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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 74 85
Rank change year-on-year -60 +11 +10
Permanent jobs citing PHP 69 88 264
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.95% 3.32% 3.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.27% 10.43% 8.85%
Number of salaries quoted 59 73 234
10th Percentile £37,000 £41,500 £30,725
25th Percentile £42,642 £47,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +33.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £69,500 £76,250 £62,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

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 1,100 844 2,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.09% 31.85% 34.37%
Number of salaries quoted 683 632 2,476
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £66,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -25 33 £55,000 -12.00% 8
Devon -7 14 £40,000 -42.86% 2
Dorset -31 8 £52,500 -8.70% 2
Somerset -33 4 £51,392 +17.47% 9
Gloucestershire - 4 £47,750 - 1
Wiltshire -20 2 £65,000 +4.00% 1
Cornwall - 2 £39,500 - 3
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 (7.25%) CMS
2 3 (4.35%) nginx
3 2 (2.90%) Apache
3 2 (2.90%) Headless CMS
3 2 (2.90%) WordPress
4 1 (1.45%) Confluence
4 1 (1.45%) Drupal
4 1 (1.45%) IIS
4 1 (1.45%) Joomla!
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Magento
1 1 (1.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.54%) AWS
1 19 (27.54%) SaaS
2 5 (7.25%) GitHub
3 4 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (5.80%) Amazon S3
3 4 (5.80%) DigitalOcean
4 3 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (4.35%) Azure
4 3 (4.35%) Serverless
5 2 (2.90%) GCP
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.45%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (24.64%) MySQL
2 9 (13.04%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.80%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.80%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.80%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.90%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.45%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) Git
2 1 (1.45%) Gatling
2 1 (1.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) JMeter
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.45%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (10.14%) Marketing
1 7 (10.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.25%) Finance
3 3 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.90%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.45%) Automotive
5 1 (1.45%) Games
5 1 (1.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 51 (73.91%) Developer
2 27 (39.13%) PHP Developer
3 17 (24.64%) Senior
4 16 (23.19%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (17.39%) Senior Developer
6 9 (13.04%) Software Engineer
7 6 (8.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (8.70%) Lead
7 6 (8.70%) Software Developer
8 5 (7.25%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
8 5 (7.25%) JavaScript Developer
8 5 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 4 (5.80%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.80%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 4 (5.80%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.80%) Senior PHP Developer
10 3 (4.35%) Digital Director
10 3 (4.35%) Head of Engineering
10 3 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (26.09%) Laravel
1 18 (26.09%) Node.js
2 15 (21.74%) CSS
3 13 (18.84%) React
4 11 (15.94%) Vue
5 9 (13.04%) HTML
6 7 (10.14%) Symfony
7 6 (8.70%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (7.25%) Jest
8 5 (7.25%) RESTful
8 5 (7.25%) Sass
9 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
10 3 (4.35%) LAMP
10 3 (4.35%) LoopBack
10 3 (4.35%) React Native
11 2 (2.90%) LEMP Stack
11 2 (2.90%) Nuxt
12 1 (1.45%) .NET Framework
12 1 (1.45%) ARM Templates
12 1 (1.45%) Deno
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (13.04%) Mobile App
3 8 (11.59%) Educational Technology
4 6 (8.70%) IoT
5 4 (5.80%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.80%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.35%) Social Media
7 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.14%) Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Windows
2 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 20 (28.99%) Software Engineering
3 16 (23.19%) Agile
4 10 (14.49%) CI/CD
4 10 (14.49%) Web Development
5 8 (11.59%) CRM
5 8 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (10.14%) Clean Code
6 7 (10.14%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (10.14%) Microservices
6 7 (10.14%) TDD
7 6 (8.70%) API Development
7 6 (8.70%) Containerisation
7 6 (8.70%) Front End Development
7 6 (8.70%) Mentoring
8 5 (7.25%) Code Quality
8 5 (7.25%) DevOps
8 5 (7.25%) E-Commerce
8 5 (7.25%) Test Automation
9 4 (5.80%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 31 (44.93%) JavaScript
2 22 (31.88%) TypeScript
3 10 (14.49%) Python
4 6 (8.70%) SQL
5 4 (5.80%) C#
6 3 (4.35%) Java
7 2 (2.90%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.45%) Postgraduate
2 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.35%) ISO 9001
2 3 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.35%) QA
3 1 (1.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (15.94%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Firmware
3 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.45%) Ansible
2 1 (1.45%) Consul
2 1 (1.45%) Packer
2 1 (1.45%) Plesk
2 1 (1.45%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.45%) Puppet
2 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (2.90%) MuleSoft
2 1 (1.45%) Google
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle
2 1 (1.45%) TOWER Software