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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 142 109
Rank change year-on-year -34 -33 +26
Permanent jobs citing PHP 253 330 872
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.42% 2.47% 2.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.32% 5.80% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 242 298 813
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.38% +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 4,760 5,688 13,315
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.64% 42.55% 41.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,487 4,523 11,432
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,275
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 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 22 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 9 (3.56%) CMS
1 9 (3.56%) WordPress
2 8 (3.16%) nginx
3 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.19%) Apache
5 2 (0.79%) Drupal
5 2 (0.79%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) Confluence
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.58%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.58%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.16%) Shopify
2 4 (1.58%) Magento
3 1 (0.40%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 103 (40.71%) Azure
2 80 (31.62%) AWS
3 26 (10.28%) SaaS
4 17 (6.72%) GitHub
5 8 (3.16%) GCP
6 7 (2.77%) Serverless
7 6 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.37%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.37%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (1.98%) Slack
9 4 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.58%) DigitalOcean
9 4 (1.58%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.19%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (1.19%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.79%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.79%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) DNS
2 4 (1.58%) DHCP
2 4 (1.58%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.58%) VPN
2 4 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.79%) HTTP
4 1 (0.40%) Firewall
4 1 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (25.30%) MySQL
2 52 (20.55%) SQL Server
3 16 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (5.93%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.56%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.77%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.58%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.19%) Redis
10 2 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.79%) Metadata
10 2 (0.79%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.40%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 28 (11.07%) Git
2 9 (3.56%) JIRA
3 5 (1.98%) Claude Code
4 4 (1.58%) Postman
4 4 (1.58%) Vite
5 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.79%) PHPUnit
5 2 (0.79%) Selenium
5 2 (0.79%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.40%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.40%) Gatling
6 1 (0.40%) JMeter
6 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 72 (28.46%) Finance
2 33 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 14 (5.53%) Marketing
4 9 (3.56%) Health Technology
4 9 (3.56%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (3.16%) Law
6 6 (2.37%) Games
7 5 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.58%) Retail
9 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.19%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.79%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.40%) Billing
11 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 181 (71.54%) Developer
2 125 (49.41%) PHP Developer
3 89 (35.18%) Graduate
4 87 (34.39%) Software Developer
5 84 (33.20%) Graduate Developer
6 82 (32.41%) Graduate Software Developer
7 69 (27.27%) C# Developer
7 69 (27.27%) C# Software Developer
7 69 (27.27%) Graduate C# Developer
7 69 (27.27%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 65 (25.69%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 65 (25.69%) SQL Developer
9 61 (24.11%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 56 (22.13%) Senior
11 42 (16.60%) Senior Developer
12 28 (11.07%) Azure Developer
13 27 (10.67%) Senior PHP Developer
14 23 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
15 22 (8.70%) Software Engineer
16 17 (6.72%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (29.64%) CSS
2 58 (22.92%) Laravel
3 46 (18.18%) HTML
4 41 (16.21%) React
5 39 (15.42%) jQuery
6 23 (9.09%) Symfony
6 23 (9.09%) Vue
7 16 (6.32%) Node.js
8 13 (5.14%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.95%) HTML5
9 10 (3.95%) RESTful
10 9 (3.56%) CSS3
11 8 (3.16%) .NET
11 8 (3.16%) Tailwind CSS
12 7 (2.77%) LEMP Stack
12 7 (2.77%) REST
13 5 (1.98%) .NET Framework
13 5 (1.98%) CodeIgniter
13 5 (1.98%) RxJS
13 5 (1.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.14%) Virtual Team
2 11 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.16%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.77%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.98%) AI Agents
5 5 (1.98%) IoT
5 5 (1.98%) Robotics
6 4 (1.58%) CCTV
6 4 (1.58%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.58%) NHS
7 3 (1.19%) Educational Technology
7 3 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.79%) Mobile Games
9 1 (0.40%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.40%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.51%) Linux
2 6 (2.37%) Windows
3 4 (1.58%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.79%) Android
4 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (35.97%) Agile
2 86 (33.99%) Computer Science
3 49 (19.37%) MVC
4 41 (16.21%) Mentoring
5 39 (15.42%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (15.02%) OOP
6 38 (15.02%) Software Engineering
7 32 (12.65%) OO
8 30 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (10.67%) Clean Code
10 23 (9.09%) CI/CD
11 21 (8.30%) DevOps
12 17 (6.72%) User Experience
13 16 (6.32%) E-Commerce
14 15 (5.93%) Front End Development
14 15 (5.93%) Microservices
14 15 (5.93%) OO PHP
14 15 (5.93%) Web Development
15 14 (5.53%) AI
16 11 (4.35%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 105 (41.50%) SQL
2 93 (36.76%) C#
3 52 (20.55%) JavaScript
4 38 (15.02%) Java
5 32 (12.65%) Python
6 30 (11.86%) C++
7 27 (10.67%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.14%) Go
9 8 (3.16%) Bash
10 6 (2.37%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.58%) Delphi
11 4 (1.58%) Pascal
12 3 (1.19%) Rust
12 3 (1.19%) Scala
13 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (21.74%) Degree
2 53 (20.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.95%) QA
2 6 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.19%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.79%) GDPR
5 2 (0.79%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (10.28%) Docker
2 3 (1.19%) Firmware
3 2 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.56%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.77%) Terraform
3 4 (1.58%) Ansible
3 4 (1.58%) Plesk
4 3 (1.19%) cPanel
5 1 (0.40%) Consul
5 1 (0.40%) Kibana
5 1 (0.40%) Packer
5 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.40%) Puppet
5 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.19%) Zend
3 2 (0.79%) Adobe
3 2 (0.79%) Apple
3 2 (0.79%) BT
3 2 (0.79%) Dynatrace
3 2 (0.79%) Google
3 2 (0.79%) OpenAI
3 2 (0.79%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.40%) Netlify
4 1 (0.40%) New Relic
4 1 (0.40%) PayPal
4 1 (0.40%) Sage
4 1 (0.40%) TOWER Software