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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 130 110
Rank change year-on-year -54 -20 +23
Permanent jobs citing PHP 228 341 863
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.35% 2.65% 2.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.91% 5.89% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 216 315 807
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,625 £81,250 £76,750
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 4,643 5,786 13,325
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.46% 44.96% 42.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,385 4,552 11,503
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 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £64,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.77% +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 4 April 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 10 (4.39%) CMS
1 10 (4.39%) WordPress
2 7 (3.07%) nginx
3 5 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.88%) Apache
4 2 (0.88%) Drupal
4 2 (0.88%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.75%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.07%) Shopify
2 3 (1.32%) Magento
3 1 (0.44%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 85 (37.28%) Azure
2 80 (35.09%) AWS
3 28 (12.28%) SaaS
4 14 (6.14%) GitHub
5 7 (3.07%) GCP
6 6 (2.63%) Serverless
7 5 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.19%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.19%) Slack
8 4 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.75%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (1.75%) DigitalOcean
8 4 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.32%) Firebase
9 3 (1.32%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.32%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.88%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.75%) DHCP
1 4 (1.75%) DNS
1 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
1 4 (1.75%) VPN
1 4 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (29.82%) MySQL
2 34 (14.91%) SQL Server
3 18 (7.89%) Relational Database
4 15 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.07%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.07%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.75%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.32%) Redis
8 1 (0.44%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 30 (13.16%) Git
2 11 (4.82%) JIRA
3 5 (2.19%) Claude Code
4 4 (1.75%) Postman
4 4 (1.75%) Vite
5 2 (0.88%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.88%) PHPUnit
5 2 (0.88%) Selenium
5 2 (0.88%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.44%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.44%) Gatling
6 1 (0.44%) git-flow
6 1 (0.44%) JMeter
6 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 67 (29.39%) Finance
2 33 (14.47%) Social Skills
3 14 (6.14%) Marketing
4 9 (3.95%) Health Technology
4 9 (3.95%) Law
4 9 (3.95%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (3.51%) Games
6 5 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.32%) Retail
9 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.88%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.44%) Billing
10 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.44%) Legal
10 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 160 (70.18%) Developer
2 111 (48.68%) PHP Developer
3 67 (29.39%) Graduate
4 65 (28.51%) Software Developer
5 62 (27.19%) Graduate Developer
6 60 (26.32%) Graduate Software Developer
7 53 (23.25%) C# Developer
7 53 (23.25%) C# Software Developer
7 53 (23.25%) Graduate C# Developer
7 53 (23.25%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 52 (22.81%) Senior
9 49 (21.49%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 49 (21.49%) SQL Developer
10 47 (20.61%) Graduate PHP Developer
11 40 (17.54%) Senior Developer
12 27 (11.84%) Senior PHP Developer
13 22 (9.65%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (9.65%) Software Engineer
14 21 (9.21%) Azure Developer
15 16 (7.02%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (31.14%) CSS
2 57 (25.00%) Laravel
3 45 (19.74%) HTML
4 41 (17.98%) React
5 36 (15.79%) jQuery
6 28 (12.28%) Symfony
7 22 (9.65%) Vue
8 16 (7.02%) Node.js
9 11 (4.82%) AngularJS
10 10 (4.39%) REST
11 9 (3.95%) HTML5
11 9 (3.95%) RESTful
12 8 (3.51%) .NET
12 8 (3.51%) CSS3
12 8 (3.51%) Tailwind CSS
13 6 (2.63%) CodeIgniter
13 6 (2.63%) LEMP Stack
13 6 (2.63%) Next.js
14 5 (2.19%) CakePHP
14 5 (2.19%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.82%) Onboarding
1 11 (4.82%) Virtual Team
2 8 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.07%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.63%) IoT
5 5 (2.19%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.19%) Educational Technology
5 5 (2.19%) Robotics
6 4 (1.75%) CCTV
6 4 (1.75%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.75%) Mobile Games
6 4 (1.75%) NHS
7 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.44%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.46%) Linux
2 7 (3.07%) Windows
3 4 (1.75%) Android
3 4 (1.75%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.75%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (35.96%) Agile
2 65 (28.51%) Computer Science
3 42 (18.42%) MVC
4 40 (17.54%) Full-Stack Development
4 40 (17.54%) Software Engineering
5 38 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (15.79%) Mentoring
7 31 (13.60%) OOP
8 28 (12.28%) OO
9 26 (11.40%) Clean Code
10 22 (9.65%) CI/CD
11 20 (8.77%) DevOps
12 18 (7.89%) User Experience
13 17 (7.46%) E-Commerce
14 16 (7.02%) AI
15 15 (6.58%) Microservices
15 15 (6.58%) OO PHP
16 14 (6.14%) Front End Development
17 13 (5.70%) Containerisation
17 13 (5.70%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 88 (38.60%) SQL
2 70 (30.70%) C#
3 49 (21.49%) JavaScript
4 29 (12.72%) Java
5 27 (11.84%) C++
5 27 (11.84%) TypeScript
6 24 (10.53%) Python
7 10 (4.39%) Go
8 7 (3.07%) Bash
9 6 (2.63%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.75%) Delphi
10 4 (1.75%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.75%) Pascal
11 3 (1.32%) Rust
12 1 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 43 (18.86%) Degree
2 39 (17.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.39%) QA
2 5 (2.19%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.32%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.88%) GDPR
4 2 (0.88%) SLA
5 1 (0.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (11.40%) Docker
2 3 (1.32%) Firmware
3 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.75%) Terraform
3 3 (1.32%) cPanel
3 3 (1.32%) Plesk
4 2 (0.88%) Ansible
5 1 (0.44%) Consul
5 1 (0.44%) Kibana
5 1 (0.44%) Packer
5 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.44%) Puppet
5 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.32%) Zend
3 2 (0.88%) Adobe
3 2 (0.88%) Apple
3 2 (0.88%) BT
3 2 (0.88%) Google
3 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
3 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.44%) New Relic
4 1 (0.44%) PayPal
4 1 (0.44%) Sage
4 1 (0.44%) TOWER Software