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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 203 108
Rank change year-on-year +15 -95 +47
Permanent jobs citing PHP 177 105 312
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.78% 1.10% 2.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.91% 3.97% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 165 87 252
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.55% +3.68%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 3,604 2,644 3,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.86% 27.69% 25.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,750 1,385 2,834
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £34,825
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,751 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +23 111 £50,000 +33.33% 8
North West -17 57 £45,000 -18.18% 9
North East -53 9 £31,000 +24.00% 5
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 16 (9.04%) WordPress
2 8 (4.52%) CMS
3 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.13%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 4 (2.26%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.56%) Magento
2 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (19.77%) AWS
2 31 (17.51%) Azure
3 9 (5.08%) SaaS
4 5 (2.82%) Figma
4 5 (2.82%) Serverless
5 4 (2.26%) GitHub
6 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.69%) Stripe
7 2 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.13%) npm
7 2 (1.13%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.56%) GCP
8 1 (0.56%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.56%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.56%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (22.03%) MySQL
2 14 (7.91%) SQL Server
3 13 (7.34%) MariaDB
4 7 (3.95%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.82%) Redis
6 3 (1.69%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.13%) Metadata
7 2 (1.13%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.13%) phpMyAdmin
8 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.56%) Power BI
8 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (14.12%) Git
2 4 (2.26%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.56%) JIRA
3 1 (0.56%) Postman
General
1 29 (16.38%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.21%) Finance
3 7 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.39%) Marketing
5 5 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.82%) Legal
5 5 (2.82%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.26%) Law
7 3 (1.69%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.69%) Publishing
8 1 (0.56%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.56%) Retail
8 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 139 (78.53%) Developer
2 69 (38.98%) Senior
3 60 (33.90%) Senior Developer
4 58 (32.77%) PHP Developer
5 30 (16.95%) Software Developer
6 22 (12.43%) Graduate
7 16 (9.04%) Software Engineer
8 14 (7.91%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (7.34%) Graduate Developer
9 13 (7.34%) Graduate Software Developer
10 12 (6.78%) Senior PHP Developer
11 10 (5.65%) Senior Software Developer
12 9 (5.08%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
12 9 (5.08%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 9 (5.08%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 8 (4.52%) C# Developer
13 8 (4.52%) C# Software Developer
13 8 (4.52%) Graduate C# Developer
13 8 (4.52%) Graduate C# Software Developer
14 6 (3.39%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (38.42%) Laravel
2 32 (18.08%) HTML
3 26 (14.69%) CSS
4 17 (9.60%) React
5 15 (8.47%) Vue
6 13 (7.34%) REST
7 11 (6.21%) Node.js
8 9 (5.08%) .NET
9 7 (3.95%) HTML5
10 6 (3.39%) jQuery
10 6 (3.39%) Web Services
11 5 (2.82%) CSS3
11 5 (2.82%) React Native
11 5 (2.82%) Symfony
12 4 (2.26%) AngularJS
12 4 (2.26%) Bootstrap
12 4 (2.26%) XML
13 3 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (1.69%) RESTful
13 3 (1.69%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.78%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (2.82%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.82%) Educational Technology
2 5 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.69%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.69%) Robotics
5 2 (1.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.13%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.26%) Windows
2 3 (1.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (18.64%) Agile
2 32 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (12.99%) Full-Stack Development
4 22 (12.43%) Software Engineering
5 21 (11.86%) Computer Science
6 19 (10.73%) Clean Code
7 14 (7.91%) Mentoring
7 14 (7.91%) Secure Coding
7 14 (7.91%) Web Development
8 12 (6.78%) CI/CD
9 11 (6.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (5.65%) Data Protection
10 10 (5.65%) Front End Development
10 10 (5.65%) Microservices
11 9 (5.08%) AI
11 9 (5.08%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (5.08%) User Experience
12 8 (4.52%) OO
13 7 (3.95%) Migration
13 7 (3.95%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 46 (25.99%) JavaScript
2 32 (18.08%) SQL
3 31 (17.51%) C#
4 16 (9.04%) Python
5 15 (8.47%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.21%) Java
7 2 (1.13%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (6.78%) Degree
2 10 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.95%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.95%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.52%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.39%) QA
3 3 (1.69%) WCAG
4 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (2.82%) Docker
2 4 (2.26%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (2.26%) Google
1 4 (2.26%) Microsoft
1 4 (2.26%) NEC
1 4 (2.26%) Sage
2 3 (1.69%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.13%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.56%) Netlify