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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 129 113
Rank change year-on-year -51 -16 +24
Permanent jobs citing PHP 243 336 873
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.38% 2.55% 2.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.12% 5.92% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 231 306 814
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 4,745 5,678 13,376
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.04% 43.04% 41.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,451 4,505 11,531
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,788 £97,500
UK median annual salary £63,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.31% +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 16 April 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 10 (4.12%) CMS
1 10 (4.12%) WordPress
2 7 (2.88%) nginx
3 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.82%) Apache
4 2 (0.82%) Drupal
4 2 (0.82%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.41%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.65%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.29%) Shopify
2 4 (1.65%) Magento
3 1 (0.41%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 95 (39.09%) Azure
2 78 (32.10%) AWS
3 26 (10.70%) SaaS
4 14 (5.76%) GitHub
5 7 (2.88%) GCP
6 6 (2.47%) Serverless
7 5 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.06%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.06%) Slack
8 4 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.65%) DigitalOcean
8 4 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.23%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.23%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.23%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.82%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.82%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.65%) DHCP
1 4 (1.65%) DNS
1 4 (1.65%) TCP/IP
1 4 (1.65%) VPN
1 4 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (27.16%) MySQL
2 43 (17.70%) SQL Server
3 16 (6.58%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.88%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.47%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.06%) MariaDB
8 4 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.23%) Redis
10 1 (0.41%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 29 (11.93%) Git
2 10 (4.12%) JIRA
3 5 (2.06%) Claude Code
4 4 (1.65%) Postman
4 4 (1.65%) Vite
5 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.82%) PHPUnit
5 2 (0.82%) Selenium
5 2 (0.82%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.41%) Gatling
6 1 (0.41%) JMeter
6 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.41%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 74 (30.45%) Finance
2 34 (13.99%) Social Skills
3 14 (5.76%) Marketing
4 9 (3.70%) Health Technology
4 9 (3.70%) Law
4 9 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (2.88%) Games
6 5 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.23%) Retail
9 2 (0.82%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.41%) Billing
10 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.41%) Legal
10 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 175 (72.02%) Developer
2 126 (51.85%) PHP Developer
3 82 (33.74%) Graduate
4 80 (32.92%) Software Developer
5 77 (31.69%) Graduate Developer
6 75 (30.86%) Graduate Software Developer
7 69 (28.40%) C# Developer
7 69 (28.40%) C# Software Developer
7 69 (28.40%) Graduate C# Developer
7 69 (28.40%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 65 (26.75%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 65 (26.75%) SQL Developer
9 61 (25.10%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 54 (22.22%) Senior
11 41 (16.87%) Senior Developer
12 28 (11.52%) Azure Developer
13 27 (11.11%) Senior PHP Developer
14 23 (9.47%) Full-Stack Developer
14 23 (9.47%) Software Engineer
15 17 (7.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (31.69%) CSS
2 59 (24.28%) Laravel
3 48 (19.75%) HTML
4 40 (16.46%) React
5 39 (16.05%) jQuery
6 25 (10.29%) Symfony
7 24 (9.88%) Vue
8 14 (5.76%) Node.js
9 10 (4.12%) AngularJS
9 10 (4.12%) HTML5
9 10 (4.12%) RESTful
10 9 (3.70%) CSS3
11 8 (3.29%) .NET
11 8 (3.29%) REST
11 8 (3.29%) Tailwind CSS
12 6 (2.47%) CodeIgniter
12 6 (2.47%) LEMP Stack
13 5 (2.06%) .NET Framework
13 5 (2.06%) CakePHP
13 5 (2.06%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.35%) Virtual Team
2 11 (4.53%) Onboarding
3 7 (2.88%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.47%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.06%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.06%) IoT
5 5 (2.06%) Robotics
6 4 (1.65%) CCTV
6 4 (1.65%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.65%) Educational Technology
6 4 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.65%) NHS
7 3 (1.23%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.23%) Mobile Games
8 2 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.41%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.41%) Linux
2 6 (2.47%) Windows
3 4 (1.65%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.23%) Android
4 3 (1.23%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (35.80%) Agile
2 80 (32.92%) Computer Science
3 50 (20.58%) MVC
4 41 (16.87%) Full-Stack Development
5 39 (16.05%) Software Engineering
6 38 (15.64%) Mentoring
7 35 (14.40%) OOP
8 31 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (12.35%) OO
10 27 (11.11%) Clean Code
11 20 (8.23%) CI/CD
12 17 (7.00%) DevOps
12 17 (7.00%) E-Commerce
13 16 (6.58%) OO PHP
13 16 (6.58%) User Experience
14 15 (6.17%) Front End Development
14 15 (6.17%) Web Development
15 13 (5.35%) Microservices
16 12 (4.94%) AI
17 10 (4.12%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 101 (41.56%) SQL
2 83 (34.16%) C#
3 51 (20.99%) JavaScript
4 32 (13.17%) Java
5 30 (12.35%) C++
6 25 (10.29%) Python
6 25 (10.29%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.53%) Go
8 7 (2.88%) Bash
9 6 (2.47%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.65%) Delphi
10 4 (1.65%) Pascal
11 3 (1.23%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 49 (20.16%) Degree
2 47 (19.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.70%) QA
2 5 (2.06%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.23%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.82%) GDPR
4 2 (0.82%) SLA
5 1 (0.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (9.05%) Docker
2 3 (1.23%) Firmware
3 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.47%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.65%) Plesk
2 4 (1.65%) Terraform
3 3 (1.23%) cPanel
4 1 (0.41%) Ansible
4 1 (0.41%) Consul
4 1 (0.41%) Kibana
4 1 (0.41%) Packer
4 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.41%) Puppet
4 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (8.23%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.23%) Zend
3 2 (0.82%) Adobe
3 2 (0.82%) Apple
3 2 (0.82%) BT
3 2 (0.82%) Google
3 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.41%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.41%) Netlify
4 1 (0.41%) New Relic
4 1 (0.41%) PayPal
4 1 (0.41%) Sage
4 1 (0.41%) TOWER Software