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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 199 169
Rank change year-on-year -11 -30 -17
Permanent jobs citing PHP 293 278 497
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.28% 1.68% 2.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.81% 5.20% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 264 206 399
10th Percentile - - £30,200
25th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £43,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.29% -8.95% -9.80%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,116 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -6.54%

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 6,091 5,350 9,440
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.57% 32.30% 38.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,586 3,695 7,247
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 20 August 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 18 (6.14%) WordPress
2 8 (2.73%) CMS
3 6 (2.05%) Apache
4 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.37%) Confluence
6 2 (0.68%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) Drupal
7 1 (0.34%) IIS
7 1 (0.34%) Moodle
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Shopify
2 2 (0.68%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 119 (40.61%) Azure
2 64 (21.84%) AWS
3 34 (11.60%) SaaS
4 15 (5.12%) GitHub
5 10 (3.41%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (2.39%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.05%) Serverless
9 5 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.71%) GCP
10 4 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.02%) ClickUp
11 3 (1.02%) Contentful
11 3 (1.02%) Datadog
11 3 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.02%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.02%) Sentry
11 3 (1.02%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.37%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.68%) Broadband
2 2 (0.68%) DNS
2 2 (0.68%) Intranet
3 1 (0.34%) DHCP
3 1 (0.34%) Firewall
3 1 (0.34%) SSL
3 1 (0.34%) VPN
3 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (21.16%) SQL Server
2 51 (17.41%) MySQL
3 15 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.73%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.39%) MariaDB
6 6 (2.05%) Redis
7 5 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.02%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.02%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.02%) Power BI
9 2 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.68%) Metadata
9 2 (0.68%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.34%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 17 (5.80%) Git
2 8 (2.73%) JIRA
3 4 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.02%) Appium
4 3 (1.02%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.68%) Bower
5 2 (0.68%) Postman
6 1 (0.34%) Gatling
6 1 (0.34%) JMeter
6 1 (0.34%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (23.21%) Finance
2 48 (16.38%) Social Skills
3 10 (3.41%) Marketing
4 8 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (2.73%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.39%) Law
6 6 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.71%) Games
7 5 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.37%) Legal
8 4 (1.37%) Retail
9 3 (1.02%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.02%) Publishing
10 1 (0.34%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 190 (64.85%) Developer
2 108 (36.86%) Graduate
3 101 (34.47%) PHP Developer
4 73 (24.91%) Software Developer
5 71 (24.23%) Graduate Developer
5 71 (24.23%) Graduate Software Developer
6 56 (19.11%) Senior
7 55 (18.77%) C# Developer
7 55 (18.77%) C# Software Developer
7 55 (18.77%) Graduate C# Developer
7 55 (18.77%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 53 (18.09%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 53 (18.09%) SQL Developer
9 52 (17.75%) Software Engineer
10 43 (14.68%) Graduate PHP Developer
11 40 (13.65%) Senior Developer
12 37 (12.63%) Graduate Software Engineer
13 31 (10.58%) PHP Software Engineer
14 26 (8.87%) Azure Engineer
14 26 (8.87%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (28.67%) Laravel
2 67 (22.87%) CSS
3 45 (15.36%) HTML
4 44 (15.02%) jQuery
5 37 (12.63%) React
6 25 (8.53%) Vue
7 15 (5.12%) CSS3
8 14 (4.78%) HTML5
9 12 (4.10%) Node.js
9 12 (4.10%) RESTful
9 12 (4.10%) Symfony
10 10 (3.41%) .NET
11 9 (3.07%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.73%) Web Services
13 6 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.05%) Terraform
14 5 (1.71%) .NET Framework
14 5 (1.71%) React Native
15 4 (1.37%) REST
16 3 (1.02%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.53%) Virtual Team
2 12 (4.10%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.39%) Educational Technology
4 7 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.37%) IoT
6 3 (1.02%) Blog
6 3 (1.02%) Clustering
6 3 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.02%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.02%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.02%) Robotics
7 2 (0.68%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (0.68%) Social Media
8 1 (0.34%) CCTV
8 1 (0.34%) NHS
8 1 (0.34%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.46%) Linux
2 8 (2.73%) Windows
3 3 (1.02%) Android
3 3 (1.02%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.02%) Debian
3 3 (1.02%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (33.11%) Computer Science
2 84 (28.67%) Agile
3 73 (24.91%) Software Engineering
4 48 (16.38%) MVC
5 41 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (12.97%) OOP
7 33 (11.26%) Mentoring
7 33 (11.26%) OO
8 29 (9.90%) CI/CD
8 29 (9.90%) Full-Stack Development
9 26 (8.87%) Clean Code
10 21 (7.17%) DevOps
11 20 (6.83%) Web Development
12 16 (5.46%) AI
12 16 (5.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (4.78%) Fintech
13 14 (4.78%) Microservices
13 14 (4.78%) User Experience
14 12 (4.10%) Test Automation
15 11 (3.75%) OO PHP
Programming Languages
1 123 (41.98%) SQL
2 115 (39.25%) C#
3 61 (20.82%) JavaScript
4 39 (13.31%) Python
5 35 (11.95%) Java
6 26 (8.87%) C++
7 15 (5.12%) TypeScript
8 14 (4.78%) Go
9 6 (2.05%) Bash
10 5 (1.71%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.02%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.02%) Ruby
11 3 (1.02%) Rust
11 3 (1.02%) Scala
11 3 (1.02%) Swift
12 1 (0.34%) Delphi
12 1 (0.34%) Pascal
12 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (18.77%) Degree
2 53 (18.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.68%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.34%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.44%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.39%) QA
3 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.02%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.02%) WCAG
5 2 (0.68%) GDPR
5 2 (0.68%) SLA
6 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (6.83%) Docker
2 5 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.02%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.39%) Ansible
3 3 (1.02%) Grafana
3 3 (1.02%) Plesk
4 1 (0.34%) Consul
4 1 (0.34%) Packer
4 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (8.19%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.71%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.37%) Google
3 4 (1.37%) Sage
4 2 (0.68%) BT
4 2 (0.68%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.34%) Netlify
5 1 (0.34%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.34%) TOWER Software