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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 77 90
Rank change year-on-year -37 +13 +29
Contract jobs citing PHP 20 8 16
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.05% 0.74% 0.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.22% 2.61% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 13
10th Percentile £371 £450 £313
25th Percentile £413 £452 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £375
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +36.67% -10.71%
75th Percentile - £593 £400
90th Percentile £457 £623 £488
England median daily rate £425 £425 £405
% change year-on-year - +4.94% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
England median hourly rate £44.90 £43.50 £27.77
% change year-on-year +3.21% +56.67% -62.61%

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 622 307 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.79% 28.45% 23.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 213 319
10th Percentile £350 £357 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £588
90th Percentile £662 £710 £650
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £26.25 £16.97
25th Percentile £49.25 £28.75 £19.44
Median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% +49.37% -61.74%
75th Percentile £49.75 £99.32 £62.00
90th Percentile - £102.00 £63.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.47%

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 2 January 2026.

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 2 January 2026. 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 -3 12 £450 -10.00% 21
South Yorkshire -48 7 £420 -29.85% 12
East Yorkshire - 1 £390 - 1
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 (5.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) Azure
3 6 (30.00%) SaaS
4 5 (25.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) DigitalOcean
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (45.00%) MySQL
3 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (30.00%) Postman
1 6 (30.00%) REST Assured
1 6 (30.00%) Selenium
1 6 (30.00%) TestRail
2 5 (25.00%) GitLab
2 5 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
1 11 (55.00%) PHP Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Automation Test Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Lead Test Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Delphi Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) PHP Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Principal Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Principal PHP Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) .NET
2 7 (35.00%) REST
3 5 (25.00%) LDAP
3 5 (25.00%) OpenID
3 5 (25.00%) SailPoint
4 3 (15.00%) CSS
4 3 (15.00%) HTML
4 3 (15.00%) WebSockets
5 1 (5.00%) Laravel
5 1 (5.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Refactoring
2 8 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (30.00%) API Testing
3 6 (30.00%) BDD
3 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (30.00%) Manual Testing
3 6 (30.00%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (30.00%) TDD
3 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (30.00%) Test Scripting
4 5 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) ETL
4 5 (25.00%) GitOps
4 5 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 5 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) SQL
2 10 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (30.00%) Java
3 6 (30.00%) Python
4 3 (15.00%) C#
4 3 (15.00%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft