PHP Developer Jobs in the North of England

PHP Developer
England > North of England

The median PHP Developer salary in the North of England is £47,500 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 268 194 241
Rank change year-on-year -74 +47 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 40 216 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.37% 1.25% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 1.32% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 38 209 61
10th Percentile £36,150 £32,100 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £54,688 £56,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,008 16,414 15,566
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 94.99% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,788 12,702 8,239
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,125
90th Percentile £78,678 £78,725 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the North of England

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in the North of England.

Salary trend for PHP Developer in the North of England

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the North of England

PHP Developer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the North of England 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
North West -49 31 £47,500 -2.06% 25
Yorkshire -5 7 £47,500 +11.76% 11
North East +40 2 £38,750 -19.69% 1
PHP Developer
England

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 North of England region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) PHP
2 27 (67.50%) JavaScript
3 24 (60.00%) MySQL
4 19 (47.50%) CSS
5 18 (45.00%) React
6 15 (37.50%) AWS
7 14 (35.00%) HTML
7 14 (35.00%) Laravel
8 13 (32.50%) OOP
8 13 (32.50%) Agile
9 12 (30.00%) Symfony
9 12 (30.00%) GCP
9 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
10 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (22.50%) Vue
11 9 (22.50%) Test Automation
11 9 (22.50%) jQuery
12 8 (20.00%) E-Commerce
12 8 (20.00%) SaaS
12 8 (20.00%) AngularJS
13 7 (17.50%) Git
13 7 (17.50%) Azure
13 7 (17.50%) Finance
13 7 (17.50%) OO
13 7 (17.50%) Apache
13 7 (17.50%) SQL
13 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
13 7 (17.50%) Web Development
13 7 (17.50%) LAMP
14 6 (15.00%) Games

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (17.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Magento
1 1 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (37.50%) AWS
2 12 (30.00%) GCP
3 8 (20.00%) SaaS
4 7 (17.50%) Azure
5 4 (10.00%) GitHub
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.50%) Serverless
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Datadog
7 1 (2.50%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (60.00%) MySQL
2 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 4 (10.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.50%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) PHPUnit
General
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
3 6 (15.00%) Games
3 6 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Law
5 1 (2.50%) Automotive
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Marketing
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (47.50%) CSS
2 18 (45.00%) React
3 14 (35.00%) HTML
3 14 (35.00%) Laravel
4 12 (30.00%) Symfony
5 9 (22.50%) jQuery
5 9 (22.50%) Vue
6 8 (20.00%) AngularJS
7 7 (17.50%) LAMP
8 6 (15.00%) Tailwind CSS
9 5 (12.50%) REST
9 5 (12.50%) RESTful
10 3 (7.50%) .NET
10 3 (7.50%) Bootstrap
10 3 (7.50%) Playwright
11 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET
11 2 (5.00%) LEMP Stack
12 1 (2.50%) Middleware
12 1 (2.50%) Next.js
12 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (7.50%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Linux
1 6 (15.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (32.50%) Agile
1 13 (32.50%) OOP
2 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (22.50%) Test Automation
4 8 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 7 (17.50%) OO
5 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
5 7 (17.50%) Web Development
6 6 (15.00%) Code Quality
6 6 (15.00%) Computer Science
6 6 (15.00%) Project Delivery
6 6 (15.00%) Regression Testing
6 6 (15.00%) SOLID
7 5 (12.50%) Clean Code
7 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (12.50%) Microservices
8 4 (10.00%) API Integration
8 4 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (10.00%) Front End Development
8 4 (10.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) PHP
2 27 (67.50%) JavaScript
3 7 (17.50%) SQL
4 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.00%) C#
5 2 (5.00%) C++
5 2 (5.00%) Java
5 2 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) Sage
2 3 (7.50%) SAP
2 3 (7.50%) Twitter
3 2 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) Zend