Hybrid/Remote PHP Job Trends

PHP
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring PHP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 129 110
Rank change year-on-year -60 -19 +32
Permanent jobs citing PHP 219 341 849
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.31% 2.66% 2.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.78% 5.88% 6.43%
Number of salaries quoted 207 314 794
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,500 £82,125 £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

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 4,579 5,802 13,198
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.44% 45.22% 42.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,336 4,522 11,439
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PHP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

PHP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

PHP
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PHP over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

PHP salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.57%) CMS
2 9 (4.11%) WordPress
3 7 (3.20%) nginx
4 5 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.83%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.91%) Apache
6 2 (0.91%) Drupal
6 2 (0.91%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.91%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.46%) Confluence
7 1 (0.46%) IIS
7 1 (0.46%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.83%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.91%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.20%) Shopify
2 3 (1.37%) Magento
3 1 (0.46%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 85 (38.81%) Azure
2 80 (36.53%) AWS
3 27 (12.33%) SaaS
4 14 (6.39%) GitHub
5 7 (3.20%) GCP
6 6 (2.74%) Serverless
7 5 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.28%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.28%) Slack
8 4 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.83%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (1.83%) DigitalOcean
8 4 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.37%) Firebase
9 3 (1.37%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.37%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.91%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.83%) DHCP
1 4 (1.83%) DNS
1 4 (1.83%) TCP/IP
1 4 (1.83%) VPN
1 4 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.91%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (31.05%) MySQL
2 34 (15.53%) SQL Server
3 18 (8.22%) Relational Database
4 15 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.20%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.74%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.28%) MariaDB
8 4 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.37%) Redis
10 1 (0.46%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 34 (15.53%) Git
2 12 (5.48%) JIRA
3 5 (2.28%) Claude Code
4 4 (1.83%) Postman
4 4 (1.83%) Vite
5 2 (0.91%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.91%) PHPUnit
5 2 (0.91%) Selenium
5 2 (0.91%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.46%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.46%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.46%) Gatling
6 1 (0.46%) git-flow
6 1 (0.46%) JMeter
6 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.46%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 66 (30.14%) Finance
2 34 (15.53%) Social Skills
3 14 (6.39%) Marketing
4 9 (4.11%) Health Technology
4 9 (4.11%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (3.65%) Law
6 7 (3.20%) Games
7 5 (2.28%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.37%) Retail
10 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.91%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.46%) Automotive
11 1 (0.46%) Billing
11 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.46%) Legal
11 1 (0.46%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 151 (68.95%) Developer
2 105 (47.95%) PHP Developer
3 63 (28.77%) Graduate
4 61 (27.85%) Software Developer
5 58 (26.48%) Graduate Developer
6 56 (25.57%) Graduate Software Developer
7 53 (24.20%) C# Developer
7 53 (24.20%) C# Software Developer
7 53 (24.20%) Graduate C# Developer
7 53 (24.20%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 51 (23.29%) Senior
9 49 (22.37%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 49 (22.37%) SQL Developer
10 47 (21.46%) Graduate PHP Developer
11 39 (17.81%) Senior Developer
12 27 (12.33%) Senior PHP Developer
13 22 (10.05%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (10.05%) Software Engineer
14 21 (9.59%) Azure Developer
15 12 (5.48%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (31.05%) CSS
2 50 (22.83%) Laravel
3 42 (19.18%) HTML
4 40 (18.26%) React
5 33 (15.07%) jQuery
6 28 (12.79%) Symfony
7 22 (10.05%) Vue
8 19 (8.68%) Node.js
9 11 (5.02%) AngularJS
9 11 (5.02%) REST
10 9 (4.11%) RESTful
11 8 (3.65%) Tailwind CSS
12 7 (3.20%) .NET
13 6 (2.74%) CodeIgniter
13 6 (2.74%) HTML5
13 6 (2.74%) LEMP Stack
13 6 (2.74%) Next.js
14 5 (2.28%) CakePHP
14 5 (2.28%) CSS3
14 5 (2.28%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.02%) Onboarding
1 11 (5.02%) Virtual Team
2 7 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (3.20%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.74%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.74%) IoT
4 5 (2.28%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.28%) Educational Technology
4 5 (2.28%) Robotics
5 4 (1.83%) CCTV
5 4 (1.83%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.83%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.83%) Mobile Games
5 4 (1.83%) NHS
6 2 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.46%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.13%) Linux
2 10 (4.57%) Windows
3 5 (2.28%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.83%) Android
4 4 (1.83%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (37.90%) Agile
2 61 (27.85%) Computer Science
3 43 (19.63%) Software Engineering
4 40 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (17.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 39 (17.81%) MVC
6 36 (16.44%) Mentoring
7 31 (14.16%) OOP
8 27 (12.33%) OO
9 25 (11.42%) Clean Code
10 24 (10.96%) CI/CD
11 20 (9.13%) User Experience
12 19 (8.68%) DevOps
13 18 (8.22%) AI
14 17 (7.76%) E-Commerce
15 16 (7.31%) Machine Learning
16 15 (6.85%) Containerisation
17 14 (6.39%) Front End Development
17 14 (6.39%) Microservices
17 14 (6.39%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (36.99%) SQL
2 66 (30.14%) C#
3 50 (22.83%) JavaScript
4 29 (13.24%) Java
5 27 (12.33%) C++
5 27 (12.33%) Python
5 27 (12.33%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.11%) Go
7 7 (3.20%) Bash
8 6 (2.74%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.83%) Delphi
9 4 (1.83%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.83%) Pascal
10 2 (0.91%) Rust
11 1 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 39 (17.81%) Degree
2 35 (15.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.46%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.02%) QA
2 5 (2.28%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.37%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.37%) SLA
4 2 (0.91%) GDPR
5 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (12.79%) Docker
2 3 (1.37%) Firmware
3 2 (0.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.28%) Ansible
3 4 (1.83%) Terraform
4 3 (1.37%) cPanel
4 3 (1.37%) Plesk
5 1 (0.46%) Consul
5 1 (0.46%) Kibana
5 1 (0.46%) Packer
5 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.46%) Puppet
5 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (9.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.37%) Zend
3 2 (0.91%) Adobe
3 2 (0.91%) Apple
3 2 (0.91%) BT
3 2 (0.91%) Google
3 2 (0.91%) OpenAI
3 2 (0.91%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.46%) New Relic
4 1 (0.46%) PayPal
4 1 (0.46%) Sage
4 1 (0.46%) TOWER Software