PHP Job Trends in Wakefield

PHP
West Yorkshire > Wakefield

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wakefield requiring PHP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -12
Permanent jobs citing PHP 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wakefield 1.23% - 0.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.50% - 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63,750 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.32%
75th Percentile £71,250 - £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.58% +5.56% -18.18%

All Programming Languages
Wakefield

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 Wakefield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8 22 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wakefield 9.88% 37.29% 15.84%
Number of salaries quoted 7 16 12
10th Percentile £36,200 £36,750 £26,925
25th Percentile £40,375 £50,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £55,000 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% +41.94% -17.11%
75th Percentile £42,438 £64,688 £48,375
90th Percentile £54,075 £87,500 £61,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +9.52%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wakefield

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Wakefield

PHP
Salary Trend in Wakefield

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wakefield citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wakefield citing PHP

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wakefield 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript