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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 161 160
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 -24
Permanent jobs citing PHP 236 416 459
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.50% 2.09% 2.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.53% 5.00% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 175 242 431
10th Percentile - £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £25,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -9.52% -3.23%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,000 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £49,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% -

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 4,271 8,319 10,232
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.15% 41.79% 47.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,290 5,300 8,614
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,875 £112,625 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 14 November 2025.

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 12 (5.08%) WordPress
2 8 (3.39%) Apache Solr
3 7 (2.97%) CMS
4 6 (2.54%) IIS
5 3 (1.27%) Drupal
5 3 (1.27%) nginx
5 3 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.85%) Apache
6 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.42%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 5 (2.12%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (2.12%) Photoshop
2 4 (1.69%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.85%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 7 (2.97%) Magento
2 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 81 (34.32%) Azure
2 47 (19.92%) AWS
3 19 (8.05%) SaaS
4 8 (3.39%) GitHub
5 7 (2.97%) Cloudflare
6 6 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.54%) GCP
7 5 (2.12%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.69%) npm
8 4 (1.69%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.27%) Figma
9 3 (1.27%) Firebase
9 3 (1.27%) Google Analytics
9 3 (1.27%) Serverless
9 3 (1.27%) Vercel
10 2 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.85%) PaaS
10 2 (0.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) DNS
2 1 (0.42%) Broadband
2 1 (0.42%) DHCP
2 1 (0.42%) HTTP
2 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.42%) IPsec
2 1 (0.42%) IPv6
2 1 (0.42%) RFID
2 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (44.49%) MySQL
2 52 (22.03%) SQL Server
3 14 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.66%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (4.66%) MariaDB
5 10 (4.24%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.54%) Redis
7 2 (0.85%) GIS
7 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.42%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.42%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 36 (15.25%) Git
2 8 (3.39%) JIRA
3 4 (1.69%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (1.27%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.27%) git-flow
4 3 (1.27%) Postman
4 3 (1.27%) Selenium
4 3 (1.27%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.42%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.42%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.42%) Snyk
5 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.42%) Vite
General
1 74 (31.36%) Social Skills
2 58 (24.58%) Finance
3 15 (6.36%) Law
4 8 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.97%) Games
6 6 (2.54%) Automotive
7 5 (2.12%) Marketing
8 4 (1.69%) Retail
9 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.85%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.42%) Advertising
10 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.42%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 128 (54.24%) Developer
2 56 (23.73%) Graduate
3 50 (21.19%) Graduate Developer
4 47 (19.92%) PHP Developer
5 37 (15.68%) IT Graduate
6 23 (9.75%) Senior
7 22 (9.32%) Software Developer
8 19 (8.05%) C# Developer
9 18 (7.63%) Graduate C# Developer
9 18 (7.63%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 18 (7.63%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 18 (7.63%) Software Engineer
9 18 (7.63%) SQL Developer
10 17 (7.20%) Senior Developer
11 16 (6.78%) Azure Developer
12 14 (5.93%) Graduate Software Developer
13 13 (5.51%) Symfony Developer
14 11 (4.66%) PHP Symfony Developer
15 10 (4.24%) Technical Support
16 9 (3.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (41.10%) HTML
2 88 (37.29%) CSS
3 53 (22.46%) jQuery
4 46 (19.49%) Laravel
5 43 (18.22%) .NET
6 42 (17.80%) React
7 40 (16.95%) ASP.NET
8 33 (13.98%) Symfony
9 21 (8.90%) REST
10 16 (6.78%) Node.js
10 16 (6.78%) Vue
11 11 (4.66%) CakePHP
11 11 (4.66%) CodeIgniter
11 11 (4.66%) LAMP
12 10 (4.24%) RESTful
13 9 (3.81%) HTML5
14 8 (3.39%) CSS3
14 8 (3.39%) SOAP
15 7 (2.97%) AngularJS
16 6 (2.54%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.93%) Virtual Team
2 7 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.12%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.12%) Educational Technology
3 5 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (2.12%) Mobile Games
4 4 (1.69%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.27%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.27%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.85%) IoT
7 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.42%) Animation
7 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.42%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.42%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.47%) Linux
2 8 (3.39%) Windows
3 7 (2.97%) Android
3 7 (2.97%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.42%) CentOS
4 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (41.53%) Computer Science
2 89 (37.71%) Agile
3 78 (33.05%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (29.24%) AI
5 65 (27.54%) Machine Learning
6 64 (27.12%) OO
7 60 (25.42%) MVC
8 50 (21.19%) OOP
9 49 (20.76%) Data Privacy
10 40 (16.95%) Software Engineering
11 31 (13.14%) Full-Stack Development
12 29 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (11.44%) Test Automation
14 24 (10.17%) CI/CD
15 22 (9.32%) Mentoring
16 18 (7.63%) Containerisation
16 18 (7.63%) DevOps
16 18 (7.63%) User Experience
17 17 (7.20%) E-Commerce
18 14 (5.93%) OO PHP
Programming Languages
1 125 (52.97%) JavaScript
2 118 (50.00%) SQL
3 109 (46.19%) C#
4 94 (39.83%) Java
5 91 (38.56%) C++
6 85 (36.02%) TypeScript
7 76 (32.20%) Python
8 51 (21.61%) Ruby
9 49 (20.76%) C
9 49 (20.76%) Dart
9 49 (20.76%) MATLAB
9 49 (20.76%) R
9 49 (20.76%) Rust
10 9 (3.81%) Go
11 7 (2.97%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.27%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.85%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 100 (42.37%) Degree
2 96 (40.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.42%) MCSE
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.42%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.08%) QA
2 6 (2.54%) SLA
3 4 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.85%) GDPR
4 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (8.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.81%) Ansible
2 7 (2.97%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.27%) Terraform
4 1 (0.42%) Argo
4 1 (0.42%) cPanel
4 1 (0.42%) Grafana
4 1 (0.42%) Plesk
4 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (7.20%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.97%) HubSpot
3 6 (2.54%) Google
3 6 (2.54%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.12%) Adobe
4 5 (2.12%) Oracle
5 4 (1.69%) WooCommerce
6 2 (0.85%) Netlify
6 2 (0.85%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.42%) Progress
7 1 (0.42%) Zend