PHP Job Trends in Bournemouth

PHP
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bournemouth requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 14 6
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 +30
Permanent jobs citing PHP 5 18 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Bournemouth 3.55% 10.34% 19.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.63% 23.08% 31.65%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 25
10th Percentile £62,000 £30,625 £45,000
25th Percentile - £38,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £72,500 £59,063 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,000 £79,375 £64,000
Dorset median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% +15.79%

All Programming Languages
Bournemouth

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 Bournemouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 32 78 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bournemouth 22.70% 44.83% 61.72%
Number of salaries quoted 13 48 77
10th Percentile £51,400 £37,625 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £58,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £74,750 £68,750 £77,500
Dorset median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +10.00%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth.

PHP job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

PHP
Salary Trend in Bournemouth

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in Bournemouth

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in Bournemouth over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP in Bournemouth

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Development Team Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) PHP Team Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) LAMP
1 3 (60.00%) Symfony
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) Laravel
3 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) MVC
1 3 (60.00%) OOP
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript