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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 129 159
Rank change year-on-year -40 +30 +58
Permanent jobs citing Laravel 19 55 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.35% 1.43% 1.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.65% 7.01% 5.99%
Number of salaries quoted 19 38 94
10th Percentile £47,900 £48,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 - £69,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%

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 521 785 1,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.54% 20.47% 26.10%
Number of salaries quoted 380 445 1,386
10th Percentile £36,738 £42,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

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 2 February 2026.

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 2 February 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
Bristol -23 5 £72,500 +16.00% 5
Devon +2 4 £62,500 +13.64% 1
Gloucestershire - 4 £49,000 - 6
Wiltshire +5 2 £65,000 - 1
Dorset -12 2 £70,000 +21.74%
Somerset -16 2 £60,000 +54.84%
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) CMS
2 2 (10.53%) Headless CMS
2 2 (10.53%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) DigitalOcean
3 2 (10.53%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) MySQL
2 3 (15.79%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) Airbyte
4 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.26%) Couchbase
4 1 (5.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
General
1 2 (10.53%) Health Technology
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) Developer
2 10 (52.63%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (36.84%) Lead
4 6 (31.58%) Lead Developer
5 5 (26.32%) PHP Developer
6 4 (21.05%) Senior
7 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
7 3 (15.79%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (15.79%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
8 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Web Developer
8 2 (10.53%) Senior PHP Developer
8 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
8 2 (10.53%) Web Developer
9 1 (5.26%) DBA
9 1 (5.26%) Development Team Leader
9 1 (5.26%) Linux Developer
9 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
9 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 1 (5.26%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) React
2 4 (21.05%) Vue
3 3 (15.79%) Node.js
3 3 (15.79%) React Native
3 3 (15.79%) Symfony
4 2 (10.53%) LEMP Stack
4 2 (10.53%) LoopBack
4 2 (10.53%) Nuxt
5 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Mobile App
2 3 (15.79%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
3 4 (21.05%) Clean Code
3 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
3 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) Agile
4 3 (15.79%) API Development
4 3 (15.79%) CRM
4 3 (15.79%) Mobile Application Development
4 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (10.53%) API Design
5 2 (10.53%) API Integration
5 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.53%) Front End Development
5 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
6 1 (5.26%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) PHP
2 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 4 (21.05%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Google
1 1 (5.26%) New Relic