PHP Jobs in the South West

PHP
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 93 53
Rank change year-on-year -1 -40 -22
Permanent jobs citing PHP 264 236 440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.93% 3.29% 5.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.59% 8.68% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 234 171 378
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,375
25th Percentile £36,750 £39,375 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £93,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
South West

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,072 2,719 4,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 34.04% 37.94% 51.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,462 1,783 2,827
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +6.80% +8.42%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,713 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the South West

PHP
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP in the South West.

Salary trend for PHP in the South West

PHP
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in the South West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP in the South West

PHP
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Dorset +11 91 £45,000 -2.70% 2
Bristol +32 76 £45,000 -28.00% 24
Somerset +9 34 £47,500 -5.00% 12
Gloucestershire -16 24 £55,000 +4.76% 2
Devon -24 19 £40,000 -11.11% 9
Wiltshire -4 12 £50,000 +33.33%
Cornwall -5 7 £45,000 +12.50% 1
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 44 (16.67%) WordPress
2 9 (3.41%) Apache
3 7 (2.65%) CMS
4 6 (2.27%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (1.14%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.14%) nginx
5 3 (1.14%) SAS
6 2 (0.76%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.76%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) Drupal
7 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.89%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.76%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (2.65%) Magento
2 3 (1.14%) Shopify
3 2 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 63 (23.86%) AWS
2 28 (10.61%) SaaS
3 14 (5.30%) Azure
4 10 (3.79%) GCP
4 10 (3.79%) GitHub
5 8 (3.03%) Figma
6 6 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.27%) Google Analytics
6 6 (2.27%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.27%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.52%) BigCommerce
7 4 (1.52%) npm
7 4 (1.52%) Serverless
8 2 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.76%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.76%) DigitalOcean
8 2 (0.76%) Firebase
9 1 (0.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.27%) VoIP
1 6 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.76%) DNS
2 2 (0.76%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.76%) Internet
2 2 (0.76%) IPsec
2 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (49.24%) MySQL
2 13 (4.92%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.79%) NoSQL
3 10 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.03%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.65%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.65%) SQLite
6 6 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.27%) GIS
6 6 (2.27%) Oracle BI EE
6 6 (2.27%) Power BI
6 6 (2.27%) Star Schema
6 6 (2.27%) Tableau
7 5 (1.89%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.76%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 54 (20.45%) Git
2 14 (5.30%) Subversion
3 10 (3.79%) Visual Studio
4 7 (2.65%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.14%) Grunt
6 2 (0.76%) webpack
7 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.38%) GitLab
7 1 (0.38%) gulp
7 1 (0.38%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.38%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 47 (17.80%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.02%) Retail
3 25 (9.47%) Marketing
4 19 (7.20%) Finance
5 13 (4.92%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.41%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.03%) Games
9 7 (2.65%) Electronics
10 6 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (1.89%) Banking
11 5 (1.89%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.14%) German Language
13 2 (0.76%) Billing
13 2 (0.76%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.38%) Digital Healthcare
14 1 (0.38%) Environmental Health
14 1 (0.38%) Local Government
14 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 204 (77.27%) Developer
2 101 (38.26%) PHP Developer
3 58 (21.97%) Senior
4 52 (19.70%) Senior Developer
5 49 (18.56%) Full Stack Developer
6 36 (13.64%) Web Developer
7 34 (12.88%) Software Developer
8 30 (11.36%) Senior PHP Developer
9 28 (10.61%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 15 (5.68%) Full Stack PHP Developer
11 14 (5.30%) Software Engineer
11 14 (5.30%) WordPress Developer
12 13 (4.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 13 (4.92%) PHP Web Developer
13 12 (4.55%) Lead
14 11 (4.17%) Full Stack Web Developer
14 11 (4.17%) Senior Software Developer
15 7 (2.65%) Junior Developer
15 7 (2.65%) Senior Full Stack Developer
15 7 (2.65%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (54.17%) HTML
2 139 (52.65%) Laravel
3 120 (45.45%) CSS
4 71 (26.89%) React
5 70 (26.52%) Vue
6 56 (21.21%) LAMP
7 45 (17.05%) jQuery
8 24 (9.09%) Symfony
9 23 (8.71%) Node.js
9 23 (8.71%) RESTful
10 21 (7.95%) AngularJS
11 12 (4.55%) Web Services
12 11 (4.17%) REST
13 10 (3.79%) GraphQL
14 9 (3.41%) Sass
15 8 (3.03%) HTML5
15 8 (3.03%) React Native
15 8 (3.03%) SOAP
15 8 (3.03%) Tailwind CSS
16 7 (2.65%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.17%) Animation
2 9 (3.41%) Low-Code
3 7 (2.65%) Mobile App
3 7 (2.65%) Video Editing
4 6 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.27%) IoT
5 5 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.52%) BBC
6 4 (1.52%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.14%) Graphic Design
8 2 (0.76%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.38%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.38%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.38%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.33%) Linux
2 7 (2.65%) Windows
3 4 (1.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.38%) Android
4 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (32.58%) Full Stack Development
2 67 (25.38%) MVC
3 64 (24.24%) Web Development
4 57 (21.59%) Agile
5 56 (21.21%) OOP
6 42 (15.91%) Software Engineering
7 41 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (11.36%) Front End Development
9 29 (10.98%) E-Commerce
10 28 (10.61%) Scrum
11 27 (10.23%) CRM
12 23 (8.71%) DevOps
13 20 (7.58%) Microservices
14 19 (7.20%) Code Quality
15 18 (6.82%) Collaborative Working
15 18 (6.82%) Performance Optimisation
16 17 (6.44%) Web Design
17 15 (5.68%) CI/CD
18 14 (5.30%) API Development
18 14 (5.30%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 170 (64.39%) JavaScript
2 36 (13.64%) SQL
3 22 (8.33%) Python
4 21 (7.95%) Java
5 20 (7.58%) TypeScript
6 16 (6.06%) C#
7 11 (4.17%) C
8 9 (3.41%) C++
9 8 (3.03%) Bash
9 8 (3.03%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.27%) Ada
10 6 (2.27%) Bicep
10 6 (2.27%) Ruby
10 6 (2.27%) VBA
11 4 (1.52%) Go
11 4 (1.52%) Rust
11 4 (1.52%) Scala
11 4 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.14%) Delphi
13 2 (0.76%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 23 (8.71%) Degree
2 7 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.76%) MCP
4 1 (0.38%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.27%) Data Quality
1 6 (2.27%) GDPR
1 6 (2.27%) QA
2 5 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (9.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.41%) Terraform
3 1 (0.38%) Plesk
Vendors
1 17 (6.44%) Google
2 15 (5.68%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.55%) Twitter
4 7 (2.65%) SAP
4 7 (2.65%) WooCommerce
5 6 (2.27%) Oracle
6 5 (1.89%) Adobe
6 5 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.76%) Apple