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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 128 108
Rank change year-on-year -79 -20 +32
Permanent jobs citing PHP 198 379 846
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.18% 2.73% 2.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.47% 5.94% 6.47%
Number of salaries quoted 188 314 796
10th Percentile £24,000 £29,225 £31,750
25th Percentile £25,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £63,250
90th Percentile £80,375 £84,625 £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 4,431 6,381 13,075
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.42% 45.95% 43.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,230 4,545 11,380
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £38,750
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 £97,625
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 12 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 11 (5.56%) CMS
2 9 (4.55%) WordPress
3 6 (3.03%) nginx
4 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (2.02%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.01%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.01%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.51%) Apache
7 1 (0.51%) Drupal
7 1 (0.51%) IIS
7 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 72 (36.36%) AWS
1 72 (36.36%) Azure
2 25 (12.63%) SaaS
3 13 (6.57%) GitHub
4 7 (3.54%) GCP
5 5 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.53%) Serverless
5 5 (2.53%) Slack
6 4 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (2.02%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (2.02%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (2.02%) DigitalOcean
7 3 (1.52%) Firebase
8 2 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.01%) Google Gemini
8 2 (1.01%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.51%) BigCommerce
9 1 (0.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.53%) DHCP
1 5 (2.53%) DNS
2 4 (2.02%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.02%) VPN
2 4 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.52%) HTTP
4 1 (0.51%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (34.34%) MySQL
2 23 (11.62%) SQL Server
3 19 (9.60%) Relational Database
4 14 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.04%) 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
9 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 36 (18.18%) 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%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 58 (29.29%) Finance
2 29 (14.65%) Social Skills
3 13 (6.57%) Marketing
4 8 (4.04%) Law
5 7 (3.54%) Games
5 7 (3.54%) Health Technology
5 7 (3.54%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.52%) Automotive
7 3 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.52%) Retail
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
1 136 (68.69%) Developer
2 94 (47.47%) PHP Developer
3 53 (26.77%) Graduate
4 52 (26.26%) Senior
5 50 (25.25%) Software Developer
6 48 (24.24%) Graduate Developer
7 45 (22.73%) Graduate Software Developer
8 42 (21.21%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 41 (20.71%) C# Developer
9 41 (20.71%) C# Software Developer
9 41 (20.71%) Graduate C# Developer
9 41 (20.71%) Graduate C# Software Developer
10 40 (20.20%) Senior Developer
11 39 (19.70%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 39 (19.70%) SQL Developer
12 27 (13.64%) Senior PHP Developer
13 22 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
14 19 (9.60%) Software Engineer
15 17 (8.59%) Azure Developer
16 8 (4.04%) Lead
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 19 (9.60%) Node.js
8 11 (5.56%) AngularJS
8 11 (5.56%) REST
9 9 (4.55%) RESTful
10 8 (4.04%) Tailwind CSS
11 7 (3.54%) .NET
11 7 (3.54%) CodeIgniter
12 6 (3.03%) CakePHP
12 6 (3.03%) LEMP Stack
12 6 (3.03%) Next.js
13 5 (2.53%) RxJS
14 4 (2.02%) ASP.NET
14 4 (2.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.04%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.03%) IoT
5 5 (2.53%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.53%) Educational Technology
6 4 (2.02%) CCTV
6 4 (2.02%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.02%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.02%) Mobile Games
6 4 (2.02%) NHS
7 3 (1.52%) Robotics
7 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.52%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.01%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.10%) 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 50 (25.25%) Computer Science
3 42 (21.21%) 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 25 (12.63%) CI/CD
9 23 (11.62%) OOP
9 23 (11.62%) User Experience
10 20 (10.10%) DevOps
11 18 (9.09%) AI
11 18 (9.09%) Clean Code
12 17 (8.59%) E-Commerce
12 17 (8.59%) Test Automation
13 16 (8.08%) Machine Learning
14 15 (7.58%) Front End Development
14 15 (7.58%) OO
15 14 (7.07%) Containerisation
16 13 (6.57%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 71 (35.86%) SQL
2 55 (27.78%) C#
3 49 (24.75%) JavaScript
4 30 (15.15%) TypeScript
5 21 (10.61%) Java
6 19 (9.60%) C++
6 19 (9.60%) Python
7 7 (3.54%) Bash
7 7 (3.54%) Go
8 6 (3.03%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.02%) Delphi
9 4 (2.02%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.02%) Pascal
10 2 (1.01%) Rust
11 1 (0.51%) Perl
11 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (14.65%) Degree
2 24 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.51%) MCSE
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.51%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.56%) QA
2 6 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.53%) SLA
4 4 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.52%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (14.14%) 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 10 (5.05%) 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
4 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.51%) Google
4 1 (0.51%) New Relic
4 1 (0.51%) PayPal
4 1 (0.51%) Salesforce