PHP Jobs with Work from Home 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 156 87
Rank change year-on-year 0 -69 -37
Permanent jobs citing PHP 595 722 3,352
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.13% 2.20% 4.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.56% 4.76% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 512 664 2,192
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.68% -0.45% +22.22%

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 10,703 15,175 45,514
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.31% 46.24% 57.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,410 12,366 24,728
10th Percentile £39,000 £40,500 £38,443
25th Percentile £46,923 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,918 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

PHP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PHP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing PHP over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 85 (14.29%) WordPress
2 32 (5.38%) CMS
3 21 (3.53%) Drupal
4 19 (3.19%) nginx
5 12 (2.02%) Apache
6 6 (1.01%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.50%) Confluence
7 3 (0.50%) SAS
7 3 (0.50%) Totara
8 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.34%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 22 (3.70%) Magento
2 11 (1.85%) Shopify
3 5 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 197 (33.11%) AWS
2 82 (13.78%) SaaS
3 36 (6.05%) Azure
4 35 (5.88%) GCP
5 32 (5.38%) GitHub
6 18 (3.03%) npm
7 14 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (2.35%) Stripe
8 11 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (1.51%) Serverless
10 8 (1.34%) Figma
11 5 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.67%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.50%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 2 (0.34%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (1.01%) HTTP
3 3 (0.50%) Internet
3 3 (0.50%) SMS
4 2 (0.34%) DNS
4 2 (0.34%) FTP
4 2 (0.34%) LAN
4 2 (0.34%) VPN
4 2 (0.34%) WAN
5 1 (0.17%) DNSSEC
5 1 (0.17%) Intranet
5 1 (0.17%) IPv4
5 1 (0.17%) IPv6
5 1 (0.17%) SSL
5 1 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (36.30%) MySQL
2 37 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 32 (5.38%) SQL Server
5 14 (2.35%) MongoDB
6 12 (2.02%) MariaDB
7 11 (1.85%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.51%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.84%) Redis
12 4 (0.67%) Power BI
12 4 (0.67%) SQLite
13 3 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.34%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 1 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
15 1 (0.17%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 152 (25.55%) Git
2 22 (3.70%) GitLab
3 19 (3.19%) JIRA
4 17 (2.86%) webpack
5 12 (2.02%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.85%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.18%) Grunt
8 6 (1.01%) Subversion
9 4 (0.67%) Selenium
9 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.50%) git-flow
10 3 (0.50%) gulp
11 2 (0.34%) Appium
11 2 (0.34%) PHPUnit
11 2 (0.34%) Postman
12 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.17%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 151 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 56 (9.41%) Marketing
3 43 (7.23%) Finance
4 27 (4.54%) Retail
5 25 (4.20%) Law
6 23 (3.87%) Tech for Good
7 21 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (3.19%) Games
9 10 (1.68%) Health Technology
9 10 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.34%) Legal
11 7 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.84%) Public Sector
13 4 (0.67%) Automotive
13 4 (0.67%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.50%) Agriculture
14 3 (0.50%) Electronics
14 3 (0.50%) German Language
14 3 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.34%) Banking
Job Titles
1 468 (78.66%) Developer
2 273 (45.88%) PHP Developer
3 158 (26.55%) Senior
4 124 (20.84%) Senior Developer
5 95 (15.97%) Full Stack Developer
6 62 (10.42%) Senior PHP Developer
7 48 (8.07%) Web Developer
8 46 (7.73%) Software Engineer
9 43 (7.23%) PHP Laravel Developer
10 42 (7.06%) Full Stack PHP Developer
11 40 (6.72%) WordPress Developer
12 35 (5.88%) Software Developer
13 33 (5.55%) Lead
14 25 (4.20%) Junior
15 24 (4.03%) Junior Developer
16 23 (3.87%) Senior Full Stack Developer
17 20 (3.36%) PHP Software Engineer
18 19 (3.19%) PHP Web Developer
19 18 (3.03%) PHP Symfony Developer
19 18 (3.03%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (49.58%) Laravel
2 236 (39.66%) HTML
3 214 (35.97%) CSS
4 185 (31.09%) React
5 142 (23.87%) Vue
6 105 (17.65%) Symfony
7 80 (13.45%) Node.js
8 76 (12.77%) jQuery
9 66 (11.09%) RESTful
10 55 (9.24%) AngularJS
11 50 (8.40%) LAMP
12 42 (7.06%) HTML5
13 38 (6.39%) .NET
13 38 (6.39%) Web Services
14 37 (6.22%) REST
15 30 (5.04%) Sass
16 29 (4.87%) React Native
17 24 (4.03%) CSS3
17 24 (4.03%) JSON
18 19 (3.19%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 44 (7.39%) Greenfield Project
2 33 (5.55%) Mobile App
3 18 (3.03%) IoT
4 14 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (2.02%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.68%) Cloud Native
6 10 (1.68%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.51%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.51%) PropTech
7 9 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.34%) Legacy Code
9 5 (0.84%) Educational Technology
9 5 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.67%) 3D Printing
10 4 (0.67%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.67%) Graphic Design
11 3 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.34%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 53 (8.91%) Linux
2 16 (2.69%) Windows
3 5 (0.84%) Android
3 5 (0.84%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (0.67%) Unix
4 4 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.50%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (29.24%) Full Stack Development
2 119 (20.00%) Web Development
3 111 (18.66%) Agile
4 110 (18.49%) Software Engineering
5 106 (17.82%) OOP
6 87 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (14.29%) DevOps
8 84 (14.12%) E-Commerce
9 67 (11.26%) OO
10 63 (10.59%) Clean Code
10 63 (10.59%) User Experience
11 61 (10.25%) MVC
12 60 (10.08%) TDD
13 46 (7.73%) Roadmaps
14 45 (7.56%) Computer Science
15 42 (7.06%) Mentoring
16 41 (6.89%) Unit Testing
17 38 (6.39%) Microservices
18 37 (6.22%) CI/CD
18 37 (6.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 324 (54.45%) JavaScript
2 103 (17.31%) SQL
3 48 (8.07%) TypeScript
4 34 (5.71%) C#
4 34 (5.71%) Python
5 26 (4.37%) Java
6 17 (2.86%) Go
7 12 (2.02%) C++
8 10 (1.68%) C
9 7 (1.18%) Bash
9 7 (1.18%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.01%) Bicep
10 6 (1.01%) Rust
10 6 (1.01%) VB.NET
11 5 (0.84%) Ada
11 5 (0.84%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.67%) Ruby
13 3 (0.50%) VBA
14 2 (0.34%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.34%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 62 (10.42%) Degree
2 37 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.03%) QA
2 8 (1.34%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.01%) GDPR
4 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 72 (12.10%) Docker
2 2 (0.34%) Firmware
3 1 (0.17%) GlusterFS
3 1 (0.17%) PowerDNS
3 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 17 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.51%) Terraform
3 4 (0.67%) Ansible
3 4 (0.67%) Progress Chef
4 3 (0.50%) Galera Cluster
5 2 (0.34%) cPanel
5 2 (0.34%) Plesk
6 1 (0.17%) Argo
6 1 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (3.70%) Google
2 18 (3.03%) WooCommerce
3 11 (1.85%) Twitter
4 9 (1.51%) Zend
5 8 (1.34%) Microsoft
5 8 (1.34%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.18%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.01%) Adobe
8 4 (0.67%) F5
8 4 (0.67%) New Relic
9 3 (0.50%) Oracle
9 3 (0.50%) SAP
10 1 (0.17%) Databricks
10 1 (0.17%) Facebook
10 1 (0.17%) WorldPay