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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 139 90
Rank change year-on-year -60 -49 +24
Permanent jobs citing PHP 46 30 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.44% 0.85% 2.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.92% 4.15% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 39 26 94
10th Percentile £24,000 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,246 £57,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% +25.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,188
90th Percentile £61,500 £62,500 £70,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £43,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.61% -13.50% -6.01%

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 1,573 723 1,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.14% 20.39% 26.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,151 494 1,151
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £74,113 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -22 23 £48,750 -18.75% 8
Dorset -1 7 £35,000 -41.67% 1
Somerset -32 6 £53,750 +10.26% 3
Gloucestershire -59 5 £65,000 +30.00% 8
Devon -30 4 £55,000 +29.41% 4
Cornwall - 1 £52,246 -
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 5 (10.87%) WordPress
2 3 (6.52%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) Azure
2 11 (23.91%) AWS
3 6 (13.04%) SaaS
4 5 (10.87%) GitHub
4 5 (10.87%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (8.70%) GCP
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.17%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.17%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.91%) MySQL
2 6 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.87%) Power BI
3 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
4 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.52%) MariaDB
6 2 (4.35%) ClickHouse
6 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Git
General
1 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.17%) Agriculture
2 1 (2.17%) Games
2 1 (2.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 33 (71.74%) Developer
2 14 (30.43%) Software Developer
3 11 (23.91%) PHP Developer
4 10 (21.74%) Software Engineer
5 9 (19.57%) Senior
6 6 (13.04%) Graduate
6 6 (13.04%) PHP Web Developer
6 6 (13.04%) Senior Developer
6 6 (13.04%) Web Developer
7 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (10.87%) JavaScript Developer
7 5 (10.87%) PHP Software Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 4 (8.70%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Lead
8 4 (8.70%) Lead Developer
9 3 (6.52%) C# Software Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (41.30%) Laravel
2 15 (32.61%) CSS
3 13 (28.26%) HTML
4 9 (19.57%) Vue
5 7 (15.22%) React
6 5 (10.87%) .NET
7 4 (8.70%) Node.js
7 4 (8.70%) Symfony
8 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
8 3 (6.52%) CSS3
8 3 (6.52%) HTML5
8 3 (6.52%) jQuery
8 3 (6.52%) LAMP
8 3 (6.52%) RESTful
9 2 (4.35%) Middleware
10 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET
10 1 (2.17%) Sass
10 1 (2.17%) Terraform
10 1 (2.17%) WAMP
10 1 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.35%) Educational Technology
1 2 (4.35%) Mobile App
1 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
1 2 (4.35%) PMI
2 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.17%) IoT
2 1 (2.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.91%) Linux
2 3 (6.52%) Ubuntu
2 3 (6.52%) Windows
3 2 (4.35%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Software Engineering
2 12 (26.09%) Agile
3 11 (23.91%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (21.74%) Web Development
5 8 (17.39%) AI
5 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (15.22%) CI/CD
6 7 (15.22%) Collaborative Working
6 7 (15.22%) MVC
6 7 (15.22%) OOP
6 7 (15.22%) Roadmaps
7 6 (13.04%) Computer Science
8 5 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (10.87%) Mentoring
8 5 (10.87%) TDD
9 4 (8.70%) API Integration
9 4 (8.70%) Commercial Awareness
9 4 (8.70%) DevOps
9 4 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (8.70%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (39.13%) JavaScript
2 12 (26.09%) SQL
3 11 (23.91%) C#
3 11 (23.91%) Python
4 4 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.52%) Bash
5 3 (6.52%) Java
6 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.35%) Ruby
7 1 (2.17%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) Degree
2 5 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.52%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Ansible
1 3 (6.52%) Plesk
Vendors
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.17%) WooCommerce