PHP Job Trends in West Yorkshire

PHP
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring PHP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 83 108
Rank change year-on-year 0 +25 -10
Permanent jobs citing PHP 25 45 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.67% 1.96% 1.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.08% 7.08% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 17 42 42
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,650 £31,300
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -18.18%
75th Percentile £46,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £63,000 £62,250 £71,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £37,500 £46,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.92% -7.50% -

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 353 636 978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 23.52% 27.75% 39.32%
Number of salaries quoted 282 450 784
10th Percentile £35,175 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% +7.48%
75th Percentile £72,750 £70,000 £76,750
90th Percentile £82,751 £82,746 £88,375
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in West Yorkshire

PHP
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP in West Yorkshire

PHP
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds +5 9 £37,500 -16.67% 5
Elland - 6 £42,000 -
Wakefield - 2 £66,250 - 1
Huddersfield +11 1 £37,500 -28.57% 2
Brighouse 0 1 - -
Cleckheaton - 1 - -
Castleford - 1 - -
Batley - 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
Bradford - 1 - - 5
Dewsbury - 1 - -
PHP
Yorkshire

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.00%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) MySQL
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Postman
2 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Selenium
2 1 (4.00%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Law
3 3 (12.00%) Back Office
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Applications Specialist
1 5 (20.00%) Applications Support
1 5 (20.00%) Applications Support Specialist
1 5 (20.00%) Developer
1 5 (20.00%) Support Specialist
2 3 (12.00%) Technical Support
3 2 (8.00%) Lead
3 2 (8.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Backend Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Integration Developer
4 1 (4.00%) PHP Developer
4 1 (4.00%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (80.00%) HTML
2 9 (36.00%) CSS
3 5 (20.00%) .NET
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (16.00%) Laravel
5 3 (12.00%) CakePHP
5 3 (12.00%) CodeIgniter
5 3 (12.00%) Symfony
6 2 (8.00%) React
7 1 (4.00%) CSS3
7 1 (4.00%) HTML5
7 1 (4.00%) jQuery
7 1 (4.00%) JWT
7 1 (4.00%) OAuth
7 1 (4.00%) OpenAPI
7 1 (4.00%) pytest
7 1 (4.00%) RAML
7 1 (4.00%) RESTful
7 1 (4.00%) SOAP
7 1 (4.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (12.00%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (32.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (32.00%) Computer Science
2 8 (32.00%) Data Privacy
2 8 (32.00%) Machine Learning
3 6 (24.00%) SDLC
3 6 (24.00%) Web Development
4 5 (20.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.00%) OO
4 5 (20.00%) Robotic Process Automation
5 4 (16.00%) MVC
6 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (12.00%) OO PHP
7 1 (4.00%) Clean Code
7 1 (4.00%) Code Quality
7 1 (4.00%) Defect Tracking
7 1 (4.00%) Fintech
7 1 (4.00%) Presales
7 1 (4.00%) Project Delivery
7 1 (4.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (72.00%) JavaScript
1 18 (72.00%) SQL
2 14 (56.00%) Java
2 14 (56.00%) Python
3 13 (52.00%) C#
4 11 (44.00%) TypeScript
5 8 (32.00%) C
5 8 (32.00%) C++
5 8 (32.00%) Dart
5 8 (32.00%) MATLAB
5 8 (32.00%) R
5 8 (32.00%) Ruby
5 8 (32.00%) Rust
6 1 (4.00%) DataWeave
6 1 (4.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (32.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft