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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 222 110
Rank change year-on-year -2 -112 +29
Permanent jobs citing PHP 140 75 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.58% 0.78% 1.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.01% 3.03% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 129 56 154
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,438 £35,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -6.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £61,250 £60,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -6.01%

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 3,490 2,478 3,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.57% 25.85% 26.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,709 1,211 2,010
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £79,600
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +19 93 £50,000 +29.03% 18
North West -14 40 £48,750 -11.36% 19
North East -58 7 £31,000 +24.00% 6
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 11 (7.86%) WordPress
2 6 (4.29%) CMS
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.43%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 4 (2.86%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.71%) Magento
2 1 (0.71%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 33 (23.57%) AWS
2 26 (18.57%) Azure
3 8 (5.71%) SaaS
4 5 (3.57%) Serverless
5 4 (2.86%) GitHub
6 3 (2.14%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.14%) Stripe
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.43%) npm
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.71%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.71%) Azure AI
8 1 (0.71%) GCP
8 1 (0.71%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (22.86%) MySQL
2 13 (9.29%) MariaDB
3 10 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.29%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.57%) Redis
6 3 (2.14%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.14%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.43%) Metadata
7 2 (1.43%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.43%) phpMyAdmin
8 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.71%) Power BI
8 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (15.00%) Git
2 2 (1.43%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.71%) JIRA
General
1 26 (18.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (4.29%) Marketing
3 5 (3.57%) Finance
3 5 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.14%) Law
4 3 (2.14%) Legal
4 3 (2.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 110 (78.57%) Developer
2 57 (40.71%) Senior
3 48 (34.29%) Senior Developer
4 43 (30.71%) PHP Developer
5 24 (17.14%) Software Developer
6 16 (11.43%) Graduate
7 13 (9.29%) Software Engineer
8 12 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
10 9 (6.43%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 8 (5.71%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
12 7 (5.00%) Graduate Developer
12 7 (5.00%) Graduate Software Developer
13 6 (4.29%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 6 (4.29%) Senior PHP Developer
14 5 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
14 5 (3.57%) Azure Software Engineer
14 5 (3.57%) C# Software Engineer
14 5 (3.57%) PHP Software Engineer
15 4 (2.86%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (40.00%) Laravel
2 24 (17.14%) HTML
3 17 (12.14%) CSS
4 16 (11.43%) React
5 12 (8.57%) REST
6 11 (7.86%) Node.js
7 10 (7.14%) Vue
8 9 (6.43%) .NET
9 6 (4.29%) Web Services
10 5 (3.57%) HTML5
11 4 (2.86%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.86%) Bootstrap
11 4 (2.86%) React Native
11 4 (2.86%) Symfony
11 4 (2.86%) XML
12 3 (2.14%) CSS3
12 3 (2.14%) RESTful
12 3 (2.14%) Sass
12 3 (2.14%) Semantic HTML
12 3 (2.14%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.86%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.86%) Educational Technology
3 4 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.14%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.71%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.14%) Linux
1 3 (2.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (16.43%) Agile
3 20 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (13.57%) Software Engineering
5 16 (11.43%) Clean Code
6 15 (10.71%) Computer Science
7 14 (10.00%) Secure Coding
8 13 (9.29%) Web Development
9 12 (8.57%) Mentoring
10 11 (7.86%) AI
10 11 (7.86%) CI/CD
11 10 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (7.14%) Data Protection
11 10 (7.14%) Front End Development
11 10 (7.14%) User Experience
12 9 (6.43%) Collaborative Working
13 6 (4.29%) DevOps
13 6 (4.29%) Microservices
13 6 (4.29%) Performance Optimisation
13 6 (4.29%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 41 (29.29%) JavaScript
2 25 (17.86%) SQL
3 24 (17.14%) C#
4 14 (10.00%) Python
4 14 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 9 (6.43%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (6.43%) Degree
2 7 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 7 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.57%) QA
3 3 (2.14%) WCAG
4 1 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (2.86%) Docker
2 3 (2.14%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (2.86%) Google
1 4 (2.86%) NEC
2 3 (2.14%) OpenAI
2 3 (2.14%) Sage
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.43%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.71%) Netlify