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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 81 121
Rank change year-on-year +25 +40 -55
Permanent jobs citing PHP 45 81 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 3.60% 2.61% 1.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.20% 7.18% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 31 68 19
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,500 £37,900
25th Percentile £56,875 £37,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £58,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £65,000 £75,750
South West median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -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 489 1,128 1,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 39.09% 36.34% 43.72%
Number of salaries quoted 398 946 762
10th Percentile £40,313 £38,750 £37,137
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,886 £73,886 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,125 £87,500 £87,500
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 May 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 7 (15.56%) WordPress
2 1 (2.22%) CMS
2 1 (2.22%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 29 (64.44%) AWS
2 15 (33.33%) GCP
3 7 (15.56%) GitHub
3 7 (15.56%) Serverless
3 7 (15.56%) Stripe
4 3 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (6.67%) SaaS
5 1 (2.22%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (57.78%) MySQL
2 7 (15.56%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (46.67%) Git
General
1 21 (46.67%) Games
2 14 (31.11%) Finance
3 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 7 (15.56%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.22%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 24 (53.33%) Developer
2 14 (31.11%) Lead
3 13 (28.89%) Senior
3 13 (28.89%) Senior Developer
4 11 (24.44%) PHP Developer
5 10 (22.22%) Senior PHP Developer
6 8 (17.78%) Technical Leader
7 7 (15.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 7 (15.56%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
7 7 (15.56%) Web Developer
7 7 (15.56%) Website Developer
8 5 (11.11%) Software Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) Architect
9 3 (6.67%) Development Team Leader
9 3 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) PHP Architect
9 3 (6.67%) SaaS Software Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) Software Architect
9 3 (6.67%) Software Developer
9 3 (6.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (51.11%) CSS
1 23 (51.11%) HTML
2 21 (46.67%) Laravel
3 17 (37.78%) LAMP
4 7 (15.56%) Node.js
5 4 (8.89%) AngularJS
5 4 (8.89%) React
5 4 (8.89%) Symfony
6 3 (6.67%) React Native
7 1 (2.22%) Next.js
7 1 (2.22%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (2.22%) Twig
7 1 (2.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) Mobile App
2 10 (22.22%) IoT
3 7 (15.56%) Learning Management System
4 6 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.22%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (62.22%) E-Commerce
2 21 (46.67%) Web Development
3 17 (37.78%) Software Engineering
4 14 (31.11%) MVC
4 14 (31.11%) OOP
5 13 (28.89%) Mentoring
6 12 (26.67%) Agile
6 12 (26.67%) Line Management
7 8 (17.78%) Front End Development
7 8 (17.78%) Project Management
7 8 (17.78%) SOLID
7 8 (17.78%) TDD
8 7 (15.56%) Change Management
8 7 (15.56%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
8 7 (15.56%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (15.56%) User Experience
8 7 (15.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 6 (13.33%) Clean Code
9 6 (13.33%) Microservices
10 5 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (51.11%) JavaScript
2 5 (11.11%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.22%) Bash
3 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Accessibility
1 7 (15.56%) WCAG
2 5 (11.11%) QA
3 3 (6.67%) GMP
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.33%) Twitter