PHP Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

PHP
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 56 45
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 +19
Permanent jobs citing PHP 3 13 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.53% 2.24% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.24% 5.06% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £33,800 £47,500 -
25th Percentile £47,000 £52,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +18.28% -11.43%
75th Percentile £71,000 £57,500 £47,250
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% +18.28% -11.43%

All Programming Languages
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 134 257 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 23.67% 44.31% 30.59%
Number of salaries quoted 106 127 89
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £42,244 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £68,750 £83,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,875 £100,000 £69,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

PHP job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

PHP
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP in Newcastle upon Tyne

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Principal Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Graduate
3 1 (33.33%) Graduate C# Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Graduate Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Graduate PHP Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Graduate SQL Developer
3 1 (33.33%) IT Graduate
3 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker