Principal PHP Developer Contracts in West Yorkshire

Principal PHP Developer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Principal PHP Developer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £388, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Principal PHP Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £369 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - -
75th Percentile £406 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £388 - -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 722 798 1,314
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.27% 92.47% 97.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 510 874
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 29 19
10th Percentile - £15.64 £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £18.50 £13.17
Median hourly rate £33.11 £24.18 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +36.93% +37.07% -10.59%
75th Percentile £81.25 £48.75 £21.31
90th Percentile - - £23.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £20.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.09% +4.35% +5.26%

Principal PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Principal PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Principal PHP Developer in West Yorkshire

Principal PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 24 August 2025, Principal PHP Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring Principal PHP Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Magento
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) DigitalOcean
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

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