Senior PHP Developer Jobs in Manchester

Senior PHP Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior PHP Developer salary in Manchester is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 188 218
Rank change year-on-year +52 +30 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 8 27 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.38% 0.53% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.56% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7 26 9
10th Percentile £50,250 £42,500 £50,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £53,750 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £54,750 £78,750 £75,250
North West median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -15.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,928 4,842 4,561
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.70% 91.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,273 3,750 2,671
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,143 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,164 £81,250 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Senior PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Senior PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Senior PHP Developer in Manchester

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Senior PHP Developer in Manchester

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Senior PHP Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) PHP
2 7 (87.50%) React
2 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) GCP
2 7 (87.50%) E-Commerce
2 7 (87.50%) LAMP
2 7 (87.50%) MySQL
2 7 (87.50%) CSS
2 7 (87.50%) HTML
2 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 7 (87.50%) OOP
3 6 (75.00%) Games
3 6 (75.00%) Regression Testing
3 6 (75.00%) Git
3 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (75.00%) jQuery
3 6 (75.00%) Finance
3 6 (75.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (75.00%) Vue
3 6 (75.00%) SOLID
3 6 (75.00%) Code Quality
3 6 (75.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (37.50%) Twitter
5 1 (12.50%) Datadog
5 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
5 1 (12.50%) PHPUnit
5 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (12.50%) Laravel
5 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (12.50%) Mobile App

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
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 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
1 7 (87.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
1 6 (75.00%) Games
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) CSS
1 7 (87.50%) HTML
1 7 (87.50%) LAMP
1 7 (87.50%) React
2 6 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (75.00%) jQuery
2 6 (75.00%) Vue
3 1 (12.50%) Laravel
3 1 (12.50%) LEMP Stack
3 1 (12.50%) Middleware
3 1 (12.50%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) E-Commerce
1 7 (87.50%) OOP
2 6 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 6 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 6 (75.00%) Regression Testing
2 6 (75.00%) SOLID
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PHP
2 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Twitter
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Zend
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