PHP Job Trends in Leeds

PHP
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 84 98
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 +8
Permanent jobs citing PHP 8 12 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.72% 0.83% 1.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.55% 2.80% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 22
10th Percentile £30,825 £32,500 £31,300
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,875 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £50,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -7.83% +14.21%
75th Percentile £58,125 £60,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £61,875 £75,000 £71,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £42,000 £52,750 £51,250
% change year-on-year -20.38% +2.93% +5.13%

All Programming Languages
Leeds

PHP falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 314 429 633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.11% 29.71% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 264 264 485
10th Percentile £34,125 £34,225 £39,150
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,433 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £58,326 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.59% -2.79% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,118 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +9.09%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

PHP job vacancy trend in Leeds

PHP
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in Leeds over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP in Leeds

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (12.50%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Magento
1 1 (12.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Datadog
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (37.50%) Law
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Graduate
2 1 (12.50%) Graduate Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Integration Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Magento Developer
2 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
2 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
2 3 (37.50%) Laravel
3 2 (25.00%) CakePHP
3 2 (25.00%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (25.00%) Symfony
4 1 (12.50%) CSS3
4 1 (12.50%) HTML5
4 1 (12.50%) jQuery
4 1 (12.50%) JWT
4 1 (12.50%) LAMP
4 1 (12.50%) OAuth
4 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
4 1 (12.50%) pytest
4 1 (12.50%) RAML
4 1 (12.50%) React
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) SAML
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 1 (12.50%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) OO
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) MVC
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) OO PHP
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) API Development
4 1 (12.50%) API Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
4 1 (12.50%) Fintech
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) DataWeave
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe
1 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft