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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 122 103
Rank change year-on-year -59 -19 +4
Permanent jobs citing PHP 60 45 167
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.67% 1.30% 2.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.01% 5.77% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 51 41 123
10th Percentile £25,000 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,784 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.21% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £59,375 £60,000 £58,125
90th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £64,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 1,497 780 2,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.65% 22.45% 25.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,065 525 1,494
10th Percentile £32,850 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year +2.36% +3.75% -5.84%

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 15 August 2026.

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 15 August 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 -11 28 £53,750 -10.42% 2
Dorset -4 10 £35,000 -26.32% 2
Devon -14 10 £40,000 -5.88% 1
Somerset -35 6 £48,267 -0.99% 2
Gloucestershire -51 4 £65,000 +30.00% 1
Cornwall - 2 £49,623 -
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 6 (10.00%) WordPress
2 4 (6.67%) Apache
3 1 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) Drupal
3 1 (1.67%) IIS
3 1 (1.67%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.00%) AWS
1 12 (20.00%) Azure
2 9 (15.00%) SaaS
3 6 (10.00%) GitHub
4 5 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (8.33%) GCP
5 4 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.00%) Serverless
7 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.67%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.67%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.33%) MySQL
2 7 (11.67%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (6.67%) Power BI
5 3 (5.00%) MariaDB
5 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.67%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.67%) Redis
6 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Git
2 1 (1.67%) Gatling
2 1 (1.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) JMeter
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.67%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.67%) Marketing
3 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 40 (66.67%) Developer
2 16 (26.67%) PHP Developer
3 11 (18.33%) Senior
3 11 (18.33%) Software Developer
4 9 (15.00%) Software Engineer
5 8 (13.33%) Senior Developer
6 7 (11.67%) JavaScript Developer
7 6 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (10.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 6 (10.00%) Graduate
7 6 (10.00%) PHP Web Developer
7 6 (10.00%) Web Developer
8 5 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Lead
9 4 (6.67%) Lead Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Python Developer
10 3 (5.00%) Development Manager
10 3 (5.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 3 (5.00%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (35.00%) CSS
2 16 (26.67%) HTML
3 15 (25.00%) Laravel
4 10 (16.67%) Node.js
5 9 (15.00%) Vue
6 6 (10.00%) .NET
6 6 (10.00%) React
7 4 (6.67%) Jest
7 4 (6.67%) Sass
7 4 (6.67%) Tailwind CSS
8 3 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 3 (5.00%) CSS3
8 3 (5.00%) HTML5
8 3 (5.00%) jQuery
8 3 (5.00%) LAMP
8 3 (5.00%) RESTful
9 1 (1.67%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.67%) Middleware
9 1 (1.67%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.00%) IoT
2 3 (5.00%) Social Media
3 2 (3.33%) Educational Technology
3 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.00%) Linux
2 3 (5.00%) Windows
3 2 (3.33%) Debian
3 2 (3.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (23.33%) Agile
2 14 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 13 (21.67%) Web Development
4 9 (15.00%) Mentoring
5 8 (13.33%) DevOps
5 8 (13.33%) TDD
6 7 (11.67%) CI/CD
6 7 (11.67%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (11.67%) MVC
6 7 (11.67%) OOP
7 6 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 6 (10.00%) Roadmaps
8 5 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (8.33%) Front End Development
9 4 (6.67%) Commercial Awareness
9 4 (6.67%) IT Strategy
9 4 (6.67%) Test Automation
9 4 (6.67%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 17 (28.33%) Python
3 12 (20.00%) C#
3 12 (20.00%) SQL
4 10 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.67%) Java
6 3 (5.00%) Bash
7 2 (3.33%) Go
7 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Degree
2 5 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.67%) Postgraduate
3 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.33%) QA
3 3 (5.00%) ISO 9001
3 3 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) Firmware
3 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Ansible
2 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.00%) Plesk
3 2 (3.33%) Terraform
4 1 (1.67%) Consul
4 1 (1.67%) Packer
4 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.67%) Google
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle
3 1 (1.67%) TOWER Software
3 1 (1.67%) WooCommerce