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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 130 105
Rank change year-on-year -74 -25 +35
Permanent jobs citing PHP 198 370 845
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.17% 2.73% 2.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.41% 5.96% 6.47%
Number of salaries quoted 188 314 795
10th Percentile £24,000 £29,225 £31,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £38,438 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,625 £85,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4,489 6,213 13,061
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.57% 45.76% 43.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,253 4,529 11,368
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 17 March 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 (5.05%) CMS
2 8 (4.04%) WordPress
3 6 (3.03%) nginx
4 4 (2.02%) Apache Solr
4 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.01%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.01%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.51%) Apache
6 1 (0.51%) Drupal
6 1 (0.51%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (2.02%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (2.02%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.01%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.54%) Shopify
2 2 (1.01%) Magento
3 1 (0.51%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 73 (36.87%) Azure
2 71 (35.86%) AWS
3 25 (12.63%) SaaS
4 14 (7.07%) GitHub
5 6 (3.03%) GCP
5 6 (3.03%) Serverless
6 5 (2.53%) Slack
7 4 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.02%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.02%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.02%) DigitalOcean
7 4 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.52%) Firebase
8 3 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.01%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.01%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.01%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.01%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.02%) DHCP
1 4 (2.02%) DNS
1 4 (2.02%) TCP/IP
1 4 (2.02%) VPN
1 4 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.01%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (33.33%) MySQL
2 23 (11.62%) SQL Server
3 19 (9.60%) Relational Database
4 15 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.54%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.03%) MariaDB
6 6 (3.03%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (17.68%) Git
2 11 (5.56%) JIRA
3 5 (2.53%) Claude Code
4 4 (2.02%) Postman
4 4 (2.02%) Vite
5 2 (1.01%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.01%) git-flow
5 2 (1.01%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.01%) Selenium
5 2 (1.01%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.51%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.51%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 59 (29.80%) Finance
2 26 (13.13%) Social Skills
3 13 (6.57%) Marketing
4 8 (4.04%) Health Technology
4 8 (4.04%) Law
4 8 (4.04%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (3.54%) Games
6 4 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.52%) Retail
8 2 (1.01%) Automotive
8 2 (1.01%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.51%) Billing
9 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.51%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 135 (68.18%) Developer
2 95 (47.98%) PHP Developer
3 53 (26.77%) Graduate
4 51 (25.76%) Senior
4 51 (25.76%) Software Developer
5 48 (24.24%) Graduate Developer
6 46 (23.23%) Graduate Software Developer
7 43 (21.72%) Graduate PHP Developer
8 42 (21.21%) C# Developer
8 42 (21.21%) C# Software Developer
8 42 (21.21%) Graduate C# Developer
8 42 (21.21%) Graduate C# Software Developer
9 40 (20.20%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 40 (20.20%) SQL Developer
10 39 (19.70%) Senior Developer
11 27 (13.64%) Senior PHP Developer
12 22 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
13 20 (10.10%) Software Engineer
14 17 (8.59%) Azure Developer
15 9 (4.55%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (27.78%) CSS
2 45 (22.73%) Laravel
3 42 (21.21%) React
4 36 (18.18%) HTML
5 29 (14.65%) Symfony
6 22 (11.11%) jQuery
6 22 (11.11%) Vue
7 20 (10.10%) Node.js
8 12 (6.06%) REST
9 11 (5.56%) AngularJS
10 10 (5.05%) RESTful
11 8 (4.04%) Tailwind CSS
12 7 (3.54%) .NET
12 7 (3.54%) CodeIgniter
13 6 (3.03%) CakePHP
13 6 (3.03%) LEMP Stack
13 6 (3.03%) Next.js
14 5 (2.53%) RxJS
15 4 (2.02%) React Native
15 4 (2.02%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (3.54%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.03%) IoT
4 5 (2.53%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.53%) Educational Technology
5 4 (2.02%) CCTV
5 4 (2.02%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.02%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.02%) Mobile Games
5 4 (2.02%) NHS
5 4 (2.02%) Robotics
6 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.01%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.51%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.60%) Linux
2 8 (4.04%) Windows
3 4 (2.02%) Android
3 4 (2.02%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.02%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (39.39%) Agile
2 51 (25.76%) Computer Science
3 41 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (20.20%) Full-Stack Development
5 39 (19.70%) Software Engineering
6 30 (15.15%) MVC
7 28 (14.14%) Mentoring
8 24 (12.12%) CI/CD
9 23 (11.62%) OOP
10 22 (11.11%) User Experience
11 20 (10.10%) DevOps
12 18 (9.09%) AI
12 18 (9.09%) Clean Code
13 17 (8.59%) E-Commerce
14 16 (8.08%) Machine Learning
14 16 (8.08%) Test Automation
15 15 (7.58%) Containerisation
15 15 (7.58%) Front End Development
16 14 (7.07%) Microservices
16 14 (7.07%) OO
Programming Languages
1 69 (34.85%) SQL
2 56 (28.28%) C#
3 48 (24.24%) JavaScript
4 30 (15.15%) TypeScript
5 21 (10.61%) Java
6 19 (9.60%) C++
6 19 (9.60%) Python
7 8 (4.04%) Go
8 7 (3.54%) Bash
9 6 (3.03%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.02%) Delphi
10 4 (2.02%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.02%) Pascal
11 2 (1.01%) Rust
12 1 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (14.65%) Degree
2 25 (12.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.56%) QA
2 5 (2.53%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.02%) SLA
4 3 (1.52%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.01%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (13.64%) Docker
2 3 (1.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.02%) Ansible
3 3 (1.52%) cPanel
3 3 (1.52%) Plesk
3 3 (1.52%) Terraform
4 1 (0.51%) Kibana
4 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.52%) Zend
3 2 (1.01%) Adobe
3 2 (1.01%) Apple
3 2 (1.01%) BT
3 2 (1.01%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.01%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.51%) Google
4 1 (0.51%) New Relic
4 1 (0.51%) PayPal