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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 199 106
Rank change year-on-year +17 -93 +36
Permanent jobs citing PHP 181 111 315
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.82% 1.16% 2.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.99% 4.13% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 170 93 267
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 3,630 2,687 3,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.40% 27.98% 26.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,742 1,424 2,952
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £34,775
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £75,868 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,918
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.60% -6.28%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

PHP job vacancy trend 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 11 August 2026.

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 11 August 2026. 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 +38 115 £50,000 +33.33% 10
North West -20 57 £45,000 -14.29% 12
North East -56 9 £31,000 +24.00% 3
PHP
England

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (9.39%) WordPress
2 8 (4.42%) CMS
3 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.10%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Elementor
1 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.21%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.10%) Shopify
3 1 (0.55%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 37 (20.44%) AWS
2 30 (16.57%) Azure
3 8 (4.42%) SaaS
4 6 (3.31%) Figma
5 5 (2.76%) Serverless
6 4 (2.21%) GitHub
7 3 (1.66%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.66%) Stripe
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.10%) npm
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.55%) Asana
9 1 (0.55%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.55%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.55%) Vercel
9 1 (0.55%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (21.55%) MySQL
2 14 (7.73%) SQL Server
3 13 (7.18%) MariaDB
4 8 (4.42%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.76%) Redis
6 3 (1.66%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.66%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.10%) Metadata
7 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.10%) phpMyAdmin
7 2 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (14.36%) Git
2 5 (2.76%) PHPUnit
3 2 (1.10%) JIRA
4 1 (0.55%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.55%) Postman
General
1 28 (15.47%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.08%) Finance
3 6 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (3.31%) Marketing
4 5 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (2.76%) Legal
4 5 (2.76%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.21%) Law
6 3 (1.66%) Health Technology
6 3 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (1.66%) Publishing
7 1 (0.55%) Legal Technology
7 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.55%) Retail
7 1 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 142 (78.45%) Developer
2 70 (38.67%) Senior
3 62 (34.25%) PHP Developer
3 62 (34.25%) Senior Developer
4 28 (15.47%) Software Developer
5 22 (12.15%) Graduate
6 17 (9.39%) Software Engineer
7 15 (8.29%) Senior PHP Developer
8 14 (7.73%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (7.18%) Graduate Developer
9 13 (7.18%) Graduate Software Developer
10 10 (5.52%) Senior Software Developer
11 9 (4.97%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
11 9 (4.97%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 9 (4.97%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 8 (4.42%) C# Developer
12 8 (4.42%) C# Software Developer
12 8 (4.42%) Graduate C# Developer
12 8 (4.42%) Graduate C# Software Developer
13 6 (3.31%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (37.02%) Laravel
2 35 (19.34%) HTML
3 29 (16.02%) CSS
4 19 (10.50%) React
5 15 (8.29%) Vue
6 13 (7.18%) REST
7 11 (6.08%) Node.js
8 8 (4.42%) .NET
8 8 (4.42%) HTML5
9 6 (3.31%) jQuery
9 6 (3.31%) Symfony
9 6 (3.31%) Web Services
10 5 (2.76%) CSS3
10 5 (2.76%) React Native
11 4 (2.21%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.21%) Bootstrap
11 4 (2.21%) XML
12 3 (1.66%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (1.66%) RESTful
12 3 (1.66%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.08%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (2.76%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.76%) Educational Technology
2 5 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.66%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.66%) Robotics
5 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.10%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.21%) Windows
2 3 (1.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (18.78%) Agile
2 33 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (13.26%) Full-Stack Development
4 23 (12.71%) Software Engineering
5 21 (11.60%) Clean Code
5 21 (11.60%) Computer Science
6 15 (8.29%) Web Development
7 14 (7.73%) CI/CD
7 14 (7.73%) Mentoring
7 14 (7.73%) Secure Coding
8 11 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (6.08%) Front End Development
9 10 (5.52%) Collaborative Working
9 10 (5.52%) Data Protection
9 10 (5.52%) Microservices
9 10 (5.52%) User Experience
10 9 (4.97%) AI
11 8 (4.42%) DevOps
11 8 (4.42%) OO
12 7 (3.87%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 47 (25.97%) JavaScript
2 32 (17.68%) SQL
3 30 (16.57%) C#
4 15 (8.29%) Python
5 14 (7.73%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.52%) Java
7 2 (1.10%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (6.63%) Degree
2 10 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.31%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.31%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.42%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.31%) QA
3 3 (1.66%) WCAG
4 1 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (3.31%) Docker
2 4 (2.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (2.21%) Google
1 4 (2.21%) NEC
1 4 (2.21%) Sage
2 3 (1.66%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.66%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.10%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.55%) Netlify