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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 224 108
Rank change year-on-year +4 -116 +26
Permanent jobs citing PHP 150 82 283
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.62% 0.87% 2.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.13% 3.27% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 138 63 183
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £30,050
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £36,250
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 £56,875
90th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -5.66%

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 3,636 2,510 3,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.15% 26.62% 26.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,773 1,255 2,186
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 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.81% -3.67% -

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 +18 99 £50,000 +33.33% 25
North West -16 44 £46,250 -13.95% 30
North East -64 7 £31,000 +24.00% 12
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 12 (8.00%) WordPress
2 8 (5.33%) CMS
3 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.33%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 4 (2.67%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.67%) Magento
2 1 (0.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 33 (22.00%) AWS
2 26 (17.33%) Azure
3 9 (6.00%) SaaS
4 5 (3.33%) Serverless
5 4 (2.67%) GitHub
6 3 (2.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.00%) Stripe
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.33%) npm
7 2 (1.33%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.67%) Figma
8 1 (0.67%) GCP
8 1 (0.67%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.67%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.67%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (23.33%) MySQL
2 13 (8.67%) MariaDB
3 10 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.33%) Redis
6 3 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.33%) Metadata
7 2 (1.33%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.33%) phpMyAdmin
8 1 (0.67%) Power BI
8 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (14.00%) Git
2 2 (1.33%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.67%) JIRA
3 1 (0.67%) Postman
General
1 26 (17.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (4.67%) Finance
3 6 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.00%) Marketing
4 5 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (3.33%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.67%) Legal
6 3 (2.00%) Law
6 3 (2.00%) Publishing
7 1 (0.67%) Legal Technology
7 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (79.33%) Developer
2 60 (40.00%) Senior
3 51 (34.00%) Senior Developer
4 48 (32.00%) PHP Developer
5 24 (16.00%) Software Developer
6 16 (10.67%) Graduate
7 13 (8.67%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (8.67%) Software Engineer
8 10 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
9 9 (6.00%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
9 9 (6.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 8 (5.33%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 7 (4.67%) Graduate Developer
11 7 (4.67%) Graduate Software Developer
11 7 (4.67%) Senior PHP Developer
12 5 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.33%) Azure Software Engineer
12 5 (3.33%) C# Software Engineer
12 5 (3.33%) PHP Software Engineer
13 4 (2.67%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (42.00%) Laravel
2 27 (18.00%) HTML
3 20 (13.33%) CSS
4 16 (10.67%) React
5 13 (8.67%) REST
6 11 (7.33%) Node.js
6 11 (7.33%) Vue
7 9 (6.00%) .NET
8 7 (4.67%) HTML5
9 5 (3.33%) CSS3
9 5 (3.33%) React Native
9 5 (3.33%) Web Services
10 4 (2.67%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.67%) Bootstrap
10 4 (2.67%) jQuery
10 4 (2.67%) Symfony
10 4 (2.67%) XML
11 3 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.00%) RESTful
11 3 (2.00%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.33%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.67%) Educational Technology
3 4 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.00%) Linux
1 3 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (16.00%) Agile
3 21 (14.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (12.67%) Software Engineering
5 16 (10.67%) Clean Code
6 15 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 14 (9.33%) Secure Coding
8 13 (8.67%) Web Development
9 12 (8.00%) CI/CD
10 11 (7.33%) Mentoring
11 10 (6.67%) AI
11 10 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (6.67%) Data Protection
11 10 (6.67%) Front End Development
12 9 (6.00%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (6.00%) User Experience
13 7 (4.67%) Code Quality
13 7 (4.67%) Migration
13 7 (4.67%) Requirements Gathering
14 6 (4.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (28.67%) JavaScript
2 27 (18.00%) SQL
3 25 (16.67%) C#
4 15 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 14 (9.33%) Python
6 9 (6.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (5.33%) Degree
2 7 (4.67%) SC Cleared
2 7 (4.67%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.33%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.33%) QA
3 3 (2.00%) WCAG
4 1 (0.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (3.33%) Docker
2 3 (2.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (2.67%) Google
1 4 (2.67%) NEC
2 3 (2.00%) OpenAI
2 3 (2.00%) Sage
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.33%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.67%) Netlify