Laravel Job Trends in the South West

Laravel PHP Framework
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Laravel skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 143 176
Rank change year-on-year -25 +33 +37
Permanent jobs citing Laravel 15 56 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.30% 1.29% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.23% 6.85% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 15 39 38
10th Percentile £55,000 £44,500 £32,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,750 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% +34.15%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £68,875
90th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,501 £55,000
% change year-on-year 0.00% -4.54% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

Laravel falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 464 817 1,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.24% 18.79% 26.11%
Number of salaries quoted 355 475 934
10th Percentile £32,700 £41,250 £36,138
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.77%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Laravel
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Laravel job vacancy trend in the South West

Laravel
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Laravel.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Laravel

Laravel
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Laravel in the South West over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Laravel in the South West

Laravel
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Laravel within the South West region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Bristol -14 5 £72,500 +16.00% 5
Devon +4 4 £62,500 +16.28% 9
Wiltshire +13 2 £65,000 - 3
Dorset -6 2 £70,000 +21.74% 2
Somerset -17 2 £60,000 +33.33% 1
Laravel
England

Laravel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) Airbyte
2 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (6.67%) Couchbase
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Redis
General
1 2 (13.33%) Health Technology
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Lead
3 6 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (40.00%) Lead Developer
4 4 (26.67%) PHP Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Senior
5 3 (20.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
6 2 (13.33%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 2 (13.33%) Senior PHP Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Administrator
7 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
7 1 (6.67%) DBA
7 1 (6.67%) Development Team Leader
7 1 (6.67%) PHP Team Leader
7 1 (6.67%) Senior DBA
7 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) React
2 3 (20.00%) React Native
2 3 (20.00%) Symfony
3 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Mobile App
2 3 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (26.67%) Clean Code
2 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.67%) Database Security
5 1 (6.67%) Front End Development
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (6.67%) Microservices
5 1 (6.67%) Observability
5 1 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (6.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) PHP
2 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Google
1 1 (6.67%) New Relic