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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 164 112
Rank change year-on-year -20 -52 +24
Permanent jobs citing PHP 268 333 894
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.34% 2.16% 2.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.06% 5.72% 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 246 253 792
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £48,676 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% - -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 5,292 5,826 14,067
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.44% 37.81% 40.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,913 4,038 11,657
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,538
25th Percentile £48,289 £49,813 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
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 18 June 2026.

PHP salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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 11 (4.10%) CMS
1 11 (4.10%) WordPress
2 7 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.61%) nginx
3 3 (1.12%) Apache
4 2 (0.75%) Drupal
4 2 (0.75%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.37%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) Moodle
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (1.12%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.99%) Shopify
2 2 (0.75%) Magento
3 1 (0.37%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (37.31%) Azure
2 67 (25.00%) AWS
3 30 (11.19%) SaaS
4 18 (6.72%) GitHub
5 8 (2.99%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.99%) Serverless
6 7 (2.61%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.87%) Slack
9 4 (1.49%) DigitalOcean
10 3 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.12%) ClickUp
10 3 (1.12%) Contentful
10 3 (1.12%) GCP
10 3 (1.12%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.75%) CloudFront
11 2 (0.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.24%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.87%) DNS
3 4 (1.49%) DHCP
3 4 (1.49%) VPN
3 4 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.37%) Broadband
4 1 (0.37%) Firewall
4 1 (0.37%) Intranet
4 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (20.52%) SQL Server
2 53 (19.78%) MySQL
3 18 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.22%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.99%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.24%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.87%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.12%) Redis
9 2 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.75%) Metadata
9 2 (0.75%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.37%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 25 (9.33%) Git
2 6 (2.24%) JIRA
3 5 (1.87%) Claude Code
4 3 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.12%) Vite
5 2 (0.75%) Postman
6 1 (0.37%) Bower
6 1 (0.37%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.37%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.37%) Gatling
6 1 (0.37%) JMeter
6 1 (0.37%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 69 (25.75%) Finance
2 42 (15.67%) Social Skills
3 12 (4.48%) Marketing
4 7 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.24%) Law
5 6 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (1.87%) Games
6 5 (1.87%) Health Technology
6 5 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (1.87%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.87%) Retail
7 3 (1.12%) Legal
7 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.75%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.37%) Billing
9 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 183 (68.28%) Developer
2 108 (40.30%) PHP Developer
3 93 (34.70%) Graduate
4 77 (28.73%) Graduate Developer
4 77 (28.73%) Software Developer
5 75 (27.99%) Graduate Software Developer
6 59 (22.01%) C# Developer
6 59 (22.01%) C# Software Developer
6 59 (22.01%) Graduate C# Developer
6 59 (22.01%) Graduate C# Software Developer
7 57 (21.27%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 57 (21.27%) SQL Developer
8 56 (20.90%) Senior
9 48 (17.91%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 41 (15.30%) Senior Developer
11 31 (11.57%) Software Engineer
12 25 (9.33%) PHP Laravel Developer
13 21 (7.84%) Azure Developer
13 21 (7.84%) Head of Engineering
13 21 (7.84%) PHP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (25.75%) CSS
1 69 (25.75%) Laravel
2 45 (16.79%) jQuery
3 42 (15.67%) HTML
4 33 (12.31%) React
5 32 (11.94%) Vue
6 14 (5.22%) Node.js
6 14 (5.22%) RESTful
7 13 (4.85%) AngularJS
8 12 (4.48%) CSS3
8 12 (4.48%) HTML5
8 12 (4.48%) Symfony
9 7 (2.61%) .NET
10 6 (2.24%) LEMP Stack
11 5 (1.87%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.87%) RxJS
11 5 (1.87%) Web Services
12 4 (1.49%) JSON
12 4 (1.49%) REST
12 4 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.70%) Virtual Team
2 13 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.87%) AI Agents
5 5 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.87%) Robotics
6 4 (1.49%) CCTV
6 4 (1.49%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.49%) IoT
6 4 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.12%) NHS
8 2 (0.75%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.37%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.37%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.21%) Linux
2 8 (2.99%) Windows
3 4 (1.49%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.75%) Debian
4 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (36.57%) Computer Science
2 87 (32.46%) Agile
3 47 (17.54%) Software Engineering
4 44 (16.42%) MVC
5 39 (14.55%) Mentoring
5 39 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (13.06%) OOP
7 34 (12.69%) Full-Stack Development
8 31 (11.57%) OO
9 29 (10.82%) Clean Code
10 25 (9.33%) CI/CD
11 23 (8.58%) DevOps
12 17 (6.34%) User Experience
12 17 (6.34%) Web Development
13 16 (5.97%) Front End Development
14 15 (5.60%) AI
15 14 (5.22%) Microservices
16 13 (4.85%) E-Commerce
17 12 (4.48%) Containerisation
17 12 (4.48%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 111 (41.42%) SQL
2 96 (35.82%) C#
3 51 (19.03%) JavaScript
4 38 (14.18%) Java
4 38 (14.18%) Python
5 30 (11.19%) C++
6 15 (5.60%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.22%) Go
8 9 (3.36%) Bash
9 8 (2.99%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.49%) Delphi
10 4 (1.49%) Pascal
11 3 (1.12%) Rust
11 3 (1.12%) Scala
12 2 (0.75%) Ruby
13 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (23.13%) Degree
2 59 (22.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.12%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.36%) Accessibility
2 8 (2.99%) QA
3 5 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.12%) GDPR
4 3 (1.12%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (8.58%) Docker
2 4 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (3.73%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.61%) Terraform
3 6 (2.24%) Ansible
4 3 (1.12%) Plesk
5 1 (0.37%) Consul
5 1 (0.37%) Kibana
5 1 (0.37%) Packer
5 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.37%) Puppet
5 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.12%) Sage
3 2 (0.75%) Apple
3 2 (0.75%) BT
3 2 (0.75%) Dynatrace
3 2 (0.75%) OpenAI
3 2 (0.75%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.37%) Google
4 1 (0.37%) Netlify
4 1 (0.37%) New Relic
4 1 (0.37%) TOWER Software