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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 181 161
Rank change year-on-year -29 -20 -66
Permanent jobs citing PHP 234 454 522
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.43% 1.94% 2.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.57% 5.01% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 161 293 492
10th Percentile - £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £25,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,700 £74,875
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% -0.40%

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 5,120 9,065 11,663
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.39% 38.65% 47.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,451 6,180 10,061
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £118,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

PHP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PHP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

PHP
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing PHP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing PHP

PHP
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing PHP over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

PHP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (5.56%) WordPress
2 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.56%) CMS
3 6 (2.56%) IIS
4 4 (1.71%) Apache
4 4 (1.71%) Apache Solr
4 4 (1.71%) Drupal
5 3 (1.28%) nginx
5 3 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.85%) Confluence
7 1 (0.43%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (2.14%) Photoshop
2 4 (1.71%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.85%) Elementor
4 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.99%) Magento
2 2 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (27.78%) Azure
2 37 (15.81%) AWS
3 19 (8.12%) SaaS
4 8 (3.42%) Cloudflare
5 7 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (2.99%) GitHub
6 6 (2.56%) Google Analytics
7 5 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.14%) GCP
7 5 (2.14%) npm
7 5 (2.14%) Serverless
8 4 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.71%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.28%) Figma
9 3 (1.28%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.28%) Vercel
10 2 (0.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.14%) VoIP
2 4 (1.71%) MPLS
3 2 (0.85%) DNS
4 1 (0.43%) Broadband
4 1 (0.43%) DHCP
4 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.43%) HTTP
4 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.43%) IPsec
4 1 (0.43%) IPv6
4 1 (0.43%) RFID
4 1 (0.43%) SSL
4 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (40.17%) MySQL
2 54 (23.08%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (2.99%) MariaDB
4 7 (2.99%) Redis
5 5 (2.14%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.28%) GIS
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.43%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.43%) Power BI
7 1 (0.43%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 29 (12.39%) Git
2 6 (2.56%) JIRA
3 5 (2.14%) PHPUnit
4 4 (1.71%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.85%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.85%) Selenium
5 2 (0.85%) Subversion
6 1 (0.43%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.43%) git-flow
6 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.43%) Mocha
6 1 (0.43%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.43%) Postman
6 1 (0.43%) Snyk
6 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.43%) WiX
6 1 (0.43%) Xcode
General
1 84 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 55 (23.50%) Finance
3 15 (6.41%) Law
4 10 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.42%) Legal
6 6 (2.56%) Games
6 6 (2.56%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.14%) Marketing
7 5 (2.14%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.14%) Retail
8 4 (1.71%) Automotive
8 4 (1.71%) Back Office
9 2 (0.85%) iGaming
9 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.43%) Advertising
10 1 (0.43%) Electronics
10 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 122 (52.14%) Developer
2 52 (22.22%) PHP Developer
3 50 (21.37%) Graduate
4 49 (20.94%) Graduate Developer
5 42 (17.95%) IT Graduate
6 23 (9.83%) Senior
7 21 (8.97%) SQL Developer
8 20 (8.55%) C# Developer
9 19 (8.12%) Graduate C# Developer
9 19 (8.12%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 19 (8.12%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 16 (6.84%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (5.13%) Software Developer
12 11 (4.70%) Azure Developer
12 11 (4.70%) Technical Support
13 10 (4.27%) PHP Symfony Developer
13 10 (4.27%) Symfony Developer
13 10 (4.27%) Web Developer
14 8 (3.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (43.16%) HTML
2 89 (38.03%) CSS
3 58 (24.79%) jQuery
4 52 (22.22%) .NET
5 45 (19.23%) ASP.NET
5 45 (19.23%) Laravel
6 40 (17.09%) React
7 25 (10.68%) Symfony
8 21 (8.97%) Vue
9 20 (8.55%) REST
10 14 (5.98%) LAMP
10 14 (5.98%) RESTful
11 9 (3.85%) HTML5
12 8 (3.42%) AngularJS
12 8 (3.42%) CSS3
12 8 (3.42%) Node.js
12 8 (3.42%) Playwright
13 7 (2.99%) CakePHP
13 7 (2.99%) CodeIgniter
14 6 (2.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.84%) Virtual Team
2 8 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.14%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.14%) e-Learning
4 5 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.14%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.14%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.71%) CCTV
5 4 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (1.71%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.28%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.85%) Blog
7 2 (0.85%) Digital Media
7 2 (0.85%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.85%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.85%) Online Games
7 2 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.43%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.54%) Linux
2 9 (3.85%) Windows
3 7 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.71%) Android
4 4 (1.71%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.85%) CentOS
6 1 (0.43%) Debian
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (41.88%) Computer Science
2 86 (36.75%) Agile
3 78 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (29.49%) OO
5 59 (25.21%) Artificial Intelligence
6 57 (24.36%) OOP
7 55 (23.50%) Machine Learning
8 54 (23.08%) MVC
9 53 (22.65%) Data Privacy
10 34 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
12 23 (9.83%) Software Engineering
13 22 (9.40%) User Experience
14 21 (8.97%) CI/CD
14 21 (8.97%) Test Automation
15 19 (8.12%) DevOps
15 19 (8.12%) Mentoring
16 17 (7.26%) Web Development
17 14 (5.98%) E-Commerce
17 14 (5.98%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 131 (55.98%) JavaScript
2 115 (49.15%) SQL
3 101 (43.16%) C#
4 96 (41.03%) Java
5 94 (40.17%) C++
6 82 (35.04%) Python
7 79 (33.76%) TypeScript
8 52 (22.22%) C
9 51 (21.79%) Ruby
10 49 (20.94%) Dart
10 49 (20.94%) MATLAB
10 49 (20.94%) R
10 49 (20.94%) Rust
11 6 (2.56%) Go
11 6 (2.56%) Perl
12 3 (1.28%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.28%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.85%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.43%) Bash
14 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 100 (42.74%) Degree
2 97 (41.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.56%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.71%) Chartered Engineer
5 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.85%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.43%) MCSE
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.85%) QA
2 8 (3.42%) SLA
3 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.85%) GDPR
4 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (8.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 10 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.99%) Terraform
3 5 (2.14%) Ansible
4 4 (1.71%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.43%) Argo
5 1 (0.43%) Grafana
5 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (8.55%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.27%) Google
3 8 (3.42%) HubSpot
4 7 (2.99%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.14%) Adobe
5 5 (2.14%) Oracle
6 4 (1.71%) Cisco
6 4 (1.71%) WooCommerce
7 2 (0.85%) Ahrefs
7 2 (0.85%) Netlify
7 2 (0.85%) Screaming Frog
8 1 (0.43%) Freshdesk
8 1 (0.43%) PayPal
8 1 (0.43%) Progress
8 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.43%) SAP
8 1 (0.43%) Twitter