PHP Contracts in West Yorkshire

PHP
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 68 78
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 +18
DemandTrendContract jobs citing PHP 2 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.27% 0.46% 1.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.79% 1.40% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 11
10th Percentile £373 £336 £363
25th Percentile £380 £391 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +21.88% -8.57%
75th Percentile £430 £516 £463
90th Percentile £434 £529 £475
Yorkshire median daily rate £373 £488 £400
% change year-on-year -23.54% +21.88% -6.98%

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

PHP falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in West Yorkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 252 286 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 33.42% 32.84% 25.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 215 251
10th Percentile £359 £325 £383
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £555 £584 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -3.47% -3.81% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £37.07 £33.00 £16.52
25th Percentile £45.03 £35.63 £18.32
Median hourly rate £62.40 £42.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +46.82% +99.44% -9.65%
75th Percentile £82.53 £50.63 -
90th Percentile £92.15 £54.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £62.40 £46.25 £21.31
% change year-on-year +34.92% +117.03% -18.04%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in West Yorkshire

PHP
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PHP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PHP

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PHP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PHP

PHP
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -3 1 £425 -12.82% 5
PHP
Yorkshire

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) DigitalOcean
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Laravel
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft