diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ef29711885a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+name: Lint
+
+on:
+  # Run on pushes to select branches and on all pull requests.
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+      - trunk
+      - 'release/**'
+      - 'hotfix/[0-9]+.[0-9]+*'
+      - 'feature/**'
+  pull_request:
+  # Allow manually triggering the workflow.
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+# Cancels all previous workflow runs for the same branch that have not yet completed.
+concurrency:
+  # The concurrency group contains the workflow name and the branch name.
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  lint:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        # Lint against the highest/lowest supported versions of each PHP major.
+        # And also do a run against "nightly" (the current dev version of PHP).
+        php_version: ['5.6', '7.0', '7.4', '8.0', '8.1', '8.2']
+
+    name: "Lint: PHP ${{ matrix.php_version }}"
+
+    # Allow builds to fail on as-of-yet unreleased PHP versions.
+    continue-on-error: ${{ matrix.php_version == '8.2' }}
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      # The prefix-dependencies task only works on PHP 7.2 (and higher) and we need to prefix
+      # the dependencies which are included in the distributed code to make sure there
+      # are no parse errors in the adjusted code.
+      - name: Install PHP 7.x for generating the vendor_prefixed directory
+        uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
+        with:
+          php-version: 7.2
+          coverage: none
+
+      - name: Install Composer dependencies and generate vendor_prefixed directory
+        uses: ramsey/composer-install@v2
+
+      # Moving the necessary tools to no-dev prevents dependency hell due to the lock file containing
+      # packages locked at versions incompatible with the full range of supported PHP versions.
+      # This move needs to happen while still on PHP 7.2 as otherwise Composer will reject it.
+      - name: Move the linting tools from dev to no-dev
+        run: composer require yoast/yoastcs --no-scripts
+
+      - name: Remove the vendor directory
+        run: rm -rf vendor/*
+
+      - name: Install PHP for the actual linting
+        uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
+        with:
+          php-version: ${{ matrix.php_version }}
+          ini-values: zend.assertions=1, error_reporting=-1, display_errors=On
+          coverage: none
+          tools: cs2pr
+
+      # Install dependencies and handle caching in one go.
+      # @link https://github.com/marketplace/actions/install-composer-dependencies
+      - name: "Install Composer dependencies (lint tools and no-dev only)"
+        uses: ramsey/composer-install@v2
+        with:
+          composer-options: "--no-dev --no-scripts"
+
+      - name: Lint against parse errors
+        run: composer lint -- --checkstyle | cs2pr
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index fd28da3c30a..8e4387d4bbf 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -29,17 +29,16 @@ jobs:
     - php: 7.3.24
       env: WP_VERSION=latest WP_MULTISITE=1 COVERAGE=1
     - php: 5.6
-      env: WP_VERSION=5.6 WP_MULTISITE=1 PHPLINT=1 PHPUNIT=1
+      env: WP_VERSION=5.6 WP_MULTISITE=1 PHPUNIT=1
       # Use 'trusty' to test against MySQL 5.6, 'xenial' contains 5.7 by default.
       dist: trusty
     - php: 7.3
       env: WP_VERSION=trunk PHPUNIT=1
     - php: 7.4
-      env: WP_VERSION=latest PHPUNIT=1 PHPLINT=1
+      env: WP_VERSION=latest PHPUNIT=1
     - php: 8.0
-      env: WP_VERSION=latest PHPUNIT=1 PHPLINT=1
+      env: WP_VERSION=latest PHPUNIT=1
     - php: "nightly"
-      env: PHPLINT=1
     - stage: 🚀 deployment
       name: "Deploy to S3"
       if: branch = deploy # Only build when on the `deploy` branch, this functionality is not used yet and is taking a long time to complete.
@@ -143,7 +142,7 @@ install:
   - |
     if [[ ${TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION:0:1} == "8" || $TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION == "nightly" ]]; then
       travis_retry composer install --no-interaction --ignore-platform-reqs --no-scripts --no-suggest
-    elif [[ "$PHPUNIT" == "1" || "$COVERAGE" == "1" || "$PHPLINT" == "1" ]]; then
+    elif [[ "$PHPUNIT" == "1" || "$COVERAGE" == "1" ]]; then
       # Run composer update as we have dev dependencies locked at PHP ^7.0 versions.
       travis_retry composer update --no-interaction --no-scripts
       travis_retry composer install --no-interaction --no-scripts
@@ -226,13 +225,6 @@ script:
       yarn test
       travis_time_finish && travis_fold end "JavaScript.tests"
     fi
-  # PHP Linting
-  - |
-    if [[ "$PHPLINT" == "1" ]]; then
-      travis_fold start "PHP.check" && travis_time_start
-      composer lint
-      travis_time_finish && travis_fold end "PHP.check"
-    fi
   # PHP Unit
   - |
     if [[ "$PHPUNIT" == "1" && ${TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION:0:1} != "8" && $TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION != "nightly" ]]; then
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b158e7b3070..9732b80ee00 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Yoast SEO
 
 [![CS](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/actions/workflows/cs.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/actions/workflows/cs.yml)
+[![Lint](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/actions/workflows/lint.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/actions/workflows/lint.yml)
 [![Build Status](https://api.travis-ci.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo)
 [![Stable Version](https://poser.pugx.org/yoast/wordpress-seo/v/stable.svg)](https://packagist.org/packages/yoast/wordpress-seo)
 [![License](https://poser.pugx.org/yoast/wordpress-seo/license.svg)](https://packagist.org/packages/yoast/wordpress-seo)
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 2286e52c9f3..22abc2e5e94 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -64,10 +64,10 @@
 			"@php ./vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit -c phpunit-integration.xml.dist"
 		],
 		"lint": [
-			"@php ./vendor/php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint/parallel-lint . -e php --show-deprecated --exclude vendor --exclude vendor_prefixed --exclude node_modules --exclude .git"
+			"@php ./vendor/php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint/parallel-lint . -e php --show-deprecated --exclude vendor --exclude node_modules --exclude .git"
 		],
 		"lint-files": [
-			"@php ./vendor/php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint/parallel-lint --show-deprecated"
+			"@php ./vendor/php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint/parallel-lint -e php --show-deprecated"
 		],
 		"lint-branch": [
 			"Yoast\\WP\\SEO\\Composer\\Actions::lint_branch"