PHP Developer Jobs in the South West

PHP Developer
England > South West

The median PHP Developer salary in the South West is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 154 182
Rank change year-on-year -34 +28 -101
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 109 117 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.09% 1.78% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 2.00% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 100 62 120
10th Percentile £26,250 £33,750 £32,375
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +15.85%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,000 - £82,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 9,582 5,850 8,093
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 88.91% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,009 3,668 5,118
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £29,150
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,879 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,050 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the South West

PHP Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for PHP Developer in the South West

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for PHP Developer in the South West

PHP Developer
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 Developer within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +1 40 £45,000 -
Bristol -8 33 £45,000 -7.69% 10
Gloucestershire -16 15 £50,000 -
Devon -14 13 £33,750 - 5
Somerset -16 6 £50,000 -13.04% 1
PHP Developer
England

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 109 (100.00%) PHP
2 81 (74.31%) JavaScript
3 72 (66.06%) Laravel
4 66 (60.55%) HTML
5 62 (56.88%) MySQL
6 60 (55.05%) CSS
7 37 (33.94%) Full Stack Development
8 34 (31.19%) Git
8 34 (31.19%) Vue
9 32 (29.36%) Web Development
10 28 (25.69%) jQuery
10 28 (25.69%) OOP
10 28 (25.69%) Social Skills
11 27 (24.77%) React
11 27 (24.77%) AWS
12 26 (23.85%) LAMP
13 25 (22.94%) MVC
14 20 (18.35%) Agile
15 18 (16.51%) SaaS
15 18 (16.51%) WordPress
16 17 (15.60%) Web Design
17 16 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
18 14 (12.84%) Linux
19 13 (11.93%) E-Commerce
19 13 (11.93%) RESTful
20 12 (11.01%) Retail
21 11 (10.09%) Microservices
22 10 (9.17%) OO PHP
22 10 (9.17%) API Development
22 10 (9.17%) Front End Development

PHP Developer Skill Set
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 18 (16.51%) WordPress
2 7 (6.42%) Apache
3 4 (3.67%) CMS
4 1 (0.92%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Magento
2 1 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.92%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (24.77%) AWS
2 18 (16.51%) SaaS
3 3 (2.75%) Azure
4 2 (1.83%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.50%) VoIP
1 6 (5.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (56.88%) MySQL
2 6 (5.50%) GIS
3 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.92%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (31.19%) Git
2 7 (6.42%) Subversion
3 1 (0.92%) Grunt
3 1 (0.92%) gulp
3 1 (0.92%) webpack
General
1 28 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.01%) Retail
3 7 (6.42%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.75%) Games
4 3 (2.75%) Marketing
5 2 (1.83%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.92%) Finance
6 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (66.06%) Laravel
2 66 (60.55%) HTML
3 60 (55.05%) CSS
4 34 (31.19%) Vue
5 28 (25.69%) jQuery
6 27 (24.77%) React
7 26 (23.85%) LAMP
8 13 (11.93%) RESTful
9 10 (9.17%) REST
9 10 (9.17%) Symfony
10 8 (7.34%) Web Services
11 7 (6.42%) SVG
12 6 (5.50%) React Native
13 5 (4.59%) AngularJS
13 5 (4.59%) HTML5
14 4 (3.67%) CSS3
14 4 (3.67%) SOAP
15 2 (1.83%) Doctrine
15 2 (1.83%) Sass
15 2 (1.83%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.42%) Animation
1 7 (6.42%) Video Editing
2 6 (5.50%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.83%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.83%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.92%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.92%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.84%) Linux
2 4 (3.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.94%) Full Stack Development
2 32 (29.36%) Web Development
3 28 (25.69%) OOP
4 25 (22.94%) MVC
5 20 (18.35%) Agile
6 17 (15.60%) Web Design
7 16 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (11.93%) E-Commerce
9 11 (10.09%) Microservices
10 10 (9.17%) API Development
10 10 (9.17%) Front End Development
10 10 (9.17%) OO
10 10 (9.17%) OO PHP
10 10 (9.17%) Software Engineering
11 9 (8.26%) Responsive Web Design
11 9 (8.26%) SOLID
12 8 (7.34%) Performance Optimisation
12 8 (7.34%) Refactoring
12 8 (7.34%) Scrum
12 8 (7.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 109 (100.00%) PHP
2 81 (74.31%) JavaScript
3 8 (7.34%) Python
3 8 (7.34%) SQL
4 7 (6.42%) Java
4 7 (6.42%) Kotlin
5 6 (5.50%) Ada
5 6 (5.50%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.67%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.92%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (5.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) GDPR
2 4 (3.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (5.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (6.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.59%) Twitter
3 3 (2.75%) WooCommerce