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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 131 107
Rank change year-on-year -82 -24 +39
Permanent jobs citing PHP 180 395 772
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.09% 2.62% 2.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.04% 5.81% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 172 288 727
10th Percentile £24,000 £31,025 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,313 £39,375 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,125 £82,875 £78,750
UK median annual salary £53,414 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.74% +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 4,455 6,803 12,420
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.09% 45.04% 45.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,253 4,454 10,825
10th Percentile £38,553 £40,075 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 26 February 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 (6.11%) CMS
2 10 (5.56%) WordPress
3 7 (3.89%) nginx
4 5 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (2.22%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.22%) IIS
6 2 (1.11%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.56%) Apache
7 1 (0.56%) Drupal
7 1 (0.56%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (2.22%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.89%) Shopify
2 2 (1.11%) Magento
3 1 (0.56%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 67 (37.22%) AWS
2 62 (34.44%) Azure
3 21 (11.67%) SaaS
4 13 (7.22%) GitHub
5 7 (3.89%) GCP
6 5 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.22%) DigitalOcean
7 4 (2.22%) Slack
8 3 (1.67%) Firebase
9 2 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.11%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.11%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.11%) Serverless
10 1 (0.56%) Azure App Service
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.56%) BigCommerce
10 1 (0.56%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.78%) DHCP
1 5 (2.78%) DNS
2 4 (2.22%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.22%) VPN
2 4 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.67%) HTTP
4 1 (0.56%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (40.00%) MySQL
2 23 (12.78%) SQL Server
3 18 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 12 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (5.00%) MariaDB
6 8 (4.44%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.22%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.11%) Redis
10 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 37 (20.56%) Git
2 9 (5.00%) JIRA
3 4 (2.22%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (2.22%) Claude Code
3 4 (2.22%) Vite
4 2 (1.11%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.11%) git-flow
4 2 (1.11%) PHPUnit
4 2 (1.11%) Postman
4 2 (1.11%) Selenium
4 2 (1.11%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.56%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 48 (26.67%) Finance
2 31 (17.22%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.00%) Marketing
4 8 (4.44%) Games
5 6 (3.33%) Automotive
5 6 (3.33%) Health Technology
5 6 (3.33%) Law
5 6 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Billing
7 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.56%) Publishing
7 1 (0.56%) Retail
7 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 120 (66.67%) Developer
2 75 (41.67%) PHP Developer
3 49 (27.22%) Senior
4 42 (23.33%) Graduate
5 40 (22.22%) Software Developer
6 38 (21.11%) Senior Developer
7 36 (20.00%) Graduate Developer
8 33 (18.33%) Graduate Software Developer
9 29 (16.11%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 28 (15.56%) C# Developer
10 28 (15.56%) C# Software Developer
10 28 (15.56%) Graduate C# Developer
10 28 (15.56%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 26 (14.44%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 26 (14.44%) SQL Developer
12 24 (13.33%) Senior PHP Developer
13 22 (12.22%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (10.00%) Software Engineer
15 14 (7.78%) Azure Developer
16 9 (5.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (31.11%) CSS
2 49 (27.22%) Laravel
3 43 (23.89%) React
4 40 (22.22%) HTML
5 28 (15.56%) Symfony
6 25 (13.89%) jQuery
7 21 (11.67%) Vue
8 19 (10.56%) Node.js
9 16 (8.89%) REST
10 10 (5.56%) AngularJS
11 9 (5.00%) RESTful
12 8 (4.44%) Tailwind CSS
13 7 (3.89%) CodeIgniter
13 7 (3.89%) Next.js
14 6 (3.33%) .NET
14 6 (3.33%) CakePHP
14 6 (3.33%) LAMP
14 6 (3.33%) LEMP Stack
14 6 (3.33%) SOAP
15 5 (2.78%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.78%) Educational Technology
5 5 (2.78%) Mobile Games
6 4 (2.22%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.22%) CCTV
6 4 (2.22%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.22%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.22%) NHS
7 3 (1.67%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.67%) IoT
7 3 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.11%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.11%) Robotics
9 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.78%) Linux
2 8 (4.44%) Windows
3 5 (2.78%) Android
3 5 (2.78%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.22%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (36.67%) Agile
2 44 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (21.11%) Computer Science
4 36 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 36 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 28 (15.56%) MVC
6 25 (13.89%) User Experience
7 24 (13.33%) Mentoring
8 23 (12.78%) CI/CD
9 21 (11.67%) OOP
10 19 (10.56%) OO
10 19 (10.56%) Test Automation
11 18 (10.00%) AI
11 18 (10.00%) Clean Code
12 16 (8.89%) Machine Learning
13 15 (8.33%) E-Commerce
14 14 (7.78%) DevOps
14 14 (7.78%) Front End Development
15 12 (6.67%) Containerisation
15 12 (6.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 65 (36.11%) SQL
2 55 (30.56%) JavaScript
3 44 (24.44%) C#
4 30 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 19 (10.56%) Java
6 17 (9.44%) C++
7 14 (7.78%) Python
8 6 (3.33%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.78%) Bash
9 5 (2.78%) Go
9 5 (2.78%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.22%) Delphi
10 4 (2.22%) Pascal
11 1 (0.56%) Perl
11 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (15.00%) Degree
2 22 (12.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.56%) MCSE
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.44%) QA
2 6 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.33%) SLA
3 1 (0.56%) GDPR
3 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (14.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.22%) Ansible
2 3 (1.67%) cPanel
2 3 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.67%) Plesk
2 3 (1.67%) Terraform
3 1 (0.56%) Kibana
3 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (7.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.22%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.67%) HubSpot
3 3 (1.67%) Oracle
3 3 (1.67%) Zend
4 2 (1.11%) Adobe
4 2 (1.11%) Apple
4 2 (1.11%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.56%) Google
5 1 (0.56%) New Relic
5 1 (0.56%) PayPal