PHP Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

PHP
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 119 137
Rank change year-on-year -25 +18 -61
Permanent jobs citing PHP 325 868 1,073
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.17% 2.57% 2.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.44% 6.30% 5.10%
Number of salaries quoted 291 810 955
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £89,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +7.71%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

PHP falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,974 13,779 21,042
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.95% 40.72% 49.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,843 11,434 15,507
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

PHP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PHP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

PHP salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

PHP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 33 (10.15%) WordPress
2 30 (9.23%) CMS
3 12 (3.69%) Apache Solr
3 12 (3.69%) nginx
4 4 (1.23%) Apache
5 3 (0.92%) ColdFusion
6 2 (0.62%) Confluence
6 2 (0.62%) Drupal
6 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.31%) Joomla!
7 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.85%) Photoshop
2 4 (1.23%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (1.23%) Adobe Premiere
2 4 (1.23%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.62%) Trello
4 1 (0.31%) InVision
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) Sketch
4 1 (0.31%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.62%) Odoo
1 2 (0.62%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.31%) Magento
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 78 (24.00%) AWS
2 64 (19.69%) Azure
3 20 (6.15%) GitHub
4 15 (4.62%) Serverless
5 13 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (4.00%) SaaS
6 11 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (3.38%) GCP
7 10 (3.08%) npm
8 8 (2.46%) Stripe
9 7 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.15%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.85%) Figma
11 5 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.23%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.92%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
13 3 (0.92%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.31%) DNS
1 14 (4.31%) HTTPS
2 13 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.69%) IPsec
4 5 (1.54%) VoIP
5 4 (1.23%) MPLS
5 4 (1.23%) Network Security
6 3 (0.92%) HTTP
6 3 (0.92%) Internet
7 2 (0.62%) FTP
7 2 (0.62%) SSH
7 2 (0.62%) SSL
8 1 (0.31%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (44.00%) MySQL
2 56 (17.23%) SQL Server
3 18 (5.54%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.69%) Couchbase
6 11 (3.38%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.15%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.23%) Big Data
9 4 (1.23%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.62%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.62%) Power BI
10 2 (0.62%) SQLite
10 2 (0.62%) Tableau
11 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.31%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.31%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.31%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 79 (24.31%) Git
2 15 (4.62%) JIRA
3 11 (3.38%) webpack
4 9 (2.77%) Grunt
5 8 (2.46%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.85%) PHPUnit
7 5 (1.54%) Selenium
8 3 (0.92%) git-flow
8 3 (0.92%) Jasmine
8 3 (0.92%) Mocha
8 3 (0.92%) Subversion
9 2 (0.62%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.62%) GitLab
9 2 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.62%) Postman
9 2 (0.62%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.62%) Vite
10 1 (0.31%) CMake
10 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.31%) WiX
General
1 95 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.85%) Finance
3 40 (12.31%) Games
4 14 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.00%) Retail
6 12 (3.69%) Law
7 11 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.08%) Marketing
8 10 (3.08%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.46%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.15%) Legal
12 5 (1.54%) Back Office
12 5 (1.54%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.62%) Advertising
14 2 (0.62%) Automotive
14 2 (0.62%) Banking
14 2 (0.62%) Electronics
14 2 (0.62%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 198 (60.92%) Developer
2 111 (34.15%) PHP Developer
3 80 (24.62%) Senior
4 42 (12.92%) Senior Developer
5 36 (11.08%) Graduate
5 36 (11.08%) Graduate Developer
6 34 (10.46%) IT Graduate
6 34 (10.46%) Software Engineer
7 30 (9.23%) Lead
8 26 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 24 (7.38%) Web Developer
10 21 (6.46%) Senior PHP Developer
11 19 (5.85%) PHP Software Engineer
11 19 (5.85%) Senior Software Engineer
12 17 (5.23%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
12 17 (5.23%) SQL Developer
13 16 (4.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 15 (4.62%) C# Developer
15 13 (4.00%) Agile C# Developer
15 13 (4.00%) Graduate C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (39.69%) CSS
2 113 (34.77%) Laravel
3 109 (33.54%) HTML
4 80 (24.62%) React
5 71 (21.85%) Vue
6 64 (19.69%) .NET
7 54 (16.62%) jQuery
8 49 (15.08%) AngularJS
9 45 (13.85%) Symfony
10 41 (12.62%) ASP.NET
11 29 (8.92%) Node.js
12 28 (8.62%) RESTful
13 24 (7.38%) LAMP
14 23 (7.08%) Sass
15 14 (4.31%) Web Services
16 12 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
17 11 (3.38%) CSS3
17 11 (3.38%) HTML5
17 11 (3.38%) React Native
17 11 (3.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.38%) Legacy Code
2 10 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (3.08%) Onboarding
3 9 (2.77%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.77%) Virtual Team
4 7 (2.15%) IoT
4 7 (2.15%) Learning Management System
4 7 (2.15%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.54%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.23%) CCTV
7 3 (0.92%) Client/Server
7 3 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.92%) Educational Technology
7 3 (0.92%) e-Learning
7 3 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.92%) NHS
7 3 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.08%) Linux
2 13 (4.00%) Android
2 13 (4.00%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.15%) Windows
4 6 (1.85%) Unix
5 3 (0.92%) CentOS
6 2 (0.62%) AIX
6 2 (0.62%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.62%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.31%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (38.46%) Agile
2 85 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (24.31%) Software Engineering
4 71 (21.85%) OO
5 70 (21.54%) E-Commerce
6 57 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 57 (17.54%) OOP
7 56 (17.23%) MVC
8 48 (14.77%) DevOps
9 47 (14.46%) Web Development
10 44 (13.54%) CI/CD
10 44 (13.54%) Computer Science
10 44 (13.54%) Mentoring
11 43 (13.23%) Full-Stack Development
12 41 (12.62%) TDD
13 39 (12.00%) Front End Development
14 31 (9.54%) SOLID
15 29 (8.92%) Roadmaps
16 28 (8.62%) Test Automation
17 27 (8.31%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 150 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 63 (19.38%) SQL
3 53 (16.31%) Java
4 46 (14.15%) C#
5 44 (13.54%) C++
6 39 (12.00%) Python
7 37 (11.38%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.92%) Go
9 10 (3.08%) C
10 8 (2.46%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.15%) Perl
12 5 (1.54%) Objective-C
12 5 (1.54%) Scala
13 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.62%) AWK
13 2 (0.62%) Korn
13 2 (0.62%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.62%) VB
14 1 (0.31%) Ruby
14 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (13.54%) Degree
2 40 (12.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (1.23%) Chartered Engineer
5 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.62%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.38%) QA
2 17 (5.23%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.15%) WCAG
4 6 (1.85%) GDPR
5 3 (0.92%) SLA
6 1 (0.31%) GMP
6 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 35 (10.77%) Docker
2 2 (0.62%) KVM
2 2 (0.62%) Postfix
2 2 (0.62%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (6.15%) Terraform
2 17 (5.23%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.69%) Ansible
4 4 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (0.62%) Grafana
5 2 (0.62%) Nagios
5 2 (0.62%) Nessus
6 1 (0.31%) cPanel
Vendors
1 23 (7.08%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.69%) Adobe
3 7 (2.15%) Twitter
4 6 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.54%) OpenAI
5 5 (1.54%) Xamarin
6 4 (1.23%) Cisco
6 4 (1.23%) Google
6 4 (1.23%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.23%) SAP
7 3 (0.92%) Apple
7 3 (0.92%) Oracle
7 3 (0.92%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.62%) Ahrefs
8 2 (0.62%) IBM
8 2 (0.62%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (0.62%) Tenable
8 2 (0.62%) Zoho
9 1 (0.31%) WooCommerce
9 1 (0.31%) Zend