PHP Jobs with Work from Home Options

PHP
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 139 75
Rank change year-on-year +18 -64 -35
Permanent jobs citing PHP 860 1,036 3,187
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.54% 2.51% 4.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.23% 5.10% 7.88%
Number of salaries quoted 801 923 2,144
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - +29.41%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,900 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,794 20,304 40,453
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.80% 49.23% 58.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11,420 14,960 23,798
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,047 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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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

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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 10 May 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
1 127 (14.77%) WordPress
2 46 (5.35%) CMS
3 39 (4.53%) nginx
4 33 (3.84%) Drupal
5 27 (3.14%) Apache
6 8 (0.93%) Confluence
7 5 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.35%) SAS
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.23%) IIS
9 2 (0.23%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.12%) Moodle
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.12%) Totara
Applications
1 5 (0.58%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.23%) FileZilla
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 27 (3.14%) Shopify
2 21 (2.44%) Magento
3 15 (1.74%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 308 (35.81%) AWS
2 168 (19.53%) SaaS
3 63 (7.33%) Azure
4 49 (5.70%) GCP
5 38 (4.42%) GitHub
6 26 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.09%) Serverless
8 16 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
9 14 (1.63%) Stripe
10 12 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (1.40%) Figma
10 12 (1.40%) npm
11 11 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (0.93%) Power Platform
13 7 (0.81%) Azure AKS
13 7 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (0.81%) Datadog
13 7 (0.81%) Heroku
13 7 (0.81%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.02%) HTTP
2 19 (2.21%) Internet
3 18 (2.09%) DNS
4 13 (1.51%) SSL
5 12 (1.40%) Firewall
6 8 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.81%) VoIP
8 4 (0.47%) FTP
9 3 (0.35%) SMS
10 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.23%) IPsec
10 2 (0.23%) LAN
10 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.23%) VPN
10 2 (0.23%) WAN
11 1 (0.12%) DHCP
11 1 (0.12%) Intranet
11 1 (0.12%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 336 (39.07%) MySQL
2 50 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (4.53%) SQL Server
4 38 (4.42%) Relational Database
5 26 (3.02%) MariaDB
6 25 (2.91%) MongoDB
7 16 (1.86%) DynamoDB
8 15 (1.74%) Redis
9 13 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.51%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.93%) SQLite
11 7 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.81%) Big Data
11 7 (0.81%) Power BI
11 7 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.70%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.70%) GIS
13 5 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.35%) Looker
Development Applications
1 198 (23.02%) Git
2 46 (5.35%) JIRA
3 27 (3.14%) GitLab
4 23 (2.67%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.09%) webpack
6 13 (1.51%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (1.16%) Subversion
8 8 (0.93%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.81%) Eclipse
10 5 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.58%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.47%) git-flow
11 4 (0.47%) gulp
12 3 (0.35%) Grunt
12 3 (0.35%) Selenium
13 2 (0.23%) Appium
13 2 (0.23%) PHPUnit
13 2 (0.23%) Postman
13 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
14 1 (0.12%) Phabricator
General
1 200 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 85 (9.88%) Marketing
3 70 (8.14%) Retail
4 64 (7.44%) Finance
5 26 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.44%) Games
6 21 (2.44%) Tech for Good
7 18 (2.09%) Law
8 17 (1.98%) Telecoms
9 15 (1.74%) Public Sector
10 14 (1.63%) Legal
11 11 (1.28%) Banking
11 11 (1.28%) German Language
11 11 (1.28%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.16%) Retail Banking
13 8 (0.93%) Spanish Language
14 7 (0.81%) Electronics
14 7 (0.81%) Health Technology
14 7 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 643 (74.77%) Developer
2 361 (41.98%) PHP Developer
3 242 (28.14%) Senior
4 205 (23.84%) Senior Developer
5 112 (13.02%) Full Stack Developer
6 103 (11.98%) Senior PHP Developer
7 77 (8.95%) Software Engineer
8 66 (7.67%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 64 (7.44%) Lead
10 59 (6.86%) Web Developer
11 53 (6.16%) Software Developer
12 50 (5.81%) Full Stack PHP Developer
12 50 (5.81%) WordPress Developer
13 39 (4.53%) PHP Software Engineer
14 37 (4.30%) Junior
15 32 (3.72%) Junior Developer
16 28 (3.26%) Senior Full Stack Developer
17 23 (2.67%) Lead Developer
18 19 (2.21%) Senior Software Developer
18 19 (2.21%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 458 (53.26%) Laravel
2 319 (37.09%) HTML
3 300 (34.88%) CSS
4 230 (26.74%) React
5 184 (21.40%) Vue
6 150 (17.44%) Symfony
7 111 (12.91%) jQuery
8 95 (11.05%) LAMP
9 86 (10.00%) Node.js
10 84 (9.77%) AngularJS
11 83 (9.65%) RESTful
12 77 (8.95%) REST
13 68 (7.91%) Web Services
14 61 (7.09%) HTML5
15 47 (5.47%) .NET
16 45 (5.23%) CSS3
17 42 (4.88%) JSON
17 42 (4.88%) Sass
18 32 (3.72%) SOAP
19 28 (3.26%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.37%) Greenfield Project
2 32 (3.72%) Mobile App
3 21 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 17 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.63%) Client/Server
7 13 (1.51%) IoT
8 12 (1.40%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.28%) PropTech
10 10 (1.16%) Educational Technology
11 9 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.93%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.81%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.70%) Graphic Design
14 6 (0.70%) Legacy Code
14 6 (0.70%) Photography
15 5 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
16 4 (0.47%) Animation
16 4 (0.47%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 82 (9.53%) Linux
2 22 (2.56%) Windows
3 8 (0.93%) Unix
4 6 (0.70%) Alpine Linux
4 6 (0.70%) Android
4 6 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.35%) AIX
6 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.23%) CentOS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (26.40%) Full Stack Development
2 175 (20.35%) Web Development
3 170 (19.77%) OOP
4 162 (18.84%) Software Engineering
5 159 (18.49%) Agile
6 142 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
7 129 (15.00%) E-Commerce
8 121 (14.07%) MVC
9 103 (11.98%) DevOps
10 95 (11.05%) TDD
11 88 (10.23%) User Experience
12 77 (8.95%) Mentoring
13 72 (8.37%) Clean Code
14 70 (8.14%) Unit Testing
15 66 (7.67%) OO
16 62 (7.21%) Roadmaps
17 59 (6.86%) Computer Science
18 56 (6.51%) CI/CD
19 53 (6.16%) Microservices
20 47 (5.47%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 429 (49.88%) JavaScript
2 133 (15.47%) SQL
3 84 (9.77%) TypeScript
4 56 (6.51%) C#
5 53 (6.16%) Python
6 42 (4.88%) Java
7 27 (3.14%) Go
8 21 (2.44%) Bash
9 17 (1.98%) Ruby
10 14 (1.63%) C
11 12 (1.40%) Ada
12 11 (1.28%) Rust
12 11 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.28%) VB.NET
13 10 (1.16%) C++
13 10 (1.16%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.81%) Groovy
15 6 (0.70%) Bicep
16 5 (0.58%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.47%) Dart
Qualifications
1 83 (9.65%) Degree
2 49 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (0.93%) Azure Certification
4 5 (0.58%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.23%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.23%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.12%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.12%) MCSE
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.84%) QA
2 15 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.40%) GDPR
4 2 (0.23%) HL7
4 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 122 (14.19%) Docker
2 3 (0.35%) Varnish
3 2 (0.23%) Firmware
4 1 (0.12%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 45 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 26 (3.02%) Terraform
3 13 (1.51%) Progress Chef
4 12 (1.40%) Ansible
5 10 (1.16%) Puppet
6 8 (0.93%) Grafana
7 7 (0.81%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.47%) cPanel
9 3 (0.35%) Galera Cluster
10 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.12%) Argo
11 1 (0.12%) Plesk
11 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 36 (4.19%) Google
2 30 (3.49%) WooCommerce
3 15 (1.74%) Microsoft
4 12 (1.40%) Adobe
5 11 (1.28%) Twitter
6 9 (1.05%) New Relic
7 8 (0.93%) OpenAI
7 8 (0.93%) Zend
8 7 (0.81%) SaltStack
8 7 (0.81%) SAP
9 4 (0.47%) Oracle
10 3 (0.35%) Facebook
11 2 (0.23%) F5
11 2 (0.23%) Progress
12 1 (0.12%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.12%) Remedy
12 1 (0.12%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.12%) WorldPay