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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 122 131
Rank change year-on-year -89 +9 +34
Permanent jobs citing PHP 77 215 170
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.81% 1.73% 2.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.82% 6.45% 5.63%
Number of salaries quoted 60 120 158
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £33,675
25th Percentile £33,438 £32,500 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £43,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,875 £57,625 £70,375
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £53,250
% change year-on-year -10.00% -6.10% +1.43%

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 2,016 3,333 3,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.23% 26.79% 39.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,333 1,801 2,409
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 5 November 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 5 November 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
Yorkshire +1 39 £40,000 -11.11% 36
North West -76 33 £55,000 +22.22% 74
North East -9 5 £25,000 -41.18% 4
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 5 (6.49%) Anypoint
2 3 (3.90%) nginx
2 3 (3.90%) WordPress
3 2 (2.60%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.30%) Apache
4 1 (1.30%) Confluence
4 1 (1.30%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.30%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.30%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Magento
2 1 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (27.27%) AWS
2 20 (25.97%) Azure
3 5 (6.49%) Datadog
3 5 (6.49%) Entra ID
3 5 (6.49%) Power Automate
4 4 (5.19%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (5.19%) GCP
5 3 (3.90%) GitHub
6 2 (2.60%) Cloudflare
6 2 (2.60%) Google Analytics
6 2 (2.60%) SaaS
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.30%) IaaS
7 1 (1.30%) npm
7 1 (1.30%) PaaS
7 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.30%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) Stripe
7 1 (1.30%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (37.66%) MySQL
2 13 (16.88%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.79%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.90%) GIS
5 3 (3.90%) Redis
6 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (18.18%) Git
2 6 (7.79%) Postman
3 3 (3.90%) JIRA
4 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.30%) GitLab
5 1 (1.30%) Selenium
5 1 (1.30%) SoapUI
General
1 23 (29.87%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.29%) Law
3 10 (12.99%) Finance
4 3 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.90%) Mandarin Language
4 3 (3.90%) Marketing
5 2 (2.60%) Games
6 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (61.04%) Developer
2 18 (23.38%) PHP Developer
3 12 (15.58%) Graduate
4 9 (11.69%) Graduate Developer
4 9 (11.69%) IT Graduate
5 7 (9.09%) Integration Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Senior
5 7 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Software Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Applications Specialist
6 5 (6.49%) Applications Support
6 5 (6.49%) Applications Support Specialist
6 5 (6.49%) Lead
6 5 (6.49%) Support Specialist
7 4 (5.19%) Backend Developer
7 4 (5.19%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Lead Developer
8 3 (3.90%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (46.75%) HTML
2 31 (40.26%) CSS
3 18 (23.38%) .NET
3 18 (23.38%) Laravel
4 14 (18.18%) jQuery
5 10 (12.99%) ASP.NET
6 8 (10.39%) React
7 7 (9.09%) RESTful
8 6 (7.79%) CakePHP
9 5 (6.49%) CodeIgniter
9 5 (6.49%) JWT
9 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (6.49%) Node.js
9 5 (6.49%) OAuth
9 5 (6.49%) OpenAPI
9 5 (6.49%) RAML
9 5 (6.49%) REST
9 5 (6.49%) Swagger
9 5 (6.49%) Symfony
9 5 (6.49%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.60%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.30%) Animation
3 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.30%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.39%) Linux
2 4 (5.19%) Windows
3 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (33.77%) Agile
3 23 (29.87%) Computer Science
4 20 (25.97%) OO
5 17 (22.08%) AI
6 15 (19.48%) Machine Learning
6 15 (19.48%) MVC
7 13 (16.88%) Data Privacy
8 12 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (14.29%) OOP
9 11 (14.29%) Web Development
10 8 (10.39%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (10.39%) SDLC
10 8 (10.39%) Software Engineering
11 7 (9.09%) CI/CD
12 6 (7.79%) Clean Code
12 6 (7.79%) Containerisation
12 6 (7.79%) OO PHP
12 6 (7.79%) Project Management
13 5 (6.49%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 47 (61.04%) JavaScript
2 34 (44.16%) SQL
3 31 (40.26%) C#
4 30 (38.96%) Python
5 29 (37.66%) Java
6 22 (28.57%) C++
7 21 (27.27%) TypeScript
8 13 (16.88%) C
8 13 (16.88%) Dart
8 13 (16.88%) MATLAB
8 13 (16.88%) R
8 13 (16.88%) Ruby
8 13 (16.88%) Rust
9 5 (6.49%) DataWeave
10 1 (1.30%) Go
Qualifications
1 23 (29.87%) Computer Science Degree
1 23 (29.87%) Degree
2 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.49%) CloudHub
2 2 (2.60%) Ansible
2 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.30%) Argo
3 1 (1.30%) cPanel
3 1 (1.30%) Grafana
3 1 (1.30%) Plesk
3 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.49%) MuleSoft
3 4 (5.19%) Google
4 2 (2.60%) Adobe
4 2 (2.60%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.30%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle
5 1 (1.30%) PayPal
5 1 (1.30%) Salesforce