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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 98 134
Rank change year-on-year -123 +36 -4
Permanent jobs citing PHP 70 264 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.92% 2.28% 2.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.11% 8.13% 7.00%
Number of salaries quoted 62 232 129
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £37,050
25th Percentile £40,938 £40,000 £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 £66,875 £61,563 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £50,157 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.31% -9.09% +4.76%

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 2,254 3,247 2,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 29.66% 28.07% 38.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 2,555 1,697
10th Percentile £35,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.08% +0.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -29 52 £55,000 +12.82% 258
Lancashire -82 9 £40,000 -33.33% 41
Merseyside +31 5 £52,500 +7.69% 36
Cheshire -30 3 £50,750 +12.78% 94
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 (12.86%) Apache
2 4 (5.71%) WordPress
3 3 (4.29%) nginx
4 2 (2.86%) CMS
5 1 (1.43%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.43%) Confluence
5 1 (1.43%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Magento
1 1 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.43%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 28 (40.00%) AWS
2 11 (15.71%) Serverless
3 10 (14.29%) Azure
4 9 (12.86%) GCP
5 8 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (8.57%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (5.71%) AWS IoT
9 3 (4.29%) Google Analytics
10 2 (2.86%) GitHub
10 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.86%) SaaS
11 1 (1.43%) Datadog
11 1 (1.43%) PaaS
11 1 (1.43%) Stripe
11 1 (1.43%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) DNS
1 3 (4.29%) TCP/IP
1 3 (4.29%) VoIP
2 2 (2.86%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (2.86%) MPLS
3 1 (1.43%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.43%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (40.00%) MySQL
2 6 (8.57%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.71%) GIS
4 4 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.71%) TimescaleDB
5 3 (4.29%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.29%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.86%) Power BI
6 2 (2.86%) Redis
6 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.43%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (15.71%) Git
2 2 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.43%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.43%) Postman
3 1 (1.43%) Selenium
3 1 (1.43%) SoapUI
General
1 23 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.71%) Finance
3 7 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (8.57%) Games
5 5 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.29%) Mandarin Language
6 3 (4.29%) Marketing
6 3 (4.29%) Retail
6 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Banking
7 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.86%) Law
7 2 (2.86%) Legal
7 2 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.86%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 36 (51.43%) Developer
2 24 (34.29%) PHP Developer
3 17 (24.29%) Senior
4 12 (17.14%) Senior Developer
5 10 (14.29%) Lead
6 8 (11.43%) Software Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) IT Support
7 6 (8.57%) Senior PHP Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (7.14%) PHP Web Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 5 (7.14%) SQL Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Web Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Team Leader
10 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
10 3 (4.29%) PHP Software Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Software Engineering Team Leader
10 3 (4.29%) Software Team Leader
10 3 (4.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.14%) HTML
1 19 (27.14%) Laravel
2 18 (25.71%) CSS
3 17 (24.29%) AngularJS
3 17 (24.29%) Vue
4 15 (21.43%) React
5 8 (11.43%) jQuery
6 7 (10.00%) LAMP
7 6 (8.57%) Node.js
7 6 (8.57%) RESTful
7 6 (8.57%) Symfony
8 4 (5.71%) .NET
8 4 (5.71%) NestJS
9 3 (4.29%) ASP.NET
9 3 (4.29%) Bootstrap
9 3 (4.29%) REST
9 3 (4.29%) Serverless Framework
9 3 (4.29%) Tailwind CSS
10 2 (2.86%) Django
10 2 (2.86%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (5.71%) IoT
2 4 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.86%) CCTV
3 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.43%) Animation
4 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.86%) Linux
2 7 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.86%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 13 (18.57%) Agile
3 13 (18.57%) CI/CD
3 13 (18.57%) Computer Science
4 11 (15.71%) Code Quality
4 11 (15.71%) OOP
4 11 (15.71%) Web Development
5 10 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 9 (12.86%) E-Commerce
6 9 (12.86%) Test Automation
6 9 (12.86%) User Experience
7 8 (11.43%) Machine Learning
7 8 (11.43%) Market Research
7 8 (11.43%) Open Source
8 7 (10.00%) Analytics
8 7 (10.00%) Coaching
8 7 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
8 7 (10.00%) Visualisation
9 6 (8.57%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 45 (64.29%) JavaScript
2 26 (37.14%) SQL
3 20 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 18 (25.71%) Python
5 11 (15.71%) Java
6 9 (12.86%) C#
7 8 (11.43%) C++
8 6 (8.57%) Go
9 4 (5.71%) C
9 4 (5.71%) Dart
9 4 (5.71%) MATLAB
9 4 (5.71%) R
9 4 (5.71%) Ruby
9 4 (5.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (17.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (17.14%) Degree
2 2 (2.86%) Chartered Engineer
2 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (1.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (11.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (11.43%) Terraform
2 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.86%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (2.86%) Puppet
4 1 (1.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.71%) Google
3 3 (4.29%) SAP
3 3 (4.29%) Twitter
4 2 (2.86%) Cisco
4 2 (2.86%) Sage
5 1 (1.43%) PayPal
5 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.43%) Zend
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