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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 196 159
Rank change year-on-year -4 -37 -5
Permanent jobs citing PHP 302 269 512
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.32% 1.62% 2.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.96% 4.99% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 273 197 420
10th Percentile - - £30,250
25th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,133 £75,000 £70,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £49,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% -6.54%

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 6,085 5,393 9,515
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.67% 32.55% 38.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,562 3,713 7,370
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,247
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 15 August 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 20 (6.62%) WordPress
2 8 (2.65%) CMS
3 6 (1.99%) Apache
3 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.32%) Confluence
5 2 (0.66%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) Drupal
6 1 (0.33%) IIS
6 1 (0.33%) Moodle
6 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Elementor
2 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Shopify
2 2 (0.66%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 122 (40.40%) Azure
2 70 (23.18%) AWS
3 33 (10.93%) SaaS
4 16 (5.30%) GitHub
5 9 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (2.98%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.65%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.32%) Serverless
8 6 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.66%) GCP
10 4 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.99%) ClickUp
11 3 (0.99%) Contentful
11 3 (0.99%) Datadog
11 3 (0.99%) Sentry
11 3 (0.99%) Stripe
12 2 (0.66%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.66%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.99%) DNS
3 2 (0.66%) Broadband
3 2 (0.66%) DHCP
3 2 (0.66%) Intranet
3 2 (0.66%) VPN
3 2 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.33%) Firewall
4 1 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (21.85%) SQL Server
2 56 (18.54%) MySQL
3 17 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (3.31%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.32%) MariaDB
6 6 (1.99%) Redis
7 5 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.99%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.66%) Metadata
9 2 (0.66%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.66%) Power BI
10 1 (0.33%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 19 (6.29%) Git
2 10 (3.31%) JIRA
3 4 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.99%) Appium
4 3 (0.99%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.66%) Bower
5 2 (0.66%) Postman
6 1 (0.33%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.33%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.33%) Gatling
6 1 (0.33%) JMeter
6 1 (0.33%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.33%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.33%) webpack
General
1 72 (23.84%) Finance
2 47 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 10 (3.31%) Marketing
4 8 (2.65%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.32%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.32%) Law
6 6 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.66%) Games
7 5 (1.66%) Retail
8 4 (1.32%) Legal
8 4 (1.32%) Publishing
9 3 (0.99%) Health Technology
9 3 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 197 (65.23%) Developer
2 112 (37.09%) Graduate
3 105 (34.77%) PHP Developer
4 76 (25.17%) Software Developer
5 75 (24.83%) Graduate Developer
5 75 (24.83%) Graduate Software Developer
6 60 (19.87%) Senior
7 59 (19.54%) C# Developer
7 59 (19.54%) C# Software Developer
7 59 (19.54%) Graduate C# Developer
7 59 (19.54%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 57 (18.87%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 57 (18.87%) SQL Developer
9 52 (17.22%) Software Engineer
10 47 (15.56%) Graduate PHP Developer
11 43 (14.24%) Senior Developer
12 37 (12.25%) Graduate Software Engineer
13 31 (10.26%) PHP Software Engineer
14 26 (8.61%) Azure Engineer
14 26 (8.61%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (28.15%) Laravel
2 74 (24.50%) CSS
3 48 (15.89%) HTML
3 48 (15.89%) jQuery
4 41 (13.58%) React
5 25 (8.28%) Vue
6 15 (4.97%) CSS3
6 15 (4.97%) HTML5
7 13 (4.30%) RESTful
7 13 (4.30%) Symfony
8 12 (3.97%) Node.js
9 9 (2.98%) .NET
9 9 (2.98%) AngularJS
10 8 (2.65%) Web Services
11 6 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.66%) .NET Framework
12 5 (1.66%) React Native
13 4 (1.32%) Jest
13 4 (1.32%) JSON
13 4 (1.32%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.61%) Virtual Team
2 12 (3.97%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.32%) Educational Technology
4 7 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.32%) IoT
5 4 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 3 (0.99%) Blog
6 3 (0.99%) Clustering
6 3 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (0.99%) Mobile App
6 3 (0.99%) Robotics
7 2 (0.66%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.66%) CCTV
7 2 (0.66%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.66%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (0.66%) Social Media
8 1 (0.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.30%) Linux
2 9 (2.98%) Windows
3 3 (0.99%) Android
3 3 (0.99%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.99%) Debian
3 3 (0.99%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.66%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (33.44%) Computer Science
2 90 (29.80%) Agile
3 73 (24.17%) Software Engineering
4 51 (16.89%) MVC
5 43 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (13.91%) OOP
7 34 (11.26%) Mentoring
8 33 (10.93%) OO
9 31 (10.26%) CI/CD
9 31 (10.26%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (9.27%) Clean Code
11 22 (7.28%) DevOps
11 22 (7.28%) Web Development
12 16 (5.30%) AI
12 16 (5.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (4.97%) Microservices
13 15 (4.97%) User Experience
14 14 (4.64%) Fintech
15 12 (3.97%) Test Automation
16 11 (3.64%) OO PHP
Programming Languages
1 127 (42.05%) SQL
2 118 (39.07%) C#
3 64 (21.19%) JavaScript
4 39 (12.91%) Python
5 38 (12.58%) Java
6 30 (9.93%) C++
7 15 (4.97%) TypeScript
8 14 (4.64%) Go
9 7 (2.32%) Bash
10 6 (1.99%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.99%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.99%) Ruby
11 3 (0.99%) Rust
11 3 (0.99%) Scala
11 3 (0.99%) Swift
12 2 (0.66%) Delphi
12 2 (0.66%) Pascal
13 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (19.54%) Degree
2 57 (18.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.66%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.30%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.32%) QA
3 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.99%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.99%) WCAG
5 2 (0.66%) GDPR
5 2 (0.66%) SLA
6 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (6.95%) Docker
2 5 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.99%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.32%) Ansible
3 6 (1.99%) Terraform
4 3 (0.99%) Grafana
4 3 (0.99%) Plesk
5 1 (0.33%) Consul
5 1 (0.33%) Kibana
5 1 (0.33%) Packer
5 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (7.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.66%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.32%) Google
3 4 (1.32%) Sage
4 2 (0.66%) Apple
4 2 (0.66%) BT
4 2 (0.66%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.33%) Netlify
5 1 (0.33%) New Relic
5 1 (0.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.33%) TOWER Software