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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 102 64
Rank change year-on-year +9 -38 -34
Permanent jobs citing PHP 274 200 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.65% 3.06% 4.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.80% 8.19% 9.82%
Number of salaries quoted 231 136 373
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £31,050
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,688 £40,000
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 3,115 2,442 4,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 30.16% 37.35% 50.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,404 1,609 2,778
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,386
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% +13.10%
75th Percentile £65,847 £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 7 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 7 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
Bristol +33 87 £45,000 -14.29% 15
Dorset +5 81 £45,000 -5.26% 4
Somerset -5 32 £47,500 -5.00% 12
Gloucestershire -5 28 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Devon -23 24 £40,000 -11.11% 16
Wiltshire -14 10 £52,500 +40.00% 1
Cornwall - 8 £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 (15.33%) WordPress
2 10 (3.65%) CMS
3 8 (2.92%) Apache
4 3 (1.09%) Headless CMS
4 3 (1.09%) SAS
5 2 (0.73%) Drupal
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.46%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.73%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.19%) Magento
2 3 (1.09%) Shopify
3 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 63 (22.99%) AWS
2 37 (13.50%) SaaS
3 16 (5.84%) Azure
4 14 (5.11%) GitHub
5 8 (2.92%) GCP
6 7 (2.55%) Figma
7 6 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.46%) BigCommerce
8 4 (1.46%) npm
9 2 (0.73%) DigitalOcean
9 2 (0.73%) Firebase
9 2 (0.73%) Google Analytics
9 2 (0.73%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.73%) Serverless
9 2 (0.73%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.36%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.19%) VoIP
1 6 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.73%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (52.55%) MySQL
2 17 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.47%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.11%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.92%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.55%) SQLite
7 6 (2.19%) GIS
8 5 (1.82%) MariaDB
9 4 (1.46%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.73%) Oracle BI EE
11 2 (0.73%) Power BI
11 2 (0.73%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.73%) Tableau
12 1 (0.36%) Redis
12 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 68 (24.82%) Git
2 14 (5.11%) Subversion
3 7 (2.55%) Eclipse
3 7 (2.55%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.09%) Grunt
5 2 (0.73%) webpack
6 1 (0.36%) Ant
6 1 (0.36%) gulp
General
1 53 (19.34%) Social Skills
2 34 (12.41%) Retail
3 23 (8.39%) Marketing
4 17 (6.20%) Finance
5 15 (5.47%) Tech for Good
6 14 (5.11%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.38%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.92%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.55%) Electronics
9 7 (2.55%) Games
10 5 (1.82%) Banking
11 4 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.09%) German Language
12 3 (1.09%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.73%) Billing
14 1 (0.36%) Digital Healthcare
14 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 222 (81.02%) Developer
2 111 (40.51%) PHP Developer
3 56 (20.44%) Full Stack Developer
4 55 (20.07%) Senior
5 48 (17.52%) Senior Developer
6 36 (13.14%) Software Developer
7 34 (12.41%) Web Developer
8 28 (10.22%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 28 (10.22%) Senior PHP Developer
9 18 (6.57%) Full Stack PHP Developer
9 18 (6.57%) WordPress Developer
10 14 (5.11%) Software Engineer
11 13 (4.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 12 (4.38%) PHP Web Developer
13 11 (4.01%) Full Stack Web Developer
14 10 (3.65%) Lead
14 10 (3.65%) Senior Software Developer
15 7 (2.55%) Junior
15 7 (2.55%) Junior Developer
15 7 (2.55%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (54.01%) HTML
2 145 (52.92%) Laravel
3 129 (47.08%) CSS
4 92 (33.58%) React
5 72 (26.28%) Vue
6 53 (19.34%) LAMP
7 48 (17.52%) jQuery
8 25 (9.12%) Node.js
8 25 (9.12%) RESTful
9 23 (8.39%) Symfony
10 22 (8.03%) AngularJS
11 14 (5.11%) REST
12 10 (3.65%) GraphQL
13 9 (3.28%) HTML5
13 9 (3.28%) SOAP
13 9 (3.28%) Tailwind CSS
14 8 (2.92%) CSS3
14 8 (2.92%) Sass
14 8 (2.92%) Web Services
15 7 (2.55%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.01%) Animation
2 8 (2.92%) IoT
3 7 (2.55%) Low-Code
3 7 (2.55%) Mobile App
3 7 (2.55%) Video Editing
4 6 (2.19%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.46%) BBC
6 4 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.46%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.73%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.73%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.73%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.36%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.36%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.76%) Linux
2 8 (2.92%) Windows
3 4 (1.46%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.36%) Android
4 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (36.86%) Full Stack Development
2 66 (24.09%) Web Development
3 60 (21.90%) MVC
4 56 (20.44%) Agile
5 52 (18.98%) OOP
6 43 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (14.23%) Software Engineering
8 29 (10.58%) Front End Development
9 24 (8.76%) E-Commerce
9 24 (8.76%) Microservices
10 22 (8.03%) Scrum
11 21 (7.66%) CRM
11 21 (7.66%) DevOps
12 18 (6.57%) Performance Optimisation
13 17 (6.20%) Code Quality
13 17 (6.20%) Web Design
14 15 (5.47%) OO
15 14 (5.11%) Test Automation
15 14 (5.11%) User Experience
16 13 (4.74%) OO PHP
Programming Languages
1 183 (66.79%) JavaScript
2 29 (10.58%) SQL
3 23 (8.39%) Java
4 22 (8.03%) Python
5 17 (6.20%) TypeScript
6 16 (5.84%) C#
7 11 (4.01%) C
8 9 (3.28%) C++
9 7 (2.55%) Bash
9 7 (2.55%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.19%) Ada
10 6 (2.19%) Bicep
10 6 (2.19%) Ruby
11 4 (1.46%) Go
11 4 (1.46%) Rust
11 4 (1.46%) Scala
11 4 (1.46%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.09%) Delphi
13 2 (0.73%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (7.66%) Degree
2 7 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.36%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.19%) GDPR
1 6 (2.19%) QA
2 4 (1.46%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (8.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (6.20%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.19%) Terraform
3 1 (0.36%) Plesk
Vendors
1 14 (5.11%) Google
2 13 (4.74%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.01%) Twitter
4 7 (2.55%) SAP
4 7 (2.55%) WooCommerce
5 5 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.46%) Adobe
7 2 (0.73%) Apple
7 2 (0.73%) Oracle