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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 85 127
Rank change year-on-year -6 +42 -30
Permanent jobs citing PHP 55 140 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.58% 2.74% 2.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.53% 8.12% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 51 133 99
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,625 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,125 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,500 £70,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +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 730 1,724 2,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 34.26% 33.72% 45.98%
Number of salaries quoted 560 1,399 1,292
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,750 £38,800
25th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -1.40% +5.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +20 8 £55,000 - 11
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 2 (3.64%) CMS
1 2 (3.64%) nginx
1 2 (3.64%) WordPress
2 1 (1.82%) Apache
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 26 (47.27%) AWS
2 11 (20.00%) Azure
2 11 (20.00%) Serverless
3 9 (16.36%) GCP
4 8 (14.55%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (10.91%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (7.27%) AWS IoT
8 3 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (5.45%) GitHub
8 3 (5.45%) SaaS
9 2 (3.64%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.82%) Datadog
10 1 (1.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) DNS
1 3 (5.45%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.64%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (3.64%) MPLS
2 2 (3.64%) VoIP
3 1 (1.82%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.82%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (41.82%) MySQL
2 10 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 5 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (7.27%) TimescaleDB
5 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.82%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.82%) GIS
6 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (3.64%) Selenium
3 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.82%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.82%) Postman
3 1 (1.82%) SoapUI
General
1 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.18%) Finance
3 7 (12.73%) Games
4 5 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.45%) Retail
6 2 (3.64%) Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.64%) Law
6 2 (3.64%) Legal
6 2 (3.64%) Marketing
6 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.64%) Retail Finance
6 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (41.82%) Developer
2 17 (30.91%) PHP Developer
2 17 (30.91%) Senior
3 13 (23.64%) Software Engineer
4 11 (20.00%) Lead
5 9 (16.36%) Senior Developer
6 8 (14.55%) Senior PHP Developer
7 6 (10.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (10.91%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 6 (10.91%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (9.09%) PHP Web Developer
8 5 (9.09%) SQL Developer
8 5 (9.09%) Web Developer
9 4 (7.27%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (7.27%) PHP Software Engineer
9 4 (7.27%) Team Leader
10 3 (5.45%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
10 3 (5.45%) JavaScript Engineer
10 3 (5.45%) Software Engineering Team Leader
10 3 (5.45%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (41.82%) AngularJS
2 21 (38.18%) Laravel
2 21 (38.18%) React
2 21 (38.18%) Vue
3 19 (34.55%) CSS
4 14 (25.45%) HTML
5 8 (14.55%) jQuery
5 8 (14.55%) RESTful
6 7 (12.73%) .NET
6 7 (12.73%) LAMP
7 6 (10.91%) Node.js
8 5 (9.09%) Symfony
9 4 (7.27%) NestJS
10 3 (5.45%) Bootstrap
10 3 (5.45%) Serverless Framework
10 3 (5.45%) Tailwind CSS
11 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET
11 2 (3.64%) Django
12 1 (1.82%) .NET Framework
12 1 (1.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (7.27%) IoT
2 4 (7.27%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.64%) CCTV
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.82%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.73%) Linux
2 5 (9.09%) Android
2 5 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (47.27%) Software Engineering
2 12 (21.82%) Agile
2 12 (21.82%) OOP
2 12 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 11 (20.00%) TDD
4 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 10 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 10 (18.18%) User Experience
5 8 (14.55%) Computer Science
5 8 (14.55%) E-Commerce
5 8 (14.55%) Market Research
5 8 (14.55%) Open Source
5 8 (14.55%) Web Development
6 7 (12.73%) Mentoring
7 6 (10.91%) Coaching
7 6 (10.91%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (10.91%) Regression Testing
7 6 (10.91%) SOLID
7 6 (10.91%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 33 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 18 (32.73%) SQL
3 15 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 11 (20.00%) Python
5 7 (12.73%) Java
6 6 (10.91%) Go
7 4 (7.27%) C#
7 4 (7.27%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (12.73%) Degree
2 2 (3.64%) Chartered Engineer
2 2 (3.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 6 (10.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.55%) Terraform
2 2 (3.64%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.64%) Puppet
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (5.45%) Google
1 3 (5.45%) Sage
1 3 (5.45%) SAP
1 3 (5.45%) Twitter
2 2 (3.64%) Cisco
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.82%) Zend