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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 141 164
Rank change year-on-year -66 +23 -10
Permanent jobs citing PHP 175 400 427
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.15% 2.32% 2.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.22% 5.45% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 165 260 409
10th Percentile £24,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £25,000 £37,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £49,412 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.06% -5.88% -0.40%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -

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 4,144 7,342 9,192
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.17% 42.56% 46.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,170 4,710 7,773
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,198 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,692 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £84,964 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 22 December 2025.

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 8 (4.57%) WordPress
2 7 (4.00%) Apache Solr
3 5 (2.86%) CMS
3 5 (2.86%) IIS
4 3 (1.71%) nginx
5 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.57%) Apache
6 1 (0.57%) Drupal
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.57%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.57%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Shopify
2 2 (1.14%) Magento
3 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 82 (46.86%) Azure
2 51 (29.14%) AWS
3 23 (13.14%) SaaS
4 8 (4.57%) GCP
5 7 (4.00%) GitHub
6 5 (2.86%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.71%) Firebase
9 2 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.14%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.14%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.14%) Serverless
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.57%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.57%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.57%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.71%) HTTP
2 1 (0.57%) Broadband
2 1 (0.57%) DHCP
2 1 (0.57%) DNS
2 1 (0.57%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (50.86%) MySQL
2 41 (23.43%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.71%) MariaDB
3 10 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.14%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.57%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.43%) Redis
7 3 (1.71%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (18.29%) Git
2 7 (4.00%) JIRA
3 4 (2.29%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (1.71%) git-flow
5 2 (1.14%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.14%) Postman
5 2 (1.14%) Selenium
5 2 (1.14%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.57%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.57%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.57%) Vite
General
1 61 (34.86%) Finance
2 51 (29.14%) Social Skills
3 13 (7.43%) Law
4 9 (5.14%) Games
5 7 (4.00%) Marketing
6 6 (3.43%) Automotive
7 5 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.29%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 121 (69.14%) Developer
2 63 (36.00%) PHP Developer
3 57 (32.57%) Graduate
4 51 (29.14%) Graduate Developer
5 41 (23.43%) Software Developer
6 30 (17.14%) Graduate Software Developer
7 29 (16.57%) C# Developer
7 29 (16.57%) Graduate C# Developer
7 29 (16.57%) Graduate PHP Developer
8 28 (16.00%) Senior
9 27 (15.43%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 27 (15.43%) SQL Developer
10 25 (14.29%) C# Software Developer
10 25 (14.29%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 23 (13.14%) IT Graduate
12 22 (12.57%) Senior Developer
13 20 (11.43%) Software Engineer
14 17 (9.71%) Azure Developer
15 11 (6.29%) PHP Laravel Developer
15 11 (6.29%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (40.00%) CSS
2 48 (27.43%) Laravel
3 43 (24.57%) jQuery
4 38 (21.71%) HTML
5 37 (21.14%) React
6 33 (18.86%) Symfony
7 26 (14.86%) .NET
8 25 (14.29%) ASP.NET
9 20 (11.43%) REST
10 19 (10.86%) Node.js
11 13 (7.43%) CodeIgniter
12 12 (6.86%) CakePHP
12 12 (6.86%) Vue
13 8 (4.57%) LAMP
14 7 (4.00%) AngularJS
14 7 (4.00%) RESTful
14 7 (4.00%) SOAP
15 6 (3.43%) Unity (Game Engine)
16 5 (2.86%) HTML5
16 5 (2.86%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.29%) Virtual Team
2 7 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.86%) Educational Technology
3 5 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.86%) Mobile Games
3 5 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.29%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.71%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.71%) IoT
6 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.14%) NHS
7 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.57%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.57%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.57%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.29%) Linux
2 7 (4.00%) Android
2 7 (4.00%) Apple iOS
2 7 (4.00%) Windows
2 7 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (47.43%) Agile
2 65 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (29.14%) Computer Science
3 51 (29.14%) MVC
4 47 (26.86%) OO
5 42 (24.00%) Software Engineering
6 38 (21.71%) OOP
7 31 (17.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 22 (12.57%) CI/CD
8 22 (12.57%) Mentoring
8 22 (12.57%) Test Automation
9 21 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (9.14%) DevOps
11 15 (8.57%) AI
11 15 (8.57%) Clean Code
11 15 (8.57%) Machine Learning
11 15 (8.57%) OO PHP
11 15 (8.57%) User Experience
12 13 (7.43%) Containerisation
13 10 (5.71%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 74 (42.29%) SQL
2 61 (34.86%) C#
3 57 (32.57%) JavaScript
4 35 (20.00%) Java
5 33 (18.86%) C++
6 31 (17.71%) TypeScript
7 20 (11.43%) Python
8 7 (4.00%) Go
8 7 (4.00%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.14%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.57%) Bash
10 1 (0.57%) Perl
10 1 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (22.86%) Degree
2 37 (21.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.57%) MCSE
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.57%) QA
2 6 (3.43%) SLA
3 5 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.57%) GDPR
4 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (13.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.00%) Ansible
2 6 (3.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.71%) cPanel
3 3 (1.71%) Plesk
3 3 (1.71%) Terraform
4 1 (0.57%) Argo
4 1 (0.57%) Grafana
4 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (6.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.86%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.29%) HubSpot
3 4 (2.29%) Oracle
4 3 (1.71%) Google
4 3 (1.71%) Zend
5 2 (1.14%) Adobe
5 2 (1.14%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.57%) PayPal
6 1 (0.57%) Progress
6 1 (0.57%) WooCommerce