PHP Jobs in the South West

PHP
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 94 94
Rank change year-on-year -28 0 -20
Permanent jobs citing PHP 61 259 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.57% 2.52% 3.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.89% 8.64% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 56 214 140
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,813 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £67,625
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £54,750
% change year-on-year - -8.68% +4.29%

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 1,036 2,998 2,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 26.71% 29.15% 37.62%
Number of salaries quoted 714 2,282 1,656
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the South West

PHP
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP in the South West.

Salary trend for PHP in the South West

PHP
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in the South West over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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 0 18 £62,500 +38.89% 8
Wiltshire +50 12 £57,500 -3.36% 5
Dorset -18 9 £57,500 +27.78% 12
Devon +9 8 £52,500 +31.25% 10
Somerset -2 7 £40,000 -15.79% 11
Gloucestershire +43 6 £50,000 - 4
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.20%) WordPress
2 4 (6.56%) CMS
2 4 (6.56%) Drupal
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.28%) IIS
3 2 (3.28%) Joomla!
Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Elementor
1 3 (4.92%) Photoshop
2 2 (3.28%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (3.28%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.98%) AWS
2 11 (18.03%) GCP
3 6 (9.84%) GitHub
4 4 (6.56%) Cloudflare
4 4 (6.56%) Figma
5 3 (4.92%) Azure
6 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.28%) SaaS
6 2 (3.28%) Vercel
7 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.64%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.64%) HTTP
2 1 (1.64%) Internet
2 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (45.90%) MySQL
2 7 (11.48%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.20%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.28%) Power BI
5 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.28%) SQLite
6 1 (1.64%) Redis
6 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (31.15%) Git
2 1 (1.64%) CMake
2 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.64%) JIRA
2 1 (1.64%) PHPUnit
2 1 (1.64%) Selenium
2 1 (1.64%) Subversion
2 1 (1.64%) Vite
2 1 (1.64%) WiX
General
1 16 (26.23%) Games
2 15 (24.59%) Finance
3 12 (19.67%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.56%) Legal
5 3 (4.92%) Marketing
5 3 (4.92%) Retail
6 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.64%) Automotive
7 1 (1.64%) Electronics
7 1 (1.64%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 38 (62.30%) Developer
2 21 (34.43%) PHP Developer
3 17 (27.87%) Senior
4 14 (22.95%) Senior Developer
5 10 (16.39%) Lead
5 10 (16.39%) Web Developer
6 9 (14.75%) Senior PHP Developer
7 6 (9.84%) PHP Web Developer
7 6 (9.84%) Team Leader
8 5 (8.20%) Development Team Leader
8 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.56%) IAM Specialist
9 4 (6.56%) Technical Leader
10 3 (4.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (4.92%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
10 3 (4.92%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (4.92%) SQL Developer
11 2 (3.28%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
11 2 (3.28%) Software Developer
11 2 (3.28%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (49.18%) HTML
2 29 (47.54%) CSS
3 19 (31.15%) Laravel
4 16 (26.23%) LAMP
5 10 (16.39%) React
6 9 (14.75%) .NET
6 9 (14.75%) AngularJS
7 8 (13.11%) HTML5
7 8 (13.11%) Node.js
8 7 (11.48%) Symfony
8 7 (11.48%) Vue
9 6 (9.84%) Tailwind CSS
10 5 (8.20%) CSS3
10 5 (8.20%) RESTful
11 4 (6.56%) jQuery
12 3 (4.92%) Bootstrap
12 3 (4.92%) Sass
12 3 (4.92%) Web Services
12 3 (4.92%) Yii
13 2 (3.28%) LESS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Mobile App
2 5 (8.20%) e-Learning
3 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.92%) IoT
4 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.92%) Robotics
5 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.64%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.64%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.64%) EPoS
6 1 (1.64%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.03%) Linux
2 5 (8.20%) Windows
3 4 (6.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.64%) Android
4 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.98%) E-Commerce
2 21 (34.43%) Web Development
3 19 (31.15%) OOP
4 16 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (19.67%) User Experience
6 11 (18.03%) MVC
6 11 (18.03%) Software Engineering
7 10 (16.39%) Clean Code
7 10 (16.39%) OO
8 9 (14.75%) Agile
9 8 (13.11%) Mentoring
10 7 (11.48%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (9.84%) Roadmaps
12 5 (8.20%) CI/CD
12 5 (8.20%) SEO
12 5 (8.20%) SOLID
12 5 (8.20%) TDD
13 4 (6.56%) Front End Development
13 4 (6.56%) Identity Access Management
13 4 (6.56%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 36 (59.02%) JavaScript
2 12 (19.67%) Python
2 12 (19.67%) SQL
3 7 (11.48%) TypeScript
4 4 (6.56%) Perl
5 3 (4.92%) Go
6 2 (3.28%) Bash
6 2 (3.28%) C
6 2 (3.28%) C++
6 2 (3.28%) Java
7 1 (1.64%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (6.56%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.92%) Degree
3 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) QA
2 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.92%) Twitter
2 2 (3.28%) Adobe
2 2 (3.28%) Google
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.28%) Netlify
3 1 (1.64%) SAP
3 1 (1.64%) WooCommerce