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

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 25 31
Rank change year-on-year -21 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing PHP 10 87 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 2.34% 7.20% 7.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.33% 23.14% 22.83%
Number of salaries quoted 10 81 46
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £34,125
25th Percentile £45,938 £32,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £59,688 £57,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £62,750 £60,000 £65,000
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 120 376 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 28.04% 31.10% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 80 280 179
10th Percentile £37,574 £31,250 £32,900
25th Percentile £43,750 £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 £55,625 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £62,550 £63,750 £71,250
South West median annual salary £52,600 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.36% - +4.76%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 22 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 22 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 +15 8 £57,500 +27.78% 8
Poole +4 2 £37,500 -28.57%
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 1 (10.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (10.00%) IPsec
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) MySQL
2 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Couchbase
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 3 (30.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Senior
2 6 (60.00%) Developer
3 5 (50.00%) PHP Developer
4 4 (40.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (30.00%) Senior PHP Developer
6 2 (20.00%) PHP Web Developer
6 2 (20.00%) Web Developer
7 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (10.00%) GCP DevOps
7 1 (10.00%) Lead
7 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (10.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 1 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) CSS
1 6 (60.00%) HTML
2 5 (50.00%) LAMP
3 4 (40.00%) Laravel
4 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (30.00%) Node.js
4 3 (30.00%) RESTful
4 3 (30.00%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (30.00%) Web Services
5 1 (10.00%) Bootstrap
5 1 (10.00%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (10.00%) Next.js
5 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (10.00%) React
5 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (30.00%) MVC
2 3 (30.00%) OOP
3 2 (20.00%) Web Development
3 2 (20.00%) Workflow
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) API Development
4 1 (10.00%) API Integration
4 1 (10.00%) B2C
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Go
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Twitter