PHP Jobs in the South West

PHP
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 98 57
Rank change year-on-year +5 -41 -26
Permanent jobs citing PHP 267 211 426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.88% 3.10% 5.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.80% 8.23% 10.26%
Number of salaries quoted 234 148 372
10th Percentile £30,725 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,375 £38,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,063 £73,125
90th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £93,375
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,836
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.19% +12.97%

All Programming Languages
South West

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,034 2,563 4,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 32.72% 37.62% 51.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,407 1,662 2,807
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £68,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the South West

PHP
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP in the South West.

Salary trend for PHP in the South West

PHP
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in the South West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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
Dorset +8 87 £45,000 -5.26% 2
Bristol +38 81 £45,000 -10.00% 27
Somerset +3 33 £47,500 -5.00% 14
Gloucestershire -13 26 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Devon -26 19 £40,000 -11.11% 7
Wiltshire -1 11 £51,250 +36.67%
Cornwall - 7 £45,000 - 4
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 42 (15.73%) WordPress
2 8 (3.00%) Apache
2 8 (3.00%) CMS
3 5 (1.87%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (1.12%) Drupal
4 3 (1.12%) Headless CMS
4 3 (1.12%) nginx
4 3 (1.12%) SAS
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.37%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.50%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.75%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (2.62%) Magento
2 3 (1.12%) Shopify
3 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 65 (24.34%) AWS
2 30 (11.24%) SaaS
3 16 (5.99%) Azure
4 13 (4.87%) GitHub
5 10 (3.75%) GCP
6 7 (2.62%) Figma
7 6 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.87%) Google Analytics
8 5 (1.87%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.87%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.50%) BigCommerce
9 4 (1.50%) npm
10 3 (1.12%) Serverless
11 2 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.75%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.75%) DigitalOcean
11 2 (0.75%) Firebase
12 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.37%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.25%) VoIP
1 6 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.75%) DNS
2 2 (0.75%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.75%) Internet
2 2 (0.75%) IPsec
2 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (49.81%) MySQL
2 13 (4.87%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.00%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.00%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.00%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.62%) SQLite
6 6 (2.25%) GIS
7 5 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.87%) MariaDB
7 5 (1.87%) Oracle BI EE
7 5 (1.87%) Power BI
7 5 (1.87%) Star Schema
7 5 (1.87%) Tableau
8 3 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.75%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (22.10%) Git
2 14 (5.24%) Subversion
3 8 (3.00%) Visual Studio
4 7 (2.62%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.12%) Grunt
6 2 (0.75%) webpack
7 1 (0.37%) Ant
7 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.37%) GitLab
7 1 (0.37%) gulp
7 1 (0.37%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 48 (17.98%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.23%) Retail
3 24 (8.99%) Marketing
4 19 (7.12%) Finance
5 14 (5.24%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.37%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.00%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.62%) Electronics
9 7 (2.62%) Games
10 5 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.87%) Banking
11 3 (1.12%) German Language
11 3 (1.12%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.75%) Billing
13 1 (0.37%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 208 (77.90%) Developer
2 103 (38.58%) PHP Developer
3 56 (20.97%) Senior
4 50 (18.73%) Full Stack Developer
5 49 (18.35%) Senior Developer
6 37 (13.86%) Software Developer
7 36 (13.48%) Web Developer
8 28 (10.49%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 28 (10.49%) Senior PHP Developer
9 17 (6.37%) Full Stack PHP Developer
10 16 (5.99%) WordPress Developer
11 15 (5.62%) Software Engineer
12 13 (4.87%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 13 (4.87%) PHP Web Developer
13 11 (4.12%) Full Stack Web Developer
13 11 (4.12%) Lead
13 11 (4.12%) Senior Software Developer
14 7 (2.62%) Backend Developer
14 7 (2.62%) Junior Developer
14 7 (2.62%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (53.56%) HTML
2 141 (52.81%) Laravel
3 123 (46.07%) CSS
4 78 (29.21%) React
5 72 (26.97%) Vue
6 56 (20.97%) LAMP
7 47 (17.60%) jQuery
8 25 (9.36%) Node.js
9 24 (8.99%) RESTful
9 24 (8.99%) Symfony
10 23 (8.61%) AngularJS
11 12 (4.49%) REST
12 10 (3.75%) GraphQL
12 10 (3.75%) Web Services
13 9 (3.37%) Sass
13 9 (3.37%) SOAP
13 9 (3.37%) Tailwind CSS
14 8 (3.00%) HTML5
15 7 (2.62%) CSS3
15 7 (2.62%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.12%) Animation
2 7 (2.62%) IoT
2 7 (2.62%) Low-Code
2 7 (2.62%) Mobile App
2 7 (2.62%) Video Editing
3 6 (2.25%) Cloud Native
4 5 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (1.87%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.87%) Onboarding
4 5 (1.87%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (1.50%) BBC
5 4 (1.50%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.75%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.75%) Graphic Design
6 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.37%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.37%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.37%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.87%) Linux
2 7 (2.62%) Windows
3 4 (1.50%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.37%) Android
4 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.96%) Full Stack Development
2 66 (24.72%) MVC
2 66 (24.72%) Web Development
3 56 (20.97%) Agile
4 54 (20.22%) OOP
5 44 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (16.10%) Software Engineering
7 29 (10.86%) Front End Development
8 28 (10.49%) E-Commerce
9 26 (9.74%) Scrum
10 24 (8.99%) CRM
11 22 (8.24%) DevOps
11 22 (8.24%) Microservices
12 20 (7.49%) Code Quality
13 18 (6.74%) Performance Optimisation
14 17 (6.37%) Web Design
15 16 (5.99%) Collaborative Working
16 15 (5.62%) OO
17 14 (5.24%) OO PHP
17 14 (5.24%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 173 (64.79%) JavaScript
2 32 (11.99%) SQL
3 23 (8.61%) Java
4 22 (8.24%) Python
5 18 (6.74%) TypeScript
6 16 (5.99%) C#
7 11 (4.12%) C
8 9 (3.37%) C++
9 7 (2.62%) Bash
9 7 (2.62%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.25%) Ada
10 6 (2.25%) Bicep
10 6 (2.25%) Ruby
11 5 (1.87%) VBA
12 4 (1.50%) Go
12 4 (1.50%) Rust
12 4 (1.50%) Scala
12 4 (1.50%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.12%) Delphi
14 2 (0.75%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 22 (8.24%) Degree
2 7 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.37%) MCP
4 1 (0.37%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.25%) GDPR
1 6 (2.25%) QA
2 5 (1.87%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.87%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (8.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.00%) Terraform
3 1 (0.37%) Plesk
Vendors
1 17 (6.37%) Google
2 14 (5.24%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.49%) Twitter
4 7 (2.62%) SAP
4 7 (2.62%) WooCommerce
5 5 (1.87%) Oracle
5 5 (1.87%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.50%) Adobe
7 2 (0.75%) Apple