PHP Job Trends in the North of England

PHP
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring PHP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 105 143
Rank change year-on-year -108 +38 -25
Permanent jobs citing PHP 86 293 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.92% 2.08% 2.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.42% 7.87% 5.69%
Number of salaries quoted 67 205 174
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £44,500 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -11.00% -5.66% +0.95%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,516 3,723 3,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 26.80% 26.42% 36.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,253 2,344 2,720
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +0.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,113 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,842
England median annual salary £62,733 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.37% -3.85% +1.72%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the North of England

PHP
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP in the North of England

PHP
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Yorkshire -24 41 £37,500 -18.92% 25
North West -115 39 £52,500 +5.00% 35
North East -1 6 £25,000 -28.57% 8
PHP
England

PHP
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 6 (6.98%) Apache
2 5 (5.81%) Anypoint
3 3 (3.49%) nginx
4 2 (2.33%) WordPress
5 1 (1.16%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.16%) Confluence
5 1 (1.16%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.16%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.16%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Magento
1 1 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (23.26%) AWS
2 17 (19.77%) Azure
3 5 (5.81%) Datadog
3 5 (5.81%) Entra ID
3 5 (5.81%) Power Automate
4 4 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (3.49%) GitHub
5 3 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.33%) Cloudflare
6 2 (2.33%) GCP
6 2 (2.33%) Google Analytics
6 2 (2.33%) Serverless
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.16%) npm
7 1 (1.16%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.16%) SaaS
7 1 (1.16%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.49%) VoIP
2 2 (2.33%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (37.21%) MySQL
2 15 (17.44%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.49%) GIS
3 3 (3.49%) Redis
3 3 (3.49%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (12.79%) Git
2 6 (6.98%) Postman
3 3 (3.49%) JIRA
4 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.16%) Selenium
4 1 (1.16%) SoapUI
General
1 32 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.60%) Finance
3 12 (13.95%) Law
4 4 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.49%) Back Office
5 3 (3.49%) Mandarin Language
5 3 (3.49%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.33%) Games
6 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.33%) Legal
6 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.16%) Marketing
7 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (56.98%) Developer
2 24 (27.91%) PHP Developer
3 12 (13.95%) Graduate
4 11 (12.79%) Graduate Developer
4 11 (12.79%) IT Graduate
5 8 (9.30%) Senior
6 6 (6.98%) Integration Developer
6 6 (6.98%) Senior Developer
6 6 (6.98%) Software Developer
6 6 (6.98%) SQL Developer
6 6 (6.98%) Support Specialist
7 5 (5.81%) Applications Specialist
7 5 (5.81%) Applications Support
7 5 (5.81%) Applications Support Specialist
7 5 (5.81%) C# Developer
7 5 (5.81%) Lead
8 4 (4.65%) Graduate C# Developer
8 4 (4.65%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 4 (4.65%) IT Support
8 4 (4.65%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (44.19%) HTML
2 32 (37.21%) CSS
3 18 (20.93%) .NET
3 18 (20.93%) Laravel
4 16 (18.60%) jQuery
5 12 (13.95%) ASP.NET
6 8 (9.30%) React
7 7 (8.14%) RESTful
7 7 (8.14%) Symfony
7 7 (8.14%) Vue
8 5 (5.81%) CakePHP
8 5 (5.81%) JWT
8 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (5.81%) OAuth
8 5 (5.81%) OpenAPI
8 5 (5.81%) RAML
8 5 (5.81%) SAML
8 5 (5.81%) Swagger
9 4 (4.65%) HTML5
9 4 (4.65%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.63%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.49%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.33%) CCTV
4 2 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.16%) Animation
5 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.16%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.16%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.16%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.30%) Linux
2 6 (6.98%) Windows
3 1 (1.16%) Unix
3 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (41.86%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (34.88%) Agile
3 27 (31.40%) Computer Science
4 22 (25.58%) OO
5 16 (18.60%) Artificial Intelligence
5 16 (18.60%) MVC
6 15 (17.44%) OOP
7 14 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (16.28%) Machine Learning
8 13 (15.12%) Data Privacy
8 13 (15.12%) Web Development
9 8 (9.30%) SDLC
10 7 (8.14%) Code Quality
10 7 (8.14%) Front End Development
10 7 (8.14%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (6.98%) Project Management
11 6 (6.98%) Software Engineering
12 5 (5.81%) OO PHP
12 5 (5.81%) Robotic Process Automation
12 5 (5.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 53 (61.63%) JavaScript
2 39 (45.35%) SQL
3 31 (36.05%) C#
4 30 (34.88%) Java
5 26 (30.23%) Python
6 24 (27.91%) C++
7 22 (25.58%) TypeScript
8 13 (15.12%) C
8 13 (15.12%) Dart
8 13 (15.12%) MATLAB
8 13 (15.12%) R
8 13 (15.12%) Ruby
8 13 (15.12%) Rust
9 5 (5.81%) DataWeave
10 1 (1.16%) Go
Qualifications
1 27 (31.40%) Computer Science Degree
1 27 (31.40%) Degree
2 2 (2.33%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.49%) SLA
2 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.33%) QA
3 1 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (5.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.81%) CloudHub
2 3 (3.49%) Terraform
3 2 (2.33%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.16%) Ansible
4 1 (1.16%) Argo
4 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.81%) MuleSoft
3 3 (3.49%) Google
4 2 (2.33%) Cisco
4 2 (2.33%) HubSpot
4 2 (2.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.16%) Adobe
5 1 (1.16%) PayPal