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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 101 53
Rank change year-on-year -28 -48 +76
Permanent jobs citing PHP 67 42 217
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.19% 1.84% 3.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.98% 6.65% 13.48%
Number of salaries quoted 63 37 207
10th Percentile £24,200 £30,900 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +1.06% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60,000 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £66,000 £100,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 1,120 632 1,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.93% 27.62% 28.78%
Number of salaries quoted 718 518 1,371
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £78,750
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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -27 35 £50,000 - 11
South Yorkshire -19 16 £50,000 -9.09% 5
East Yorkshire -24 2 £39,750 -9.14% 2
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 (2.99%) CMS
2 1 (1.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Shopify
2 1 (1.49%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.42%) Azure
2 8 (11.94%) AWS
3 4 (5.97%) SaaS
4 3 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (4.48%) GCP
4 3 (4.48%) Serverless
5 1 (1.49%) Asana
5 1 (1.49%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.49%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Vercel
5 1 (1.49%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.91%) MySQL
2 4 (5.97%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.48%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (13.43%) Git
2 6 (8.96%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.49%) JIRA
3 1 (1.49%) Postman
General
1 7 (10.45%) Finance
1 7 (10.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (2.99%) Law
3 1 (1.49%) Legal
3 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (92.54%) Developer
2 47 (70.15%) PHP Developer
3 33 (49.25%) Senior
3 33 (49.25%) Senior Developer
4 24 (35.82%) Senior PHP Developer
5 8 (11.94%) Graduate
5 8 (11.94%) Software Developer
6 7 (10.45%) C# Developer
6 7 (10.45%) C# Software Developer
6 7 (10.45%) Graduate C# Developer
6 7 (10.45%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 7 (10.45%) Graduate Developer
6 7 (10.45%) Graduate Software Developer
6 7 (10.45%) Graduate SQL Developer
6 7 (10.45%) SQL Developer
7 6 (8.96%) Graduate PHP Developer
8 5 (7.46%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (7.46%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
8 5 (7.46%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (5.97%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (32.84%) Laravel
2 10 (14.93%) React
3 8 (11.94%) Symfony
4 7 (10.45%) CSS
4 7 (10.45%) Vue
5 6 (8.96%) HTML
6 5 (7.46%) REST
7 3 (4.48%) React Native
8 2 (2.99%) CakePHP
8 2 (2.99%) CodeIgniter
8 2 (2.99%) Next.js
9 1 (1.49%) .NET
9 1 (1.49%) Doctrine
9 1 (1.49%) HTML5
9 1 (1.49%) Jest
9 1 (1.49%) jQuery
9 1 (1.49%) RESTful
9 1 (1.49%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (1.49%) Legacy Code
2 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.99%) Linux
2 1 (1.49%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (28.36%) Agile
2 9 (13.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (11.94%) Microservices
4 7 (10.45%) Computer Science
5 6 (8.96%) Containerisation
5 6 (8.96%) Web Development
6 5 (7.46%) E-Commerce
7 4 (5.97%) Clean Code
8 3 (4.48%) API Development
8 3 (4.48%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (4.48%) Mentoring
8 3 (4.48%) MVC
8 3 (4.48%) OO
8 3 (4.48%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (4.48%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (2.99%) OO PHP
9 2 (2.99%) Performance Management
9 2 (2.99%) Project Delivery
9 2 (2.99%) Software Engineering
9 2 (2.99%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 19 (28.36%) JavaScript
2 10 (14.93%) C#
3 9 (13.43%) SQL
4 8 (11.94%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.99%) Python
6 1 (1.49%) C++
6 1 (1.49%) Delphi
6 1 (1.49%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.49%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (2.99%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (1.49%) Adobe
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.49%) Netlify