PHP Job Trends in West Sussex

PHP
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Permanent jobs citing PHP 7 0 24
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 0.84% - 4.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.79% - 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 22
10th Percentile £39,750 - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £46,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.63%
75th Percentile £60,000 - £63,000
90th Percentile - - £130,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year +16.67% -16.28% +7.50%

All Programming Languages
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 146 64 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 17.55% 16.37% 24.35%
Number of salaries quoted 118 35 114
10th Percentile £47,500 £26,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,563 £27,500 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £73,250 £72,125
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

PHP job vacancy trend in West Sussex

PHP
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in West Sussex over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Salary histogram for PHP in West Sussex

PHP
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Chichester - 7 £47,500 - 1
PHP
South East

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Cloudflare
1 3 (42.86%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) PHPUnit
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Senior
2 5 (71.43%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) PHP Developer
3 2 (28.57%) PHP Web Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
1 7 (100.00%) HTML
1 7 (100.00%) LAMP
2 3 (42.86%) Sass
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Debian
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 7 (100.00%) OOP
2 3 (42.86%) AI
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Clean Code
2 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
2 3 (42.86%) Commercial Awareness
2 3 (42.86%) Consent Management
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Front End Development
2 3 (42.86%) OO
2 3 (42.86%) OO PHP
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Puppet
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google