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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 41 54
Rank change year-on-year -30 +13 +5
Permanent jobs citing PHP 8 8 36
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.65% 2.13% 2.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.88% 9.64% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 35
10th Percentile £22,500 - £30,500
25th Percentile £25,625 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £43,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -12.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £58,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £41,250 £61,500 £63,250
Wales median annual salary £35,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% - -18.37%

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 164 83 378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 13.34% 22.13% 25.77%
Number of salaries quoted 100 74 317
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,125 £35,195
25th Percentile £37,500 £48,807 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,101
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +15.16% +1.17%
75th Percentile £69,000 £68,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £73,000
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +11.11%

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
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in South Wales over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Salary histogram for PHP in South Wales

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 10 June 2026. 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 -28 5 £25,000 -42.86% 2
Bridgend - 3 £35,000 -
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 1 (12.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Bower
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) PHP Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Junior
3 2 (25.00%) Junior Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Web Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
4 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
1 3 (37.50%) jQuery
1 3 (37.50%) Laravel
1 3 (37.50%) Vue
2 2 (25.00%) Ajax
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) LESS
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Sass
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) Twig
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (25.00%) OO
3 2 (25.00%) OOP
3 2 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (25.00%) Web Design
3 2 (25.00%) Web Development
4 1 (12.50%) API Design
4 1 (12.50%) API Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) MVC
4 1 (12.50%) SEO
4 1 (12.50%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker