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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 97 100
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 +21
Contract jobs citing PHP 5 4 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.33% 0.26% 0.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.00% 0.88% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile £323 £336 £270
25th Percentile £358 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.51% +21.88% -5.88%
75th Percentile £406 £516 £450
90th Percentile £425 £529 £565
England median daily rate £423 £420 £450
% change year-on-year +0.66% -6.72% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
England median hourly rate £34.50 £42.79 £26.50
% change year-on-year -19.36% +61.45% -15.20%

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 502 455 472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.87% 30.03% 22.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 324 333
10th Percentile £325 £343 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -4.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £548 £588 £625
90th Percentile £609 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 6
10th Percentile £37.07 £34.38 £18.32
25th Percentile £45.03 £37.50 £21.31
Median hourly rate £62.40 £46.25 £24.05
Median % change year-on-year +34.92% +92.35% -7.52%
75th Percentile £82.53 £61.88 £43.43
90th Percentile £92.15 £63.75 £50.55
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +12.50%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for PHP 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 3 September 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 2 £406 -16.67% 13
South Yorkshire - 2 £329 - 6
East Yorkshire - 1 £390 - 5
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (20.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) DigitalOcean
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) Laravel
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (20.00%) LLM
2 1 (20.00%) OOP
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle