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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 80 54
Rank change year-on-year 0 -26 +55
Permanent jobs citing PHP 59 28 101
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.59% 1.84% 3.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.48% 7.35% 12.82%
Number of salaries quoted 55 17 95
10th Percentile £26,900 £30,000 £31,875
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,000 £81,750 £68,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £37,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -21.05% +5.56%

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 696 381 788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 18.73% 24.98% 28.12%
Number of salaries quoted 510 315 646
10th Percentile £38,725 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +15.38% -8.37%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £81,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%

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 19 July 2026.

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 19 July 2026. 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 -12 50 £40,000 -9.09% 6
Halifax - 6 £60,000 -
Wakefield -5 3 £67,500 -
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 2 (3.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Elementor
1 1 (1.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.12%) AWS
2 8 (13.56%) Azure
3 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (6.78%) Serverless
4 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.39%) GCP
5 2 (3.39%) GitHub
5 2 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.39%) SaaS
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.69%) Asana
6 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.69%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) MySQL
2 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.78%) MariaDB
4 3 (5.08%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Git
2 2 (3.39%) JIRA
3 1 (1.69%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.69%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (10.17%) Finance
2 4 (6.78%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 47 (79.66%) Developer
2 38 (64.41%) PHP Developer
3 19 (32.20%) Senior
4 14 (23.73%) Senior Developer
5 9 (15.25%) Software Developer
6 8 (13.56%) Senior PHP Developer
7 6 (10.17%) Graduate
8 5 (8.47%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (8.47%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
8 5 (8.47%) Software Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) C# Developer
9 4 (6.78%) C# Software Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Graduate C# Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Graduate C# Software Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Graduate Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Graduate Software Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.78%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.64%) React
2 9 (15.25%) Laravel
3 5 (8.47%) React Native
4 4 (6.78%) Node.js
4 4 (6.78%) Symfony
5 3 (5.08%) CSS
5 3 (5.08%) HTML
5 3 (5.08%) REST
6 2 (3.39%) Doctrine
6 2 (3.39%) jQuery
6 2 (3.39%) Next.js
7 1 (1.69%) .NET
7 1 (1.69%) Bootstrap
7 1 (1.69%) HTML5
7 1 (1.69%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (20.34%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (16.95%) Agile
3 8 (13.56%) Clean Code
4 6 (10.17%) Computer Science
4 6 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (8.47%) CI/CD
5 5 (8.47%) Software Engineering
6 4 (6.78%) Coaching
6 4 (6.78%) Data Protection
6 4 (6.78%) Mentoring
6 4 (6.78%) Secure Coding
6 4 (6.78%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (6.78%) Web Development
7 3 (5.08%) AI
7 3 (5.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (5.08%) Front End Development
7 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (5.08%) Microservices
7 3 (5.08%) Migration
8 2 (3.39%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.81%) JavaScript
2 10 (16.95%) TypeScript
3 6 (10.17%) C#
3 6 (10.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (1.69%) Netlify