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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 135 130
Rank change year-on-year -69 -5 +26
Permanent jobs citing PHP 171 404 573
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.12% 2.46% 2.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.09% 5.67% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 162 263 550
10th Percentile £24,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £25,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.84%

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 4,179 7,131 10,538
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.29% 43.38% 46.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,145 4,465 9,023
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,964 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 January 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 8 (4.68%) CMS
1 8 (4.68%) WordPress
2 7 (4.09%) Apache Solr
3 6 (3.51%) nginx
4 5 (2.92%) IIS
5 2 (1.17%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.58%) Apache
6 1 (0.58%) Drupal
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.58%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (2.34%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (3.51%) Shopify
2 2 (1.17%) Magento
3 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 72 (42.11%) Azure
2 52 (30.41%) AWS
3 25 (14.62%) SaaS
4 10 (5.85%) GitHub
5 8 (4.68%) GCP
6 5 (2.92%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.75%) Firebase
9 2 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.17%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.17%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.58%) Azure App Service
10 1 (0.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.58%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.58%) BigCommerce
10 1 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.58%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.58%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.58%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.75%) HTTP
2 1 (0.58%) DHCP
2 1 (0.58%) DNS
2 1 (0.58%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (47.37%) MySQL
2 34 (19.88%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.85%) MariaDB
3 10 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.68%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.92%) Redis
7 3 (1.75%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (19.88%) Git
2 7 (4.09%) JIRA
3 4 (2.34%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (2.34%) Vite
4 3 (1.75%) git-flow
5 2 (1.17%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.17%) Postman
5 2 (1.17%) Selenium
5 2 (1.17%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.58%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.58%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 55 (32.16%) Finance
2 43 (25.15%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.85%) Law
4 9 (5.26%) Games
4 9 (5.26%) Marketing
5 6 (3.51%) Automotive
6 5 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.34%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.58%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 119 (69.59%) Developer
2 68 (39.77%) PHP Developer
3 48 (28.07%) Graduate
4 42 (24.56%) Graduate Developer
5 38 (22.22%) Software Developer
6 33 (19.30%) Senior
7 28 (16.37%) Senior Developer
8 27 (15.79%) Graduate PHP Developer
8 27 (15.79%) Graduate Software Developer
9 26 (15.20%) C# Developer
9 26 (15.20%) Graduate C# Developer
10 24 (14.04%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 24 (14.04%) SQL Developer
11 22 (12.87%) C# Software Developer
11 22 (12.87%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 18 (10.53%) Software Engineer
13 17 (9.94%) Senior PHP Developer
14 16 (9.36%) IT Graduate
15 14 (8.19%) Azure Developer
16 12 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (36.26%) CSS
2 50 (29.24%) Laravel
3 38 (22.22%) React
4 37 (21.64%) HTML
5 36 (21.05%) jQuery
6 29 (16.96%) Symfony
7 19 (11.11%) .NET
7 19 (11.11%) REST
8 18 (10.53%) ASP.NET
8 18 (10.53%) Node.js
9 14 (8.19%) Vue
10 10 (5.85%) CodeIgniter
11 9 (5.26%) CakePHP
12 8 (4.68%) AngularJS
13 7 (4.09%) LAMP
13 7 (4.09%) RESTful
13 7 (4.09%) SOAP
13 7 (4.09%) Tailwind CSS
14 6 (3.51%) Unity (Game Engine)
15 5 (2.92%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.09%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (3.51%) Virtual Team
3 5 (2.92%) Educational Technology
3 5 (2.92%) Mobile Games
4 4 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.34%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.34%) NHS
4 4 (2.34%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.17%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.17%) IoT
6 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.58%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.58%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.28%) Linux
2 7 (4.09%) Android
2 7 (4.09%) Apple iOS
2 7 (4.09%) Windows
2 7 (4.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (44.44%) Agile
2 55 (32.16%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (25.73%) Computer Science
4 40 (23.39%) MVC
5 39 (22.81%) Software Engineering
6 37 (21.64%) OO
7 30 (17.54%) OOP
8 28 (16.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 22 (12.87%) Mentoring
10 21 (12.28%) CI/CD
10 21 (12.28%) Test Automation
11 18 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (10.53%) User Experience
12 15 (8.77%) AI
12 15 (8.77%) Clean Code
13 14 (8.19%) DevOps
13 14 (8.19%) Machine Learning
14 13 (7.60%) Containerisation
15 12 (7.02%) OO PHP
16 9 (5.26%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 66 (38.60%) SQL
2 57 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 51 (29.82%) C#
4 28 (16.37%) Java
4 28 (16.37%) TypeScript
5 26 (15.20%) C++
6 18 (10.53%) Python
7 7 (4.09%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.51%) Go
9 4 (2.34%) Bash
10 2 (1.17%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.17%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 34 (19.88%) Degree
2 30 (17.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.58%) MCSE
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.58%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.85%) QA
2 6 (3.51%) SLA
3 5 (2.92%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.58%) GDPR
4 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (14.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.09%) Ansible
2 4 (2.34%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.75%) cPanel
3 3 (1.75%) Plesk
4 2 (1.17%) Terraform
5 1 (0.58%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (7.60%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.92%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.34%) HubSpot
3 4 (2.34%) Oracle
4 3 (1.75%) Google
4 3 (1.75%) Zend
5 2 (1.17%) Adobe
5 2 (1.17%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.58%) PayPal
6 1 (0.58%) Progress