PHP Job Trends in Northern Ireland

PHP
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 37 50
Rank change year-on-year -32 +13 +9
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1 4 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.12% 1.32% 1.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.56% 5.56% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 £82,500 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £85,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +109.88% -29.57%
75th Percentile £52,500 £87,500 £69,063
90th Percentile - - £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 64 72 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 7.94% 23.84% 42.79%
Number of salaries quoted 35 28 159
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £62,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £90,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +56.52% +15.00%
75th Percentile £81,875 £96,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,000 £103,250 £91,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

PHP job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

PHP
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing PHP

PHP
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 9 March 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
County Antrim -20 1 £50,000 -41.18% 1
PHP
UK

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) RedGate