PHP Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

PHP
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring PHP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 86 86
Rank change year-on-year -42 0 +41
Contract jobs citing PHP 6 8 18
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.33% 0.60% 0.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.99% 2.05% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 15
10th Percentile £334 £450 £313
25th Percentile £373 £452 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £513 £375
Median % change year-on-year -20.49% +36.67% -11.24%
75th Percentile £438 £593 £422
90th Percentile £444 £623 £490
England median daily rate £401 £416 £425
% change year-on-year -3.60% -2.06% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
England median hourly rate £44.90 £42.79 £22.14
% change year-on-year +4.93% +93.25% -65.94%

All Programming Languages
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 604 390 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 33.26% 29.43% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 261 295
10th Percentile £345 £355 £327
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.38
25th Percentile £49.25 £31.25 £19.91
Median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -57.38%
75th Percentile £49.75 £96.64 £25.58
90th Percentile - £102.00 £44.39
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.84
% change year-on-year - +5.11% -1.06%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PHP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

PHP job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

PHP
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing PHP

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in Yorkshire

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing PHP

PHP
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire -6 4 £425 -15.00% 10
South Yorkshire -40 1 £300 -49.90% 3
East Yorkshire - 1 £390 - 2
PHP
England

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) DigitalOcean
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) MySQL
2 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) PHP Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Delphi Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) PHP Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) WebSockets
2 2 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) Laravel
3 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Code
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
3 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) OOP
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
3 1 (16.67%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) Delphi
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft