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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 73 86
Rank change year-on-year -79 +13 +18
Permanent jobs citing PHP 46 131 217
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.78% 3.69% 3.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.18% 10.31% 8.39%
Number of salaries quoted 43 81 201
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,750 £48,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +29.03% -2.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,500 £78,750 £65,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £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 888 1,271 2,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.99% 35.78% 38.92%
Number of salaries quoted 619 677 2,182
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -3.83%
75th Percentile £67,463 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,100 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -30 23 £55,000 -16.98% 11
Devon -10 8 £53,750 -2.27% 9
Gloucestershire +21 4 £47,750 - 6
Dorset -21 4 £67,500 +17.39% 1
Wiltshire -18 2 £65,000 +13.04% 4
Somerset -21 2 £60,000 +54.84% 4
Cornwall -21 1 £32,000 -31.91% 2
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%) CMS
2 2 (4.35%) Headless CMS
2 2 (4.35%) nginx
3 1 (2.17%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) Joomla!
3 1 (2.17%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.96%) AWS
2 15 (32.61%) SaaS
3 5 (10.87%) GitHub
4 4 (8.70%) DigitalOcean
5 1 (2.17%) Azure
5 1 (2.17%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.78%) MySQL
2 9 (19.57%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.17%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Git
General
1 3 (6.52%) Finance
1 3 (6.52%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.35%) Health Technology
3 1 (2.17%) Automotive
3 1 (2.17%) Games
3 1 (2.17%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (84.78%) Developer
2 19 (41.30%) PHP Developer
3 14 (30.43%) Senior
4 13 (28.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (21.74%) Senior Developer
6 6 (13.04%) Lead
7 5 (10.87%) Software Developer
7 5 (10.87%) Software Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
8 4 (8.70%) Lead Developer
8 4 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (6.52%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (6.52%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Senior PHP Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Web Developer
10 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Web Developer
10 2 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (4.35%) Senior Software Developer
11 1 (2.17%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.96%) Laravel
2 12 (26.09%) Node.js
2 12 (26.09%) React
3 7 (15.22%) Symfony
3 7 (15.22%) Vue
4 6 (13.04%) CSS
5 5 (10.87%) AngularJS
6 4 (8.70%) RESTful
7 3 (6.52%) HTML
7 3 (6.52%) LAMP
7 3 (6.52%) LoopBack
7 3 (6.52%) React Native
7 3 (6.52%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (4.35%) Jest
8 2 (4.35%) LEMP Stack
8 2 (4.35%) Nuxt
8 2 (4.35%) Sass
9 1 (2.17%) Bootstrap
9 1 (2.17%) Qt
9 1 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Educational Technology
1 8 (17.39%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (13.04%) Mobile App
3 5 (10.87%) IoT
4 4 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Agile
1 15 (32.61%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (21.74%) Software Engineering
3 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 8 (17.39%) Clean Code
5 7 (15.22%) API Development
5 7 (15.22%) Web Development
6 6 (13.04%) Microservices
7 5 (10.87%) CRM
7 5 (10.87%) E-Commerce
8 4 (8.70%) Architectural Patterns
8 4 (8.70%) Front End Development
8 4 (8.70%) Mentoring
8 4 (8.70%) Roadmaps
8 4 (8.70%) User Experience
9 3 (6.52%) API Integration
9 3 (6.52%) Containerisation
9 3 (6.52%) Mobile Application Development
9 3 (6.52%) Procedural Programming
Programming Languages
1 23 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 16 (34.78%) TypeScript
3 4 (8.70%) SQL
4 2 (4.35%) Python
5 1 (2.17%) C#
5 1 (2.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On