PHP Jobs in the North of England

PHP
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 20 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 111 197
Rank change year-on-year -48 +86 -116
Permanent jobs citing PHP 182 261 261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.48% 2.59% 1.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.96% 7.55% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 101 246 192
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,313 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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 3,055 3,455 7,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.79% 34.22% 46.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,704 2,708 3,996
10th Percentile £35,802 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,100 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.33%

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

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

Salary trend for PHP in the North of England

PHP
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 January 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 20 January 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 -40 120 £45,000 -5.26% 73
Yorkshire -40 41 £50,000 +5.26% 29
North East +1 21 £55,000 +18.28% 11
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 24 (13.19%) nginx
2 21 (11.54%) Apache
3 13 (7.14%) WordPress
4 6 (3.30%) Confluence
5 5 (2.75%) CMS
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.55%) Drupal
6 1 (0.55%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.10%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (9.34%) Magento
2 12 (6.59%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (4.40%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.65%) Sage 200
5 2 (1.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 43 (23.63%) AWS
2 29 (15.93%) Azure
3 24 (13.19%) GCP
4 21 (11.54%) GitHub
5 14 (7.69%) SaaS
6 12 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (6.59%) Datadog
7 6 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.30%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 6 (3.30%) Serverless
8 4 (2.20%) Google Analytics
8 4 (2.20%) Stripe
9 2 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.10%) Figma
9 2 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.10%) Sentry
10 1 (0.55%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.55%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.55%) Heroku
10 1 (0.55%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.59%) Internet
2 6 (3.30%) BGP
2 6 (3.30%) Firewall
2 6 (3.30%) MPLS
2 6 (3.30%) Network Security
2 6 (3.30%) OSPF
3 3 (1.65%) DNS
3 3 (1.65%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.65%) SMS
4 2 (1.10%) FTP
4 2 (1.10%) HTTP
4 2 (1.10%) SSH
4 2 (1.10%) SSL
4 2 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.55%) Broadband
5 1 (0.55%) IPsec
5 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (59.89%) MySQL
2 18 (9.89%) SQL Server
3 14 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 10 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.30%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.10%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.10%) Redis
8 1 (0.55%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 36 (19.78%) Git
2 19 (10.44%) PHPUnit
3 9 (4.95%) Bitbucket
4 8 (4.40%) JIRA
5 6 (3.30%) Mercurial
6 3 (1.65%) Subversion
7 2 (1.10%) Vite
8 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.55%) Selenium
General
1 52 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.09%) Retail
3 16 (8.79%) Finance
4 15 (8.24%) Marketing
5 14 (7.69%) Games
6 11 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.85%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.30%) Legal
8 6 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.65%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.10%) Banking
10 2 (1.10%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.10%) Retail Finance
11 1 (0.55%) Automotive
11 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 135 (74.18%) Developer
2 70 (38.46%) PHP Developer
3 49 (26.92%) Senior
4 37 (20.33%) Senior Developer
5 32 (17.58%) Web Developer
6 24 (13.19%) Software Engineer
7 21 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (11.54%) Senior PHP Developer
8 18 (9.89%) Backend Developer
9 16 (8.79%) PHP Web Developer
10 15 (8.24%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
11 13 (7.14%) Magento Developer
11 13 (7.14%) Senior PHP Web Developer
11 13 (7.14%) Senior Web Developer
12 12 (6.59%) Senior Backend Developer
13 10 (5.49%) Junior
13 10 (5.49%) Senior Software Engineer
14 9 (4.95%) PHP Laravel Developer
14 9 (4.95%) PHP Software Engineer
15 8 (4.40%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (48.90%) CSS
2 80 (43.96%) HTML
2 80 (43.96%) Laravel
3 59 (32.42%) React
4 55 (30.22%) Vue
5 31 (17.03%) AngularJS
6 30 (16.48%) Symfony
7 27 (14.84%) LAMP
8 24 (13.19%) .NET
9 19 (10.44%) LEMP Stack
10 18 (9.89%) RESTful
11 16 (8.79%) Tailwind CSS
12 15 (8.24%) Web Services
13 11 (6.04%) jQuery
14 10 (5.49%) XML
15 9 (4.95%) REST
16 8 (4.40%) Sass
17 6 (3.30%) LAPP Stack
17 6 (3.30%) React Native
17 6 (3.30%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.04%) Mobile App
2 6 (3.30%) Cyber Security Posture
2 6 (3.30%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.30%) IoT
2 6 (3.30%) Security Posture
3 3 (1.65%) Graphic Design
3 3 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (1.65%) Social Media
3 3 (1.65%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.10%) Life Science
4 2 (1.10%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.10%) NHS
4 2 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (1.10%) Replication
5 1 (0.55%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.55%) PropTech
5 1 (0.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 44 (24.18%) Linux
2 8 (4.40%) Android
2 8 (4.40%) Apple iOS
2 8 (4.40%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.30%) Windows
4 2 (1.10%) AIX
4 2 (1.10%) CentOS
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (1.10%) Unix
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (32.42%) E-Commerce
2 54 (29.67%) Software Engineering
3 53 (29.12%) Web Development
4 45 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (21.43%) Agile
6 32 (17.58%) Full-Stack Development
7 31 (17.03%) MVC
8 25 (13.74%) DevOps
9 21 (11.54%) Clean Code
10 20 (10.99%) Mentoring
11 19 (10.44%) User Experience
12 18 (9.89%) OOP
13 14 (7.69%) Microservices
13 14 (7.69%) Roadmaps
13 14 (7.69%) SDLC
13 14 (7.69%) TDD
14 13 (7.14%) CI/CD
14 13 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
15 12 (6.59%) Responsive Web Design
15 12 (6.59%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 100 (54.95%) JavaScript
2 26 (14.29%) SQL
3 23 (12.64%) Python
4 19 (10.44%) TypeScript
5 17 (9.34%) C#
6 11 (6.04%) Java
7 10 (5.49%) C++
8 8 (4.40%) Perl
9 3 (1.65%) Go
9 3 (1.65%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.10%) AWK
10 2 (1.10%) C
10 2 (1.10%) Korn
10 2 (1.10%) VB
11 1 (0.55%) Bash
11 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (6.59%) Degree
2 9 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.30%) CCNP
3 6 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (3.30%) JNCIS
4 2 (1.10%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.40%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 6 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.20%) QA
System Software
1 22 (12.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) KVM
2 2 (1.10%) Postfix
2 2 (1.10%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (4.40%) Ansible
2 4 (2.20%) Terraform
3 3 (1.65%) Galera Cluster
4 2 (1.10%) cPanel
4 2 (1.10%) Grafana
4 2 (1.10%) Nagios
4 2 (1.10%) Nessus
5 1 (0.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (14.84%) Google
2 9 (4.95%) Adobe
2 9 (4.95%) New Relic
3 6 (3.30%) Openreach
3 6 (3.30%) WooCommerce
4 5 (2.75%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.75%) Sage
5 4 (2.20%) SAP
6 3 (1.65%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.10%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.10%) IBM
7 2 (1.10%) Oracle
7 2 (1.10%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.55%) Twitter