PHP Job Trends in the South West

PHP
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 81 120
Rank change year-on-year -65 +39 +1
Permanent jobs citing PHP 28 145 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.69% 2.38% 2.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.72% 8.55% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 26 86 95
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,875 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,438 £39,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £61,875 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £69,450
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.54% +1.90%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 752 1,696 1,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 18.54% 27.85% 40.23%
Number of salaries quoted 540 944 1,451
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,404 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,875 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

PHP job vacancy trend in the South West

PHP
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in the South West over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Salary histogram for PHP in the South West

PHP
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 within the South West region over the 6 months to 8 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
Devon -5 6 £40,000 - 21
Bristol -10 6 £60,000 +9.09% 13
Dorset -13 5 £60,000 +41.18% 3
Gloucestershire +25 3 £50,000 +56.25% 6
Somerset -13 3 £40,000 - 7
Wiltshire +8 2 £57,500 - 5
PHP
England

PHP
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 4 (14.29%) WordPress
2 2 (7.14%) CMS
2 2 (7.14%) Drupal
3 1 (3.57%) Apache
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Elementor
2 2 (7.14%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (7.14%) Photoshop
3 1 (3.57%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) NetSuite
1 1 (3.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) Figma
2 3 (10.71%) GitHub
3 2 (7.14%) Azure
3 2 (7.14%) Cloudflare
3 2 (7.14%) GCP
3 2 (7.14%) SaaS
3 2 (7.14%) Vercel
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) MySQL
2 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Power BI
3 1 (3.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) PHPUnit
2 1 (3.57%) Vite
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Games
4 2 (7.14%) Marketing
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (71.43%) Developer
2 11 (39.29%) Senior
3 8 (28.57%) PHP Developer
3 8 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior PHP Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Web Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (7.14%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (7.14%) SQL Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Developer
7 1 (3.57%) C# Software Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Graduate C# Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Junior WordPress Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) CSS
2 9 (32.14%) HTML
2 9 (32.14%) Laravel
3 8 (28.57%) React
4 7 (25.00%) Symfony
5 5 (17.86%) HTML5
5 5 (17.86%) LAMP
6 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 4 (14.29%) CSS3
6 4 (14.29%) Vue
7 3 (10.71%) jQuery
7 3 (10.71%) REST
7 3 (10.71%) RESTful
7 3 (10.71%) Sass
8 2 (7.14%) .NET
8 2 (7.14%) Ajax
8 2 (7.14%) Bootstrap
8 2 (7.14%) LESS
8 2 (7.14%) Node.js
8 2 (7.14%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) IoT
1 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.57%) e-Learning
2 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Agile
2 7 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 7 (25.00%) Web Development
3 6 (21.43%) Clean Code
3 6 (21.43%) User Experience
4 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (17.86%) MVC
4 5 (17.86%) OOP
4 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 4 (14.29%) SEO
5 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) API Development
7 2 (7.14%) BDD
7 2 (7.14%) Computer Science
7 2 (7.14%) Machine Learning
7 2 (7.14%) Microservices
7 2 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (7.14%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 9 (32.14%) TypeScript
3 7 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) C#
5 1 (3.57%) Perl
5 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Netlify
1 2 (7.14%) WooCommerce
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe
2 1 (3.57%) Google