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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 78 83
Rank change year-on-year -53 +5 +18
Permanent jobs citing PHP 63 102 245
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.98% 3.59% 3.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.70% 10.21% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 54 82 224
10th Percentile £38,250 £39,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,063 £46,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +31.15% -3.68%
75th Percentile £61,875 £72,188 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,750 £78,750 £62,500
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 940 999 2,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.66% 35.14% 36.84%
Number of salaries quoted 626 640 2,368
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.26% -4.32%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -27 31 £55,000 -15.38% 11
Devon 0 12 £52,500 -25.00% 5
Dorset -28 7 £65,000 +15.56% 2
Gloucestershire +5 4 £47,750 - 5
Somerset -24 4 £51,392 +32.62% 3
Wiltshire -15 2 £65,000 +4.00% 3
Cornwall -17 1 £32,000 -8.57% 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 (7.94%) CMS
2 2 (3.17%) Headless CMS
2 2 (3.17%) nginx
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) Joomla!
3 1 (1.59%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.75%) AWS
1 20 (31.75%) SaaS
2 5 (7.94%) GitHub
3 4 (6.35%) DigitalOcean
4 3 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (4.76%) Serverless
5 2 (3.17%) Azure
6 1 (1.59%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (30.16%) MySQL
2 10 (15.87%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.35%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.59%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
General
1 8 (12.70%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.94%) Finance
2 5 (7.94%) Marketing
3 2 (3.17%) Health Technology
3 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.59%) Automotive
4 1 (1.59%) Games
4 1 (1.59%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 48 (76.19%) Developer
2 25 (39.68%) PHP Developer
3 16 (25.40%) Senior
4 14 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (19.05%) Senior Developer
6 8 (12.70%) Software Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Lead
8 5 (7.94%) Software Developer
9 4 (6.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 4 (6.35%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
9 4 (6.35%) Lead Developer
9 4 (6.35%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (4.76%) Head of Engineering
10 3 (4.76%) Head of Software Engineering
10 3 (4.76%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (4.76%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 3 (4.76%) Senior PHP Developer
10 3 (4.76%) Web Developer
11 2 (3.17%) Graduate PHP Developer
11 2 (3.17%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (26.98%) Laravel
2 16 (25.40%) Node.js
3 13 (20.63%) React
4 11 (17.46%) CSS
5 8 (12.70%) Symfony
5 8 (12.70%) Vue
6 7 (11.11%) HTML
7 5 (7.94%) AngularJS
8 4 (6.35%) RESTful
8 4 (6.35%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (4.76%) Jest
9 3 (4.76%) LAMP
9 3 (4.76%) LoopBack
9 3 (4.76%) React Native
9 3 (4.76%) Sass
10 2 (3.17%) LEMP Stack
10 2 (3.17%) Nuxt
11 1 (1.59%) Bootstrap
11 1 (1.59%) Deno
11 1 (1.59%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (12.70%) Educational Technology
2 8 (12.70%) IoT
3 7 (11.11%) Mobile App
4 4 (6.35%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.17%) Social Media
6 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.75%) Full-Stack Development
2 17 (26.98%) Agile
3 16 (25.40%) Software Engineering
4 9 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 9 (14.29%) Microservices
4 9 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (12.70%) Clean Code
5 8 (12.70%) Web Development
6 7 (11.11%) API Development
7 6 (9.52%) Containerisation
7 6 (9.52%) CRM
7 6 (9.52%) Mentoring
7 6 (9.52%) TDD
8 5 (7.94%) Code Quality
8 5 (7.94%) Digital Marketing
8 5 (7.94%) E-Commerce
8 5 (7.94%) Front End Development
9 4 (6.35%) DevOps
9 4 (6.35%) Test Automation
9 4 (6.35%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 28 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 20 (31.75%) TypeScript
3 8 (12.70%) Python
4 7 (11.11%) SQL
5 4 (6.35%) C#
6 3 (4.76%) Java
7 2 (3.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (3.17%) Degree
2 1 (1.59%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.76%) ISO 9001
2 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 11 (17.46%) Docker
2 3 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (3.17%) MuleSoft
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle