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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 74 109
Rank change year-on-year -54 +35 +25
Permanent jobs citing PHP 25 115 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.05% 2.83% 2.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.25% 9.32% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 20 76 66
10th Percentile £30,400 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,063 £39,375 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £51,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £58,125 £56,250 £62,188
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £68,750
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -9.52%

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 770 1,234 1,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 32.49% 30.36% 43.40%
Number of salaries quoted 468 718 1,018
10th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £83,750
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% +3.64%

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -
Stockport +2 2 £55,000 +4.76%
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 2 (8.00%) nginx
1 2 (8.00%) WordPress
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Solr
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (4.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (4.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (4.00%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (12.00%) GitHub
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.00%) Cloudflare
4 2 (8.00%) Serverless
5 1 (4.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) Google Analytics
5 1 (4.00%) npm
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) MPLS
1 2 (8.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) MySQL
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (12.00%) GIS
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.00%) Power BI
5 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.00%) Games
2 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (8.00%) Legal
2 2 (8.00%) Mandarin Language
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (76.00%) Developer
2 12 (48.00%) PHP Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 3 (12.00%) PHP Web Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (12.00%) SQL Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Web Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Graduate
5 2 (8.00%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) PHP WordPress Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Leader
5 2 (8.00%) WordPress Developer
6 1 (4.00%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.00%) HTML Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Junior
6 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) Laravel
2 8 (32.00%) CSS
2 8 (32.00%) HTML
3 5 (20.00%) jQuery
3 5 (20.00%) Vue
4 4 (16.00%) React
5 3 (12.00%) REST
6 2 (8.00%) .NET
6 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (8.00%) HTML5
6 2 (8.00%) JSON
6 2 (8.00%) Node.js
6 2 (8.00%) Serverless Framework
6 2 (8.00%) WebSockets
7 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
7 1 (4.00%) Bootstrap
7 1 (4.00%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (4.00%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (4.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 1 (4.00%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) CCTV
1 2 (8.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (4.00%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Agile
2 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (24.00%) Web Development
4 5 (20.00%) Project Management
5 4 (16.00%) Analytics
5 4 (16.00%) Code Quality
5 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.00%) OO
5 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) User Experience
6 3 (12.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (12.00%) Dashboard Development
6 3 (12.00%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (12.00%) Front End Development
6 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (12.00%) Microservices
6 3 (12.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (12.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (72.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (36.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.00%) Python
4 4 (16.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.00%) C#
6 1 (4.00%) C++
6 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco
2 2 (8.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Adobe
3 1 (4.00%) HubSpot
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce