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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 156 116
Rank change year-on-year -27 -40 +15
Permanent jobs citing PHP 253 358 859
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.35% 2.37% 2.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.09% 5.88% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 236 270 798
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £25,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,875 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,157 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.31% +0.31% -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 4,970 6,093 13,408
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.44% 40.36% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,657 4,260 11,388
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,225 £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 £79,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 20 May 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 (3.95%) CMS
1 10 (3.95%) WordPress
2 7 (2.77%) nginx
3 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.79%) Apache
4 2 (0.79%) Drupal
4 2 (0.79%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Confluence
5 1 (0.40%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (1.19%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.16%) Shopify
2 3 (1.19%) Magento
3 1 (0.40%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 96 (37.94%) Azure
2 63 (24.90%) AWS
3 26 (10.28%) SaaS
4 19 (7.51%) GitHub
5 8 (3.16%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.77%) Amazon S3
6 7 (2.77%) Serverless
7 6 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.98%) Slack
9 4 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.58%) DigitalOcean
9 4 (1.58%) GCP
10 3 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.19%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.79%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) DNS
2 4 (1.58%) DHCP
2 4 (1.58%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.58%) VPN
2 4 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.79%) HTTP
4 1 (0.40%) Firewall
4 1 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (21.34%) MySQL
2 51 (20.16%) SQL Server
3 17 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.74%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.56%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.37%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.98%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.19%) Redis
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.79%) Metadata
9 2 (0.79%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.40%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 24 (9.49%) Git
2 7 (2.77%) JIRA
3 5 (1.98%) Claude Code
4 3 (1.19%) Vite
5 2 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.79%) PHPUnit
5 2 (0.79%) Postman
6 1 (0.40%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.40%) Gatling
6 1 (0.40%) JMeter
6 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 63 (24.90%) Finance
2 37 (14.62%) Social Skills
3 13 (5.14%) Marketing
4 7 (2.77%) Games
4 7 (2.77%) Health Technology
4 7 (2.77%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (1.98%) Law
5 5 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (1.98%) Public Sector
5 5 (1.98%) Retail
6 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.79%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.40%) Billing
8 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.40%) Legal
8 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 188 (74.31%) Developer
2 125 (49.41%) PHP Developer
3 89 (35.18%) Software Developer
4 87 (34.39%) Graduate
4 87 (34.39%) Graduate Developer
5 85 (33.60%) Graduate Software Developer
6 69 (27.27%) C# Developer
6 69 (27.27%) C# Software Developer
6 69 (27.27%) Graduate C# Developer
6 69 (27.27%) Graduate C# Software Developer
7 67 (26.48%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 67 (26.48%) SQL Developer
8 58 (22.92%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 54 (21.34%) Senior
10 40 (15.81%) Senior Developer
11 24 (9.49%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 24 (9.49%) Senior PHP Developer
12 22 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
13 21 (8.30%) Azure Developer
14 20 (7.91%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (26.09%) CSS
2 60 (23.72%) Laravel
3 41 (16.21%) HTML
4 38 (15.02%) jQuery
5 33 (13.04%) React
6 29 (11.46%) Vue
7 16 (6.32%) Node.js
7 16 (6.32%) Symfony
8 15 (5.93%) AngularJS
9 13 (5.14%) HTML5
9 13 (5.14%) RESTful
10 12 (4.74%) CSS3
11 7 (2.77%) .NET
11 7 (2.77%) Tailwind CSS
12 6 (2.37%) LEMP Stack
13 5 (1.98%) .NET Framework
13 5 (1.98%) REST
13 5 (1.98%) RxJS
14 4 (1.58%) YAML
15 3 (1.19%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.49%) Virtual Team
2 11 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.95%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.56%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.98%) AI Agents
5 5 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.98%) IoT
5 5 (1.98%) Robotics
6 4 (1.58%) CCTV
6 4 (1.58%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.58%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.79%) NHS
9 1 (0.40%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.40%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.40%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.51%) Linux
2 6 (2.37%) Windows
3 4 (1.58%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (35.97%) Computer Science
2 81 (32.02%) Agile
3 42 (16.60%) MVC
4 40 (15.81%) Mentoring
5 36 (14.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 33 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (12.65%) OOP
8 31 (12.25%) OO
9 30 (11.86%) Clean Code
10 28 (11.07%) Software Engineering
11 20 (7.91%) DevOps
12 19 (7.51%) CI/CD
13 17 (6.72%) Front End Development
13 17 (6.72%) User Experience
13 17 (6.72%) Web Development
14 15 (5.93%) E-Commerce
14 15 (5.93%) Microservices
15 13 (5.14%) AI
16 12 (4.74%) OO PHP
17 11 (4.35%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 102 (40.32%) SQL
2 91 (35.97%) C#
3 47 (18.58%) JavaScript
4 33 (13.04%) Python
5 32 (12.65%) Java
6 26 (10.28%) C++
7 19 (7.51%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.14%) Go
9 7 (2.77%) Bash
10 6 (2.37%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.58%) Delphi
11 4 (1.58%) Pascal
12 3 (1.19%) Rust
12 3 (1.19%) Scala
13 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (22.53%) Degree
2 55 (21.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.77%) Accessibility
1 7 (2.77%) QA
2 5 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.19%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.79%) GDPR
4 2 (0.79%) SLA
5 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (8.30%) Docker
2 3 (1.19%) Firmware
3 2 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (3.16%) Kubernetes
1 8 (3.16%) Terraform
2 4 (1.58%) Ansible
3 3 (1.19%) Plesk
4 1 (0.40%) Consul
4 1 (0.40%) Kibana
4 1 (0.40%) Packer
4 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.40%) Puppet
4 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.79%) Apple
2 2 (0.79%) BT
2 2 (0.79%) Dynatrace
2 2 (0.79%) Google
2 2 (0.79%) OpenAI
2 2 (0.79%) Salesforce
2 2 (0.79%) Zend
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe
3 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.40%) Netlify
3 1 (0.40%) New Relic
3 1 (0.40%) PayPal
3 1 (0.40%) Sage
3 1 (0.40%) TOWER Software