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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 142 70
Rank change year-on-year +27 -72 -30
Permanent jobs citing PHP 873 1,087 3,132
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.58% 2.49% 4.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.33% 5.04% 8.01%
Number of salaries quoted 814 964 2,163
10th Percentile £31,500 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +29.41%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

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 13,790 21,563 39,115
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.81% 49.36% 58.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11,462 15,813 24,016
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,620 £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 £102,500 £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 23 April 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
1 132 (15.12%) WordPress
2 51 (5.84%) CMS
3 38 (4.35%) nginx
4 36 (4.12%) Drupal
5 30 (3.44%) Apache
6 8 (0.92%) Confluence
7 6 (0.69%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.34%) IIS
8 3 (0.34%) 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 (0.11%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.11%) Moodle
10 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.11%) Totara
Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.23%) FileZilla
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 27 (3.09%) Shopify
2 23 (2.63%) Magento
3 15 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 316 (36.20%) AWS
2 173 (19.82%) SaaS
3 67 (7.67%) Azure
4 51 (5.84%) GCP
5 39 (4.47%) GitHub
6 26 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (2.29%) Serverless
8 17 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
9 14 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (1.37%) Figma
11 12 (1.37%) npm
11 12 (1.37%) Stripe
12 9 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (1.03%) Power Platform
13 7 (0.80%) Azure AKS
13 7 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (0.80%) Datadog
13 7 (0.80%) Heroku
13 7 (0.80%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.55%) HTTP
2 23 (2.63%) DNS
3 19 (2.18%) Internet
4 13 (1.49%) Firewall
5 12 (1.37%) SSL
6 9 (1.03%) VoIP
7 8 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.46%) FTP
9 3 (0.34%) 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 (0.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 339 (38.83%) MySQL
2 49 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (4.70%) SQL Server
4 37 (4.24%) Relational Database
5 29 (3.32%) MariaDB
6 25 (2.86%) MongoDB
7 17 (1.95%) NoSQL
8 16 (1.83%) DynamoDB
9 15 (1.72%) Redis
10 14 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
10 14 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.80%) Big Data
11 7 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (0.80%) Power BI
11 7 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.80%) SQLite
12 6 (0.69%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.69%) GIS
13 3 (0.34%) Looker
Development Applications
1 194 (22.22%) Git
2 50 (5.73%) JIRA
3 29 (3.32%) GitLab
4 26 (2.98%) Jenkins
5 20 (2.29%) webpack
6 13 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
7 11 (1.26%) Visual Studio
8 10 (1.15%) Subversion
9 7 (0.80%) Eclipse
10 5 (0.57%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.57%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.57%) gulp
11 4 (0.46%) Selenium
12 3 (0.34%) git-flow
12 3 (0.34%) Grunt
12 3 (0.34%) PHPUnit
13 2 (0.23%) Appium
13 2 (0.23%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.23%) Postman
13 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 207 (23.71%) Social Skills
2 87 (9.97%) Marketing
3 71 (8.13%) Retail
4 66 (7.56%) Finance
5 25 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.41%) Games
7 18 (2.06%) Law
7 18 (2.06%) Tech for Good
7 18 (2.06%) Telecoms
8 15 (1.72%) Public Sector
9 14 (1.60%) Legal
10 11 (1.26%) Banking
10 11 (1.26%) German Language
10 11 (1.26%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.15%) Retail Banking
12 8 (0.92%) Spanish Language
13 7 (0.80%) Electronics
14 6 (0.69%) French Language
14 6 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 646 (74.00%) Developer
2 357 (40.89%) PHP Developer
3 242 (27.72%) Senior
4 204 (23.37%) Senior Developer
5 109 (12.49%) Full Stack Developer
6 101 (11.57%) Senior PHP Developer
7 78 (8.93%) Software Engineer
8 68 (7.79%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 66 (7.56%) Lead
10 63 (7.22%) Web Developer
11 52 (5.96%) WordPress Developer
12 50 (5.73%) Full Stack PHP Developer
12 50 (5.73%) Software Developer
13 39 (4.47%) Junior
14 38 (4.35%) PHP Software Engineer
15 33 (3.78%) Junior Developer
16 27 (3.09%) Senior Full Stack Developer
17 22 (2.52%) Lead Developer
18 20 (2.29%) Technical Leader
19 19 (2.18%) PHP Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 460 (52.69%) Laravel
2 321 (36.77%) HTML
3 302 (34.59%) CSS
4 224 (25.66%) React
5 186 (21.31%) Vue
6 148 (16.95%) Symfony
7 115 (13.17%) jQuery
8 99 (11.34%) LAMP
9 85 (9.74%) Node.js
10 83 (9.51%) AngularJS
11 80 (9.16%) REST
12 79 (9.05%) RESTful
13 69 (7.90%) Web Services
14 61 (6.99%) HTML5
15 48 (5.50%) .NET
16 46 (5.27%) JSON
17 44 (5.04%) CSS3
18 42 (4.81%) Sass
19 34 (3.89%) SOAP
20 27 (3.09%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 76 (8.71%) Greenfield Project
2 31 (3.55%) Mobile App
3 20 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (2.18%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.60%) Client/Server
7 12 (1.37%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.26%) IoT
8 11 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.15%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.15%) PropTech
9 10 (1.15%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.03%) Educational Technology
11 8 (0.92%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.69%) Graphic Design
12 6 (0.69%) Legacy Code
12 6 (0.69%) Photography
13 5 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.46%) Animation
14 4 (0.46%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 94 (10.77%) Linux
2 20 (2.29%) Windows
3 10 (1.15%) Unix
4 6 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
4 6 (0.69%) Android
4 6 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.57%) CentOS
5 5 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.57%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.34%) AIX
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (26.00%) Full Stack Development
2 181 (20.73%) Web Development
3 175 (20.05%) OOP
4 165 (18.90%) Agile
4 165 (18.90%) Software Engineering
5 140 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
6 132 (15.12%) E-Commerce
7 127 (14.55%) MVC
8 108 (12.37%) DevOps
9 98 (11.23%) TDD
10 91 (10.42%) User Experience
11 77 (8.82%) Mentoring
12 74 (8.48%) Unit Testing
13 72 (8.25%) Clean Code
14 67 (7.67%) OO
15 62 (7.10%) Roadmaps
16 61 (6.99%) CI/CD
16 61 (6.99%) Computer Science
17 51 (5.84%) Microservices
18 49 (5.61%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 437 (50.06%) JavaScript
2 139 (15.92%) SQL
3 85 (9.74%) TypeScript
4 62 (7.10%) Python
5 58 (6.64%) C#
6 42 (4.81%) Java
7 25 (2.86%) Go
8 22 (2.52%) Bash
9 16 (1.83%) Ruby
10 14 (1.60%) C
11 12 (1.37%) Ada
12 11 (1.26%) C++
12 11 (1.26%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.26%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.26%) VB.NET
13 9 (1.03%) Rust
14 7 (0.80%) Groovy
15 6 (0.69%) Bicep
15 6 (0.69%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 87 (9.97%) Degree
2 50 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (0.92%) Azure Certification
4 5 (0.57%) DBS Check
5 4 (0.46%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.34%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.23%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.23%) MCSE
7 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.11%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.78%) QA
2 15 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.49%) GDPR
4 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.23%) HL7
6 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 129 (14.78%) Docker
2 3 (0.34%) OpenSIPS
3 2 (0.23%) Firmware
3 2 (0.23%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 48 (5.50%) Kubernetes
2 29 (3.32%) Terraform
3 13 (1.49%) Progress Chef
4 12 (1.37%) Ansible
5 9 (1.03%) Grafana
5 9 (1.03%) Puppet
6 7 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.57%) cPanel
8 3 (0.34%) Galera Cluster
9 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.11%) Argo
10 1 (0.11%) Kibana
10 1 (0.11%) Plesk
10 1 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 36 (4.12%) Google
2 32 (3.67%) WooCommerce
3 16 (1.83%) Microsoft
4 12 (1.37%) Adobe
5 11 (1.26%) Twitter
6 10 (1.15%) New Relic
7 7 (0.80%) SaltStack
7 7 (0.80%) SAP
7 7 (0.80%) Zend
8 6 (0.69%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.46%) Oracle
10 3 (0.34%) Facebook
11 2 (0.23%) Progress
11 2 (0.23%) Remedy
12 1 (0.11%) Apple
12 1 (0.11%) Capita
12 1 (0.11%) Dell
12 1 (0.11%) ESRI
12 1 (0.11%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.11%) WorldPay