2.44%) Node.js
6 1 (2.44%) pytest
6 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.44%) RESTful
6 1 (2.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) NHS
2 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.88%) Robotics
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) Software Engineering
2 6 (14.63%) Clean Code
2 6 (14.63%) Mentoring
2 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (12.20%) Integrated Marketing
4 4 (9.76%) CI/CD
4 4 (9.76%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (9.76%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (7.32%) MVC
6 2 (4.88%) E-Commerce
6 2 (4.88%) Microservices
6 2 (4.88%) OO
6 2 (4.88%) Project Management
6 2 (4.88%) SDET
6 2 (4.88%) Software Testing
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (4.88%) Test Automation
7 1 (2.44%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.51%) JavaScript
2 5 (12.20%) C#
2 5 (12.20%) Python
3 4 (9.76%) SQL
4 2 (4.88%) Java
5 1 (2.44%) C++
5 1 (2.44%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) cPanel
1 3 (7.32%) Plesk
2 1 (2.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Adobe
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft