PHP Jobs with Work from Home Options

PHP
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 148 77
Rank change year-on-year +29 -71 -34
Permanent jobs citing PHP 883 906 3,449
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.48% 2.42% 4.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.17% 5.05% 7.70%
Number of salaries quoted 788 796 2,172
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,375 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £69,063 £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 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 14,320 17,924 44,817
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.28% 47.83% 59.23%
Number of salaries quoted 11,596 13,795 24,051
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 £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

PHP
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

PHP
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 12 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
1 133 (15.06%) WordPress
2 45 (5.10%) CMS
3 37 (4.19%) nginx
4 36 (4.08%) Drupal
5 27 (3.06%) Apache
6 5 (0.57%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.45%) Confluence
8 3 (0.34%) SAS
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.23%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.11%) IIS
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 29 (3.28%) Shopify
2 27 (3.06%) Magento
3 15 (1.70%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 307 (34.77%) AWS
2 167 (18.91%) SaaS
3 56 (6.34%) Azure
4 49 (5.55%) GCP
5 34 (3.85%) GitHub
6 25 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
7 16 (1.81%) npm
8 14 (1.59%) Stripe
9 13 (1.47%) Figma
10 12 (1.36%) Serverless
11 7 (0.79%) Azure AKS
11 7 (0.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (0.79%) Datadog
11 7 (0.79%) Heroku
11 7 (0.79%) Power Platform
11 7 (0.79%) Pulumi
12 6 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.72%) HTTP
2 19 (2.15%) Internet
3 14 (1.59%) DNS
4 13 (1.47%) SSL
5 12 (1.36%) Firewall
6 8 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.68%) VoIP
8 4 (0.45%) FTP
9 3 (0.34%) SMS
10 2 (0.23%) LAN
10 2 (0.23%) VPN
10 2 (0.23%) WAN
11 1 (0.11%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.11%) Intranet
11 1 (0.11%) IPv4
11 1 (0.11%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 334 (37.83%) MySQL
2 58 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (4.98%) Relational Database
4 43 (4.87%) SQL Server
5 22 (2.49%) MariaDB
5 22 (2.49%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.93%) Redis
7 15 (1.70%) DynamoDB
7 15 (1.70%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (0.91%) SQLite
11 7 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.79%) Power BI
11 7 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.68%) Big Data
12 6 (0.68%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.68%) GIS
13 4 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.34%) Looker
Development Applications
1 212 (24.01%) Git
2 40 (4.53%) JIRA
3 30 (3.40%) GitLab
4 19 (2.15%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.04%) webpack
6 13 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (1.13%) Subversion
8 7 (0.79%) Eclipse
8 7 (0.79%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.68%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.45%) git-flow
10 4 (0.45%) gulp
11 3 (0.34%) Grunt
11 3 (0.34%) Selenium
12 2 (0.23%) Appium
12 2 (0.23%) Postman
12 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.11%) Phabricator
13 1 (0.11%) PHPUnit
General
1 208 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 92 (10.42%) Marketing
3 69 (7.81%) Finance
3 69 (7.81%) Retail
4 26 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (2.49%) Tech for Good
6 20 (2.27%) Games
7 19 (2.15%) Law
8 16 (1.81%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.59%) Legal
10 13 (1.47%) Public Sector
11 12 (1.36%) Banking
12 11 (1.25%) German Language
12 11 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.13%) Retail Banking
14 9 (1.02%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.91%) Spanish Language
16 7 (0.79%) Electronics
16 7 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 674 (76.33%) Developer
2 369 (41.79%) PHP Developer
3 243 (27.52%) Senior
4 204 (23.10%) Senior Developer
5 121 (13.70%) Full Stack Developer
6 103 (11.66%) Senior PHP Developer
7 81 (9.17%) Software Engineer
8 67 (7.59%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 62 (7.02%) Web Developer
10 58 (6.57%) Lead
11 54 (6.12%) Software Developer
11 54 (6.12%) WordPress Developer
12 52 (5.89%) Full Stack PHP Developer
13 38 (4.30%) PHP Software Engineer
14 35 (3.96%) Junior
15 31 (3.51%) Junior Developer
16 28 (3.17%) Senior Full Stack Developer
17 24 (2.72%) Lead Developer
18 20 (2.27%) PHP Web Developer
19 19 (2.15%) Junior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 471 (53.34%) Laravel
2 331 (37.49%) HTML
3 310 (35.11%) CSS
4 248 (28.09%) React
5 195 (22.08%) Vue
6 152 (17.21%) Symfony
7 113 (12.80%) jQuery
8 99 (11.21%) Node.js
9 92 (10.42%) LAMP
10 86 (9.74%) RESTful
11 82 (9.29%) AngularJS
12 72 (8.15%) REST
13 66 (7.47%) Web Services
14 63 (7.13%) HTML5
15 48 (5.44%) .NET
16 44 (4.98%) CSS3
16 44 (4.98%) Sass
17 38 (4.30%) JSON
18 32 (3.62%) React Native
19 29 (3.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.15%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (4.42%) Mobile App
3 22 (2.49%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (1.70%) IoT
5 15 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.59%) Client/Server
7 13 (1.47%) Cloud Native
8 12 (1.36%) PropTech
9 9 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (0.91%) Data Structures
10 8 (0.91%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.68%) Educational Technology
11 6 (0.68%) Legacy Code
11 6 (0.68%) Photography
12 5 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.57%) Graphic Design
13 4 (0.45%) 3D Printing
13 4 (0.45%) Animation
13 4 (0.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 77 (8.72%) Linux
2 23 (2.60%) Windows
3 7 (0.79%) Unix
4 6 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
4 6 (0.68%) Android
4 6 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.23%) AIX
8 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (27.86%) Full Stack Development
2 182 (20.61%) Web Development
3 174 (19.71%) OOP
4 165 (18.69%) Software Engineering
5 161 (18.23%) Agile
6 149 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
7 133 (15.06%) E-Commerce
8 118 (13.36%) MVC
9 100 (11.33%) DevOps
10 95 (10.76%) TDD
11 91 (10.31%) User Experience
12 78 (8.83%) Clean Code
13 76 (8.61%) Mentoring
14 74 (8.38%) OO
15 70 (7.93%) Unit Testing
16 61 (6.91%) Roadmaps
17 59 (6.68%) Computer Science
18 55 (6.23%) Microservices
19 52 (5.89%) CI/CD
20 50 (5.66%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 453 (51.30%) JavaScript
2 140 (15.86%) SQL
3 92 (10.42%) TypeScript
4 55 (6.23%) C#
5 53 (6.00%) Python
6 43 (4.87%) Java
7 28 (3.17%) Go
8 18 (2.04%) Bash
9 17 (1.93%) Ruby
10 16 (1.81%) C
11 14 (1.59%) Ada
12 12 (1.36%) C++
13 11 (1.25%) VB.NET
14 10 (1.13%) Rust
14 10 (1.13%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.02%) PowerShell
16 7 (0.79%) Groovy
16 7 (0.79%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.68%) Bicep
18 3 (0.34%) Dart
Qualifications
1 77 (8.72%) Degree
2 49 (5.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (0.91%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.11%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.11%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.11%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.74%) QA
2 14 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.36%) GDPR
4 2 (0.23%) HL7
5 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 119 (13.48%) Docker
2 2 (0.23%) Firmware
2 2 (0.23%) Varnish
3 1 (0.11%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 44 (4.98%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.27%) Terraform
3 13 (1.47%) Progress Chef
4 12 (1.36%) Ansible
5 10 (1.13%) Puppet
6 8 (0.91%) Grafana
7 7 (0.79%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.45%) cPanel
9 3 (0.34%) Galera Cluster
10 2 (0.23%) Plesk
11 1 (0.11%) Argo
11 1 (0.11%) Podman
11 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (4.53%) Google
2 30 (3.40%) WooCommerce
3 15 (1.70%) Microsoft
4 13 (1.47%) Adobe
5 11 (1.25%) New Relic
5 11 (1.25%) Twitter
6 9 (1.02%) Zend
7 8 (0.91%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.79%) SaltStack
8 7 (0.79%) SAP
9 5 (0.57%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.45%) F5
10 4 (0.45%) Oracle
11 3 (0.34%) Facebook
12 2 (0.23%) Progress
13 1 (0.11%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.11%) WorldPay