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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 133 110
Rank change year-on-year -69 -23 +38
Permanent jobs citing PHP 192 366 785
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.15% 2.52% 2.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.29% 5.62% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 182 281 737
10th Percentile £24,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £64,688 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,125 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 4,476 6,517 12,628
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.81% 44.90% 44.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,278 4,394 10,990
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 5 March 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 11 (5.73%) CMS
2 10 (5.21%) WordPress
3 7 (3.65%) nginx
4 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (2.08%) Apache Solr
6 3 (1.56%) IIS
7 2 (1.04%) Headless CMS
7 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.52%) Apache
8 1 (0.52%) Drupal
8 1 (0.52%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (2.08%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.65%) Shopify
2 2 (1.04%) Magento
3 1 (0.52%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 72 (37.50%) AWS
2 67 (34.90%) Azure
3 24 (12.50%) SaaS
4 13 (6.77%) GitHub
5 7 (3.65%) GCP
6 5 (2.60%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.60%) Slack
7 4 (2.08%) DigitalOcean
7 4 (2.08%) Serverless
8 3 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.56%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.56%) Firebase
9 2 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.04%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.04%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.52%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.52%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.60%) DHCP
1 5 (2.60%) DNS
2 4 (2.08%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.08%) VPN
2 4 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.56%) HTTP
4 1 (0.52%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (38.54%) MySQL
2 24 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 18 (9.38%) Relational Database
4 12 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.69%) MariaDB
6 8 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.08%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.04%) Redis
10 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 37 (19.27%) Git
2 10 (5.21%) JIRA
3 5 (2.60%) Claude Code
4 4 (2.08%) Vite
5 3 (1.56%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (1.56%) Postman
6 2 (1.04%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.04%) git-flow
6 2 (1.04%) PHPUnit
6 2 (1.04%) Selenium
6 2 (1.04%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.52%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 53 (27.60%) Finance
2 33 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.73%) Marketing
4 8 (4.17%) Games
5 7 (3.65%) Health Technology
5 7 (3.65%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (3.13%) Automotive
6 6 (3.13%) Law
7 4 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.04%) Retail
9 1 (0.52%) Billing
9 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.52%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.52%) Publishing
9 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 128 (66.67%) Developer
2 84 (43.75%) PHP Developer
3 51 (26.56%) Senior
4 47 (24.48%) Graduate
5 46 (23.96%) Software Developer
6 42 (21.88%) Graduate Developer
7 39 (20.31%) Graduate Software Developer
7 39 (20.31%) Senior Developer
8 36 (18.75%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 35 (18.23%) C# Developer
9 35 (18.23%) C# Software Developer
9 35 (18.23%) Graduate C# Developer
9 35 (18.23%) Graduate C# Software Developer
10 33 (17.19%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 33 (17.19%) SQL Developer
11 25 (13.02%) Senior PHP Developer
12 22 (11.46%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (9.38%) Software Engineer
14 17 (8.85%) Azure Developer
15 9 (4.69%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (30.21%) CSS
2 49 (25.52%) Laravel
3 44 (22.92%) React
4 40 (20.83%) HTML
5 29 (15.10%) Symfony
6 27 (14.06%) jQuery
7 22 (11.46%) Vue
8 19 (9.90%) Node.js
9 15 (7.81%) REST
10 11 (5.73%) AngularJS
11 9 (4.69%) RESTful
12 8 (4.17%) Tailwind CSS
13 7 (3.65%) CodeIgniter
13 7 (3.65%) Next.js
14 6 (3.13%) CakePHP
14 6 (3.13%) LEMP Stack
15 5 (2.60%) HTML5
15 5 (2.60%) RxJS
15 5 (2.60%) Unity (Game Engine)
15 5 (2.60%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.21%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.60%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.60%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.60%) Educational Technology
5 5 (2.60%) IoT
5 5 (2.60%) Mobile Games
6 4 (2.08%) CCTV
6 4 (2.08%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.08%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.08%) NHS
7 3 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.56%) Robotics
7 3 (1.56%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.04%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.52%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.46%) Linux
2 8 (4.17%) Windows
3 5 (2.60%) Android
3 5 (2.60%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.08%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (37.50%) Agile
2 44 (22.92%) Computer Science
2 44 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (19.79%) Software Engineering
4 37 (19.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (15.63%) MVC
6 27 (14.06%) Mentoring
7 26 (13.54%) User Experience
8 23 (11.98%) CI/CD
8 23 (11.98%) OOP
9 19 (9.90%) AI
9 19 (9.90%) Test Automation
10 18 (9.38%) Clean Code
10 18 (9.38%) OO
11 17 (8.85%) Machine Learning
12 16 (8.33%) DevOps
12 16 (8.33%) E-Commerce
13 15 (7.81%) Front End Development
14 14 (7.29%) Containerisation
15 12 (6.25%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 70 (36.46%) SQL
2 55 (28.65%) JavaScript
3 49 (25.52%) C#
4 31 (16.15%) TypeScript
5 21 (10.94%) Java
6 19 (9.90%) C++
7 17 (8.85%) Python
8 6 (3.13%) Bash
8 6 (3.13%) Go
8 6 (3.13%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.60%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.08%) Delphi
10 4 (2.08%) Pascal
11 1 (0.52%) Perl
11 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (15.10%) Degree
2 24 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.52%) MCSE
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.21%) QA
2 7 (3.65%) SLA
3 6 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.04%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (14.58%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (2.60%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.08%) Ansible
3 3 (1.56%) cPanel
3 3 (1.56%) Plesk
3 3 (1.56%) Terraform
4 1 (0.52%) Kibana
4 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.56%) Salesforce
2 3 (1.56%) Zend
3 2 (1.04%) Adobe
3 2 (1.04%) Apple
3 2 (1.04%) HubSpot
3 2 (1.04%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.04%) Oracle
4 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.52%) BT
4 1 (0.52%) Google
4 1 (0.52%) New Relic
4 1 (0.52%) PayPal