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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 71 89
Rank change year-on-year -68 +18 +25
Permanent jobs citing PHP 41 137 195
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.76% 3.52% 3.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.05% 10.25% 8.02%
Number of salaries quoted 38 81 183
10th Percentile £43,375 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,813 £46,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +21.05% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £65,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 812 1,336 2,431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.04% 34.28% 39.84%
Number of salaries quoted 579 710 2,027
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,443 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +8.90% -1.08%
75th Percentile £68,575 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -29 20 £55,000 -13.73% 15
Devon +3 7 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Dorset -20 4 £67,500 +20.00%
Gloucestershire +9 3 £48,000 - 6
Wiltshire -9 2 £65,000 +13.04% 8
Somerset -23 2 £60,000 +54.84% 4
Cornwall -22 1 £32,000 -21.95% 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 4 (9.76%) CMS
2 2 (4.88%) Headless CMS
2 2 (4.88%) nginx
3 1 (2.44%) Apache
3 1 (2.44%) Joomla!
3 1 (2.44%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (39.02%) AWS
2 13 (31.71%) SaaS
3 5 (12.20%) GitHub
4 3 (7.32%) DigitalOcean
5 1 (2.44%) Azure
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) MySQL
2 8 (19.51%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.44%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Git
General
1 3 (7.32%) Finance
1 3 (7.32%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.88%) Health Technology
3 1 (2.44%) Automotive
3 1 (2.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 34 (82.93%) Developer
2 16 (39.02%) PHP Developer
3 13 (31.71%) Senior
4 11 (26.83%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (21.95%) Senior Developer
6 6 (14.63%) Lead
7 5 (12.20%) Software Developer
7 5 (12.20%) Software Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) Lead Developer
8 4 (9.76%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
9 3 (7.32%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (7.32%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 3 (7.32%) Web Developer
10 2 (4.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Web Developer
10 2 (4.88%) Senior PHP Developer
10 2 (4.88%) Senior Software Developer
11 1 (2.44%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
11 1 (2.44%) Graduate PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (36.59%) Laravel
2 11 (26.83%) React
3 10 (24.39%) Node.js
4 7 (17.07%) Symfony
5 5 (12.20%) AngularJS
5 5 (12.20%) CSS
5 5 (12.20%) Vue
6 3 (7.32%) HTML
6 3 (7.32%) LAMP
6 3 (7.32%) React Native
6 3 (7.32%) RESTful
7 2 (4.88%) LEMP Stack
7 2 (4.88%) LoopBack
7 2 (4.88%) Nuxt
7 2 (4.88%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (2.44%) Bootstrap
8 1 (2.44%) Deno
8 1 (2.44%) Jest
8 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.44%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (14.63%) Educational Technology
3 5 (12.20%) IoT
3 5 (12.20%) Mobile App
4 3 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (31.71%) Agile
1 13 (31.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (24.39%) Software Engineering
3 8 (19.51%) CI/CD
3 8 (19.51%) Clean Code
3 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (14.63%) API Development
4 6 (14.63%) Microservices
5 5 (12.20%) Web Development
6 4 (9.76%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (9.76%) E-Commerce
6 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
7 3 (7.32%) CRM
7 3 (7.32%) Front End Development
7 3 (7.32%) Mobile Application Development
7 3 (7.32%) MVC
7 3 (7.32%) Procedural Programming
7 3 (7.32%) Roadmaps
7 3 (7.32%) Technical Architecture
7 3 (7.32%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) JavaScript
2 14 (34.15%) TypeScript
3 4 (9.76%) SQL
4 1 (2.44%) C#
4 1 (2.44%) Java
4 1 (2.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (17.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes