PHP Jobs in the North West

PHP
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 179 97 144
Rank change year-on-year -82 +47 -19
Permanent jobs citing PHP 79 237 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.04% 2.44% 2.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.20% 8.14% 5.74%
Number of salaries quoted 73 214 125
10th Percentile £30,050 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,063 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £69,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,881 2,911 3,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 24.83% 29.95% 40.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,190 2,371 1,779
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,825 £82,500 £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 West

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the North West

PHP
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for PHP in the North West

PHP
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for PHP in the North West

PHP
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 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 -6 55 £55,000 +10.00% 87
Lancashire -74 14 £40,000 -33.33% 16
Cheshire +6 6 £47,500 +5.56% 11
Merseyside +31 4 £29,250 -40.00% 15
PHP
England

PHP
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 9 (11.39%) Apache
2 5 (6.33%) WordPress
3 3 (3.80%) CMS
4 2 (2.53%) nginx
5 1 (1.27%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.27%) Magento
2 1 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.27%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 32 (40.51%) AWS
2 13 (16.46%) Azure
3 11 (13.92%) Serverless
4 10 (12.66%) GCP
5 8 (10.13%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (7.59%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (5.06%) AWS IoT
8 4 (5.06%) SaaS
9 3 (3.80%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.80%) GitHub
10 2 (2.53%) Google Analytics
10 2 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.27%) Datadog
11 1 (1.27%) Google Workspace
11 1 (1.27%) PaaS
11 1 (1.27%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.27%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) DNS
2 3 (3.80%) HTTPS
2 3 (3.80%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.80%) VoIP
3 2 (2.53%) FTP
3 2 (2.53%) HTTP
3 2 (2.53%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (2.53%) MPLS
3 2 (2.53%) SSH
3 2 (2.53%) SSL
4 1 (1.27%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (49.37%) MySQL
2 10 (12.66%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.06%) TimescaleDB
5 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.53%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.27%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.27%) GIS
7 1 (1.27%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.27%) Power BI
7 1 (1.27%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (17.72%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) Selenium
3 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.27%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.27%) JIRA
3 1 (1.27%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.27%) Postman
3 1 (1.27%) SoapUI
General
1 27 (34.18%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.66%) Finance
3 9 (11.39%) Games
4 7 (8.86%) Manufacturing
4 7 (8.86%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (6.33%) Marketing
6 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Legal
6 3 (3.80%) Retail
6 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.53%) Banking
7 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.53%) Law
7 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.53%) Retail Finance
8 1 (1.27%) Automotive
8 1 (1.27%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 42 (53.16%) Developer
2 31 (39.24%) PHP Developer
3 20 (25.32%) Senior
4 14 (17.72%) Software Engineer
5 11 (13.92%) Lead
5 11 (13.92%) Senior Developer
6 10 (12.66%) Senior PHP Developer
7 8 (10.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 8 (10.13%) Web Developer
8 7 (8.86%) IT Support
8 7 (8.86%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (7.59%) PHP Web Developer
9 6 (7.59%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 5 (6.33%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (6.33%) PHP Software Engineer
10 5 (6.33%) SQL Developer
11 4 (5.06%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
11 4 (5.06%) Team Leader
12 3 (3.80%) Software Team Leader
12 3 (3.80%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (35.44%) Laravel
2 26 (32.91%) CSS
2 26 (32.91%) React
3 24 (30.38%) AngularJS
4 22 (27.85%) Vue
5 21 (26.58%) HTML
6 10 (12.66%) RESTful
7 9 (11.39%) jQuery
7 9 (11.39%) LAMP
8 7 (8.86%) .NET
8 7 (8.86%) Symfony
9 6 (7.59%) Node.js
9 6 (7.59%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (5.06%) NestJS
11 3 (3.80%) Bootstrap
11 3 (3.80%) EDI
11 3 (3.80%) Serverless Framework
12 2 (2.53%) ASP.NET
12 2 (2.53%) Django
12 2 (2.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.39%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (5.06%) IoT
2 4 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.53%) CCTV
4 2 (2.53%) Life Science
4 2 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.53%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.53%) Replication
5 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.27%) PropTech
5 1 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.66%) Linux
2 7 (8.86%) Windows
3 5 (6.33%) Android
3 5 (6.33%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.53%) AIX
4 2 (2.53%) CentOS
4 2 (2.53%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.71%) Software Engineering
2 27 (34.18%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (22.78%) Agile
4 13 (16.46%) OOP
4 13 (16.46%) User Experience
5 12 (15.19%) TDD
6 11 (13.92%) CI/CD
6 11 (13.92%) Code Quality
6 11 (13.92%) Test Automation
6 11 (13.92%) Web Development
7 10 (12.66%) E-Commerce
8 9 (11.39%) Coaching
8 9 (11.39%) Computer Science
9 8 (10.13%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (10.13%) Market Research
9 8 (10.13%) Mentoring
9 8 (10.13%) Open Source
10 7 (8.86%) DevOps
10 7 (8.86%) Fintech
11 6 (7.59%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 47 (59.49%) JavaScript
2 20 (25.32%) SQL
3 17 (21.52%) Python
4 16 (20.25%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.86%) Go
5 7 (8.86%) Java
6 6 (7.59%) C++
7 4 (5.06%) C#
8 2 (2.53%) AWK
8 2 (2.53%) C
8 2 (2.53%) Korn
8 2 (2.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (10.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (10.13%) Degree
2 2 (2.53%) Chartered Engineer
2 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.53%) QA
System Software
1 8 (10.13%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) KVM
2 2 (2.53%) Postfix
2 2 (2.53%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 8 (10.13%) Terraform
2 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.53%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (2.53%) Grafana
3 2 (2.53%) Nagios
3 2 (2.53%) Nessus
3 2 (2.53%) Puppet
4 1 (1.27%) Ansible
4 1 (1.27%) cPanel
Vendors
1 11 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.59%) SAP
3 5 (6.33%) Google
4 3 (3.80%) Sage
4 3 (3.80%) Twitter
5 2 (2.53%) Cisco
5 2 (2.53%) IBM
5 2 (2.53%) Oracle
5 2 (2.53%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.53%) Tenable
6 1 (1.27%) Zend