PHP Developer Jobs in Leeds

PHP Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median PHP Developer salary in Leeds is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 82 160
Rank change year-on-year +7 +78 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 5 53 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.65% 2.33% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 2.43% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5 53 6
10th Percentile - £32,500 £41,875
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £67,000 £59,500 £50,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 724 2,180 2,889
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 95.99% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 501 1,573 1,726
10th Percentile £28,875 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,050 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,955 £86,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +4.76%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings that featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in Leeds

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in Leeds.

Salary trend for PHP Developer in Leeds

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in Leeds

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Leeds region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Laravel
2 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) SaaS
2 4 (80.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) Symfony
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (60.00%) React
4 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (20.00%) .NET
5 1 (20.00%) WPF
5 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) React Native
5 1 (20.00%) Vue
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) GitHub
5 1 (20.00%) AngularJS

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) SaaS
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (60.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
2 4 (80.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Laravel
2 4 (80.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) Symfony
3 3 (60.00%) React
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (20.00%) React Native
4 1 (20.00%) Vue
4 1 (20.00%) WPF
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript