PHP Developer Job Trends in the North West

PHP Developer
England > North West

The median PHP Developer salary in the North West is £39,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 156 144
Rank change year-on-year -9 -12 +144
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 16 63 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.26% 1.18% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 1.27% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 14 46 29
10th Percentile £31,625 £32,500 £34,900
25th Percentile £34,500 £32,625 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.59% -7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £57,188 £56,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £62,500 - £62,500
England median annual salary £42,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - +0.96%

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 5,203 4,955 3,333
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.87% 93.00% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,777 2,644 2,565
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,652 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -7.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,897 £65,281 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'PHP Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

PHP Developer job vacancy trend in the North West

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for PHP Developer job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for PHP Developer job vacancies 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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +6 13 £37,500 -28.57% 8
Lancashire +10 2 £38,250 -15.00% 7
Merseyside -5 1 £45,000 +34.33%
PHP Developer
England

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) PHP
2 11 (68.75%) MySQL
3 9 (56.25%) CSS
3 9 (56.25%) HTML
3 9 (56.25%) JavaScript
3 9 (56.25%) Laravel
4 8 (50.00%) Git
5 7 (43.75%) Azure
6 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (37.50%) React
7 5 (31.25%) AWS
7 5 (31.25%) Clean Code
7 5 (31.25%) GCP
8 4 (25.00%) Docker
8 4 (25.00%) jQuery
8 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
9 3 (18.75%) Analytics
9 3 (18.75%) C#
9 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Culture
9 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
9 3 (18.75%) cPanel
9 3 (18.75%) Integrated Marketing
9 3 (18.75%) MVC
9 3 (18.75%) nginx
9 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (18.75%) Plesk
9 3 (18.75%) Web Development
9 3 (18.75%) WordPress
10 2 (12.50%) .NET

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (18.75%) nginx
1 3 (18.75%) WordPress
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (6.25%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (6.25%) Adobe XD
1 1 (6.25%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Cloudflare
3 2 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) Redis
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) PHPUnit
General
1 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (18.75%) Marketing
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Games
3 1 (6.25%) Mandarin Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) CSS
1 9 (56.25%) HTML
1 9 (56.25%) Laravel
2 6 (37.50%) React
3 4 (25.00%) jQuery
4 2 (12.50%) .NET
4 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 2 (12.50%) REST
5 1 (6.25%) Alpine.js
5 1 (6.25%) CodeIgniter
5 1 (6.25%) CSS3
5 1 (6.25%) Electron
5 1 (6.25%) LAMP
5 1 (6.25%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (6.25%) RESTful
5 1 (6.25%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (6.25%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (6.25%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (6.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) NHS
2 1 (6.25%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Clean Code
3 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 3 (18.75%) Integrated Marketing
4 3 (18.75%) MVC
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (18.75%) Web Development
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) API Integration
5 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) User Experience
6 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
6 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (6.25%) Performance Analysis
6 1 (6.25%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) PHP
2 9 (56.25%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) cPanel
1 3 (18.75%) Plesk
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Adobe
1 2 (12.50%) Google
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) HubSpot