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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 149 159
Rank change year-on-year -52 +10 -10
Permanent jobs citing PHP 181 433 449
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.18% 2.27% 2.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.37% 5.34% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 172 269 426
10th Percentile £24,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £25,000 £37,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -9.52% -0.20%
75th Percentile £60,313 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,750 £75,500 £74,375
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -

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 4,146 8,104 9,593
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.05% 42.48% 46.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,189 5,233 8,122
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,486 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +1.56%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £111,500 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 5 December 2025.

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 8 (4.42%) WordPress
2 7 (3.87%) Apache Solr
3 5 (2.76%) CMS
3 5 (2.76%) IIS
4 3 (1.66%) nginx
5 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.55%) Apache
6 1 (0.55%) Drupal
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.55%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.55%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Shopify
2 2 (1.10%) Magento
2 2 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 90 (49.72%) Azure
2 53 (29.28%) AWS
3 22 (12.15%) SaaS
4 9 (4.97%) GitHub
5 8 (4.42%) GCP
6 5 (2.76%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.66%) Firebase
8 3 (1.66%) npm
9 2 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.10%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.10%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.10%) Serverless
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.55%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.55%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.55%) BigCommerce
10 1 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.55%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.66%) HTTP
2 1 (0.55%) Broadband
2 1 (0.55%) DHCP
2 1 (0.55%) DNS
2 1 (0.55%) IPv6
2 1 (0.55%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (54.14%) MySQL
2 49 (27.07%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.52%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (5.52%) MariaDB
3 10 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.97%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.76%) Redis
6 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (18.23%) Git
2 10 (5.52%) JIRA
3 4 (2.21%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (1.66%) git-flow
5 2 (1.10%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.10%) Postman
5 2 (1.10%) Selenium
5 2 (1.10%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.55%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.55%) Vite
General
1 69 (38.12%) Finance
2 58 (32.04%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.29%) Law
4 8 (4.42%) Games
4 8 (4.42%) Marketing
5 6 (3.31%) Automotive
6 5 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.21%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.55%) Advertising
9 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 125 (69.06%) Developer
2 65 (35.91%) Graduate
3 61 (33.70%) PHP Developer
4 59 (32.60%) Graduate Developer
5 40 (22.10%) Software Developer
6 33 (18.23%) C# Developer
6 33 (18.23%) Graduate C# Developer
6 33 (18.23%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 31 (17.13%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 31 (17.13%) IT Graduate
7 31 (17.13%) SQL Developer
8 30 (16.57%) Graduate Software Developer
9 25 (13.81%) C# Software Developer
9 25 (13.81%) Graduate C# Software Developer
10 24 (13.26%) Senior
11 21 (11.60%) Azure Developer
12 20 (11.05%) Software Engineer
13 17 (9.39%) Senior Developer
14 12 (6.63%) Symfony Developer
15 10 (5.52%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (43.65%) CSS
2 50 (27.62%) jQuery
3 47 (25.97%) Laravel
4 41 (22.65%) React
5 39 (21.55%) HTML
6 34 (18.78%) .NET
6 34 (18.78%) Symfony
7 33 (18.23%) ASP.NET
8 21 (11.60%) REST
9 18 (9.94%) Node.js
10 14 (7.73%) CodeIgniter
11 13 (7.18%) CakePHP
12 12 (6.63%) Vue
13 8 (4.42%) LAMP
13 8 (4.42%) RESTful
14 7 (3.87%) SOAP
15 6 (3.31%) Unity (Game Engine)
16 5 (2.76%) AngularJS
16 5 (2.76%) WebGL
17 4 (2.21%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.08%) Virtual Team
2 7 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.76%) Educational Technology
3 5 (2.76%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.76%) Mobile Games
3 5 (2.76%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.21%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.66%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.10%) IoT
6 2 (1.10%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.10%) NHS
7 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.55%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.55%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.55%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.84%) Linux
2 7 (3.87%) Android
2 7 (3.87%) Apple iOS
2 7 (3.87%) Windows
2 7 (3.87%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (53.59%) Agile
2 71 (39.23%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (32.60%) Computer Science
4 58 (32.04%) MVC
5 57 (31.49%) OO
6 46 (25.41%) OOP
7 42 (23.20%) Software Engineering
8 31 (17.13%) Full-Stack Development
9 29 (16.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (12.71%) Test Automation
11 22 (12.15%) CI/CD
11 22 (12.15%) Mentoring
12 18 (9.94%) AI
13 17 (9.39%) User Experience
14 16 (8.84%) DevOps
14 16 (8.84%) OO PHP
15 15 (8.29%) Machine Learning
16 14 (7.73%) Clean Code
17 13 (7.18%) Containerisation
18 10 (5.52%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 78 (43.09%) SQL
2 69 (38.12%) C#
3 62 (34.25%) JavaScript
4 43 (23.76%) Java
5 41 (22.65%) C++
6 35 (19.34%) TypeScript
7 21 (11.60%) Python
8 7 (3.87%) Go
8 7 (3.87%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.55%) Bash
10 1 (0.55%) Perl
10 1 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (26.52%) Degree
2 45 (24.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.55%) MCSE
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.08%) QA
2 6 (3.31%) SLA
3 5 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.55%) GDPR
4 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (12.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (3.87%) Ansible
2 6 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.66%) cPanel
3 3 (1.66%) Plesk
3 3 (1.66%) Terraform
4 1 (0.55%) Argo
4 1 (0.55%) Grafana
4 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (6.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.76%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.21%) HubSpot
3 4 (2.21%) Oracle
4 3 (1.66%) Google
5 2 (1.10%) Adobe
5 2 (1.10%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.10%) Zend
6 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.55%) PayPal
6 1 (0.55%) Progress
6 1 (0.55%) WooCommerce