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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 206 173
Rank change year-on-year -19 -33 -9
Permanent jobs citing PHP 265 238 451
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.11% 1.47% 1.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.32% 4.67% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 239 165 304
10th Percentile - - £31,250
25th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £54,500 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,033 £74,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -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 6,141 5,100 9,034
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.68% 31.42% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,593 3,456 6,322
10th Percentile £38,772 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £117,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

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 12 September 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 21 (7.92%) WordPress
2 8 (3.02%) CMS
3 6 (2.26%) Apache
4 4 (1.51%) Confluence
4 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.75%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Drupal
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) Moodle
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 4 (1.51%) Shopify
2 2 (0.75%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 107 (40.38%) Azure
2 58 (21.89%) AWS
3 27 (10.19%) SaaS
4 15 (5.66%) GitHub
5 10 (3.77%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (1.89%) GCP
8 4 (1.51%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.13%) ClickUp
9 3 (1.13%) Contentful
9 3 (1.13%) Datadog
9 3 (1.13%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.13%) Sentry
9 3 (1.13%) Serverless
9 3 (1.13%) Stripe
10 2 (0.75%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (0.75%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.13%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.75%) Broadband
2 2 (0.75%) Intranet
3 1 (0.38%) DNS
3 1 (0.38%) Firewall
3 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (22.64%) SQL Server
2 47 (17.74%) MySQL
3 13 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.64%) MariaDB
4 7 (2.64%) Redis
5 6 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.13%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.13%) Power BI
7 2 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.75%) Metadata
7 2 (0.75%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.38%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (6.42%) Git
2 6 (2.26%) JIRA
3 4 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.13%) Appium
5 2 (0.75%) Bower
6 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.38%) ESLint
6 1 (0.38%) Gatling
6 1 (0.38%) GitLab
6 1 (0.38%) JMeter
6 1 (0.38%) Storybook
6 1 (0.38%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.38%) Vite
General
1 54 (20.38%) Finance
2 40 (15.09%) Social Skills
3 8 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (3.02%) Public Sector
4 7 (2.64%) Marketing
5 6 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (1.89%) Games
6 5 (1.89%) Law
7 4 (1.51%) Legal
8 3 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.13%) Publishing
9 2 (0.75%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.75%) Retail
10 1 (0.38%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 171 (64.53%) Developer
2 95 (35.85%) Graduate
3 74 (27.92%) PHP Developer
4 60 (22.64%) Software Developer
5 56 (21.13%) Graduate Developer
5 56 (21.13%) Graduate Software Developer
6 54 (20.38%) Software Engineer
7 52 (19.62%) Senior
8 40 (15.09%) C# Developer
8 40 (15.09%) C# Software Developer
8 40 (15.09%) Graduate C# Developer
8 40 (15.09%) Graduate C# Software Developer
9 39 (14.72%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 38 (14.34%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 38 (14.34%) Senior Developer
10 38 (14.34%) SQL Developer
11 30 (11.32%) PHP Software Engineer
12 28 (10.57%) Graduate PHP Developer
13 26 (9.81%) Azure Engineer
13 26 (9.81%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (33.21%) Laravel
2 67 (25.28%) CSS
3 47 (17.74%) HTML
4 41 (15.47%) jQuery
5 34 (12.83%) React
6 27 (10.19%) Vue
7 15 (5.66%) CSS3
8 14 (5.28%) HTML5
9 13 (4.91%) Node.js
10 12 (4.53%) RESTful
11 9 (3.40%) Symfony
11 9 (3.40%) Web Services
12 8 (3.02%) .NET
13 7 (2.64%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (2.26%) Sass
14 6 (2.26%) Terraform
15 5 (1.89%) React Native
16 4 (1.51%) REST
17 3 (1.13%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.43%) Virtual Team
2 11 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.40%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.64%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.26%) Educational Technology
6 3 (1.13%) Blog
6 3 (1.13%) Clustering
6 3 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.75%) IoT
7 2 (0.75%) Robotics
7 2 (0.75%) Social Media
8 1 (0.38%) NHS
8 1 (0.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.42%) Linux
2 7 (2.64%) Windows
3 4 (1.51%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.13%) Android
4 3 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.13%) Debian
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (31.70%) Computer Science
2 72 (27.17%) Software Engineering
3 71 (26.79%) Agile
4 46 (17.36%) MVC
5 37 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (13.58%) OOP
7 34 (12.83%) OO
8 28 (10.57%) CI/CD
8 28 (10.57%) Full-Stack Development
8 28 (10.57%) Mentoring
9 26 (9.81%) Clean Code
10 20 (7.55%) Web Development
11 16 (6.04%) DevOps
11 16 (6.04%) User Experience
12 15 (5.66%) AI
12 15 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (5.28%) Fintech
14 12 (4.53%) Test Automation
15 11 (4.15%) OO PHP
16 9 (3.40%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 106 (40.00%) SQL
2 102 (38.49%) C#
3 62 (23.40%) JavaScript
4 35 (13.21%) Python
5 33 (12.45%) Java
6 24 (9.06%) C++
7 14 (5.28%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.53%) Go
9 4 (1.51%) Bash
9 4 (1.51%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.13%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.13%) Ruby
10 3 (1.13%) Scala
10 3 (1.13%) Swift
11 1 (0.38%) Rust
11 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (20.00%) Degree
2 51 (19.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.13%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.75%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.04%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.89%) QA
3 3 (1.13%) WCAG
4 2 (0.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (6.79%) Docker
2 5 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.64%) Ansible
3 3 (1.13%) Grafana
3 3 (1.13%) Plesk
4 1 (0.38%) Consul
4 1 (0.38%) Packer
4 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (8.68%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.89%) Google
2 5 (1.89%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.51%) Sage
4 2 (0.75%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.38%) Netlify
5 1 (0.38%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.38%) TOWER Software