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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 86 113
Rank change year-on-year -136 +27 -23
Permanent jobs citing PHP 127 497 448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.99% 2.52% 3.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.12% 9.09% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 105 449 255
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £68,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £54,250
% change year-on-year - -7.83% +3.33%

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 3,086 5,468 5,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.12% 27.68% 37.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,716 4,328 3,356
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -112 72 £52,500 +5.00% 226
Yorkshire -65 42 £37,500 -16.67% 102
North East +28 13 £26,750 -37.06% 15
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 9 (7.09%) Apache
2 7 (5.51%) CMS
3 4 (3.15%) WordPress
4 2 (1.57%) nginx
5 1 (0.79%) Confluence
5 1 (0.79%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.15%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (3.15%) Adobe Premiere
2 4 (3.15%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.79%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 7 (5.51%) Magento
1 7 (5.51%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (4.72%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.79%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 36 (28.35%) AWS
2 24 (18.90%) Azure
3 14 (11.02%) GCP
4 13 (10.24%) Serverless
5 10 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (4.72%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (4.72%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 5 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (3.94%) GitHub
7 5 (3.94%) SaaS
8 4 (3.15%) AWS IoT
9 3 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.36%) Google Analytics
9 3 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.57%) npm
10 2 (1.57%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.79%) PaaS
11 1 (0.79%) Stripe
11 1 (0.79%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.72%) Internet
2 3 (2.36%) VoIP
3 2 (1.57%) DNS
3 2 (1.57%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (1.57%) MPLS
3 2 (1.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (45.67%) MySQL
2 19 (14.96%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.30%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.15%) GIS
5 4 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.15%) TimescaleDB
6 3 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.36%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.36%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.57%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.57%) Power BI
7 2 (1.57%) Redis
8 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.79%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 19 (14.96%) Git
2 3 (2.36%) JIRA
3 2 (1.57%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.57%) Postman
3 2 (1.57%) Selenium
3 2 (1.57%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.79%) gulp
4 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.79%) PHPUnit
4 1 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 46 (36.22%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.90%) Finance
3 11 (8.66%) Games
4 9 (7.09%) Marketing
5 8 (6.30%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.51%) Law
7 5 (3.94%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.36%) Back Office
8 3 (2.36%) Mandarin Language
8 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.57%) Legal
9 2 (1.57%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.57%) Retail
10 1 (0.79%) Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 67 (52.76%) Developer
2 35 (27.56%) PHP Developer
3 32 (25.20%) Senior
4 21 (16.54%) Senior Developer
5 13 (10.24%) Graduate
5 13 (10.24%) Graduate Developer
5 13 (10.24%) IT Graduate
5 13 (10.24%) Software Engineer
6 11 (8.66%) Lead
7 9 (7.09%) Senior PHP Developer
8 8 (6.30%) SQL Developer
9 7 (5.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 7 (5.51%) PHP Software Engineer
9 7 (5.51%) Web Developer
10 6 (4.72%) IT Support
10 6 (4.72%) Magento Developer
10 6 (4.72%) Senior Magento Developer
10 6 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (3.94%) C# Developer
11 5 (3.94%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (43.31%) HTML
2 53 (41.73%) CSS
3 35 (27.56%) Laravel
4 22 (17.32%) React
4 22 (17.32%) Vue
5 21 (16.54%) jQuery
6 17 (13.39%) AngularJS
7 15 (11.81%) .NET
8 14 (11.02%) ASP.NET
8 14 (11.02%) Symfony
9 10 (7.87%) LAMP
10 8 (6.30%) REST
10 8 (6.30%) RESTful
11 7 (5.51%) XML
12 6 (4.72%) Node.js
13 4 (3.15%) CakePHP
13 4 (3.15%) HTML5
13 4 (3.15%) NestJS
14 3 (2.36%) Playwright
14 3 (2.36%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.51%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (3.15%) IoT
2 4 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.36%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.36%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.36%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (1.57%) CCTV
4 2 (1.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.57%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.57%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.79%) Animation
5 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.79%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.66%) Linux
2 7 (5.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (31.50%) Agile
2 37 (29.13%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (26.77%) Computer Science
4 28 (22.05%) Software Engineering
5 26 (20.47%) OOP
6 23 (18.11%) OO
7 21 (16.54%) MVC
8 19 (14.96%) E-Commerce
9 17 (13.39%) Machine Learning
9 17 (13.39%) User Experience
10 16 (12.60%) Web Development
11 15 (11.81%) Artificial Intelligence
11 15 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (11.02%) Code Quality
13 13 (10.24%) Data Privacy
14 12 (9.45%) Full-Stack Development
14 12 (9.45%) Mentoring
14 12 (9.45%) Test Automation
15 11 (8.66%) Analytics
15 11 (8.66%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 78 (61.42%) JavaScript
2 44 (34.65%) SQL
3 35 (27.56%) TypeScript
4 31 (24.41%) Java
5 29 (22.83%) C#
6 28 (22.05%) C++
7 27 (21.26%) Python
8 13 (10.24%) C
8 13 (10.24%) Dart
8 13 (10.24%) MATLAB
8 13 (10.24%) R
8 13 (10.24%) Ruby
8 13 (10.24%) Rust
9 7 (5.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (25.98%) Computer Science Degree
1 33 (25.98%) Degree
2 2 (1.57%) Chartered Engineer
2 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.87%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.72%) QA
3 3 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.36%) SLA
4 1 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (11.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.51%) Terraform
2 2 (1.57%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (1.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (11.02%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.87%) Adobe
3 6 (4.72%) New Relic
4 4 (3.15%) Google
5 3 (2.36%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.36%) SAP
5 3 (2.36%) Twitter
6 2 (1.57%) Cisco
6 2 (1.57%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.57%) Sage
7 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.79%) PayPal
7 1 (0.79%) Zend