PHP Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

PHP
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 125 146
Rank change year-on-year -78 +21 -66
Permanent jobs citing PHP 325 817 852
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.58% 2.40% 2.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.57% 6.01% 5.01%
Number of salaries quoted 247 718 743
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,750 £75,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +2.80%

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 7,115 13,600 17,000
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.49% 39.97% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4,463 10,958 13,393
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £40,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

PHP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PHP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PHP.

PHP salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

PHP
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing PHP over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

PHP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (8.31%) WordPress
2 20 (6.15%) CMS
3 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.23%) Apache
4 4 (1.23%) Drupal
5 3 (0.92%) ColdFusion
5 3 (0.92%) Confluence
5 3 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.62%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.62%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.31%) IIS
7 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (3.38%) Photoshop
2 9 (2.77%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (1.54%) Adobe XD
4 4 (1.23%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.62%) Elementor
6 1 (0.31%) Sketch
6 1 (0.31%) SPSS
6 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.15%) Magento
2 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.62%) Odoo
2 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (21.54%) Azure
2 64 (19.69%) AWS
3 13 (4.00%) Serverless
4 9 (2.77%) SaaS
5 8 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (2.46%) GCP
5 8 (2.46%) GitHub
6 7 (2.15%) Cloudflare
7 6 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.85%) Amazon S3
7 6 (1.85%) Figma
7 6 (1.85%) Google Analytics
7 6 (1.85%) npm
7 6 (1.85%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.23%) Vercel
9 3 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.54%) VoIP
2 4 (1.23%) MPLS
3 3 (0.92%) Internet
3 3 (0.92%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.62%) DNS
4 2 (0.62%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.62%) IPsec
5 1 (0.31%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.31%) HTTP
5 1 (0.31%) Network Security
5 1 (0.31%) RFID
5 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (38.46%) MySQL
2 55 (16.92%) SQL Server
3 17 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.77%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.23%) GIS
7 3 (0.92%) MariaDB
7 3 (0.92%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.92%) Power BI
7 3 (0.92%) Redis
8 2 (0.62%) Big Data
8 2 (0.62%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.62%) SQLite
9 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.31%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.31%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 55 (16.92%) Git
2 13 (4.00%) JIRA
3 8 (2.46%) PHPUnit
4 5 (1.54%) Selenium
5 4 (1.23%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.23%) Mocha
6 3 (0.92%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.92%) git-flow
6 3 (0.92%) Jasmine
6 3 (0.92%) Postman
6 3 (0.92%) SoapUI
6 3 (0.92%) Subversion
6 3 (0.92%) Vite
7 2 (0.62%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.62%) webpack
8 1 (0.31%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.31%) CMake
8 1 (0.31%) GitLab
8 1 (0.31%) Snyk
8 1 (0.31%) WiX
General
1 91 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 64 (19.69%) Finance
3 20 (6.15%) Games
3 20 (6.15%) Law
4 12 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.38%) Marketing
5 11 (3.38%) Retail
6 9 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.77%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.46%) Legal
8 6 (1.85%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.23%) Back Office
9 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.62%) Advertising
10 2 (0.62%) Electronics
10 2 (0.62%) iGaming
10 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 176 (54.15%) Developer
2 92 (28.31%) PHP Developer
3 52 (16.00%) Graduate
3 52 (16.00%) Graduate Developer
4 48 (14.77%) IT Graduate
5 46 (14.15%) Senior
6 28 (8.62%) Senior Developer
7 25 (7.69%) SQL Developer
8 23 (7.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 22 (6.77%) C# Developer
10 21 (6.46%) Graduate C# Developer
10 21 (6.46%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 21 (6.46%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 21 (6.46%) Lead
11 18 (5.54%) Web Developer
12 16 (4.92%) Software Engineer
13 15 (4.62%) Agile C# Developer
13 15 (4.62%) Agile Developer
13 15 (4.62%) PHP Symfony Developer
13 15 (4.62%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (42.46%) HTML
2 132 (40.62%) CSS
3 79 (24.31%) Laravel
4 69 (21.23%) jQuery
5 63 (19.38%) React
6 62 (19.08%) .NET
7 51 (15.69%) ASP.NET
8 46 (14.15%) Vue
9 37 (11.38%) Symfony
10 27 (8.31%) AngularJS
11 24 (7.38%) RESTful
12 22 (6.77%) LAMP
13 18 (5.54%) Node.js
13 18 (5.54%) REST
14 15 (4.62%) Playwright
15 13 (4.00%) Web Services
16 12 (3.69%) CodeIgniter
17 10 (3.08%) HTML5
17 10 (3.08%) Sass
18 9 (2.77%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.23%) Virtual Team
2 10 (3.08%) Onboarding
3 9 (2.77%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.15%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.15%) Mobile App
5 6 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.54%) e-Learning
6 5 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.23%) CCTV
7 4 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.23%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.92%) Educational Technology
8 3 (0.92%) IoT
8 3 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.62%) Blog
9 2 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.62%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.00%) Linux
2 8 (2.46%) Android
2 8 (2.46%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.15%) Windows
4 4 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.62%) CentOS
6 1 (0.31%) Debian
6 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (36.31%) Agile
2 105 (32.31%) Computer Science
3 82 (25.23%) OO
4 81 (24.92%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (23.38%) OOP
6 66 (20.31%) MVC
7 62 (19.08%) Artificial Intelligence
8 53 (16.31%) Data Privacy
8 53 (16.31%) Machine Learning
9 47 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (12.92%) Software Engineering
11 41 (12.62%) E-Commerce
12 39 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 39 (12.00%) Web Development
13 35 (10.77%) CI/CD
13 35 (10.77%) Front End Development
14 30 (9.23%) Test Automation
15 27 (8.31%) Mentoring
15 27 (8.31%) TDD
16 24 (7.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 179 (55.08%) JavaScript
2 120 (36.92%) SQL
3 107 (32.92%) Java
4 105 (32.31%) C#
5 100 (30.77%) C++
6 91 (28.00%) Python
6 91 (28.00%) TypeScript
7 53 (16.31%) C
8 50 (15.38%) MATLAB
8 50 (15.38%) R
8 50 (15.38%) Ruby
9 49 (15.08%) Dart
9 49 (15.08%) Rust
10 16 (4.92%) Go
11 7 (2.15%) Perl
12 5 (1.54%) Scala
13 3 (0.92%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.62%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.31%) Bash
Qualifications
1 106 (32.62%) Degree
2 103 (31.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.54%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.23%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.31%) PMP
5 1 (0.31%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.23%) QA
2 9 (2.77%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.85%) GDPR
5 4 (1.23%) SLA
6 1 (0.31%) GMP
6 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 25 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 9 (2.77%) Kubernetes
1 9 (2.77%) Terraform
2 4 (1.23%) Ansible
2 4 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 16 (4.92%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.31%) Adobe
3 8 (2.46%) Google
4 7 (2.15%) HubSpot
4 7 (2.15%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.85%) Twitter
6 5 (1.54%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.23%) Cisco
7 4 (1.23%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.62%) Ahrefs
8 2 (0.62%) Netlify
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle
8 2 (0.62%) SAP
8 2 (0.62%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (0.62%) Zoho
9 1 (0.31%) Apple
9 1 (0.31%) Freshdesk
9 1 (0.31%) PayPal
9 1 (0.31%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.31%) Vertica