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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 181 133
Rank change year-on-year -6 -48 +7
Permanent jobs citing PHP 301 308 662
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.39% 1.87% 2.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.14% 5.30% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 274 232 574
10th Percentile - £25,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £24,000 £31,063 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% -5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £58,438 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,079 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.15% +0.16% -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 5,852 5,812 11,388
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.01% 35.26% 39.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,418 4,051 9,192
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £108,750
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 22 July 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 16 (5.32%) WordPress
2 10 (3.32%) CMS
3 8 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.99%) Apache
5 4 (1.33%) nginx
6 2 (0.66%) Confluence
6 2 (0.66%) Drupal
6 2 (0.66%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.33%) IIS
7 1 (0.33%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Elementor
2 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Shopify
2 2 (0.66%) Magento
3 1 (0.33%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 117 (38.87%) Azure
2 69 (22.92%) AWS
3 33 (10.96%) SaaS
4 17 (5.65%) GitHub
5 9 (2.99%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.66%) Amazon S3
6 8 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (2.66%) Serverless
7 6 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.33%) DigitalOcean
9 4 (1.33%) GCP
9 4 (1.33%) Slack
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.00%) ClickUp
10 3 (1.00%) Contentful
10 3 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.33%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.66%) DNS
3 4 (1.33%) DHCP
3 4 (1.33%) VPN
3 4 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.66%) Broadband
4 2 (0.66%) Intranet
5 1 (0.33%) Firewall
5 1 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (20.60%) SQL Server
2 57 (18.94%) MySQL
3 18 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (5.32%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.33%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.99%) MariaDB
6 6 (1.99%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.33%) Redis
9 3 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.66%) Metadata
10 2 (0.66%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.33%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (8.31%) Git
2 8 (2.66%) JIRA
3 5 (1.66%) Claude Code
4 4 (1.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.66%) Bower
5 2 (0.66%) Postman
6 1 (0.33%) Appium
6 1 (0.33%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.33%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.33%) Gatling
6 1 (0.33%) JMeter
6 1 (0.33%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.33%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.33%) webpack
General
1 70 (23.26%) Finance
2 48 (15.95%) Social Skills
3 10 (3.32%) Marketing
4 8 (2.66%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.33%) Law
6 6 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (1.99%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.66%) Games
7 5 (1.66%) Health Technology
7 5 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (1.66%) Retail
8 4 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.33%) Legal
9 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.66%) Publishing
10 2 (0.66%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 194 (64.45%) Developer
2 108 (35.88%) Graduate
3 105 (34.88%) PHP Developer
4 77 (25.58%) Software Developer
5 76 (25.25%) Graduate Developer
6 75 (24.92%) Graduate Software Developer
7 59 (19.60%) C# Developer
7 59 (19.60%) C# Software Developer
7 59 (19.60%) Graduate C# Developer
7 59 (19.60%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 58 (19.27%) Senior
9 57 (18.94%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 57 (18.94%) SQL Developer
10 49 (16.28%) Software Engineer
11 47 (15.61%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 40 (13.29%) Senior Developer
13 32 (10.63%) Graduate Software Engineer
14 31 (10.30%) PHP Software Engineer
15 26 (8.64%) Azure Engineer
16 25 (8.31%) Azure Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (26.25%) Laravel
2 72 (23.92%) CSS
3 48 (15.95%) jQuery
4 46 (15.28%) HTML
5 42 (13.95%) React
6 29 (9.63%) Vue
7 16 (5.32%) RESTful
8 15 (4.98%) Node.js
9 13 (4.32%) CSS3
9 13 (4.32%) HTML5
9 13 (4.32%) Symfony
10 11 (3.65%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.99%) .NET
11 9 (2.99%) Web Services
12 5 (1.66%) .NET Framework
12 5 (1.66%) JSON
12 5 (1.66%) REST
13 4 (1.33%) RxJS
14 3 (1.00%) .NET Core
14 3 (1.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.64%) Virtual Team
2 13 (4.32%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.99%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.99%) Educational Technology
5 6 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.66%) Robotics
7 4 (1.33%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.33%) CCTV
7 4 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.33%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.33%) IoT
7 4 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.66%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.66%) Social Media
9 1 (0.33%) Blog
9 1 (0.33%) Clustering
9 1 (0.33%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.31%) Linux
2 11 (3.65%) Windows
3 4 (1.33%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.00%) Debian
4 3 (1.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.33%) Android
5 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (32.89%) Computer Science
2 88 (29.24%) Agile
3 71 (23.59%) Software Engineering
4 49 (16.28%) MVC
5 44 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (13.29%) OOP
7 39 (12.96%) Mentoring
8 38 (12.62%) Full-Stack Development
9 34 (11.30%) OO
10 31 (10.30%) CI/CD
11 27 (8.97%) Clean Code
12 25 (8.31%) DevOps
13 23 (7.64%) Web Development
14 17 (5.65%) Microservices
15 16 (5.32%) AI
16 15 (4.98%) User Experience
17 14 (4.65%) Continuous Improvement
17 14 (4.65%) Front End Development
18 13 (4.32%) Containerisation
18 13 (4.32%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 125 (41.53%) SQL
2 113 (37.54%) C#
3 63 (20.93%) JavaScript
4 39 (12.96%) Python
5 38 (12.62%) Java
6 30 (9.97%) C++
7 14 (4.65%) Go
7 14 (4.65%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.99%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.33%) Bash
10 4 (1.33%) Delphi
10 4 (1.33%) Pascal
11 3 (1.00%) Ruby
11 3 (1.00%) Rust
11 3 (1.00%) Scala
12 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 62 (20.60%) Degree
2 59 (19.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.66%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.99%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.99%) QA
3 5 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.00%) GDPR
4 3 (1.00%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.66%) SLA
6 1 (0.33%) NCSC
6 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (7.64%) Docker
2 5 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.66%) Terraform
3 7 (2.33%) Ansible
4 3 (1.00%) Plesk
5 1 (0.33%) Consul
5 1 (0.33%) Grafana
5 1 (0.33%) Kibana
5 1 (0.33%) Packer
5 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.33%) Puppet
5 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (8.97%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.33%) Sage
3 3 (1.00%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.66%) Apple
4 2 (0.66%) BT
4 2 (0.66%) Dynatrace
4 2 (0.66%) Google
4 2 (0.66%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.33%) Netlify
5 1 (0.33%) New Relic
5 1 (0.33%) TOWER Software