PHP Developer Jobs in the North West

PHP Developer
England > North West

The median PHP Developer salary in the North West is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 177 220
Rank change year-on-year -49 +43 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 31 114 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 1.17% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 1.24% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 29 107 41
10th Percentile £36,600 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -11.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £59,375 £57,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £66,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 6,852 9,205 7,037
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.71% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,054 7,083 4,090
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,620 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £68,938
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,700 £81,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the North West

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in the North West.

Salary trend for PHP Developer in the North West

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the North West

PHP Developer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the North West 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
Manchester +12 17 £52,500 +5.00% 22
Lancashire - 9 £40,000 - 6
Cheshire +11 3 £47,500 +5.56% 1
Merseyside +39 2 £33,500 -33.00% 1
PHP Developer
England

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) PHP
2 22 (70.97%) JavaScript
3 17 (54.84%) MySQL
4 15 (48.39%) CSS
5 12 (38.71%) React
6 11 (35.48%) AWS
6 11 (35.48%) HTML
7 10 (32.26%) OOP
8 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
8 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (25.81%) Laravel
9 8 (25.81%) GCP
9 8 (25.81%) jQuery
9 8 (25.81%) E-Commerce
10 7 (22.58%) Apache
10 7 (22.58%) Finance
10 7 (22.58%) Git
10 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
10 7 (22.58%) Software Engineering
10 7 (22.58%) LAMP
10 7 (22.58%) AngularJS
10 7 (22.58%) Vue
11 6 (19.35%) SOLID
11 6 (19.35%) Tailwind CSS
11 6 (19.35%) Project Delivery
11 6 (19.35%) Code Quality
11 6 (19.35%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (19.35%) Games
11 6 (19.35%) Web Development
11 6 (19.35%) Symfony

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (22.58%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Magento
1 1 (3.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (35.48%) AWS
2 8 (25.81%) GCP
3 4 (12.90%) SaaS
4 3 (9.68%) GitHub
5 1 (3.23%) Azure
5 1 (3.23%) Datadog
5 1 (3.23%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (54.84%) MySQL
2 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.23%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) PHPUnit
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Finance
3 6 (19.35%) Games
3 6 (19.35%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Automotive
4 1 (3.23%) Law
4 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.23%) Marketing
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (48.39%) CSS
2 12 (38.71%) React
3 11 (35.48%) HTML
4 8 (25.81%) jQuery
4 8 (25.81%) Laravel
5 7 (22.58%) AngularJS
5 7 (22.58%) LAMP
5 7 (22.58%) Vue
6 6 (19.35%) Symfony
6 6 (19.35%) Tailwind CSS
7 5 (16.13%) RESTful
8 3 (9.68%) Bootstrap
9 2 (6.45%) LEMP Stack
10 1 (3.23%) .NET
10 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
10 1 (3.23%) Flutter
10 1 (3.23%) Middleware
10 1 (3.23%) Next.js
10 1 (3.23%) Playwright
10 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (9.68%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Linux
1 6 (19.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) OOP
2 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (25.81%) E-Commerce
4 7 (22.58%) Software Engineering
4 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
5 6 (19.35%) Code Quality
5 6 (19.35%) Project Delivery
5 6 (19.35%) Regression Testing
5 6 (19.35%) SOLID
5 6 (19.35%) Web Development
6 5 (16.13%) Agile
6 5 (16.13%) Clean Code
6 5 (16.13%) Computer Science
6 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (12.90%) API Integration
7 4 (12.90%) OO
7 4 (12.90%) TDD
8 3 (9.68%) ERP
8 3 (9.68%) MVC
9 2 (6.45%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) PHP
2 22 (70.97%) JavaScript
3 6 (19.35%) SQL
4 2 (6.45%) Python
5 1 (3.23%) C#
5 1 (3.23%) C++
5 1 (3.23%) Java
5 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) Sage
2 3 (9.68%) SAP
2 3 (9.68%) Twitter
3 2 (6.45%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) Zend