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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 163 77
Rank change year-on-year -14 -86 +35
Permanent jobs citing PHP 160 140 489
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.83% 1.77% 2.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.21% 5.26% 9.91%
Number of salaries quoted 154 118 452
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £30,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,563 £38,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,188 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,625 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,157 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.31% +0.31% -9.09%

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 3,069 2,660 4,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.93% 33.60% 28.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,230 1,426 4,180
10th Percentile £34,500 £31,599 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +4.67% -2.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +6 95 £50,000 +5.26% 27
North West -16 58 £45,000 -14.29% 16
North East -47 7 £45,000 -18.18% 3
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 10 (6.25%) WordPress
2 5 (3.13%) CMS
3 1 (0.63%) Apache
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.63%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (6.88%) Magento
2 2 (1.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (27.50%) AWS
2 37 (23.13%) Azure
3 7 (4.38%) SaaS
4 6 (3.75%) Figma
5 5 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (3.13%) GCP
5 5 (3.13%) Serverless
6 4 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.88%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.25%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.63%) Asana
9 1 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.63%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.63%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.63%) Vercel
9 1 (0.63%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (22.50%) MySQL
2 16 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.63%) MariaDB
4 8 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.50%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.25%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (11.25%) Git
2 7 (4.38%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.63%) JIRA
3 1 (0.63%) Postman
General
1 12 (7.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.25%) Finance
3 4 (2.50%) Marketing
4 3 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (1.88%) Health Technology
4 3 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (1.25%) Law
5 2 (1.25%) Legal
5 2 (1.25%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.25%) Retail
6 1 (0.63%) Billing
6 1 (0.63%) Games
6 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 130 (81.25%) Developer
2 78 (48.75%) PHP Developer
3 54 (33.75%) Senior
4 52 (32.50%) Senior Developer
5 30 (18.75%) Software Developer
6 26 (16.25%) Senior PHP Developer
7 17 (10.63%) Software Engineer
8 15 (9.38%) Graduate
8 15 (9.38%) Graduate Developer
8 15 (9.38%) Graduate Software Developer
9 14 (8.75%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (6.25%) C# Developer
10 10 (6.25%) C# Software Developer
10 10 (6.25%) Graduate C# Developer
10 10 (6.25%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 9 (5.63%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 9 (5.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (5.63%) Senior Software Developer
12 8 (5.00%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
12 8 (5.00%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (30.63%) Laravel
2 23 (14.38%) CSS
3 22 (13.75%) HTML
4 16 (10.00%) React
5 11 (6.88%) Symfony
6 9 (5.63%) Vue
7 8 (5.00%) RESTful
8 7 (4.38%) .NET
8 7 (4.38%) REST
9 6 (3.75%) jQuery
10 5 (3.13%) React Native
11 3 (1.88%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.88%) HTML5
11 3 (1.88%) Node.js
12 2 (1.25%) AngularJS
12 2 (1.25%) ASP.NET
12 2 (1.25%) Bootstrap
12 2 (1.25%) CodeIgniter
12 2 (1.25%) CSS3
12 2 (1.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.88%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.88%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.88%) Robotics
4 2 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.25%) Legacy Code
4 2 (1.25%) NHS
4 2 (1.25%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.63%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.63%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.13%) Linux
2 2 (1.25%) Windows
3 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (15.63%) Agile
2 22 (13.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 19 (11.88%) Clean Code
3 19 (11.88%) Software Engineering
4 16 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 16 (10.00%) Microservices
5 14 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (8.13%) Web Development
7 12 (7.50%) Mentoring
8 11 (6.88%) Secure Coding
9 10 (6.25%) CI/CD
9 10 (6.25%) Containerisation
10 9 (5.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (5.63%) Data Protection
10 9 (5.63%) MVC
11 8 (5.00%) E-Commerce
11 8 (5.00%) OO
12 7 (4.38%) Migration
13 6 (3.75%) Front End Development
13 6 (3.75%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (26.25%) JavaScript
2 24 (15.00%) C#
3 18 (11.25%) SQL
4 13 (8.13%) TypeScript
5 7 (4.38%) Python
6 3 (1.88%) Java
7 2 (1.25%) C++
8 1 (0.63%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 11 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (6.88%) Degree
2 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.88%) QA
System Software
1 7 (4.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (6.88%) Adobe
2 5 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.63%) Google
3 1 (0.63%) Netlify
3 1 (0.63%) Sage