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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 196 90
Rank change year-on-year +12 -106 +17
Permanent jobs citing PHP 169 125 441
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.81% 1.33% 2.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.88% 4.65% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 160 104 395
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £30,100
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,563 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,875 £75,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.83%

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 3,464 2,691 5,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.63% 28.57% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,613 1,436 4,022
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,500 £68,113
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +27 110 £50,000 +33.33% 8
North West -21 51 £45,000 -14.29% 5
North East -59 8 £31,000 +15.89% 1
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 14 (8.28%) WordPress
2 7 (4.14%) CMS
3 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.18%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Elementor
1 1 (0.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Shopify
2 1 (0.59%) Magento
2 1 (0.59%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 39 (23.08%) AWS
2 25 (14.79%) Azure
3 7 (4.14%) SaaS
4 6 (3.55%) Figma
4 6 (3.55%) Serverless
5 4 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (2.37%) GitHub
6 3 (1.78%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.18%) GCP
7 2 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.18%) npm
8 1 (0.59%) Asana
8 1 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.59%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.59%) Vercel
8 1 (0.59%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (23.67%) MySQL
2 11 (6.51%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.92%) MariaDB
3 10 (5.92%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.78%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.78%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.18%) Metadata
5 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.18%) phpMyAdmin
5 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.18%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.18%) Redis
6 1 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 27 (15.98%) Git
2 6 (3.55%) PHPUnit
3 2 (1.18%) JIRA
4 1 (0.59%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.59%) Postman
General
1 24 (14.20%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.51%) Finance
3 6 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.96%) Legal
4 5 (2.96%) Marketing
5 4 (2.37%) Law
6 3 (1.78%) Health Technology
6 3 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (1.78%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.59%) Billing
7 1 (0.59%) Legal Technology
7 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.59%) Publishing
7 1 (0.59%) Retail
7 1 (0.59%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 135 (79.88%) Developer
2 65 (38.46%) Senior
3 60 (35.50%) Senior Developer
4 59 (34.91%) PHP Developer
5 28 (16.57%) Software Developer
6 19 (11.24%) Graduate
7 18 (10.65%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (10.06%) Senior PHP Developer
9 14 (8.28%) Software Engineer
10 13 (7.69%) Graduate Developer
10 13 (7.69%) Graduate Software Developer
11 10 (5.92%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
11 10 (5.92%) Senior Software Developer
12 8 (4.73%) C# Developer
12 8 (4.73%) C# Software Developer
12 8 (4.73%) Graduate C# Developer
12 8 (4.73%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 8 (4.73%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (3.55%) HTML CSS Designer
13 6 (3.55%) PHP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (36.69%) Laravel
2 31 (18.34%) HTML
3 28 (16.57%) CSS
4 24 (14.20%) React
5 15 (8.88%) Vue
6 14 (8.28%) REST
7 9 (5.33%) Node.js
8 7 (4.14%) Symfony
8 7 (4.14%) Web Services
9 6 (3.55%) HTML5
9 6 (3.55%) jQuery
10 5 (2.96%) .NET
10 5 (2.96%) React Native
11 4 (2.37%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.37%) Bootstrap
11 4 (2.37%) RESTful
12 3 (1.78%) CSS3
12 3 (1.78%) Sass
13 2 (1.18%) LESS
13 2 (1.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.73%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (3.55%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.78%) Educational Technology
4 3 (1.78%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.78%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.78%) Robotics
5 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.59%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.37%) Linux
1 4 (2.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (18.34%) Agile
2 28 (16.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 26 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (13.02%) Clean Code
5 20 (11.83%) Software Engineering
6 19 (11.24%) Computer Science
7 15 (8.88%) Web Development
8 14 (8.28%) Microservices
8 14 (8.28%) Secure Coding
9 13 (7.69%) CI/CD
9 13 (7.69%) Mentoring
10 11 (6.51%) Front End Development
11 10 (5.92%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (5.92%) Data Protection
12 9 (5.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (5.33%) OO
13 8 (4.73%) Containerisation
13 8 (4.73%) E-Commerce
13 8 (4.73%) User Experience
14 7 (4.14%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 50 (29.59%) JavaScript
2 26 (15.38%) SQL
3 24 (14.20%) C#
4 15 (8.88%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.10%) Python
6 7 (4.14%) Java
7 2 (1.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (7.69%) Degree
2 11 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.78%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.14%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.55%) QA
3 1 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.37%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (2.37%) Sage
2 3 (1.78%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.18%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.59%) Google
4 1 (0.59%) NEC
4 1 (0.59%) Netlify