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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 92 109
Rank change year-on-year -27 +17 -33
Permanent jobs citing PHP 40 87 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.21% 1.76% 2.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.05% 7.30% 6.51%
Number of salaries quoted 32 70 87
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,150 £31,550
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £48,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.28% -3.50% -
75th Percentile £44,500 £59,688 £60,625
90th Percentile £57,500 £63,625 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -5.66% +0.95%

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 567 1,192 1,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.12% 24.12% 37.46%
Number of salaries quoted 453 727 1,108
10th Percentile £30,650 £34,000 £34,775
25th Percentile £40,875 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,113 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,842
England median annual salary £62,617 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.19% -3.85% +1.63%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 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
West Yorkshire +3 25 £42,000 -6.67% 17
South Yorkshire +7 8 £25,000 -52.38% 9
East Yorkshire -1 7 £37,500 -3.23%
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (12.50%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) AWS
2 6 (15.00%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) Datadog
3 5 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 5 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) MySQL
2 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Postman
2 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) Selenium
2 1 (2.50%) SoapUI
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Law
3 8 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) Back Office
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Developer
2 6 (15.00%) Graduate
2 6 (15.00%) Graduate Developer
2 6 (15.00%) IT Graduate
3 5 (12.50%) Applications Specialist
3 5 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 5 (12.50%) Applications Support Specialist
3 5 (12.50%) PHP Developer
3 5 (12.50%) Support Specialist
4 4 (10.00%) Integration Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Technical Support
6 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 2 (5.00%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior
7 1 (2.50%) C# Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Junior
7 1 (2.50%) QA Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.50%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (55.00%) HTML
2 17 (42.50%) CSS
3 11 (27.50%) .NET
4 7 (17.50%) jQuery
5 6 (15.00%) ASP.NET
5 6 (15.00%) Laravel
6 5 (12.50%) JWT
6 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (12.50%) OAuth
6 5 (12.50%) OpenAPI
6 5 (12.50%) RAML
6 5 (12.50%) RESTful
6 5 (12.50%) SAML
6 5 (12.50%) Swagger
6 5 (12.50%) Symfony
7 4 (10.00%) CakePHP
7 4 (10.00%) CodeIgniter
8 3 (7.50%) React
9 1 (2.50%) Playwright
9 1 (2.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.50%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.50%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.50%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (35.00%) Agile
2 14 (35.00%) Computer Science
3 13 (32.50%) OO
4 11 (27.50%) MVC
5 8 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (20.00%) Data Privacy
5 8 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 7 (17.50%) OOP
7 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (15.00%) SDLC
7 6 (15.00%) Web Development
8 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (12.50%) Robotic Process Automation
9 4 (10.00%) OO PHP
10 2 (5.00%) Test Automation
11 1 (2.50%) Performance Management
11 1 (2.50%) Software Engineering
11 1 (2.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 1 (2.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 22 (55.00%) JavaScript
2 21 (52.50%) SQL
3 20 (50.00%) Java
4 19 (47.50%) C#
5 15 (37.50%) Python
6 14 (35.00%) C++
7 13 (32.50%) TypeScript
8 8 (20.00%) C
8 8 (20.00%) Dart
8 8 (20.00%) MATLAB
8 8 (20.00%) R
8 8 (20.00%) Ruby
8 8 (20.00%) Rust
9 5 (12.50%) DataWeave
10 1 (2.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (35.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 14 (35.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) SLA
2 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) CloudHub
2 1 (2.50%) Argo
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.50%) HubSpot
3 1 (2.50%) Salesforce