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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 167 115
Rank change year-on-year -20 -52 +23
Permanent jobs citing PHP 276 324 859
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.35% 2.07% 2.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.09% 5.54% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 252 245 759
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,000 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,750 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -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 5,425 5,846 13,732
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.62% 37.37% 40.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4,063 4,062 11,354
10th Percentile £39,854 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,118 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 June 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 (3.99%) CMS
1 11 (3.99%) WordPress
2 8 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.54%) nginx
4 4 (1.45%) Apache
5 2 (0.72%) Drupal
5 2 (0.72%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) Confluence
6 1 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) Moodle
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (1.09%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.36%) Elementor
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.90%) Shopify
2 2 (0.72%) Magento
3 1 (0.36%) CiviCRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (36.96%) Azure
2 70 (25.36%) AWS
3 31 (11.23%) SaaS
4 20 (7.25%) GitHub
5 8 (2.90%) Amazon S3
5 8 (2.90%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.90%) Serverless
6 7 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.81%) Slack
9 4 (1.45%) DigitalOcean
10 3 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.09%) ClickUp
10 3 (1.09%) Contentful
10 3 (1.09%) GCP
10 3 (1.09%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.72%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.54%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.81%) DNS
3 4 (1.45%) DHCP
3 4 (1.45%) VPN
3 4 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.72%) Broadband
4 2 (0.72%) Intranet
5 1 (0.36%) Firewall
5 1 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (19.93%) SQL Server
2 54 (19.57%) MySQL
3 18 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (5.43%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.90%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.17%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.81%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.09%) Redis
9 2 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.72%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.72%) Metadata
9 2 (0.72%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.36%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 27 (9.78%) Git
2 7 (2.54%) JIRA
3 5 (1.81%) Claude Code
4 4 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.09%) Vite
6 2 (0.72%) Bower
6 2 (0.72%) Postman
7 1 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.36%) Gatling
7 1 (0.36%) JMeter
7 1 (0.36%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.36%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 69 (25.00%) Finance
2 44 (15.94%) Social Skills
3 10 (3.62%) Marketing
4 8 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.54%) Law
6 6 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.81%) Games
7 5 (1.81%) Health Technology
7 5 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (1.81%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.81%) Retail
8 4 (1.45%) Legal
9 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.72%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.36%) Billing
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 186 (67.39%) Developer
2 104 (37.68%) PHP Developer
3 95 (34.42%) Graduate
4 77 (27.90%) Graduate Developer
4 77 (27.90%) Software Developer
5 75 (27.17%) Graduate Software Developer
6 59 (21.38%) C# Developer
6 59 (21.38%) C# Software Developer
6 59 (21.38%) Graduate C# Developer
6 59 (21.38%) Graduate C# Software Developer
7 57 (20.65%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 57 (20.65%) Senior
7 57 (20.65%) SQL Developer
8 48 (17.39%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 40 (14.49%) Senior Developer
10 35 (12.68%) Software Engineer
11 24 (8.70%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 24 (8.70%) PHP Software Engineer
12 21 (7.61%) Azure Developer
12 21 (7.61%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (26.09%) Laravel
2 71 (25.72%) CSS
3 47 (17.03%) jQuery
4 45 (16.30%) HTML
5 36 (13.04%) React
6 32 (11.59%) Vue
7 16 (5.80%) RESTful
8 15 (5.43%) Node.js
9 13 (4.71%) AngularJS
10 12 (4.35%) CSS3
10 12 (4.35%) HTML5
10 12 (4.35%) Symfony
11 7 (2.54%) .NET
11 7 (2.54%) Web Services
12 6 (2.17%) LEMP Stack
13 5 (1.81%) .NET Framework
13 5 (1.81%) JSON
13 5 (1.81%) RxJS
14 4 (1.45%) REST
14 4 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.42%) Virtual Team
2 14 (5.07%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.07%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.54%) Onboarding
4 5 (1.81%) AI Agents
4 5 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (1.81%) Robotics
5 4 (1.45%) CCTV
5 4 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.45%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.45%) IoT
5 4 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (1.45%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.09%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.72%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (0.72%) Social Media
8 1 (0.36%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.36%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.70%) Linux
2 9 (3.26%) Windows
3 4 (1.45%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.09%) Debian
4 3 (1.09%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (35.87%) Computer Science
2 89 (32.25%) Agile
3 53 (19.20%) Software Engineering
4 45 (16.30%) MVC
5 42 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (14.13%) Mentoring
7 36 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 36 (13.04%) OOP
8 32 (11.59%) OO
9 29 (10.51%) Clean Code
10 28 (10.14%) CI/CD
11 25 (9.06%) DevOps
12 19 (6.88%) Web Development
13 17 (6.16%) User Experience
14 16 (5.80%) AI
14 16 (5.80%) Front End Development
15 14 (5.07%) Microservices
16 13 (4.71%) Containerisation
16 13 (4.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (4.71%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 115 (41.67%) SQL
2 98 (35.51%) C#
3 56 (20.29%) JavaScript
4 40 (14.49%) Python
5 38 (13.77%) Java
6 30 (10.87%) C++
7 16 (5.80%) TypeScript
8 14 (5.07%) Go
9 10 (3.62%) Bash
10 9 (3.26%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.45%) Delphi
11 4 (1.45%) Pascal
12 3 (1.09%) Ruby
12 3 (1.09%) Rust
12 3 (1.09%) Scala
13 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (22.83%) Degree
2 59 (21.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.45%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.36%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.62%) Accessibility
2 8 (2.90%) QA
3 5 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.09%) GDPR
4 3 (1.09%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.72%) SLA
6 1 (0.36%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (8.70%) Docker
2 5 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.90%) Terraform
3 7 (2.54%) Ansible
4 3 (1.09%) Plesk
5 1 (0.36%) Consul
5 1 (0.36%) Kibana
5 1 (0.36%) Packer
5 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.36%) Puppet
5 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.45%) Sage
3 2 (0.72%) Apple
3 2 (0.72%) BT
3 2 (0.72%) Dynatrace
3 2 (0.72%) OpenAI
3 2 (0.72%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.36%) Google
4 1 (0.36%) Netlify
4 1 (0.36%) New Relic
4 1 (0.36%) TOWER Software