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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 126 117
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 -10
Permanent jobs citing PHP 39 41 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.09% 0.97% 2.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.43% 4.16% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 31 25 78
10th Percentile £25,000 £29,200 £32,275
25th Percentile £33,125 £30,250 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £62,188
90th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £53,250
% change year-on-year -10.00% -6.10% +1.43%

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 607 985 1,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.92% 23.28% 38.73%
Number of salaries quoted 482 501 1,009
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,500 £69,136
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £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 5 November 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 5 November 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 -11.58% 30
South Yorkshire +6 7 £25,000 -44.44% 3
East Yorkshire -5 7 £37,500 -3.23% 5
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 (12.82%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Magento
1 1 (2.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (17.95%) Azure
3 5 (12.82%) Datadog
3 5 (12.82%) Entra ID
3 5 (12.82%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.56%) SaaS
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.21%) MySQL
2 6 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Postman
2 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.56%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.56%) Selenium
2 1 (2.56%) SoapUI
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.21%) Law
3 5 (12.82%) Finance
4 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Graduate
3 6 (15.38%) Graduate Developer
3 6 (15.38%) IT Graduate
3 6 (15.38%) PHP Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Applications Specialist
4 5 (12.82%) Applications Support
4 5 (12.82%) Applications Support Specialist
4 5 (12.82%) Support Specialist
5 4 (10.26%) Integration Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Lead
6 3 (7.69%) Lead Developer
7 2 (5.13%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Backend Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Integration Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) QA Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (51.28%) HTML
2 18 (46.15%) CSS
3 11 (28.21%) .NET
4 7 (17.95%) jQuery
4 7 (17.95%) Laravel
5 6 (15.38%) ASP.NET
6 5 (12.82%) CakePHP
6 5 (12.82%) CodeIgniter
6 5 (12.82%) JWT
6 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (12.82%) OAuth
6 5 (12.82%) OpenAPI
6 5 (12.82%) RAML
6 5 (12.82%) RESTful
6 5 (12.82%) SAML
6 5 (12.82%) Swagger
6 5 (12.82%) Symfony
7 3 (7.69%) React
8 1 (2.56%) LAMP
8 1 (2.56%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.56%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Computer Science
1 14 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (33.33%) Agile
2 13 (33.33%) OO
3 12 (30.77%) MVC
4 8 (20.51%) AI
4 8 (20.51%) Data Privacy
4 8 (20.51%) Machine Learning
5 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (15.38%) OOP
5 6 (15.38%) SDLC
5 6 (15.38%) Web Development
6 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (12.82%) OO PHP
6 5 (12.82%) Robotic Process Automation
7 2 (5.13%) Mentoring
7 2 (5.13%) Software Engineering
8 1 (2.56%) Performance Management
8 1 (2.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (2.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (56.41%) JavaScript
2 20 (51.28%) C#
2 20 (51.28%) Java
3 19 (48.72%) SQL
4 15 (38.46%) Python
5 14 (35.90%) C++
5 14 (35.90%) TypeScript
6 8 (20.51%) C
6 8 (20.51%) Dart
6 8 (20.51%) MATLAB
6 8 (20.51%) R
6 8 (20.51%) Ruby
6 8 (20.51%) Rust
7 5 (12.82%) DataWeave
8 1 (2.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) Computer Science Degree
1 14 (35.90%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) CloudHub
2 1 (2.56%) Argo
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
1 5 (12.82%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.56%) Adobe