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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 86 129
Rank change year-on-year -91 +43 -48
Permanent jobs citing PHP 137 483 472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.25% 2.80% 2.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.99% 9.62% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 124 449 268
10th Percentile £27,075 £30,200 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £64,063 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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 2,746 5,022 7,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.06% 29.06% 42.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,907 4,152 3,649
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -82 79 £52,500 +5.00% 166
Yorkshire -50 42 £47,500 +1.06% 98
North East +40 16 £55,000 +22.22% 21
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 (6.57%) Apache
2 8 (5.84%) CMS
3 5 (3.65%) WordPress
4 3 (2.19%) nginx
5 1 (0.73%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.92%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (2.92%) Adobe Premiere
2 4 (2.92%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.46%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.73%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 10 (7.30%) Magento
1 10 (7.30%) Payment Gateway
2 9 (6.57%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.46%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.73%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 44 (32.12%) AWS
2 30 (21.90%) Azure
3 18 (13.14%) GCP
4 14 (10.22%) Serverless
5 11 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (7.30%) SaaS
7 9 (6.57%) GitHub
7 9 (6.57%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 6 (4.38%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.92%) AWS IoT
11 3 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.46%) Figma
12 2 (1.46%) Google Analytics
13 1 (0.73%) Datadog
13 1 (0.73%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.73%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.57%) Internet
2 5 (3.65%) DNS
3 3 (2.19%) HTTPS
3 3 (2.19%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.19%) VoIP
4 2 (1.46%) FTP
4 2 (1.46%) HTTP
4 2 (1.46%) LoRaWAN
4 2 (1.46%) MPLS
4 2 (1.46%) SSH
4 2 (1.46%) SSL
5 1 (0.73%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (50.36%) MySQL
2 24 (17.52%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.11%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.92%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.92%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.92%) TimescaleDB
6 3 (2.19%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.46%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.73%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.73%) GIS
8 1 (0.73%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.73%) Power BI
8 1 (0.73%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 19 (13.87%) Git
2 2 (1.46%) Selenium
3 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.73%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.73%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.73%) gulp
3 1 (0.73%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.73%) JIRA
3 1 (0.73%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.73%) Postman
3 1 (0.73%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.73%) webpack
General
1 53 (38.69%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.06%) Finance
2 22 (16.06%) Games
3 14 (10.22%) Marketing
4 8 (5.84%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (5.11%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.65%) Retail
7 4 (2.92%) Law
7 4 (2.92%) Legal
7 4 (2.92%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.19%) Back Office
8 3 (2.19%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.46%) Banking
9 2 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.46%) Retail Finance
10 1 (0.73%) Automotive
10 1 (0.73%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 76 (55.47%) Developer
2 50 (36.50%) Senior
3 40 (29.20%) PHP Developer
4 30 (21.90%) Senior Developer
5 24 (17.52%) Software Engineer
6 16 (11.68%) Senior Software Engineer
7 15 (10.95%) Senior PHP Developer
8 14 (10.22%) PHP Software Engineer
9 12 (8.76%) Lead
10 10 (7.30%) Graduate
10 10 (7.30%) Graduate Developer
10 10 (7.30%) Magento Developer
10 10 (7.30%) Senior Magento Developer
11 9 (6.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 9 (6.57%) Web Developer
12 8 (5.84%) IT Graduate
12 8 (5.84%) IT Support
13 6 (4.38%) PHP Web Developer
13 6 (4.38%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 6 (4.38%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (40.15%) CSS
2 52 (37.96%) Laravel
3 47 (34.31%) HTML
4 39 (28.47%) React
5 34 (24.82%) Vue
6 30 (21.90%) AngularJS
7 21 (15.33%) .NET
8 16 (11.68%) jQuery
9 14 (10.22%) LAMP
10 13 (9.49%) Symfony
11 11 (8.03%) XML
12 10 (7.30%) RESTful
13 8 (5.84%) ASP.NET
13 8 (5.84%) React Native
14 7 (5.11%) REST
15 6 (4.38%) Node.js
15 6 (4.38%) Tailwind CSS
15 6 (4.38%) WPF
16 4 (2.92%) NestJS
17 3 (2.19%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.57%) Renewable Energy
2 6 (4.38%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.92%) IoT
3 4 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.19%) Educational Technology
4 3 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.19%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (1.46%) CCTV
5 2 (1.46%) Life Science
5 2 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.46%) NHS
5 2 (1.46%) Replication
5 2 (1.46%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.73%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.73%) PropTech
6 1 (0.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.03%) Linux
2 8 (5.84%) Windows
3 5 (3.65%) Android
3 5 (3.65%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.46%) AIX
4 2 (1.46%) CentOS
4 2 (1.46%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (1.46%) Unix
5 1 (0.73%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (32.85%) Agile
2 43 (31.39%) Software Engineering
3 41 (29.93%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (23.36%) E-Commerce
5 24 (17.52%) OOP
6 22 (16.06%) User Experience
7 18 (13.14%) Computer Science
8 17 (12.41%) TDD
8 17 (12.41%) Web Development
9 16 (11.68%) MVC
10 14 (10.22%) DevOps
10 14 (10.22%) Mentoring
10 14 (10.22%) OO
11 13 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (9.49%) Test Automation
12 11 (8.03%) CI/CD
12 11 (8.03%) Clean Code
12 11 (8.03%) Code Quality
12 11 (8.03%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (8.03%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 73 (53.28%) JavaScript
2 28 (20.44%) SQL
3 19 (13.87%) Python
3 19 (13.87%) TypeScript
4 15 (10.95%) C#
5 14 (10.22%) Java
6 12 (8.76%) C++
7 8 (5.84%) Go
8 2 (1.46%) AWK
8 2 (1.46%) C
8 2 (1.46%) Korn
8 2 (1.46%) Perl
8 2 (1.46%) VB
9 1 (0.73%) Bash
9 1 (0.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (12.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 17 (12.41%) Degree
2 2 (1.46%) Chartered Engineer
2 2 (1.46%) DBS Check
2 2 (1.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.03%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.11%) QA
3 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.19%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (12.41%) Docker
2 2 (1.46%) KVM
2 2 (1.46%) Postfix
2 2 (1.46%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (5.84%) Terraform
2 3 (2.19%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.46%) Ansible
3 2 (1.46%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (1.46%) Grafana
3 2 (1.46%) Nagios
3 2 (1.46%) Nessus
3 2 (1.46%) Puppet
4 1 (0.73%) cPanel
Vendors
1 15 (10.95%) Adobe
1 15 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.57%) New Relic
3 6 (4.38%) SAP
4 5 (3.65%) Google
5 3 (2.19%) Sage
5 3 (2.19%) Twitter
6 2 (1.46%) Cisco
6 2 (1.46%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.46%) IBM
6 2 (1.46%) Oracle
6 2 (1.46%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.46%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.46%) Tenable
7 1 (0.73%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.73%) Zend