Senior PHP Developer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior PHP Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior PHP Developer salary for remote or hybrid work is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 489 588
Rank change year-on-year +113 +99 +116
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 21 103 85
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.30% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.32% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 20 102 78
10th Percentile £44,875 £42,625 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £57,813 £63,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £66,000 £78,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Senior PHP Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior PHP Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior PHP Developer.

Senior PHP Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior PHP Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior PHP Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Senior PHP Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior PHP Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Senior PHP Developer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) PHP
2 15 (71.43%) React
3 14 (66.67%) MySQL
4 13 (61.90%) AWS
5 11 (52.38%) AngularJS
6 10 (47.62%) Laravel
6 10 (47.62%) CSS
6 10 (47.62%) HTML
6 10 (47.62%) JavaScript
7 9 (42.86%) Git
8 8 (38.10%) jQuery
8 8 (38.10%) Vue
9 7 (33.33%) Code Quality
9 7 (33.33%) Finance
9 7 (33.33%) OOP
9 7 (33.33%) E-Commerce
9 7 (33.33%) Test Automation
10 6 (28.57%) Regression Testing
10 6 (28.57%) LAMP
10 6 (28.57%) Games
10 6 (28.57%) Agile
10 6 (28.57%) SOLID
10 6 (28.57%) DevOps
10 6 (28.57%) GCP
10 6 (28.57%) Project Delivery
11 4 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
11 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (19.05%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
11 4 (19.05%) Process Improvement

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Magento
1 1 (4.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) SaaS
3 1 (4.76%) Serverless
3 1 (4.76%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) Big Data
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.76%) git-flow
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) PHPUnit
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Games
3 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Advertising
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Automotive
5 1 (4.76%) Law
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (71.43%) React
2 11 (52.38%) AngularJS
3 10 (47.62%) CSS
3 10 (47.62%) HTML
3 10 (47.62%) Laravel
4 8 (38.10%) jQuery
4 8 (38.10%) Vue
5 6 (28.57%) LAMP
6 4 (19.05%) Node.js
6 4 (19.05%) Symfony
7 1 (4.76%) Bootstrap
7 1 (4.76%) Flutter
7 1 (4.76%) Middleware
7 1 (4.76%) Next.js
7 1 (4.76%) Playwright
7 1 (4.76%) React Native
7 1 (4.76%) REST
7 1 (4.76%) RESTful
7 1 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (4.76%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Code Quality
1 7 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 7 (33.33%) OOP
1 7 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 6 (28.57%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) DevOps
2 6 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 6 (28.57%) Regression Testing
2 6 (28.57%) SOLID
3 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
3 4 (19.05%) Process Improvement
3 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (14.29%) Front End Development
4 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (14.29%) Web Development
5 2 (9.52%) OO
5 2 (9.52%) User Experience
6 1 (4.76%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) PHP
2 10 (47.62%) JavaScript
3 4 (19.05%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.52%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Twitter