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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 84 98
Rank change year-on-year -48 +14 +6
Contract jobs citing PHP 18 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.70% 0.47% 0.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.40% 1.55% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 5
10th Percentile £413 £321 £288
25th Percentile £422 £352 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £358 £340
Median % change year-on-year +25.70% +5.29% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £415 £388
90th Percentile £463 £429 £425
England median daily rate £475 £435 £400
% change year-on-year +9.20% +8.75% -5.88%

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 749 323 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 29.02% 30.53% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 226 338
10th Percentile £358 £325 £313
25th Percentile £415 £405 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +3.09% -7.62%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £588
90th Percentile £615 £600 £632
England median daily rate £512 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -2.45% -4.37% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile - £31.53 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.62 £61.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% -47.02% -
75th Percentile £25.00 £66.51 £63.75
90th Percentile - £85.74 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -19 12 £450 +9.09% 13
South Yorkshire -54 6 £468 +31.46% 4
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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) GCP
2 5 (27.78%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) MySQL
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 6 (33.33%) Postman
1 6 (33.33%) REST Assured
1 6 (33.33%) Selenium
1 6 (33.33%) TestRail
2 5 (27.78%) GitLab
2 5 (27.78%) JIRA
General
1 1 (5.56%) Banking
1 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 9 (50.00%) PHP Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Test Automation Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Test Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Lead
5 3 (16.67%) Automation Test Lead
5 3 (16.67%) Lead Test Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Senior
7 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) .NET
2 5 (27.78%) LDAP
2 5 (27.78%) OpenID
2 5 (27.78%) REST
2 5 (27.78%) SailPoint
3 3 (16.67%) CSS
3 3 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (5.56%) Laravel
4 1 (5.56%) React
4 1 (5.56%) Symfony
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 9 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (38.89%) TDD
2 7 (38.89%) Test Automation
3 6 (33.33%) API Testing
3 6 (33.33%) BDD
3 6 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 6 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 5 (27.78%) Data Ingestion
4 5 (27.78%) DevOps
4 5 (27.78%) ETL
4 5 (27.78%) GitOps
4 5 (27.78%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (27.78%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 5 (27.78%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (27.78%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) Java
2 6 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) ServiceNow