PHP Job Trends in Yorkshire

PHP
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 110 48
Rank change year-on-year +4 -62 +60
Permanent jobs citing PHP 101 40 224
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.52% 1.49% 3.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.35% 6.69% 13.58%
Number of salaries quoted 96 29 214
10th Percentile £37,375 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £68,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,157 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.31% +0.31% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,209 598 1,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.21% 22.22% 27.61%
Number of salaries quoted 806 474 1,389
10th Percentile £32,750 £29,138 £31,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,785 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £89,074 £90,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

PHP job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

PHP
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Salary histogram for PHP in Yorkshire

PHP
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 within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
West Yorkshire -3 55 £45,000 -5.26% 11
South Yorkshire -8 29 £50,000 -9.09% 4
North Yorkshire -4 1 £50,000 +33.33% 4
East Yorkshire -29 1 £39,500 -9.71% 1
PHP
England

PHP
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.98%) CMS
1 2 (1.98%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (23.76%) AWS
2 10 (9.90%) Azure
3 6 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (5.94%) Serverless
4 5 (4.95%) SaaS
5 4 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (3.96%) GCP
6 2 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.98%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.99%) Asana
7 1 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.99%) GitHub
7 1 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.99%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.99%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.99%) Vercel
7 1 (0.99%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (25.74%) MySQL
2 10 (9.90%) MariaDB
3 7 (6.93%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.96%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.98%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.99%) Metadata
6 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.99%) phpMyAdmin
6 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (11.88%) Git
2 6 (5.94%) PHPUnit
3 2 (1.98%) JIRA
4 1 (0.99%) Postman
General
1 7 (6.93%) Social Skills
2 5 (4.95%) Finance
3 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (0.99%) Law
3 1 (0.99%) Legal
3 1 (0.99%) Marketing
3 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 93 (92.08%) Developer
2 58 (57.43%) PHP Developer
3 53 (52.48%) Senior
4 51 (50.50%) Senior Developer
5 24 (23.76%) Senior PHP Developer
6 17 (16.83%) Software Developer
7 10 (9.90%) Senior Software Developer
8 7 (6.93%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.94%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
9 6 (5.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.95%) C# Developer
10 5 (4.95%) C# Software Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Graduate C# Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Graduate C# Software Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Graduate Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Graduate Software Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Junior
10 5 (4.95%) SQL Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (30.69%) Laravel
2 12 (11.88%) React
3 9 (8.91%) Symfony
4 8 (7.92%) REST
5 7 (6.93%) Vue
6 6 (5.94%) CSS
7 5 (4.95%) HTML
7 5 (4.95%) React Native
8 3 (2.97%) Node.js
9 2 (1.98%) Doctrine
9 2 (1.98%) jQuery
9 2 (1.98%) Next.js
10 1 (0.99%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.99%) CakePHP
10 1 (0.99%) CodeIgniter
10 1 (0.99%) HTML5
10 1 (0.99%) Jest
10 1 (0.99%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (1.98%) Cloud Native
1 2 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
2 1 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
2 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (18.81%) Agile
2 15 (14.85%) Clean Code
3 14 (13.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (9.90%) Data Protection
4 10 (9.90%) Microservices
4 10 (9.90%) Secure Coding
5 9 (8.91%) Web Development
6 7 (6.93%) Computer Science
6 7 (6.93%) Containerisation
7 6 (5.94%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (4.95%) E-Commerce
8 5 (4.95%) Mentoring
9 4 (3.96%) CI/CD
9 4 (3.96%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (3.96%) Front End Development
9 4 (3.96%) Technical Leadership
10 3 (2.97%) Coaching
10 3 (2.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (2.97%) Performance Optimisation
10 3 (2.97%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (32.67%) JavaScript
2 14 (13.86%) TypeScript
3 7 (6.93%) C#
4 6 (5.94%) SQL
5 3 (2.97%) Python
6 1 (0.99%) C++
6 1 (0.99%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (2.97%) Degree
2 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (0.99%) Google
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft
1 1 (0.99%) Netlify
1 1 (0.99%) WooCommerce