PHP Job Trends in South Wales

PHP
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 44 66
Rank change year-on-year -15 +22 -7
Permanent jobs citing PHP 4 27 11
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.53% 3.11% 1.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.96% 10.98% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4 24 8
10th Percentile £51,625 - £44,625
25th Percentile £52,188 £31,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £32,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -33.33% -11.36%
75th Percentile £58,125 £33,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £59,250 £46,250 £54,750
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £32,500 £48,750
% change year-on-year +69.23% -33.33% -11.36%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 135 246 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 18.02% 28.34% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 120 147 177
10th Percentile £32,925 £23,750 £33,050
25th Percentile £48,250 £33,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,769
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -9.52%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

PHP job vacancy trend in South Wales

PHP
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing PHP

PHP
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Cardiff -1 4 £55,000 +69.23% 2
PHP
Wales

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) npm
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Web Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) Sass
1 3 (75.00%) Symfony
1 3 (75.00%) Vue
2 2 (50.00%) Laravel
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Code
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Web Development
3 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Time Management
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript