PHP Developer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

PHP Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median PHP Developer salary for remote or hybrid work is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 285 313
Rank change year-on-year -3 +28 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Developer 111 360 425
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.74% 1.06% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.11% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 108 351 384
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £33,975
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £61,563
90th Percentile £67,875 £63,250 £78,375
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

PHP Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PHP Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

PHP Developer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PHP Developer.

PHP Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing PHP Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

PHP Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 111 (100.00%) PHP
2 66 (59.46%) JavaScript
3 58 (52.25%) CSS
4 53 (47.75%) MySQL
5 52 (46.85%) HTML
6 47 (42.34%) Laravel
7 44 (39.64%) OO
8 41 (36.94%) React
9 39 (35.14%) Agile
10 37 (33.33%) Git
11 36 (32.43%) Vue
12 33 (29.73%) Social Skills
12 33 (29.73%) OOP
13 32 (28.83%) Symfony
14 30 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (25.23%) jQuery
16 26 (23.42%) Web Development
16 26 (23.42%) SQL
17 24 (21.62%) AWS
18 22 (19.82%) CMS
19 20 (18.02%) E-Commerce
19 20 (18.02%) AngularJS
20 19 (17.12%) Computer Science
20 19 (17.12%) MVC
21 18 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
22 17 (15.32%) Front End Development
22 17 (15.32%) Computer Science Degree
22 17 (15.32%) Docker
22 17 (15.32%) .NET
22 17 (15.32%) Degree

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 22 (19.82%) CMS
2 17 (15.32%) WordPress
3 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.90%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.90%) Confluence
4 1 (0.90%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.90%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.90%) InVision
2 1 (0.90%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Magento
1 1 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.62%) AWS
2 17 (15.32%) Azure
3 10 (9.01%) npm
4 7 (6.31%) GCP
5 3 (2.70%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.70%) SaaS
6 2 (1.80%) DigitalOcean
6 2 (1.80%) GitHub
7 1 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.90%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.90%) Figma
7 1 (0.90%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.90%) Serverless
7 1 (0.90%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (47.75%) MySQL
2 14 (12.61%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.80%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.80%) Power BI
4 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.90%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 37 (33.33%) Git
2 11 (9.91%) webpack
3 9 (8.11%) Grunt
4 3 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.70%) git-flow
4 3 (2.70%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.80%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.80%) JIRA
5 2 (1.80%) Mocha
5 2 (1.80%) Vite
6 1 (0.90%) Subversion
General
1 33 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.61%) Finance
3 12 (10.81%) Games
4 11 (9.91%) Law
5 6 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.70%) Marketing
7 2 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Retail
8 1 (0.90%) Advertising
8 1 (0.90%) Automotive
8 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (52.25%) CSS
2 52 (46.85%) HTML
3 47 (42.34%) Laravel
4 41 (36.94%) React
5 36 (32.43%) Vue
6 32 (28.83%) Symfony
7 28 (25.23%) jQuery
8 20 (18.02%) AngularJS
9 17 (15.32%) .NET
10 15 (13.51%) ASP.NET
11 13 (11.71%) Sass
12 11 (9.91%) Node.js
13 10 (9.01%) Playwright
14 9 (8.11%) CakePHP
14 9 (8.11%) Doctrine
14 9 (8.11%) LAMP
14 9 (8.11%) Pyjs
15 8 (7.21%) RESTful
16 7 (6.31%) Tailwind CSS
17 6 (5.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.01%) Legacy Code
2 7 (6.31%) Mobile App
2 7 (6.31%) Virtual Team
3 4 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.90%) BBC
6 1 (0.90%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.90%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.90%) NHS
6 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.90%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (39.64%) OO
2 39 (35.14%) Agile
3 33 (29.73%) OOP
4 30 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (23.42%) Web Development
6 20 (18.02%) E-Commerce
7 19 (17.12%) Computer Science
7 19 (17.12%) MVC
8 18 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (15.32%) Front End Development
10 16 (14.41%) Test Automation
11 15 (13.51%) CRM
12 14 (12.61%) Software Engineering
12 14 (12.61%) SOLID
13 11 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (9.91%) Design Patterns
13 11 (9.91%) OO PHP
13 11 (9.91%) TDD
14 10 (9.01%) Code Quality
14 10 (9.01%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 111 (100.00%) PHP
2 66 (59.46%) JavaScript
3 26 (23.42%) SQL
4 16 (14.41%) Java
5 15 (13.51%) C#
6 13 (11.71%) C++
7 10 (9.01%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (15.32%) Computer Science Degree
1 17 (15.32%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.60%) QA
2 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (15.32%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (3.60%) Adobe
1 4 (3.60%) Twitter
2 2 (1.80%) Google
3 1 (0.90%) Apple
3 1 (0.90%) Zend