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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 104 60
Rank change year-on-year +8 -44 -29
Permanent jobs citing PHP 270 200 422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.71% 3.04% 5.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.79% 8.10% 9.89%
Number of salaries quoted 234 137 371
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,625
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 £61,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%

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 3,072 2,469 4,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 30.83% 37.52% 50.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,403 1,624 2,770
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,489
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% +11.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
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 1 June 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 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 +5 84 £45,000 -2.70% 3
Bristol +27 83 £45,000 -21.74% 14
Somerset -2 32 £47,500 -9.52% 12
Gloucestershire -12 28 £55,000 +10.00% 2
Devon -17 22 £40,000 -11.11% 14
Wiltshire -14 10 £52,500 +40.00% 1
Cornwall - 7 £45,000 - 5
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 (15.56%) WordPress
2 10 (3.70%) CMS
3 8 (2.96%) Apache
4 3 (1.11%) Drupal
4 3 (1.11%) Headless CMS
4 3 (1.11%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (1.11%) SAS
5 2 (0.74%) nginx
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.48%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.74%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.22%) Magento
2 3 (1.11%) Shopify
3 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 63 (23.33%) AWS
2 33 (12.22%) SaaS
3 16 (5.93%) Azure
4 14 (5.19%) GitHub
5 9 (3.33%) GCP
6 7 (2.59%) Figma
7 6 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.48%) BigCommerce
8 4 (1.48%) npm
9 3 (1.11%) Google Analytics
9 3 (1.11%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.11%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.74%) DigitalOcean
10 2 (0.74%) Firebase
10 2 (0.74%) Serverless
11 1 (0.37%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.37%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.22%) VoIP
1 6 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.74%) Internet
3 1 (0.37%) DNS
3 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.37%) IPsec
3 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (51.48%) MySQL
2 14 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.81%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.44%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.96%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.59%) SQLite
7 6 (2.22%) GIS
8 5 (1.85%) MariaDB
8 5 (1.85%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.11%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (1.11%) Power BI
9 3 (1.11%) Star Schema
9 3 (1.11%) Tableau
10 1 (0.37%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 63 (23.33%) Git
2 14 (5.19%) Subversion
3 7 (2.59%) Eclipse
3 7 (2.59%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.11%) Grunt
5 2 (0.74%) webpack
6 1 (0.37%) Ant
6 1 (0.37%) gulp
General
1 50 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 35 (12.96%) Retail
3 23 (8.52%) Marketing
4 18 (6.67%) Finance
5 14 (5.19%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.44%) Tech for Good
7 9 (3.33%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.59%) Electronics
8 7 (2.59%) Games
9 5 (1.85%) Banking
10 4 (1.48%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.11%) German Language
11 3 (1.11%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.74%) Billing
13 1 (0.37%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 217 (80.37%) Developer
2 109 (40.37%) PHP Developer
3 55 (20.37%) Full Stack Developer
3 55 (20.37%) Senior
4 48 (17.78%) Senior Developer
5 36 (13.33%) Software Developer
6 35 (12.96%) Web Developer
7 28 (10.37%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 28 (10.37%) Senior PHP Developer
8 18 (6.67%) Full Stack PHP Developer
8 18 (6.67%) WordPress Developer
9 14 (5.19%) Software Engineer
10 13 (4.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 12 (4.44%) PHP Web Developer
12 11 (4.07%) Full Stack Web Developer
13 10 (3.70%) Lead
13 10 (3.70%) Senior Software Developer
14 7 (2.59%) Junior
14 7 (2.59%) Junior Developer
14 7 (2.59%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (53.33%) HTML
2 141 (52.22%) Laravel
3 125 (46.30%) CSS
4 87 (32.22%) React
5 73 (27.04%) Vue
6 54 (20.00%) LAMP
7 49 (18.15%) jQuery
8 25 (9.26%) Node.js
8 25 (9.26%) RESTful
9 22 (8.15%) AngularJS
9 22 (8.15%) Symfony
10 13 (4.81%) REST
11 10 (3.70%) GraphQL
12 9 (3.33%) HTML5
12 9 (3.33%) SOAP
12 9 (3.33%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (2.96%) CSS3
13 8 (2.96%) Sass
13 8 (2.96%) Web Services
14 7 (2.59%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.07%) Animation
2 8 (2.96%) IoT
3 7 (2.59%) Low-Code
3 7 (2.59%) Mobile App
3 7 (2.59%) Video Editing
4 6 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.48%) BBC
6 4 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.48%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.74%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.74%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.74%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.37%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.37%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.15%) Linux
2 7 (2.59%) Windows
3 4 (1.48%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.37%) Android
4 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (35.93%) Full Stack Development
2 65 (24.07%) Web Development
3 61 (22.59%) MVC
4 56 (20.74%) Agile
5 52 (19.26%) OOP
6 44 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (14.44%) Software Engineering
8 29 (10.74%) Front End Development
9 26 (9.63%) E-Commerce
10 24 (8.89%) Microservices
11 23 (8.52%) Scrum
12 22 (8.15%) CRM
12 22 (8.15%) DevOps
13 18 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
14 17 (6.30%) Code Quality
14 17 (6.30%) Web Design
15 14 (5.19%) Collaborative Working
15 14 (5.19%) OO
15 14 (5.19%) Test Automation
15 14 (5.19%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 179 (66.30%) JavaScript
2 28 (10.37%) SQL
3 23 (8.52%) Java
4 22 (8.15%) Python
5 17 (6.30%) TypeScript
6 16 (5.93%) C#
7 11 (4.07%) C
8 9 (3.33%) C++
9 7 (2.59%) Bash
9 7 (2.59%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.22%) Ada
10 6 (2.22%) Bicep
10 6 (2.22%) Ruby
11 4 (1.48%) Go
11 4 (1.48%) Rust
11 4 (1.48%) Scala
11 4 (1.48%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.11%) Delphi
12 3 (1.11%) VBA
13 2 (0.74%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 21 (7.78%) Degree
2 7 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.37%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.22%) GDPR
1 6 (2.22%) QA
2 4 (1.48%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.11%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (8.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.59%) Terraform
3 1 (0.37%) Plesk
Vendors
1 15 (5.56%) Google
2 13 (4.81%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.07%) Twitter
4 7 (2.59%) SAP
4 7 (2.59%) WooCommerce
5 5 (1.85%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.48%) Adobe
7 3 (1.11%) Oracle
8 2 (0.74%) Apple