PHP Developer Jobs in Dorset

PHP Developer
South West > Dorset

The median PHP Developer salary in Dorset is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 60 60
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 5 41 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 1.12% 3.50% 3.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 3.69% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5 41 21
10th Percentile - £22,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% +35.71%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £48,750
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -5.26% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Dorset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Dorset. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Dorset with a recognized job title 441 1,112 588
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.66% 94.80% 84.24%
Number of salaries quoted 190 653 376
10th Percentile £31,125 £27,000 £31,625
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £39,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £61,500 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,125
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Job postings that featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in Dorset

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in Dorset

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

Salary trend for PHP Developer in Dorset

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in Dorset

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

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in Dorset

PHP Developer
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Bournemouth +32 3 £60,000 +33.33% 5
Poole +11 2 £37,500 -37.50%
PHP Developer
South West

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Dorset region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) PHP
2 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (60.00%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (40.00%) Node.js
3 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (40.00%) Go
3 2 (40.00%) LAMP
3 2 (40.00%) Cloudflare
3 2 (40.00%) Web Development
3 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Advertising
4 1 (20.00%) PHPUnit
4 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
4 1 (20.00%) Laravel

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Cloudflare
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (20.00%) Advertising
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) LAMP
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (20.00%) Laravel
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Web Development
1 2 (40.00%) Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python