PHP Jobs in Bristol

PHP
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 79 102
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 -29
Permanent jobs citing PHP 20 89 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 1.68% 2.55% 2.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.28% 8.03% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 17 70 19
10th Percentile £52,750 £36,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £39,063 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -14.29% -19.23%
75th Percentile £71,250 £59,688 £66,875
90th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £75,000
South West median annual salary £58,750 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +30.56% -5.26% -5.00%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 379 1,108 1,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 31.82% 31.73% 42.19%
Number of salaries quoted 298 892 696
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,870 £45,000 £46,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £59,541
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -2.59% +4.46%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £74,063
90th Percentile £90,375 £87,500 £86,250
South West median annual salary £52,600 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.36% - +4.76%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Bristol

PHP
Salary Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP in Bristol.

Salary trend for PHP in Bristol

PHP
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP in Bristol

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (10.00%) WordPress
2 1 (5.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 7 (35.00%) GCP
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) Stripe
5 1 (5.00%) Azure
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) MySQL
2 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Git
General
1 12 (60.00%) Games
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Senior
2 8 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Lead
3 6 (30.00%) PHP Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Senior PHP Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Development Team Leader
4 3 (15.00%) Team Leader
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Leader
5 2 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (10.00%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
5 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Web Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Website Developer
6 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Drupal Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Drupal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) CSS
1 9 (45.00%) HTML
2 7 (35.00%) Laravel
3 6 (30.00%) LAMP
4 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (15.00%) Node.js
5 1 (5.00%) Next.js
5 1 (5.00%) React
5 1 (5.00%) Symfony
5 1 (5.00%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (5.00%) Twig
5 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (15.00%) IoT
3 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (10.00%) Learning Management System
4 1 (5.00%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) E-Commerce
2 8 (40.00%) Web Development
3 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (30.00%) MVC
4 6 (30.00%) OOP
5 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (20.00%) Line Management
7 3 (15.00%) Agile
7 3 (15.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (15.00%) Front End Development
7 3 (15.00%) Project Management
8 2 (10.00%) Change Management
8 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
8 2 (10.00%) Clean Code
8 2 (10.00%) Microservices
8 2 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 2 (10.00%) SOLID
8 2 (10.00%) TDD
8 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
8 2 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.00%) QA
1 2 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.00%) Twitter