PHP Developer Job Trends in the South West

PHP Developer
England > South West

The median PHP Developer salary in the South West is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 145 189
Rank change year-on-year -22 +44 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 11 53 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.22% 1.16% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 1.24% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 11 33 19
10th Percentile £45,000 £33,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £76,500 £70,050
England median annual salary £41,500 £51,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -19.02% -2.38% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 4,574 4,282 4,018
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 93.68% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,133 2,464 3,136
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,272 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,688
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'PHP Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

PHP Developer job vacancy trend in the South West

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for PHP Developer job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for PHP Developer job vacancies in the South West

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the South West

PHP Developer
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 PHP Developer within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 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 +7 5 £55,000 -8.33% 6
Wiltshire -1 3 £65,000 +13.04% 3
Somerset -14 2 £60,000 +41.18% 3
Devon +1 1 £24,000 -46.67% 2
PHP Developer
England

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) Laravel
3 3 (27.27%) E-Commerce
3 3 (27.27%) SaaS
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (18.18%) Procedural Programming
4 2 (18.18%) Symfony
5 1 (9.09%) AWS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure
5 1 (9.09%) C#
5 1 (9.09%) Clean Code
5 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
5 1 (9.09%) CSS
5 1 (9.09%) CSS3
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) HTML
5 1 (9.09%) HTML5
5 1 (9.09%) MySQL
5 1 (9.09%) OO
5 1 (9.09%) OOP
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) User Experience
5 1 (9.09%) Web Development

PHP Developer Skill Set
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 3 (27.27%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
General
1 2 (18.18%) Games
1 2 (18.18%) Health Technology
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Laravel
2 2 (18.18%) Symfony
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) CSS3
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) E-Commerce
2 2 (18.18%) Agile
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (18.18%) Procedural Programming
3 1 (9.09%) Clean Code
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
3 1 (9.09%) OO
3 1 (9.09%) OOP
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) User Experience
3 1 (9.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) SQL