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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 187 168
Rank change year-on-year -15 -19 -10
Permanent jobs citing PHP 285 272 499
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 1.65% 2.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.68% 5.13% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 256 197 373
10th Percentile - - £30,250
25th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £44,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% -7.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £53,813 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,083 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -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 6,094 5,300 9,356
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.12% 32.23% 38.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,576 3,653 6,859
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,615
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,879
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +1.78% -3.26%
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 1 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 20 (7.02%) WordPress
2 8 (2.81%) CMS
3 6 (2.11%) Apache
4 4 (1.40%) Confluence
4 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.70%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Drupal
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) Moodle
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Shopify
2 2 (0.70%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 115 (40.35%) Azure
2 64 (22.46%) AWS
3 32 (11.23%) SaaS
4 15 (5.26%) GitHub
5 10 (3.51%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (2.46%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.11%) Serverless
9 5 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.75%) GCP
10 4 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.05%) ClickUp
11 3 (1.05%) Contentful
11 3 (1.05%) Datadog
11 3 (1.05%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.05%) Sentry
11 3 (1.05%) Stripe
12 2 (0.70%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.70%) Broadband
2 2 (0.70%) Intranet
3 1 (0.35%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) Firewall
3 1 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (22.46%) SQL Server
2 51 (17.89%) MySQL
3 14 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.46%) MariaDB
4 7 (2.46%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.11%) Redis
6 5 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.05%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.05%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.05%) Power BI
8 2 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.70%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.70%) Metadata
8 2 (0.70%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.35%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 17 (5.96%) Git
2 7 (2.46%) JIRA
3 4 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.05%) Appium
5 2 (0.70%) Bower
6 1 (0.35%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.35%) Gatling
6 1 (0.35%) JMeter
6 1 (0.35%) Postman
6 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (21.75%) Finance
2 45 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 9 (3.16%) Marketing
4 8 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (2.81%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.46%) Law
6 6 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.75%) Games
8 4 (1.40%) Legal
8 4 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.05%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.05%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.05%) Publishing
9 3 (1.05%) Retail
10 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 185 (64.91%) Developer
2 104 (36.49%) Graduate
3 92 (32.28%) PHP Developer
4 68 (23.86%) Software Developer
5 65 (22.81%) Graduate Developer
5 65 (22.81%) Graduate Software Developer
6 54 (18.95%) Software Engineer
7 52 (18.25%) Senior
8 49 (17.19%) C# Developer
8 49 (17.19%) C# Software Developer
8 49 (17.19%) Graduate C# Developer
8 49 (17.19%) Graduate C# Software Developer
9 47 (16.49%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 47 (16.49%) SQL Developer
10 39 (13.68%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 38 (13.33%) Senior Developer
12 37 (12.98%) Graduate PHP Developer
13 31 (10.88%) PHP Software Engineer
14 26 (9.12%) Azure Engineer
14 26 (9.12%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (29.82%) Laravel
2 69 (24.21%) CSS
3 47 (16.49%) HTML
4 44 (15.44%) jQuery
5 35 (12.28%) React
6 25 (8.77%) Vue
7 15 (5.26%) CSS3
8 14 (4.91%) HTML5
9 12 (4.21%) Node.js
9 12 (4.21%) RESTful
10 10 (3.51%) .NET
10 10 (3.51%) Symfony
11 8 (2.81%) Web Services
12 7 (2.46%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.11%) Terraform
14 5 (1.75%) .NET Framework
14 5 (1.75%) React Native
14 5 (1.75%) Sass
15 4 (1.40%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.77%) Virtual Team
2 12 (4.21%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.46%) Educational Technology
4 7 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.40%) IoT
7 3 (1.05%) Blog
7 3 (1.05%) Clustering
7 3 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.05%) Robotics
8 2 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.70%) Social Media
9 1 (0.35%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.35%) NHS
9 1 (0.35%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.61%) Linux
2 7 (2.46%) Windows
3 3 (1.05%) Android
3 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.05%) Debian
3 3 (1.05%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (32.63%) Computer Science
2 81 (28.42%) Agile
3 75 (26.32%) Software Engineering
4 49 (17.19%) MVC
5 39 (13.68%) OOP
5 39 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (11.93%) OO
7 32 (11.23%) Mentoring
8 31 (10.88%) Full-Stack Development
9 29 (10.18%) CI/CD
10 26 (9.12%) Clean Code
11 21 (7.37%) DevOps
12 20 (7.02%) Web Development
13 16 (5.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (4.91%) AI
14 14 (4.91%) Fintech
14 14 (4.91%) Microservices
14 14 (4.91%) User Experience
15 12 (4.21%) Test Automation
16 11 (3.86%) OO PHP
Programming Languages
1 117 (41.05%) SQL
2 111 (38.95%) C#
3 63 (22.11%) JavaScript
4 39 (13.68%) Python
5 36 (12.63%) Java
6 27 (9.47%) C++
7 13 (4.56%) Go
7 13 (4.56%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.75%) Bash
9 4 (1.40%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.05%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.05%) Ruby
10 3 (1.05%) Rust
10 3 (1.05%) Scala
10 3 (1.05%) Swift
11 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (19.65%) Degree
2 54 (18.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.70%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.46%) QA
3 4 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.05%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.05%) WCAG
5 2 (0.70%) GDPR
6 1 (0.35%) NCSC
6 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (7.02%) Docker
2 5 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.05%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (3.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.46%) Ansible
3 3 (1.05%) Grafana
3 3 (1.05%) Plesk
4 1 (0.35%) Consul
4 1 (0.35%) Packer
4 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (8.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.75%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.40%) Google
3 4 (1.40%) Sage
4 2 (0.70%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.35%) BT
5 1 (0.35%) Netlify
5 1 (0.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.35%) TOWER Software