PHP Job Trends in Wales

PHP
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 49 86
Rank change year-on-year -18 +37 -13
Permanent jobs citing PHP 4 30 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.45% 2.44% 1.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.76% 8.65% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4 24 8
10th Percentile £51,625 - £44,625
25th Percentile £52,188 £31,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £32,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -33.33% -11.36%
75th Percentile £58,125 £33,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £59,250 £46,250 £54,750
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% -4.76% -

All Programming Languages
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 145 347 345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 16.33% 28.26% 36.16%
Number of salaries quoted 128 199 276
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £32,500 £36,213
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £74,315 £74,375
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

PHP job vacancy trend in Wales

PHP
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing PHP

PHP
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Wales region over the 6 months to 28 October 2025. 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
South Wales -12 4 £55,000 +69.23% 4
PHP
UK

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (75.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) npm
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Web Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) Sass
1 3 (75.00%) Symfony
1 3 (75.00%) Vue
2 2 (50.00%) Laravel
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Code
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Web Development
3 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Time Management
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript