PHP Developer Job Trends in Yorkshire

PHP Developer
England > Yorkshire

The median PHP Developer salary in Yorkshire is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 146 148
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 +108
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 15 12 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.43% 0.35% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.36% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 26
10th Percentile £26,925 £35,100 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,563 £40,625 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +8.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,625 £56,250
90th Percentile - £63,750 £61,250
England median annual salary £40,750 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -22.38% - +0.96%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Yorkshire with a recognized job title 3,118 3,324 2,688
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.93% 96.40% 96.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,845 1,379 2,116
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £80,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'PHP Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

PHP Developer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for PHP Developer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for PHP Developer job vacancies in Yorkshire

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in Yorkshire

PHP Developer
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
West Yorkshire -4 6 £50,000 +5.26% 12
South Yorkshire -2 3 £35,000 -33.33% 5
East Yorkshire -2 2 £39,750 -0.63% 2
PHP Developer
England

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) PHP
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Laravel
3 6 (40.00%) Symfony
4 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (33.33%) MySQL
4 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 4 (26.67%) Azure
6 3 (20.00%) AWS
6 3 (20.00%) C#
6 3 (20.00%) CakePHP
6 3 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
6 3 (20.00%) CSS
6 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (20.00%) HTML
6 3 (20.00%) MVC
6 3 (20.00%) OO
6 3 (20.00%) OO PHP
6 3 (20.00%) REST
6 3 (20.00%) SaaS
6 3 (20.00%) SQL
7 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (13.33%) GCP
7 2 (13.33%) Microservices
7 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
7 2 (13.33%) React
7 2 (13.33%) Relational Database

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) SaaS
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (20.00%) Law
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Laravel
2 6 (40.00%) Symfony
3 3 (20.00%) CakePHP
3 3 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
3 3 (20.00%) CSS
3 3 (20.00%) HTML
3 3 (20.00%) REST
4 2 (13.33%) React
5 1 (6.67%) .NET
5 1 (6.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (20.00%) MVC
2 3 (20.00%) OO
2 3 (20.00%) OO PHP
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (13.33%) Microservices
4 1 (6.67%) Migration
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (6.67%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) PHP
2 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 3 (20.00%) C#
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker