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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 89 85
Rank change year-on-year -59 -4 +5
Permanent jobs citing PHP 65 70 265
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.84% 2.64% 2.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.49% 8.65% 9.05%
Number of salaries quoted 54 55 233
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,123 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.80% +33.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £55,000 £69,375 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £75,750 £62,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,157 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.31% +0.31% -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 1,183 809 2,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.32% 30.52% 31.23%
Number of salaries quoted 769 555 2,392
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,750
90th Percentile £79,400 £83,350 £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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -12 35 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Devon -13 14 £52,500 -16.00% 1
Dorset -20 4 £40,000 -30.43% 1
Somerset -29 4 £42,642 +13.71% 4
Gloucestershire -31 4 £47,750 +6.11% 2
Cornwall - 3 £47,000 - 1
Wiltshire -23 1 £65,000 +15.56% 1
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 (7.69%) CMS
2 3 (4.62%) nginx
2 3 (4.62%) WordPress
3 2 (3.08%) Apache
3 2 (3.08%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.54%) Confluence
4 1 (1.54%) Drupal
4 1 (1.54%) IIS
4 1 (1.54%) Joomla!
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Magento
1 1 (1.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.69%) SaaS
2 15 (23.08%) AWS
3 6 (9.23%) GitHub
4 5 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (7.69%) Azure
5 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.15%) DigitalOcean
6 3 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.62%) Serverless
7 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.54%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.54%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (1.54%) GCP
8 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.08%) MySQL
2 9 (13.85%) MongoDB
3 7 (10.77%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (4.62%) MariaDB
6 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.54%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (12.31%) Git
2 1 (1.54%) Gatling
2 1 (1.54%) JIRA
2 1 (1.54%) JMeter
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.54%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (12.31%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.77%) Marketing
3 3 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Finance
5 1 (1.54%) Automotive
5 1 (1.54%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 48 (73.85%) Developer
2 26 (40.00%) PHP Developer
3 14 (21.54%) Senior
4 13 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (15.38%) Senior Developer
6 8 (12.31%) Software Engineer
7 7 (10.77%) JavaScript Developer
7 7 (10.77%) Software Developer
8 6 (9.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 6 (9.23%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 6 (9.23%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
9 5 (7.69%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 5 (7.69%) Senior PHP Developer
10 4 (6.15%) Python Developer
10 4 (6.15%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (4.62%) Digital Director
11 3 (4.62%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 3 (4.62%) Graduate Software Developer
11 3 (4.62%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (27.69%) Node.js
2 16 (24.62%) CSS
3 14 (21.54%) Laravel
4 13 (20.00%) Vue
5 9 (13.85%) HTML
5 9 (13.85%) React
6 6 (9.23%) Tailwind CSS
7 5 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 5 (7.69%) Jest
7 5 (7.69%) RESTful
7 5 (7.69%) Sass
8 3 (4.62%) CSS3
8 3 (4.62%) HTML5
8 3 (4.62%) jQuery
8 3 (4.62%) LoopBack
8 3 (4.62%) Symfony
9 2 (3.08%) .NET
9 2 (3.08%) LEMP Stack
9 2 (3.08%) Nuxt
10 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Educational Technology
2 7 (10.77%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (9.23%) Mobile App
4 5 (7.69%) IoT
5 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.62%) Social Media
7 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.85%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.31%) Full-Stack Development
2 18 (27.69%) Software Engineering
3 13 (20.00%) Agile
4 11 (16.92%) Web Development
5 8 (12.31%) CI/CD
5 8 (12.31%) CRM
6 7 (10.77%) DevOps
6 7 (10.77%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (10.77%) Front End Development
6 7 (10.77%) TDD
7 6 (9.23%) Computer Science
7 6 (9.23%) Containerisation
7 6 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (7.69%) Code Quality
8 5 (7.69%) Mentoring
8 5 (7.69%) Test Automation
9 4 (6.15%) API Development
9 4 (6.15%) Microservices
10 3 (4.62%) API Integration
10 3 (4.62%) Procedural Programming
Programming Languages
1 29 (44.62%) JavaScript
2 16 (24.62%) TypeScript
3 13 (20.00%) Python
4 6 (9.23%) SQL
5 5 (7.69%) C#
6 4 (6.15%) Java
7 2 (3.08%) Go
8 1 (1.54%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (12.31%) Degree
2 5 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.54%) Postgraduate
3 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.62%) ISO 9001
1 3 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.62%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (12.31%) Docker
2 3 (4.62%) Firmware
3 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.62%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.62%) Plesk
2 2 (3.08%) Ansible
2 2 (3.08%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) Consul
3 1 (1.54%) Packer
3 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.54%) Puppet
3 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
1 2 (3.08%) MuleSoft
2 1 (1.54%) Google
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle
2 1 (1.54%) TOWER Software
2 1 (1.54%) WooCommerce