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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 123 86
Rank change year-on-year +24 -37 +46
Permanent jobs citing PHP 111 40 118
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.50% 1.17% 2.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.72% 6.56% 9.41%
Number of salaries quoted 101 32 105
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,000 £31,875
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -27.18% +3.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £47,313 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £49,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.52% -1.50% -6.54%

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 1,142 610 1,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.40% 17.81% 23.58%
Number of salaries quoted 795 504 916
10th Percentile £33,250 £29,825 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,250 £68,113
90th Percentile £89,259 £82,125 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 0 59 £45,000 +9.76% 1
South Yorkshire +6 45 £50,000 +100.00% 2
North Yorkshire - 3 £50,000 - 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 6 (5.41%) WordPress
2 4 (3.60%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.62%) AWS
2 9 (8.11%) Azure
3 6 (5.41%) SaaS
4 3 (2.70%) Amazon S3
4 3 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (2.70%) Serverless
5 2 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.80%) GitHub
5 2 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.90%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.90%) GCP
6 1 (0.90%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.90%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.90%) Vercel
6 1 (0.90%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (20.72%) MySQL
2 10 (9.01%) MariaDB
3 4 (3.60%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.70%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.80%) Metadata
5 2 (1.80%) phpMyAdmin
6 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.90%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (9.91%) Git
2 4 (3.60%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.90%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.90%) JIRA
3 1 (0.90%) Postman
General
1 10 (9.01%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.31%) Finance
3 4 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (1.80%) Marketing
4 2 (1.80%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.80%) Publishing
5 1 (0.90%) Legal
5 1 (0.90%) Legal Technology
5 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (81.08%) Developer
2 60 (54.05%) Senior
3 51 (45.95%) Senior Developer
4 40 (36.04%) PHP Developer
5 17 (15.32%) Software Developer
6 11 (9.91%) Senior PHP Developer
7 10 (9.01%) Senior Software Developer
8 8 (7.21%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (6.31%) Graduate
10 6 (5.41%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) C# Developer
11 5 (4.50%) C# Software Developer
11 5 (4.50%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
11 5 (4.50%) Graduate C# Developer
11 5 (4.50%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 5 (4.50%) Graduate Developer
11 5 (4.50%) Graduate Software Developer
11 5 (4.50%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 5 (4.50%) SQL Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (39.64%) Laravel
2 7 (6.31%) CSS
2 7 (6.31%) React
2 7 (6.31%) REST
3 6 (5.41%) HTML
3 6 (5.41%) Node.js
3 6 (5.41%) Vue
4 5 (4.50%) React Native
5 3 (2.70%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.70%) jQuery
5 3 (2.70%) Terraform
6 2 (1.80%) CSS3
6 2 (1.80%) HTML5
6 2 (1.80%) Semantic HTML
6 2 (1.80%) Symfony
7 1 (0.90%) .NET
7 1 (0.90%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.90%) Doctrine
7 1 (0.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.21%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (3.60%) Educational Technology
3 3 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.90%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (16.22%) Agile
2 14 (12.61%) Full-Stack Development
3 13 (11.71%) Clean Code
4 10 (9.01%) Computer Science
4 10 (9.01%) Data Protection
4 10 (9.01%) Secure Coding
5 8 (7.21%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (6.31%) Software Engineering
7 6 (5.41%) Microservices
7 6 (5.41%) Web Development
8 5 (4.50%) CI/CD
8 5 (4.50%) Containerisation
8 5 (4.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (4.50%) Front End Development
8 5 (4.50%) Mentoring
9 4 (3.60%) Coaching
9 4 (3.60%) Migration
10 3 (2.70%) AI
10 3 (2.70%) Performance Optimisation
10 3 (2.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 30 (27.03%) JavaScript
2 13 (11.71%) TypeScript
3 9 (8.11%) C#
4 8 (7.21%) SQL
5 3 (2.70%) Python
6 1 (0.90%) C++
6 1 (0.90%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (5.41%) SC Cleared
1 6 (5.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.60%) Degree
3 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.60%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.80%) WCAG
3 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.90%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (1.80%) WooCommerce
2 1 (0.90%) Google
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.90%) Netlify