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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 107 90
Rank change year-on-year -85 -17 +91
Permanent jobs citing PHP 84 189 355
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.71% 2.21% 2.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.54% 7.60% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 79 108 333
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,125 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,750 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +5.98% -3.16%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 1,850 2,487 4,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.72% 29.14% 33.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,423 1,329 3,474
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,800 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 2 February 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 2 February 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
North West -49 44 £50,000 +5.26% 31
Yorkshire -29 36 £50,000 +5.26% 29
North East -21 4 £70,000 +27.27% 7
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 3 (3.57%) nginx
1 3 (3.57%) WordPress
2 2 (2.38%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.19%) Apache
3 1 (1.19%) CMS
Business Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Magento
2 1 (1.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.48%) Azure
2 32 (38.10%) AWS
3 7 (8.33%) GCP
4 5 (5.95%) Entra ID
4 5 (5.95%) Power Automate
4 5 (5.95%) SaaS
5 3 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.38%) Serverless
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.19%) IaaS
7 1 (1.19%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.19%) PaaS
7 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (29.76%) MySQL
2 10 (11.90%) SQL Server
3 7 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.38%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.38%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.19%) GitLab
3 1 (1.19%) Postman
3 1 (1.19%) Selenium
3 1 (1.19%) SoapUI
General
1 9 (10.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.52%) Finance
3 6 (7.14%) Marketing
4 3 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.57%) Law
5 2 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Games
6 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (72.62%) Developer
2 42 (50.00%) PHP Developer
3 18 (21.43%) Senior
3 18 (21.43%) Senior Developer
4 15 (17.86%) Senior PHP Developer
5 13 (15.48%) Software Engineer
6 9 (10.71%) Graduate
6 9 (10.71%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 7 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (8.33%) Software Developer
8 6 (7.14%) Graduate Developer
9 5 (5.95%) Applications Specialist
9 5 (5.95%) Applications Support
9 5 (5.95%) Applications Support Specialist
9 5 (5.95%) Support Specialist
10 4 (4.76%) IT Graduate
10 4 (4.76%) Lead
10 4 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.57%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 3 (3.57%) PHP Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (33.33%) Laravel
2 22 (26.19%) CSS
3 18 (21.43%) HTML
4 17 (20.24%) .NET
5 13 (15.48%) React
6 8 (9.52%) jQuery
7 6 (7.14%) ASP.NET
7 6 (7.14%) REST
7 6 (7.14%) Symfony
8 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (5.95%) RESTful
9 4 (4.76%) Node.js
9 4 (4.76%) Vue
10 3 (3.57%) CodeIgniter
11 2 (2.38%) .NET Framework
11 2 (2.38%) AngularJS
11 2 (2.38%) CakePHP
12 1 (1.19%) CSS3
12 1 (1.19%) HTML5
12 1 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.95%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.76%) NHS
3 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.38%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.19%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.52%) Linux
2 4 (4.76%) Windows
3 3 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (21.43%) Software Engineering
3 13 (15.48%) Agile
4 10 (11.90%) CI/CD
4 10 (11.90%) OO
4 10 (11.90%) Web Development
5 9 (10.71%) Containerisation
5 9 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (10.71%) MVC
6 7 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 7 (8.33%) Microservices
7 6 (7.14%) Clean Code
7 6 (7.14%) Computer Science
8 5 (5.95%) DevOps
8 5 (5.95%) Integrated Marketing
8 5 (5.95%) OOP
8 5 (5.95%) Robotic Process Automation
8 5 (5.95%) SDLC
9 4 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 28 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 21 (25.00%) C#
3 16 (19.05%) SQL
4 13 (15.48%) Python
5 11 (13.10%) Java
6 5 (5.95%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.76%) C++
8 1 (1.19%) Delphi
8 1 (1.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (5.95%) Degree
2 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.38%) QA
2 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (11.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.57%) cPanel
1 3 (3.57%) Plesk
2 2 (2.38%) Ansible
2 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.19%) Argo
3 1 (1.19%) Grafana
3 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (14.29%) Adobe
2 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.19%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.19%) Google
3 1 (1.19%) HubSpot
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle