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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 137 109
Rank change year-on-year -39 -28 +25
Permanent jobs citing PHP 250 330 872
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.40% 2.47% 2.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.23% 5.79% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 238 299 813
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.38% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £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 4,776 5,704 13,309
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.74% 42.75% 41.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,491 4,529 11,428
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,425
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 £114,400 £97,792
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 21 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 (4.00%) CMS
1 10 (4.00%) WordPress
2 7 (2.80%) nginx
3 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.80%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) Drupal
4 2 (0.80%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Confluence
5 1 (0.40%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.60%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.60%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (3.20%) Shopify
2 4 (1.60%) Magento
3 1 (0.40%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 101 (40.40%) Azure
2 80 (32.00%) AWS
3 25 (10.00%) SaaS
4 16 (6.40%) GitHub
5 7 (2.80%) GCP
5 7 (2.80%) Serverless
6 6 (2.40%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.00%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.00%) Slack
8 4 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.60%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (1.60%) DigitalOcean
8 4 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.20%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.80%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.80%) PaaS
10 2 (0.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.60%) DHCP
1 4 (1.60%) DNS
1 4 (1.60%) TCP/IP
1 4 (1.60%) VPN
1 4 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (25.60%) MySQL
2 51 (20.40%) SQL Server
3 15 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.00%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.60%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.80%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.00%) MariaDB
7 4 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.20%) Redis
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.80%) Metadata
9 2 (0.80%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.40%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 28 (11.20%) Git
2 9 (3.60%) JIRA
3 5 (2.00%) Claude Code
4 4 (1.60%) Postman
4 4 (1.60%) Vite
5 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.80%) PHPUnit
5 2 (0.80%) Selenium
5 2 (0.80%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.40%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.40%) Gatling
6 1 (0.40%) JMeter
6 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 74 (29.60%) Finance
2 33 (13.20%) Social Skills
3 14 (5.60%) Marketing
4 9 (3.60%) Health Technology
4 9 (3.60%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (3.20%) Law
6 7 (2.80%) Games
7 5 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Retail
10 2 (0.80%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.80%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.40%) Billing
11 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 180 (72.00%) Developer
2 125 (50.00%) PHP Developer
3 87 (34.80%) Graduate
4 85 (34.00%) Software Developer
5 82 (32.80%) Graduate Developer
6 80 (32.00%) Graduate Software Developer
7 69 (27.60%) C# Developer
7 69 (27.60%) C# Software Developer
7 69 (27.60%) Graduate C# Developer
7 69 (27.60%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 65 (26.00%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 65 (26.00%) SQL Developer
9 61 (24.40%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 56 (22.40%) Senior
11 42 (16.80%) Senior Developer
12 28 (11.20%) Azure Developer
13 27 (10.80%) Senior PHP Developer
14 23 (9.20%) Full-Stack Developer
15 22 (8.80%) Software Engineer
16 17 (6.80%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (30.00%) CSS
2 58 (23.20%) Laravel
3 46 (18.40%) HTML
4 42 (16.80%) React
5 39 (15.60%) jQuery
6 24 (9.60%) Symfony
7 23 (9.20%) Vue
8 16 (6.40%) Node.js
9 13 (5.20%) AngularJS
10 10 (4.00%) HTML5
10 10 (4.00%) RESTful
11 9 (3.60%) CSS3
12 8 (3.20%) .NET
12 8 (3.20%) REST
12 8 (3.20%) Tailwind CSS
13 6 (2.40%) LEMP Stack
14 5 (2.00%) .NET Framework
14 5 (2.00%) CodeIgniter
14 5 (2.00%) RxJS
15 4 (1.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.20%) Virtual Team
2 11 (4.40%) Onboarding
3 7 (2.80%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.80%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.00%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.00%) IoT
4 5 (2.00%) Robotics
5 4 (1.60%) CCTV
5 4 (1.60%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.60%) Educational Technology
5 4 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.60%) NHS
6 3 (1.20%) Mobile Games
7 2 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (0.80%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.40%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.40%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.20%) Linux
2 6 (2.40%) Windows
3 4 (1.60%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.20%) Android
4 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (36.00%) Agile
2 84 (33.60%) Computer Science
3 49 (19.60%) MVC
4 41 (16.40%) Mentoring
5 39 (15.60%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (15.20%) OOP
6 38 (15.20%) Software Engineering
7 32 (12.80%) OO
8 30 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (10.80%) Clean Code
10 22 (8.80%) CI/CD
11 20 (8.00%) DevOps
12 17 (6.80%) User Experience
13 16 (6.40%) E-Commerce
14 15 (6.00%) AI
14 15 (6.00%) Front End Development
14 15 (6.00%) Microservices
14 15 (6.00%) OO PHP
14 15 (6.00%) Web Development
15 11 (4.40%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 104 (41.60%) SQL
2 91 (36.40%) C#
3 52 (20.80%) JavaScript
4 38 (15.20%) Java
5 31 (12.40%) Python
6 30 (12.00%) C++
7 27 (10.80%) TypeScript
8 11 (4.40%) Go
9 7 (2.80%) Bash
10 6 (2.40%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.60%) Delphi
11 4 (1.60%) Pascal
12 3 (1.20%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.20%) Rust
12 3 (1.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (21.20%) Degree
2 51 (20.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.40%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.00%) QA
2 6 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.20%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.80%) GDPR
5 2 (0.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (10.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) Firmware
3 2 (0.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.60%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.80%) Terraform
3 4 (1.60%) Ansible
3 4 (1.60%) Plesk
4 3 (1.20%) cPanel
5 1 (0.40%) Consul
5 1 (0.40%) Kibana
5 1 (0.40%) Packer
5 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.40%) Puppet
5 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (9.20%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.20%) Zend
3 2 (0.80%) Adobe
3 2 (0.80%) Apple
3 2 (0.80%) BT
3 2 (0.80%) Dynatrace
3 2 (0.80%) Google
3 2 (0.80%) OpenAI
3 2 (0.80%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.40%) Netlify
4 1 (0.40%) New Relic
4 1 (0.40%) PayPal
4 1 (0.40%) Sage
4 1 (0.40%) TOWER Software