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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 99 108
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 +15
Permanent jobs citing PHP 26 17 43
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.51% 0.91% 2.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.19% 3.21% 5.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18 14 43
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,750 £31,900
25th Percentile £38,125 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £52,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +5.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £59,375 £60,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £71,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -

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 420 529 831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 24.35% 28.24% 39.97%
Number of salaries quoted 332 317 660
10th Percentile £32,625 £34,900 £38,520
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,936 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -7.60% +8.23%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £74,063
90th Percentile £82,375 £85,000 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

PHP job vacancy trend 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 November 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 November 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 +2 8 £42,000 -16.00% 19
Elland - 6 £42,000 -
Wakefield - 3 £65,000 - 1
Bradford - 2 £50,000 - 2
Huddersfield +11 1 £37,500 -11.76% 1
Brighouse +1 1 - -
Castleford - 1 - -
Cleckheaton - 1 - -
Dewsbury - 1 - -
Batley - 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
PHP
Yorkshire

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (3.85%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Magento
1 1 (3.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Entra ID
2 5 (19.23%) Power Automate
3 1 (3.85%) Azure
3 1 (3.85%) Datadog
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Postman
2 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Selenium
2 1 (3.85%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Applications Specialist
2 5 (19.23%) Applications Support
2 5 (19.23%) Applications Support Specialist
2 5 (19.23%) Support Specialist
3 4 (15.38%) Lead
4 3 (11.54%) Lead Developer
5 2 (7.69%) PHP Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Backend Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Graduate
6 1 (3.85%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Integration Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Magento Developer
6 1 (3.85%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 1 (3.85%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior PHP Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (69.23%) HTML
2 10 (38.46%) CSS
3 5 (19.23%) .NET
3 5 (19.23%) Laravel
3 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (15.38%) React
5 3 (11.54%) CakePHP
5 3 (11.54%) CodeIgniter
5 3 (11.54%) Symfony
6 1 (3.85%) CSS3
6 1 (3.85%) HTML5
6 1 (3.85%) jQuery
6 1 (3.85%) LAMP
6 1 (3.85%) OAuth
6 1 (3.85%) pytest
6 1 (3.85%) RAML
6 1 (3.85%) RESTful
6 1 (3.85%) SAML
6 1 (3.85%) SOAP
6 1 (3.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) AI
1 8 (30.77%) Computer Science
1 8 (30.77%) Data Privacy
1 8 (30.77%) Machine Learning
2 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (23.08%) SDLC
3 6 (23.08%) Web Development
4 5 (19.23%) Agile
4 5 (19.23%) OO
4 5 (19.23%) Robotic Process Automation
5 4 (15.38%) MVC
6 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (11.54%) OO PHP
7 2 (7.69%) Mentoring
7 2 (7.69%) Performance Management
7 2 (7.69%) Project Delivery
7 2 (7.69%) Software Engineering
7 2 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (3.85%) E-Commerce
8 1 (3.85%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (76.92%) JavaScript
2 16 (61.54%) SQL
3 14 (53.85%) C#
3 14 (53.85%) Java
3 14 (53.85%) Python
4 11 (42.31%) TypeScript
5 8 (30.77%) C
5 8 (30.77%) C++
5 8 (30.77%) Dart
5 8 (30.77%) MATLAB
5 8 (30.77%) R
5 8 (30.77%) Ruby
5 8 (30.77%) Rust
6 1 (3.85%) DataWeave
6 1 (3.85%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (30.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.85%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Adobe
2 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft