PHP Jobs with Work from Home Options

PHP
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 138 74
Rank change year-on-year +16 -64 -33
Permanent jobs citing PHP 861 1,049 3,187
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.56% 2.52% 4.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.28% 5.13% 7.87%
Number of salaries quoted 802 935 2,146
10th Percentile £31,500 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - +29.41%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,800 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,719 20,465 40,492
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.78% 49.22% 58.94%
Number of salaries quoted 11,365 15,044 23,932
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PHP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PHP.

PHP salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PHP over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

PHP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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
1 129 (14.98%) WordPress
2 48 (5.57%) CMS
3 40 (4.65%) nginx
4 33 (3.83%) Drupal
5 28 (3.25%) Apache
6 8 (0.93%) Confluence
7 6 (0.70%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.35%) IIS
8 3 (0.35%) SAS
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.23%) Joomla!
9 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.12%) Moodle
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.12%) Totara
Applications
1 5 (0.58%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.23%) FileZilla
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 27 (3.14%) Shopify
2 22 (2.56%) Magento
3 15 (1.74%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 309 (35.89%) AWS
2 168 (19.51%) SaaS
3 66 (7.67%) Azure
4 51 (5.92%) GCP
5 37 (4.30%) GitHub
6 27 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.09%) Serverless
8 16 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
9 14 (1.63%) Stripe
10 12 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (1.39%) Figma
10 12 (1.39%) npm
11 11 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (1.05%) Power Platform
13 7 (0.81%) Azure AKS
13 7 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (0.81%) Datadog
13 7 (0.81%) Heroku
13 7 (0.81%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.25%) HTTP
2 21 (2.44%) DNS
3 19 (2.21%) Internet
4 13 (1.51%) SSL
5 12 (1.39%) Firewall
6 8 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.81%) VoIP
8 4 (0.46%) FTP
9 3 (0.35%) SMS
10 2 (0.23%) DHCP
10 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.23%) IPsec
10 2 (0.23%) IPv6
10 2 (0.23%) LAN
10 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.23%) VPN
10 2 (0.23%) WAN
11 1 (0.12%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 336 (39.02%) MySQL
2 50 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (4.65%) SQL Server
4 38 (4.41%) Relational Database
5 27 (3.14%) MariaDB
6 24 (2.79%) MongoDB
7 16 (1.86%) DynamoDB
8 15 (1.74%) Redis
9 14 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (1.51%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.93%) SQLite
12 7 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.81%) Big Data
12 7 (0.81%) Power BI
12 7 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.70%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.70%) GIS
14 5 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.35%) Looker
Development Applications
1 198 (23.00%) Git
2 46 (5.34%) JIRA
3 27 (3.14%) GitLab
4 23 (2.67%) Jenkins
5 19 (2.21%) webpack
6 13 (1.51%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (1.16%) Subversion
8 8 (0.93%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.81%) Eclipse
10 5 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.58%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.58%) gulp
11 4 (0.46%) git-flow
12 3 (0.35%) Grunt
12 3 (0.35%) Selenium
13 2 (0.23%) Appium
13 2 (0.23%) MSBuild
13 2 (0.23%) PHPUnit
13 2 (0.23%) Postman
13 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 203 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 84 (9.76%) Marketing
3 71 (8.25%) Retail
4 64 (7.43%) Finance
5 26 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.44%) Games
7 20 (2.32%) Tech for Good
8 18 (2.09%) Law
9 17 (1.97%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.74%) Public Sector
11 14 (1.63%) Legal
12 11 (1.28%) Banking
12 11 (1.28%) German Language
12 11 (1.28%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.16%) Retail Banking
14 8 (0.93%) Spanish Language
15 7 (0.81%) Electronics
15 7 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (0.70%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 643 (74.68%) Developer
2 361 (41.93%) PHP Developer
3 243 (28.22%) Senior
4 206 (23.93%) Senior Developer
5 112 (13.01%) Full Stack Developer
6 103 (11.96%) Senior PHP Developer
7 77 (8.94%) Software Engineer
8 66 (7.67%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 65 (7.55%) Lead
10 59 (6.85%) Web Developer
11 52 (6.04%) Software Developer
12 51 (5.92%) WordPress Developer
13 50 (5.81%) Full Stack PHP Developer
14 39 (4.53%) PHP Software Engineer
15 37 (4.30%) Junior
16 32 (3.72%) Junior Developer
17 29 (3.37%) Senior Full Stack Developer
18 24 (2.79%) Lead Developer
19 19 (2.21%) Senior Software Developer
19 19 (2.21%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 458 (53.19%) Laravel
2 321 (37.28%) HTML
3 302 (35.08%) CSS
4 230 (26.71%) React
5 184 (21.37%) Vue
6 148 (17.19%) Symfony
7 111 (12.89%) jQuery
8 95 (11.03%) LAMP
9 84 (9.76%) AngularJS
9 84 (9.76%) Node.js
10 83 (9.64%) RESTful
11 77 (8.94%) REST
12 68 (7.90%) Web Services
13 62 (7.20%) HTML5
14 48 (5.57%) .NET
15 45 (5.23%) CSS3
16 43 (4.99%) Sass
17 42 (4.88%) JSON
18 32 (3.72%) SOAP
19 29 (3.37%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.36%) Greenfield Project
2 32 (3.72%) Mobile App
3 21 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.32%) Product Ownership
5 17 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.63%) Client/Server
7 12 (1.39%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.28%) IoT
8 11 (1.28%) PropTech
9 10 (1.16%) Educational Technology
10 9 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.05%) Virtual Team
11 8 (0.93%) Data Structures
11 8 (0.93%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.70%) Graphic Design
12 6 (0.70%) Legacy Code
12 6 (0.70%) Photography
13 5 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.46%) Animation
14 4 (0.46%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 85 (9.87%) Linux
2 22 (2.56%) Windows
3 8 (0.93%) Unix
4 6 (0.70%) Alpine Linux
4 6 (0.70%) Android
4 6 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.46%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.35%) AIX
6 3 (0.35%) CentOS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (26.36%) Full Stack Development
2 176 (20.44%) Web Development
3 170 (19.74%) OOP
4 162 (18.82%) Software Engineering
5 160 (18.58%) Agile
6 142 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
7 128 (14.87%) E-Commerce
8 120 (13.94%) MVC
9 105 (12.20%) DevOps
10 95 (11.03%) TDD
11 88 (10.22%) User Experience
12 78 (9.06%) Mentoring
13 72 (8.36%) Clean Code
14 70 (8.13%) Unit Testing
15 66 (7.67%) OO
16 62 (7.20%) Roadmaps
17 59 (6.85%) Computer Science
18 58 (6.74%) CI/CD
19 51 (5.92%) Microservices
20 48 (5.57%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 430 (49.94%) JavaScript
2 136 (15.80%) SQL
3 84 (9.76%) TypeScript
4 57 (6.62%) C#
5 55 (6.39%) Python
6 42 (4.88%) Java
7 26 (3.02%) Go
8 21 (2.44%) Bash
9 17 (1.97%) Ruby
10 14 (1.63%) C
11 12 (1.39%) Ada
12 11 (1.28%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.28%) VB.NET
13 10 (1.16%) C++
13 10 (1.16%) Rust
14 7 (0.81%) Groovy
15 6 (0.70%) Bicep
15 6 (0.70%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.46%) Dart
Qualifications
1 84 (9.76%) Degree
2 49 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (0.93%) Azure Certification
4 5 (0.58%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.35%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.23%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.23%) MCSE
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.23%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.12%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.83%) QA
2 15 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.39%) GDPR
4 2 (0.23%) HL7
4 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 124 (14.40%) Docker
2 3 (0.35%) Varnish
3 2 (0.23%) Firmware
4 1 (0.12%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 45 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.14%) Terraform
3 13 (1.51%) Progress Chef
4 12 (1.39%) Ansible
5 10 (1.16%) Puppet
6 8 (0.93%) Grafana
7 7 (0.81%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.58%) cPanel
9 3 (0.35%) Galera Cluster
10 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.12%) Argo
11 1 (0.12%) Plesk
11 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 37 (4.30%) Google
2 30 (3.48%) WooCommerce
3 16 (1.86%) Microsoft
4 12 (1.39%) Adobe
5 11 (1.28%) Twitter
6 9 (1.05%) New Relic
7 8 (0.93%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.81%) SaltStack
8 7 (0.81%) SAP
8 7 (0.81%) Zend
9 4 (0.46%) Oracle
10 3 (0.35%) Facebook
11 2 (0.23%) F5
11 2 (0.23%) Progress
11 2 (0.23%) Remedy
12 1 (0.12%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.12%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.12%) WorldPay