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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 147 114
Rank change year-on-year -32 -33 +22
Permanent jobs citing PHP 256 323 871
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.41% 2.37% 2.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.35% 5.73% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 242 288 812
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +6.80% -6.36%
75th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,875 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 4,786 5,638 13,322
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.29% 41.44% 40.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,515 4,451 11,427
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £115,000 £100,000
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 3 May 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 9 (3.52%) CMS
2 8 (3.13%) nginx
2 8 (3.13%) WordPress
3 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.78%) Apache
4 2 (0.78%) Drupal
4 2 (0.78%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
5 1 (0.39%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.56%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.73%) Shopify
2 3 (1.17%) Magento
3 1 (0.39%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 106 (41.41%) Azure
2 76 (29.69%) AWS
3 26 (10.16%) SaaS
4 18 (7.03%) GitHub
5 7 (2.73%) GCP
5 7 (2.73%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.73%) Serverless
6 6 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (2.34%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.95%) Slack
8 4 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.56%) DigitalOcean
9 3 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.17%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.78%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.78%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (0.78%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.95%) DNS
2 4 (1.56%) DHCP
2 4 (1.56%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.56%) VPN
2 4 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.78%) HTTP
4 1 (0.39%) Firewall
4 1 (0.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (23.83%) MySQL
2 57 (22.27%) SQL Server
3 16 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.47%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.52%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.73%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.56%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.17%) Redis
10 2 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.78%) Metadata
10 2 (0.78%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.39%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 25 (9.77%) Git
2 7 (2.73%) JIRA
3 5 (1.95%) Claude Code
4 4 (1.56%) Postman
4 4 (1.56%) Vite
5 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.78%) PHPUnit
5 2 (0.78%) Selenium
5 2 (0.78%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.39%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.39%) Gatling
6 1 (0.39%) JMeter
6 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.39%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 74 (28.91%) Finance
2 33 (12.89%) Social Skills
3 13 (5.08%) Marketing
4 8 (3.13%) Health Technology
4 8 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (2.34%) Law
6 5 (1.95%) Games
6 5 (1.95%) Retail
7 3 (1.17%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.17%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.78%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.39%) Billing
9 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.39%) Legal
9 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 192 (75.00%) Developer
2 130 (50.78%) PHP Developer
3 97 (37.89%) Software Developer
4 95 (37.11%) Graduate
4 95 (37.11%) Graduate Developer
5 93 (36.33%) Graduate Software Developer
6 77 (30.08%) C# Developer
6 77 (30.08%) C# Software Developer
6 77 (30.08%) Graduate C# Developer
6 77 (30.08%) Graduate C# Software Developer
7 73 (28.52%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 73 (28.52%) SQL Developer
8 66 (25.78%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 54 (21.09%) Senior
10 42 (16.41%) Senior Developer
11 28 (10.94%) Azure Developer
12 26 (10.16%) Senior PHP Developer
13 23 (8.98%) Full-Stack Developer
14 20 (7.81%) PHP Laravel Developer
15 18 (7.03%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (28.13%) CSS
2 58 (22.66%) Laravel
3 43 (16.80%) jQuery
4 41 (16.02%) HTML
5 38 (14.84%) React
6 26 (10.16%) Vue
7 18 (7.03%) Symfony
8 15 (5.86%) Node.js
9 14 (5.47%) AngularJS
10 12 (4.69%) HTML5
11 11 (4.30%) CSS3
12 9 (3.52%) RESTful
13 8 (3.13%) Tailwind CSS
14 7 (2.73%) .NET
14 7 (2.73%) LEMP Stack
15 6 (2.34%) REST
16 5 (1.95%) .NET Framework
16 5 (1.95%) RxJS
16 5 (1.95%) YAML
17 3 (1.17%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.42%) Virtual Team
2 10 (3.91%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.52%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.95%) AI Agents
5 5 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.95%) IoT
5 5 (1.95%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.95%) Robotics
6 4 (1.56%) CCTV
6 4 (1.56%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.56%) NHS
7 3 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.78%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.39%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.39%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.39%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.39%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.42%) Linux
2 6 (2.34%) Windows
3 4 (1.56%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.39%) Android
4 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (38.28%) Computer Science
2 93 (36.33%) Agile
3 49 (19.14%) MVC
4 41 (16.02%) Mentoring
5 38 (14.84%) OOP
6 37 (14.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 32 (12.50%) OO
8 29 (11.33%) Clean Code
8 29 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (10.94%) Software Engineering
10 22 (8.59%) CI/CD
11 21 (8.20%) DevOps
12 17 (6.64%) User Experience
12 17 (6.64%) Web Development
13 16 (6.25%) Front End Development
14 15 (5.86%) Microservices
15 14 (5.47%) E-Commerce
16 13 (5.08%) AI
16 13 (5.08%) OO PHP
17 12 (4.69%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 110 (42.97%) SQL
2 99 (38.67%) C#
3 48 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 40 (15.63%) Java
5 33 (12.89%) Python
6 32 (12.50%) C++
7 21 (8.20%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.08%) Go
9 8 (3.13%) Bash
10 6 (2.34%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.56%) Delphi
11 4 (1.56%) Pascal
12 3 (1.17%) Rust
12 3 (1.17%) Scala
13 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (24.22%) Degree
2 60 (23.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.91%) QA
2 7 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.17%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.78%) GDPR
5 2 (0.78%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (9.77%) Docker
2 3 (1.17%) Firmware
3 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.73%) Terraform
3 4 (1.56%) Ansible
3 4 (1.56%) Plesk
4 2 (0.78%) cPanel
5 1 (0.39%) Consul
5 1 (0.39%) Kibana
5 1 (0.39%) Packer
5 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.39%) Puppet
5 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.78%) Apple
2 2 (0.78%) BT
2 2 (0.78%) Dynatrace
2 2 (0.78%) Google
2 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
2 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
2 2 (0.78%) Zend
3 1 (0.39%) Adobe
3 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.39%) Netlify
3 1 (0.39%) New Relic
3 1 (0.39%) PayPal
3 1 (0.39%) Sage
3 1 (0.39%) TOWER Software