PHP Jobs in Cardiff

PHP
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 16 32 38
Rank change year-on-year +16 +6 +23
Permanent jobs citing PHP 15 32 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 8.29% 4.86% 4.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.42% 13.79% 13.66%
Number of salaries quoted 13 31 8
10th Percentile - £31,250 -
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £37,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £52,500 £38,744
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +35.50% -18.43%
75th Percentile £47,500 £62,500 £41,875
90th Percentile £56,250 £63,250 £46,225
South Wales median annual salary £32,500 £50,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -35.00% +16.28% -9.47%

All Programming Languages
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 59 232 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 32.60% 35.26% 35.96%
Number of salaries quoted 53 219 144
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,750 £40,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,043 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £60,000 £51,528 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.44% +3.06% -

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Cardiff

PHP
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for PHP in Cardiff

PHP
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP in Cardiff

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 10 (66.67%) CMS
2 1 (6.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (80.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) Git
2 9 (60.00%) Grunt
2 9 (60.00%) webpack
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 11 (73.33%) PHP Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Senior
3 5 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Senior Web Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Web Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Web Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Developer
5 1 (6.67%) PHP Web Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior PHP Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior PHP Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) HTML
2 11 (73.33%) Symfony
3 10 (66.67%) Sass
4 9 (60.00%) CakePHP
4 9 (60.00%) Doctrine
4 9 (60.00%) Pyjs
4 9 (60.00%) Vue
5 6 (40.00%) CSS
6 1 (6.67%) Laravel
6 1 (6.67%) Next.js
6 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Legacy Code
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (60.00%) B2B
2 9 (60.00%) CRM
2 9 (60.00%) OO
2 9 (60.00%) OO PHP
3 5 (33.33%) Web Development
4 2 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (6.67%) Clean Code
5 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.67%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker