The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 51 27 35
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +8
Permanent jobs citing PHP 112 157 103
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 4.265% 7.441% 5.700%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.624% 13.16% 9.904%
Number of salaries quoted 89 145 89
Average salary £29,000 £31,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.93% +5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £31,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +5.00%
All Programming Languages
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1469 1193 1040
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 55.94% 56.54% 57.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1195 1080 898
Average salary £34,000 £34,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PHP
West Yorkshire

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing PHP across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Leeds PHP Jobs Demand Trend

PHP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PHP across the Leeds region.

Leeds PHP Salary Trend

PHP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PHP across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Leeds PHP Salary Histogram

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds region citing PHP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited PHP.

1 168 (59.36%) MySQL
2 166 (58.66%) JavaScript
3 152 (53.71%) CSS
4 133 (47.00%) HTML
5 115 (40.64%) jQuery
6 92 (32.51%) Linux
7 84 (29.68%) HTML5
8 68 (24.03%) Apache
9 64 (22.61%) LAMP
10 58 (20.49%) Magento
11 53 (18.73%) MVC
12 52 (18.37%) OO
13 51 (18.02%) PHP5
13 51 (18.02%) Symfony
14 49 (17.31%) SQL
14 49 (17.31%) .NET
15 46 (16.25%) E-Commerce
16 45 (15.90%) Zend
17 40 (14.13%) Git (software)
18 37 (13.07%) CMS
18 37 (13.07%) Java
19 34 (12.01%) Project Management
20 33 (11.66%) Agile Software Development
20 33 (11.66%) Ajax
20 33 (11.66%) WordPress
21 32 (11.31%) CSS3
21 32 (11.31%) Degree
22 31 (10.95%) Python
23 29 (10.25%) Ruby
23 29 (10.25%) Drupal

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds region citing PHP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited PHP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 152 (53.71%) CSS
2 133 (47.00%) HTML
3 115 (40.64%) jQuery
4 84 (29.68%) HTML5
5 64 (22.61%) LAMP
6 51 (18.02%) Symfony
7 49 (17.31%) .NET
8 33 (11.66%) Ajax
9 32 (11.31%) CSS3
10 26 (9.187%) Flash
10 26 (9.187%) XML
11 25 (8.834%) ASP.NET
12 23 (8.127%) Web Services
13 18 (6.360%) Ruby on Rails
14 17 (6.007%) Zend Framework
15 12 (4.240%) SOAP
15 12 (4.240%) XHTML
15 12 (4.240%) WPF
15 12 (4.240%) WinForms
16 10 (3.534%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 68 (24.03%) Apache
2 58 (20.49%) Magento
3 37 (13.07%) CMS
4 33 (11.66%) WordPress
5 29 (10.25%) Drupal
6 14 (4.947%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (4.594%) Amazon AWS
7 13 (4.594%) Moodle
8 11 (3.887%) nginx
8 11 (3.887%) Amazon S3
8 11 (3.887%) Amazon ELB
8 11 (3.887%) CloudFront
8 11 (3.887%) Route 53
9 7 (2.473%) Tomcat
9 7 (2.473%) SharePoint
10 6 (2.120%) IIS
10 6 (2.120%) ColdFusion
11 5 (1.767%) Joomla!
12 4 (1.413%) SugarCRM
13 1 (0.353%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 14 (4.947%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.767%) MS Excel
3 2 (0.707%) Fireworks
3 2 (0.707%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.353%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.353%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.353%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.767%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.894%) Internet
2 12 (4.240%) HTTP
3 9 (3.180%) FTP
3 9 (3.180%) DNS
4 8 (2.827%) SMS
5 4 (1.413%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.060%) NAS
6 3 (1.060%) Firewall
6 3 (1.060%) SAN
6 3 (1.060%) SMTP
7 2 (0.707%) DHCP
7 2 (0.707%) Broadband
7 2 (0.707%) SSH
8 1 (0.353%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.353%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.353%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.353%) SSL
8 1 (0.353%) Intranet
8 1 (0.353%) LAN
8 1 (0.353%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (59.36%) MySQL
2 24 (8.481%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.887%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.180%) Hadoop
5 7 (2.473%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (1.767%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.767%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (1.413%) SQL Server 2008
8 3 (1.060%) SQL Server 2005
9 2 (0.707%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.353%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.353%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.353%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.353%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 40 (14.13%) Git (software)
2 21 (7.420%) Subversion
3 8 (2.827%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (2.120%) Mercurial
5 4 (1.413%) Dreamweaver
6 3 (1.060%) PhoneGap
7 2 (0.707%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.707%) Xcode
7 2 (0.707%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.707%) Flex Builder
8 1 (0.353%) EasyMock
8 1 (0.353%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.353%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.353%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.353%) Selenium
8 1 (0.353%) JUnit
General
1 27 (9.541%) Marketing
2 12 (4.240%) Finance
3 8 (2.827%) Telecoms
3 8 (2.827%) Publishing
3 8 (2.827%) Games
4 7 (2.473%) Billing
5 6 (2.120%) Advertising
5 6 (2.120%) Retail
6 4 (1.413%) Multimedia
7 1 (0.353%) Avionics
7 1 (0.353%) Banking
7 1 (0.353%) Interactive Media
7 1 (0.353%) Music
7 1 (0.353%) German Language
7 1 (0.353%) Legal
7 1 (0.353%) Back Office
7 1 (0.353%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 221 (78.09%) Developer
2 138 (48.76%) PHP Developer
3 56 (19.79%) Web Developer
4 24 (8.481%) PHP Web Developer
4 24 (8.481%) Front-End Developer
5 21 (7.420%) Software Engineer
6 17 (6.007%) Graduate
7 16 (5.654%) PHP MySQL Developer
8 13 (4.594%) Software Developer
9 12 (4.240%) Junior
9 12 (4.240%) LAMP Developer
10 11 (3.887%) Front-End Web Developer
10 11 (3.887%) Junior Developer
10 11 (3.887%) JavaScript Developer
10 11 (3.887%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.534%) Analyst
11 10 (3.534%) Senior PHP Developer
12 9 (3.180%) .NET Developer
13 8 (2.827%) Java Developer
14 7 (2.473%) MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.300%) Open Source
2 14 (4.947%) Mobile App
3 10 (3.534%) Computer Science
4 7 (2.473%) Animation
5 6 (2.120%) Web 2.0
6 5 (1.767%) E-Learning
6 5 (1.767%) Wiki
7 4 (1.413%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.413%) New Media
7 4 (1.413%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.060%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.060%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.060%) Online Games
8 3 (1.060%) W3C
9 2 (0.707%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.707%) Firmware
9 2 (0.707%) Social Network
9 2 (0.707%) iPad
9 2 (0.707%) Learning Management System
9 2 (0.707%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 92 (32.51%) Linux
2 15 (5.300%) UNIX
2 15 (5.300%) Windows
3 11 (3.887%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.473%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.120%) CentOS
6 5 (1.767%) Debian
7 4 (1.413%) Android
8 3 (1.060%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.060%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.707%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.707%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (18.73%) MVC
2 52 (18.37%) OO
3 46 (16.25%) E-Commerce
4 34 (12.01%) Project Management
5 33 (11.66%) Agile Software Development
6 26 (9.187%) Web Development
7 25 (8.834%) OOP
7 25 (8.834%) Scrum
8 19 (6.714%) TDD
9 16 (5.654%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (3.534%) Data Analysis
10 10 (3.534%) Online Marketing
11 9 (3.180%) Software Engineering
11 9 (3.180%) SEO
12 8 (2.827%) CRM
12 8 (2.827%) Mobile Application Development
13 7 (2.473%) Analytics
13 7 (2.473%) Web Application Development
13 7 (2.473%) Unit Testing
13 7 (2.473%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 166 (58.66%) JavaScript
2 51 (18.02%) PHP5
3 49 (17.31%) SQL
4 37 (13.07%) Java
5 31 (10.95%) Python
6 29 (10.25%) Ruby
7 23 (8.127%) C#
8 21 (7.420%) ActionScript
9 16 (5.654%) Perl
10 8 (2.827%) T-SQL
11 6 (2.120%) Bash shell
12 5 (1.767%) XAML
13 4 (1.413%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.413%) C++
13 4 (1.413%) PHP4
13 4 (1.413%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.060%) C
15 2 (0.707%) ActionScript 3.0
16 1 (0.353%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.353%) PowerHouse
Qualifications
1 32 (11.31%) Degree
2 4 (1.413%) ISEB
3 2 (0.707%) MCSE
3 2 (0.707%) MCP
3 2 (0.707%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.353%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.180%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.707%) QA
2 2 (0.707%) WAI
3 1 (0.353%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (2.120%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.707%) VMware ESX
3 1 (0.353%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.353%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.353%) vSphere
3 1 (0.353%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 4 (1.413%) Puppet
2 1 (0.353%) SCCM
2 1 (0.353%) PureDisk
2 1 (0.353%) Plesk
Vendors
1 45 (15.90%) Zend
2 18 (6.360%) Red Hat
3 17 (6.007%) Adobe
4 14 (4.947%) Microsoft
5 12 (4.240%) Google
6 11 (3.887%) Percona
7 7 (2.473%) Metastorm
8 5 (1.767%) Oracle
9 4 (1.413%) Omniture
9 4 (1.413%) Spiceworks
10 3 (1.060%) Sencha
10 3 (1.060%) Facebook
10 3 (1.060%) VMware
10 3 (1.060%) BT
10 3 (1.060%) Apple
10 3 (1.060%) JBoss
11 2 (0.707%) Citrix
11 2 (0.707%) Cisco
11 2 (0.707%) Twitter
12 1 (0.353%) Syncsort
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Experience developing in an Agile environment (Ideally worked in a test driven environment or want to) Strong Internet experience (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and JQuery. Any experience in Symphony,...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Skills - PHP Developer - PHP5 / MySQL / MVC / Linux / Apache / XHTML / CSS / AJAX Experience with ecommerce projects would be useful but is not essential. You should have extensive experience delivering...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £28000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Proven experience working in software development - A genuine passion for programming - in particular PHP 5.3 framework Symfony 2 - Experience of RHEL5, HTML5/CSS, Javascript and JQuery, SVN,...
Hotfoot Resourcing.
Salary: Unspecified
Posted: 16 May 2013
Leeds
The Agency delivers marketing solutions for some of the UKs largest corporate brands as well as local business. As a PHP developer you will have commercial or academic...
Premier Group
Salary: £22000.00 - £25000.00 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
You will have strong PHP development experience with good knowledge of PHP 5.3 framework Symfony 2, Unix (Redhat Linux), HTML / CSS, Javascript, JQuery, Agile/Scrum. Any knowledge...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Excellent Salary + Fantastic Bonus + Benefits + Excellent Prospects
Posted: 15 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
WE ARE LOOKING FOR GRADUATE LEVEL & ABOVE; PHP / Frontend or JavaScript Developers with good experience within php, Cake/Zend Lamp development environment with excellent HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery,...
Conex Europe Ltd
Salary: £24000 - £34000 per annum + full benefits plus GTeed bonus
Posted: 17 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
PHP DEVELOPER EXCELLENT COMPANY IN LEEDS CITY CENTRE Leeds, Head Office £Market leading salary offered My client is a leading household name in their sector and since being...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Posted: 15 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
PHP DEVELOPER... Hays IT are currently working on multiple exciting opportunities within this company... The role The role of Developer is responsible for developing high quality software end...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Posted: 15 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Essential criteria: A passion for programming - PHP 5.3 framework Symfony 2. RHEL6, HTML5/CSS, JavaScript and JQuery, SVN, Jenkins and Puppet... Experience of Agile methodology and Scrum...
William Hill
Salary: Competitive + bonus + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
If you have a passion for anything digital, and the hunger to work/learn with the latest technologies such as Zend Framework, Mobile Applications and Adobe Creative Suite...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £28000 - £36000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Essential Skills: + PHP + MySQL + HTML5/CSS3 + API's Fantastic opportunity for a PHP developer with around 3+ years of experience in PHP, MySQL, HTML5 and CSS3... If you...
Applause IT Innovation
Salary: £28000 - £36000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
You'll be delivering innovative sites built on PHP... Experience working within Agile development teams. Experience with Linux / Unix / BSD. Previous experience in e-commerce. Experience with MySql.....
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: From £20,000 to £28,000 per annum £neg depending on experience plus fa
Posted: 15 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Essential Technical skills: Detailed knowledge of Flash including design techniques and animation. Good knowledge of Actionscript at design level. Working knowledge of Javascript and ideally HTML5. Knowledge of...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £19000 - £22000 per annum + bens
Posted: 15 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Essential Technical skills: Detailed knowledge of Flash including design techniques and animation. Good knowledge of Actionscript at design level. Working knowledge of Javascript and ideally HTML5 Knowledge of...
greywood
Salary: £19000 - £22000 per annum + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
The ideal candidate must have good experience/knowledge in PHP5, MySQL, HTML and CSS... If you have a passion for anything digital, and the hunger to work/learn...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £18000 - £22000 per annum
Posted: 11 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Graduate Developer / Operations Engineer - PHP / Python / Linux / Cloud / Hosting / .Net / Web Services Searchability is privileged to be working in tandem with this well-known telecommunications client, based at...
Searchability.co.uk
Posted: 14 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Software Developer - Visual C++, C, OOD, OOA, SQL, SQL ServerMy client require a Software Developer with C++, C or Visual C++ skills to join their large development team...
IQ Resourcing
Salary: £28000 - £38000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Excellent knowledge of ASP.Net (Web Forms and MVC) C#, TSQL, SQL Server knowledge... Exposure to Visual Studio 2008/2012, Reporting Services, AJAX, XML, SSIS, Umbraco CMS... Key...
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £23000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
They need someone to implement and maintain Automated Test systems, so you need excellent skills in maintaining, designing and building these systems. This role will involve working on...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £35000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 15 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Key Skills 3 years experience in a testing role and automated testing experience Knowledge of automated test tools Selenium Web Driver Cucumber MySQL PHP Create and analyse test...
greywood
Salary: £35000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 4 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
A varied role, your main responsibilities will include: *Support and Maintenance of complex software applications *Problem resolution *Work with the development teams to improve systems and services *Provide...
Fruition IT Resources Limited
Salary: £28000 - £30000 per annum + oncall, good benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Advanced PHP and Perl scripting ability... Good virtualisation and storage background; knowledge of Xen or Citrix XenServer, RAID, iSCSI and SAN/NAS solutions... Excellent knowledge of networking, protocols (...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £32000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 15 May 2013