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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 77 83
Rank change year-on-year -61 +6 +3
Permanent jobs citing PHP 72 83 268
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.95% 3.10% 3.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.49% 9.83% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 62 67 235
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,625 £48,125 £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 £70,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,250 £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 1,109 844 2,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.69% 31.55% 33.19%
Number of salaries quoted 679 619 2,435
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,443 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £65,625 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,950 £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 1 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 1 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 -28 38 £55,000 -12.00% 3
Devon -9 14 £40,000 -42.86% 1
Dorset -30 6 £40,000 -30.43% 1
Gloucestershire -18 4 £47,750 -
Somerset -32 4 £51,392 +17.47% 1
Cornwall - 3 £47,000 - 1
Wiltshire -19 2 £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 (6.94%) CMS
2 3 (4.17%) nginx
2 3 (4.17%) WordPress
3 2 (2.78%) Apache
3 2 (2.78%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.39%) Confluence
4 1 (1.39%) Drupal
4 1 (1.39%) IIS
4 1 (1.39%) Joomla!
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Magento
1 1 (1.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.39%) SaaS
2 18 (25.00%) AWS
3 6 (8.33%) Azure
4 5 (6.94%) GitHub
5 4 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.56%) DigitalOcean
6 3 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.17%) Serverless
7 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.78%) GCP
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.39%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.39%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.00%) MySQL
2 9 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 7 (9.72%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.39%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.39%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (1.39%) Gatling
2 1 (1.39%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) JMeter
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.39%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.72%) Marketing
3 4 (5.56%) Finance
4 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.39%) Automotive
6 1 (1.39%) Games
6 1 (1.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 56 (77.78%) Developer
2 29 (40.28%) PHP Developer
3 18 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (22.22%) Senior
5 14 (19.44%) Senior Developer
6 8 (11.11%) Software Developer
7 7 (9.72%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
7 7 (9.72%) JavaScript Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 6 (8.33%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Lead
8 6 (8.33%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Senior PHP Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Graduate
10 4 (5.56%) Graduate Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Graduate Software Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Lead Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.78%) Laravel
2 18 (25.00%) Node.js
3 14 (19.44%) CSS
4 12 (16.67%) React
5 11 (15.28%) Vue
6 7 (9.72%) HTML
7 6 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (6.94%) Jest
8 5 (6.94%) Sass
8 5 (6.94%) Symfony
9 4 (5.56%) AngularJS
9 4 (5.56%) RESTful
10 3 (4.17%) LoopBack
10 3 (4.17%) React Native
11 2 (2.78%) .NET
11 2 (2.78%) LEMP Stack
11 2 (2.78%) Nuxt
12 1 (1.39%) ASP.NET
12 1 (1.39%) LAMP
12 1 (1.39%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 8 (11.11%) Educational Technology
4 6 (8.33%) IoT
5 4 (5.56%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.17%) Social Media
7 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Windows
2 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.11%) Full-Stack Development
2 17 (23.61%) Agile
2 17 (23.61%) Software Engineering
3 10 (13.89%) CI/CD
3 10 (13.89%) Web Development
4 8 (11.11%) CRM
4 8 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (9.72%) Clean Code
5 7 (9.72%) Digital Marketing
5 7 (9.72%) Mentoring
5 7 (9.72%) Microservices
5 7 (9.72%) TDD
6 6 (8.33%) Containerisation
6 6 (8.33%) DevOps
6 6 (8.33%) Front End Development
7 5 (6.94%) API Development
7 5 (6.94%) Code Quality
7 5 (6.94%) Computer Science
7 5 (6.94%) E-Commerce
8 4 (5.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (43.06%) JavaScript
2 19 (26.39%) TypeScript
3 12 (16.67%) Python
4 8 (11.11%) SQL
5 6 (8.33%) C#
6 4 (5.56%) Java
7 2 (2.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (8.33%) Degree
2 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.39%) Postgraduate
3 1 (1.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.17%) ISO 9001
2 3 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (1.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (13.89%) Docker
2 3 (4.17%) Firmware
3 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.39%) Ansible
2 1 (1.39%) Consul
2 1 (1.39%) Packer
2 1 (1.39%) Plesk
2 1 (1.39%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.39%) Puppet
2 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft
1 2 (2.78%) MuleSoft
2 1 (1.39%) Google
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle
2 1 (1.39%) TOWER Software
2 1 (1.39%) WooCommerce