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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 216 181
Rank change year-on-year -13 -35 -24
Permanent jobs citing PHP 263 235 448
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.09% 1.45% 1.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.28% 4.61% 4.97%
Number of salaries quoted 237 162 294
10th Percentile - - £31,250
25th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -21.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £54,000 £58,750 £59,688
90th Percentile £67,500 £73,625 £70,000
UK median annual salary £48,676 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.53% -15.00% -5.05%

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 6,148 5,094 9,008
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.50% 31.36% 38.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4,604 3,442 6,176
10th Percentile £38,984 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +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 16 September 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 21 (7.98%) WordPress
2 8 (3.04%) CMS
3 6 (2.28%) Apache
4 4 (1.52%) Confluence
4 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.76%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Drupal
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 4 (1.52%) Shopify
2 2 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 105 (39.92%) Azure
2 59 (22.43%) AWS
3 26 (9.89%) SaaS
4 14 (5.32%) GitHub
5 9 (3.42%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (1.90%) GCP
8 4 (1.52%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.14%) ClickUp
9 3 (1.14%) Contentful
9 3 (1.14%) Datadog
9 3 (1.14%) Sentry
9 3 (1.14%) Stripe
10 2 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.76%) CloudFront
10 2 (0.76%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.14%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.76%) Broadband
2 2 (0.76%) Intranet
3 1 (0.38%) DNS
3 1 (0.38%) Firewall
3 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (22.43%) SQL Server
2 47 (17.87%) MySQL
3 13 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.66%) Redis
4 7 (2.66%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.28%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.14%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.14%) Power BI
7 2 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.76%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.76%) Metadata
7 2 (0.76%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.38%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.38%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (6.84%) Git
2 6 (2.28%) JIRA
3 4 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.14%) Appium
5 2 (0.76%) Bower
5 2 (0.76%) ESLint
5 2 (0.76%) GitLab
5 2 (0.76%) Storybook
5 2 (0.76%) Vite
6 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.38%) Gatling
6 1 (0.38%) JMeter
6 1 (0.38%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (20.53%) Finance
2 40 (15.21%) Social Skills
3 8 (3.04%) Marketing
3 8 (3.04%) Public Sector
4 7 (2.66%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (1.90%) Games
6 5 (1.90%) Law
7 4 (1.52%) Legal
8 3 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.14%) Publishing
9 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.76%) Retail
10 1 (0.38%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.38%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 171 (65.02%) Developer
2 94 (35.74%) Graduate
3 73 (27.76%) PHP Developer
4 60 (22.81%) Software Developer
5 55 (20.91%) Graduate Developer
5 55 (20.91%) Graduate Software Developer
6 54 (20.53%) Software Engineer
7 52 (19.77%) Senior
8 39 (14.83%) C# Developer
8 39 (14.83%) C# Software Developer
8 39 (14.83%) Graduate C# Developer
8 39 (14.83%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 39 (14.83%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 38 (14.45%) Senior Developer
10 37 (14.07%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 37 (14.07%) SQL Developer
11 30 (11.41%) PHP Software Engineer
12 27 (10.27%) Graduate PHP Developer
13 26 (9.89%) Azure Engineer
13 26 (9.89%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (34.22%) Laravel
2 67 (25.48%) CSS
3 46 (17.49%) HTML
4 41 (15.59%) jQuery
5 35 (13.31%) React
6 29 (11.03%) Vue
7 15 (5.70%) CSS3
8 14 (5.32%) HTML5
9 13 (4.94%) Node.js
10 11 (4.18%) RESTful
11 9 (3.42%) Symfony
11 9 (3.42%) Web Services
12 7 (2.66%) .NET
12 7 (2.66%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.28%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.28%) Sass
13 6 (2.28%) Terraform
14 5 (1.90%) React Native
15 3 (1.14%) Bootstrap
15 3 (1.14%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.51%) Virtual Team
2 11 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.04%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.66%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.28%) Educational Technology
6 3 (1.14%) Blog
6 3 (1.14%) Clustering
6 3 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.76%) IoT
7 2 (0.76%) Social Media
8 1 (0.38%) NHS
8 1 (0.38%) PMI
8 1 (0.38%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.38%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.46%) Linux
2 7 (2.66%) Windows
3 4 (1.52%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.14%) Android
4 3 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.14%) Debian
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (31.18%) Computer Science
2 72 (27.38%) Software Engineering
3 71 (27.00%) Agile
4 46 (17.49%) MVC
5 37 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (13.69%) OOP
7 35 (13.31%) OO
8 29 (11.03%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (10.65%) CI/CD
10 27 (10.27%) Mentoring
11 26 (9.89%) Clean Code
12 20 (7.60%) Web Development
13 16 (6.08%) AI
13 16 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (6.08%) DevOps
13 16 (6.08%) User Experience
14 14 (5.32%) Fintech
15 12 (4.56%) Test Automation
16 11 (4.18%) OO PHP
17 9 (3.42%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 105 (39.92%) SQL
2 100 (38.02%) C#
3 62 (23.57%) JavaScript
4 35 (13.31%) Python
5 33 (12.55%) Java
6 24 (9.13%) C++
7 15 (5.70%) TypeScript
8 11 (4.18%) Go
9 4 (1.52%) Bash
10 3 (1.14%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.14%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.14%) Ruby
10 3 (1.14%) Scala
10 3 (1.14%) Swift
11 1 (0.38%) Rust
11 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (19.77%) Degree
2 50 (19.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.76%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.08%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.28%) QA
3 3 (1.14%) WCAG
4 1 (0.38%) GDPR
4 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (7.22%) Docker
2 5 (1.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (3.04%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.66%) Ansible
3 3 (1.14%) Grafana
3 3 (1.14%) Plesk
4 1 (0.38%) Consul
4 1 (0.38%) Packer
4 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (8.37%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.90%) Google
2 5 (1.90%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.52%) Sage
4 2 (0.76%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.38%) Netlify
5 1 (0.38%) TOWER Software