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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 119 95
Rank change year-on-year -2 -24 +74
Permanent jobs citing PHP 42 38 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.22% 1.13% 2.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.73% 4.66% 7.29%
Number of salaries quoted 40 24 79
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £58,125 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £60,625 - £71,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +1.90%

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 733 815 1,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.22% 24.18% 37.15%
Number of salaries quoted 532 411 906
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £35,812
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 25 December 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 25 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 0 21 £42,000 -33.07% 41
East Yorkshire 0 8 £38,500 -0.65% 8
South Yorkshire -5 8 £25,000 -53.49% 25
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 5 (11.90%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Magento
1 1 (2.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (38.10%) AWS
2 9 (21.43%) Azure
3 5 (11.90%) Datadog
3 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
3 5 (11.90%) Power Automate
4 3 (7.14%) SaaS
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.76%) GCP
5 2 (4.76%) Serverless
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.38%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) MySQL
2 5 (11.90%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.76%) RDBMS
3 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Postman
2 1 (2.38%) Git
2 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.19%) Law
3 5 (11.90%) Finance
4 2 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (73.81%) Developer
2 20 (47.62%) PHP Developer
3 7 (16.67%) Graduate
3 7 (16.67%) Senior
3 7 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 7 (16.67%) Senior PHP Developer
4 6 (14.29%) Graduate Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Applications Specialist
5 5 (11.90%) Applications Support
5 5 (11.90%) Applications Support Specialist
5 5 (11.90%) Support Specialist
6 4 (9.52%) Integration Developer
6 4 (9.52%) IT Graduate
6 4 (9.52%) Lead
7 3 (7.14%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Graduate Software Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Junior
8 2 (4.76%) PHP Web Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (35.71%) CSS
2 11 (26.19%) HTML
3 10 (23.81%) .NET
3 10 (23.81%) Laravel
4 9 (21.43%) Symfony
5 6 (14.29%) React
6 5 (11.90%) CakePHP
6 5 (11.90%) CodeIgniter
6 5 (11.90%) JWT
6 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (11.90%) OAuth
6 5 (11.90%) OpenAPI
6 5 (11.90%) RAML
6 5 (11.90%) RESTful
6 5 (11.90%) SAML
6 5 (11.90%) Swagger
7 4 (9.52%) ASP.NET
7 4 (9.52%) jQuery
8 3 (7.14%) REST
9 1 (2.38%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (33.33%) Agile
2 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (21.43%) MVC
3 9 (21.43%) OO
4 8 (19.05%) Web Development
5 6 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (11.90%) OO PHP
6 5 (11.90%) Robotic Process Automation
6 5 (11.90%) SDLC
7 4 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (9.52%) OOP
8 2 (4.76%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (4.76%) E-Commerce
8 2 (4.76%) Mentoring
8 2 (4.76%) Microservices
8 2 (4.76%) Performance Management
8 2 (4.76%) Project Delivery
8 2 (4.76%) Software Engineering
8 2 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) JavaScript
2 13 (30.95%) C#
3 11 (26.19%) SQL
4 9 (21.43%) Java
5 8 (19.05%) TypeScript
6 6 (14.29%) Python
7 5 (11.90%) DataWeave
8 4 (9.52%) C++
9 1 (2.38%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) CloudHub
2 1 (2.38%) Argo
2 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
1 5 (11.90%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.38%) Adobe