PHP Jobs in Dorset

PHP
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 40 25 34
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 -7
Permanent jobs citing PHP 17 87 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 3.80% 7.42% 8.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.32% 23.45% 24.49%
Number of salaries quoted 17 81 55
10th Percentile £40,750 £31,250 £34,700
25th Percentile £52,500 £32,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £50,625
90th Percentile £79,000 £60,000 £63,750
South West median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -5.26% -5.00%

All Programming Languages
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 111 371 245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 24.83% 31.63% 35.10%
Number of salaries quoted 84 275 201
10th Percentile £37,574 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,188 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.18% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £62,850 £63,750 £73,750
South West median annual salary £52,600 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.36% - +4.76%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Dorset

PHP
Salary Trend in Dorset

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

Salary trend for PHP in Dorset

PHP
Salary Histogram in Dorset

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

Salary histogram for PHP in Dorset

PHP
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 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 +19 14 £57,500 +27.78% 4
Poole +5 2 £37,500 -28.57% 3
PHP
South West

PHP
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) Apache Solr
1 3 (17.65%) nginx
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) GCP
2 2 (11.76%) Cloudflare
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
1 3 (17.65%) HTTPS
1 3 (17.65%) IPsec
1 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (82.35%) MySQL
2 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (17.65%) Couchbase
3 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Babel
2 1 (5.88%) PHPUnit
2 1 (5.88%) Vite
General
1 5 (29.41%) Retail
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Senior
2 7 (41.18%) Developer
3 5 (29.41%) PHP Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior PHP Developer
6 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) PHP Web Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Web Developer
7 1 (5.88%) GCP DevOps
7 1 (5.88%) Lead
7 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (5.88%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 1 (5.88%) React Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) CSS
1 10 (58.82%) HTML
1 10 (58.82%) LAMP
2 9 (52.94%) Laravel
3 5 (29.41%) RESTful
3 5 (29.41%) Web Services
4 4 (23.53%) Node.js
5 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
5 3 (17.65%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (17.65%) React
5 3 (17.65%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (11.76%) Symfony
6 2 (11.76%) Vue
7 1 (5.88%) Bootstrap
7 1 (5.88%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (5.88%) Next.js
7 1 (5.88%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
1 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) E-Commerce
2 7 (41.18%) OOP
3 6 (35.29%) MVC
4 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Software Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Web Development
6 2 (11.76%) API Development
6 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Workflow
7 1 (5.88%) Agile
7 1 (5.88%) API Integration
7 1 (5.88%) B2C
7 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning
7 1 (5.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) JavaScript
2 4 (23.53%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Go
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Twitter