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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 142 78
Rank change year-on-year +17 -64 -38
Permanent jobs citing PHP 862 932 3,421
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.48% 2.42% 4.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.13% 5.03% 7.74%
Number of salaries quoted 789 825 2,153
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,000 £42,500
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £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 14,059 18,511 44,174
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.47% 48.13% 59.47%
Number of salaries quoted 11,501 14,065 23,940
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,161 £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 £80,000 £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 1 June 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
1 130 (15.08%) WordPress
2 45 (5.22%) CMS
3 38 (4.41%) nginx
4 36 (4.18%) Drupal
5 27 (3.13%) Apache
6 6 (0.70%) Confluence
7 4 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.35%) SAS
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.23%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
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 28 (3.25%) Shopify
2 25 (2.90%) Magento
3 15 (1.74%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 301 (34.92%) AWS
2 165 (19.14%) SaaS
3 55 (6.38%) Azure
4 48 (5.57%) GCP
5 36 (4.18%) GitHub
6 25 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
8 14 (1.62%) npm
8 14 (1.62%) Stripe
9 13 (1.51%) Figma
9 13 (1.51%) Serverless
10 8 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (0.81%) Azure AKS
11 7 (0.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (0.81%) Datadog
11 7 (0.81%) Heroku
11 7 (0.81%) Power Platform
11 7 (0.81%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.78%) HTTP
2 19 (2.20%) Internet
3 15 (1.74%) DNS
4 13 (1.51%) SSL
5 12 (1.39%) Firewall
6 8 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.70%) VoIP
8 4 (0.46%) FTP
9 3 (0.35%) SMS
10 2 (0.23%) LAN
10 2 (0.23%) VPN
10 2 (0.23%) WAN
11 1 (0.12%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.12%) Intranet
11 1 (0.12%) IPsec
11 1 (0.12%) IPv4
11 1 (0.12%) IPv6
11 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (38.86%) MySQL
2 55 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 39 (4.52%) Relational Database
5 23 (2.67%) MariaDB
6 22 (2.55%) MongoDB
7 17 (1.97%) Redis
8 15 (1.74%) DynamoDB
9 13 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.51%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (0.93%) SQLite
12 7 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.81%) Power BI
13 6 (0.70%) Big Data
13 6 (0.70%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.70%) GIS
13 6 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.35%) Looker
Development Applications
1 206 (23.90%) Git
2 43 (4.99%) JIRA
3 27 (3.13%) GitLab
4 20 (2.32%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.09%) webpack
6 13 (1.51%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (1.16%) Subversion
8 7 (0.81%) Eclipse
8 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.46%) git-flow
10 4 (0.46%) gulp
11 3 (0.35%) Grunt
11 3 (0.35%) Selenium
12 2 (0.23%) Appium
12 2 (0.23%) PHPUnit
12 2 (0.23%) Postman
12 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 202 (23.43%) Social Skills
2 89 (10.32%) Marketing
3 69 (8.00%) Retail
4 66 (7.66%) Finance
5 25 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.55%) Tech for Good
7 20 (2.32%) Games
8 19 (2.20%) Law
9 16 (1.86%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.62%) Legal
10 14 (1.62%) Public Sector
11 11 (1.28%) Banking
11 11 (1.28%) German Language
11 11 (1.28%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.16%) Retail Banking
13 8 (0.93%) Health Technology
13 8 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.93%) Spanish Language
14 7 (0.81%) Electronics
14 7 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 653 (75.75%) Developer
2 360 (41.76%) PHP Developer
3 241 (27.96%) Senior
4 203 (23.55%) Senior Developer
5 116 (13.46%) Full Stack Developer
6 102 (11.83%) Senior PHP Developer
7 79 (9.16%) Software Engineer
8 65 (7.54%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 61 (7.08%) Web Developer
10 60 (6.96%) Lead
11 53 (6.15%) Software Developer
12 51 (5.92%) Full Stack PHP Developer
12 51 (5.92%) WordPress Developer
13 40 (4.64%) PHP Software Engineer
14 36 (4.18%) Junior
15 32 (3.71%) Junior Developer
16 29 (3.36%) Senior Full Stack Developer
17 23 (2.67%) Lead Developer
18 19 (2.20%) Junior PHP Developer
18 19 (2.20%) PHP Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 461 (53.48%) Laravel
2 322 (37.35%) HTML
3 304 (35.27%) CSS
4 235 (27.26%) React
5 188 (21.81%) Vue
6 148 (17.17%) Symfony
7 114 (13.23%) jQuery
8 94 (10.90%) LAMP
9 88 (10.21%) Node.js
10 86 (9.98%) RESTful
11 82 (9.51%) AngularJS
12 73 (8.47%) REST
13 66 (7.66%) Web Services
14 60 (6.96%) HTML5
15 46 (5.34%) .NET
16 44 (5.10%) CSS3
17 42 (4.87%) Sass
18 37 (4.29%) JSON
19 30 (3.48%) SOAP
20 29 (3.36%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 71 (8.24%) Greenfield Project
2 36 (4.18%) Mobile App
3 22 (2.55%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.62%) Client/Server
7 13 (1.51%) Cloud Native
8 12 (1.39%) IoT
8 12 (1.39%) PropTech
9 9 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 8 (0.93%) Educational Technology
10 8 (0.93%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.70%) Legacy Code
11 6 (0.70%) Photography
12 5 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.58%) Graphic Design
13 4 (0.46%) Animation
13 4 (0.46%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.35%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 77 (8.93%) Linux
2 22 (2.55%) Windows
3 7 (0.81%) Unix
4 6 (0.70%) Alpine Linux
5 5 (0.58%) Android
5 5 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.46%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.23%) AIX
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (27.26%) Full Stack Development
2 175 (20.30%) Web Development
3 172 (19.95%) OOP
4 163 (18.91%) Software Engineering
5 158 (18.33%) Agile
6 145 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
7 131 (15.20%) E-Commerce
8 120 (13.92%) MVC
9 99 (11.48%) DevOps
10 94 (10.90%) TDD
11 86 (9.98%) User Experience
12 78 (9.05%) Mentoring
13 75 (8.70%) Clean Code
14 70 (8.12%) Unit Testing
15 69 (8.00%) OO
16 61 (7.08%) Roadmaps
17 59 (6.84%) Computer Science
18 53 (6.15%) Microservices
19 52 (6.03%) CI/CD
20 48 (5.57%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 436 (50.58%) JavaScript
2 130 (15.08%) SQL
3 88 (10.21%) TypeScript
4 54 (6.26%) C#
5 51 (5.92%) Python
6 42 (4.87%) Java
7 26 (3.02%) Go
8 19 (2.20%) Bash
9 17 (1.97%) Ruby
10 14 (1.62%) C
11 13 (1.51%) Ada
12 11 (1.28%) VB.NET
13 10 (1.16%) C++
13 10 (1.16%) Rust
13 10 (1.16%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.04%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.81%) Groovy
16 6 (0.70%) Bicep
16 6 (0.70%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.35%) Dart
Qualifications
1 79 (9.16%) Degree
2 49 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (0.93%) Azure Certification
4 3 (0.35%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.12%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.12%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.12%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.83%) QA
2 14 (1.62%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.51%) 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
System Software
1 115 (13.34%) Docker
2 2 (0.23%) Firmware
2 2 (0.23%) Varnish
3 1 (0.12%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 43 (4.99%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.67%) 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 4 (0.46%) cPanel
9 3 (0.35%) Galera Cluster
10 1 (0.12%) Argo
10 1 (0.12%) Plesk
10 1 (0.12%) Podman
10 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (4.41%) Google
2 30 (3.48%) WooCommerce
3 15 (1.74%) Microsoft
4 13 (1.51%) Adobe
5 11 (1.28%) New Relic
5 11 (1.28%) Twitter
6 9 (1.04%) Zend
7 8 (0.93%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.81%) SaltStack
8 7 (0.81%) SAP
9 4 (0.46%) Oracle
10 3 (0.35%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.35%) Facebook
11 2 (0.23%) F5
11 2 (0.23%) Progress
12 1 (0.12%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.12%) WorldPay