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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 143 76
Rank change year-on-year +26 -67 -36
Permanent jobs citing PHP 857 1,001 3,276
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.53% 2.47% 4.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.20% 5.02% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 796 891 2,143
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £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 £73,750
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 13,825 19,960 42,087
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.89% 49.19% 59.06%
Number of salaries quoted 11,368 14,681 24,008
10th Percentile £38,694 £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 20 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
1 126 (14.70%) WordPress
2 46 (5.37%) CMS
3 39 (4.55%) nginx
4 35 (4.08%) Drupal
5 27 (3.15%) Apache
6 7 (0.82%) Confluence
7 4 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.35%) SAS
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.23%) Joomla!
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 (3.27%) Shopify
2 22 (2.57%) Magento
3 15 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 303 (35.36%) AWS
2 166 (19.37%) SaaS
3 59 (6.88%) Azure
4 49 (5.72%) GCP
5 38 (4.43%) GitHub
6 25 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (1.98%) Serverless
8 16 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
9 14 (1.63%) Stripe
10 12 (1.40%) Figma
10 12 (1.40%) npm
11 11 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (0.82%) Azure AKS
13 7 (0.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (0.82%) Datadog
13 7 (0.82%) Heroku
13 7 (0.82%) Power Platform
13 7 (0.82%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.92%) HTTP
2 19 (2.22%) Internet
3 17 (1.98%) DNS
4 13 (1.52%) SSL
5 12 (1.40%) Firewall
6 8 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.82%) VoIP
8 4 (0.47%) FTP
9 3 (0.35%) SMS
10 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.23%) IPsec
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%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.12%) Intranet
11 1 (0.12%) IPv4
11 1 (0.12%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (39.09%) MySQL
2 51 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 37 (4.32%) Relational Database
5 24 (2.80%) MariaDB
6 22 (2.57%) MongoDB
7 16 (1.87%) DynamoDB
7 16 (1.87%) Redis
8 15 (1.75%) NoSQL
9 13 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (0.93%) SQLite
12 7 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.82%) Big Data
12 7 (0.82%) Power BI
12 7 (0.82%) 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
1 203 (23.69%) Git
2 44 (5.13%) JIRA
3 28 (3.27%) GitLab
4 21 (2.45%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.10%) webpack
6 13 (1.52%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (1.17%) Subversion
8 8 (0.93%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.82%) Eclipse
10 5 (0.58%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.47%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.47%) git-flow
11 4 (0.47%) gulp
12 3 (0.35%) Grunt
12 3 (0.35%) Selenium
13 2 (0.23%) Appium
13 2 (0.23%) PHPUnit
13 2 (0.23%) Postman
13 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
14 1 (0.12%) Phabricator
General
1 199 (23.22%) Social Skills
2 86 (10.04%) Marketing
3 70 (8.17%) Retail
4 65 (7.58%) Finance
5 26 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.45%) Games
7 20 (2.33%) Tech for Good
8 18 (2.10%) Law
9 17 (1.98%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.75%) 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 (1.17%) Retail Banking
14 8 (0.93%) Spanish Language
15 7 (0.82%) Electronics
15 7 (0.82%) Health Technology
15 7 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 643 (75.03%) Developer
2 358 (41.77%) PHP Developer
3 244 (28.47%) Senior
4 206 (24.04%) Senior Developer
5 113 (13.19%) Full Stack Developer
6 103 (12.02%) Senior PHP Developer
7 79 (9.22%) Software Engineer
8 63 (7.35%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 61 (7.12%) Lead
10 60 (7.00%) Web Developer
11 54 (6.30%) Software Developer
12 50 (5.83%) Full Stack PHP Developer
12 50 (5.83%) WordPress Developer
13 39 (4.55%) PHP Software Engineer
14 37 (4.32%) Junior
15 32 (3.73%) Junior Developer
16 29 (3.38%) Senior Full Stack Developer
17 23 (2.68%) Lead Developer
18 20 (2.33%) PHP Web Developer
19 19 (2.22%) Junior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 455 (53.09%) Laravel
2 317 (36.99%) HTML
3 298 (34.77%) CSS
4 229 (26.72%) React
5 183 (21.35%) Vue
6 148 (17.27%) Symfony
7 108 (12.60%) jQuery
8 95 (11.09%) LAMP
9 86 (10.04%) Node.js
10 84 (9.80%) RESTful
11 83 (9.68%) AngularJS
12 74 (8.63%) REST
13 69 (8.05%) Web Services
14 58 (6.77%) HTML5
15 46 (5.37%) .NET
16 44 (5.13%) CSS3
17 41 (4.78%) Sass
18 38 (4.43%) JSON
19 31 (3.62%) SOAP
20 28 (3.27%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.40%) Greenfield Project
2 32 (3.73%) Mobile App
3 22 (2.57%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.63%) Client/Server
7 12 (1.40%) Cloud Native
7 12 (1.40%) IoT
7 12 (1.40%) PropTech
8 9 (1.05%) Educational Technology
8 9 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (1.05%) Virtual Team
9 8 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.70%) Legacy Code
10 6 (0.70%) Onboarding
10 6 (0.70%) Photography
11 5 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.58%) Graphic Design
12 4 (0.47%) Animation
13 3 (0.35%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 80 (9.33%) Linux
2 22 (2.57%) 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 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.23%) AIX
6 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (26.84%) Full Stack Development
2 174 (20.30%) Web Development
3 171 (19.95%) OOP
4 163 (19.02%) Software Engineering
5 159 (18.55%) Agile
6 143 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
7 131 (15.29%) E-Commerce
8 120 (14.00%) MVC
9 100 (11.67%) DevOps
10 97 (11.32%) TDD
11 87 (10.15%) User Experience
12 76 (8.87%) Mentoring
13 72 (8.40%) Clean Code
14 69 (8.05%) Unit Testing
15 66 (7.70%) OO
16 61 (7.12%) Roadmaps
17 59 (6.88%) Computer Science
18 54 (6.30%) Microservices
19 53 (6.18%) CI/CD
20 47 (5.48%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 428 (49.94%) JavaScript
2 129 (15.05%) SQL
3 84 (9.80%) TypeScript
4 54 (6.30%) C#
5 53 (6.18%) Python
6 43 (5.02%) Java
7 27 (3.15%) Go
8 20 (2.33%) Bash
9 18 (2.10%) Ruby
10 14 (1.63%) C
11 12 (1.40%) Ada
12 11 (1.28%) Rust
12 11 (1.28%) VB.NET
13 10 (1.17%) C++
13 10 (1.17%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.05%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.82%) Groovy
16 6 (0.70%) Bicep
16 6 (0.70%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.47%) Dart
Qualifications
1 81 (9.45%) Degree
2 49 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (0.93%) Azure Certification
4 4 (0.47%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.23%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.23%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.12%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.85%) QA
2 14 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.40%) 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
1 119 (13.89%) Docker
2 3 (0.35%) Varnish
3 2 (0.23%) Firmware
4 1 (0.12%) OpenSIPS
4 1 (0.12%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 45 (5.25%) Kubernetes
2 25 (2.92%) Terraform
3 13 (1.52%) Progress Chef
4 12 (1.40%) Ansible
5 10 (1.17%) Puppet
6 8 (0.93%) Grafana
7 7 (0.82%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.47%) 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 (4.32%) Google
2 30 (3.50%) WooCommerce
3 15 (1.75%) Microsoft
4 12 (1.40%) Adobe
5 11 (1.28%) Twitter
6 9 (1.05%) New Relic
7 8 (0.93%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.82%) SaltStack
8 7 (0.82%) SAP
8 7 (0.82%) Zend
9 3 (0.35%) Facebook
9 3 (0.35%) Oracle
10 2 (0.23%) F5
10 2 (0.23%) Progress
11 1 (0.12%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.12%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.12%) WorldPay