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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 107 95
Rank change year-on-year -35 -12 +2
Contract jobs citing PHP 10 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.35% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.22% 1.04% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £373 - £336
25th Percentile £388 £300 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £354 £488
Median % change year-on-year +20.06% -27.38% +21.88%
75th Percentile £438 £358 £516
90th Percentile - £406 £529
England median daily rate £475 £435 £425
% change year-on-year +9.20% +2.35% -3.41%

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 819 482 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.64% 32.15% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 319 317
10th Percentile £363 £320 £334
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.60% -2.34%
75th Percentile £563 £547 £588
90th Percentile £638 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £18.79 £37.07 £34.38
25th Percentile £21.24 £45.03 £37.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +34.92% +37.79%
75th Percentile £26.63 £82.53 £61.88
90th Percentile £34.80 £92.15 £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%

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
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 7 August 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 -23 7 £425 - 4
South Yorkshire -30 3 - - 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) WordPress
2 3 (30.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Publishing
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) PHP Developer
3 2 (20.00%) MySQL Developer
3 2 (20.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) CSS
1 4 (40.00%) HTML
1 4 (40.00%) React
2 3 (30.00%) Node.js
2 3 (30.00%) Sass
3 2 (20.00%) Laravel
3 2 (20.00%) Symfony
4 1 (10.00%) CSS3
4 1 (10.00%) HTML5
4 1 (10.00%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Software Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (10.00%) Microservices
3 1 (10.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (10.00%) TDD
3 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (10.00%) User Experience
3 1 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (10.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes