LAMP Contracts in England

LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP/Perl/Python)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for LAMP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LAMP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 633 706
Rank change year-on-year +112 +73 -135
Contract jobs citing LAMP 14 30 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.038% 0.059% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 0.26% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 41
10th Percentile £398 £350 £331
25th Percentile £415 £406 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% -1.32% +15.85%
75th Percentile £628 £494 £538
90th Percentile £1,000 £498 £625
UK median daily rate £503 £463 £495
% change year-on-year +8.65% -6.57% +32.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.00
Median hourly rate - £83.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year - +80.43% -
75th Percentile - - £50.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £83.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year - +80.43% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

LAMP is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,454 11,713 19,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.17% 23.17% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,302 8,672 14,430
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 138 214
10th Percentile £21.63 £28.73 £21.30
25th Percentile £40.31 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

LAMP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing LAMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for LAMP in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LAMP in England.

Daily rate trend for LAMP in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAMP in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LAMP in England

LAMP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LAMP in England.

Hourly rate trend for LAMP in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 7 £474 - 8
London +81 4 £500 +8.11% 12
West Midlands - 2 £1,000 - 2
Midlands - 2 £1,000 - 5
LAMP
UK

LAMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (64.29%) Apache
2 5 (35.71%) SharePoint
3 3 (21.43%) IIS
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (21.43%) WordPress
4 2 (14.29%) CMS
4 2 (14.29%) Jadu
5 1 (7.14%) Drupal
5 1 (7.14%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (21.43%) OneDrive
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) OpenLDAP
2 4 (28.57%) Firewall
2 4 (28.57%) HTTP
2 4 (28.57%) iSCSI
3 3 (21.43%) DNS
3 3 (21.43%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (21.43%) NAS
3 3 (21.43%) SAN
3 3 (21.43%) VPN
3 3 (21.43%) Wireless
4 2 (14.29%) SSH
5 1 (7.14%) DHCP
5 1 (7.14%) InfiniBand
5 1 (7.14%) Kerberos
5 1 (7.14%) LAN
5 1 (7.14%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
5 1 (7.14%) VLAN
5 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) MySQL
2 5 (35.71%) MariaDB
2 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
3 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) Power BI
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) PHP Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Network Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 1 (7.14%) LAMP Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior LAMP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) LDAP
2 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 2 (14.29%) LAPP Stack
2 2 (14.29%) RESTful
2 2 (14.29%) SOAP
2 2 (14.29%) Symfony
2 2 (14.29%) Twig
3 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) jQuery
3 1 (7.14%) Laravel
3 1 (7.14%) LEMP Stack
3 1 (7.14%) libvirt
3 1 (7.14%) React
3 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (21.43%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (21.43%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Ubuntu
2 3 (21.43%) VMS
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) Migration
2 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 2 (14.29%) Database Migration
3 2 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (14.29%) TDD
3 2 (14.29%) Workflow
4 1 (7.14%) B2B
4 1 (7.14%) B2C
4 1 (7.14%) Clean Code
4 1 (7.14%) E-Commerce
4 1 (7.14%) Project Management
4 1 (7.14%) Software Delivery
4 1 (7.14%) User Experience
4 1 (7.14%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) PHP
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 2 (14.29%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (7.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
1 3 (21.43%) vSphere
2 1 (7.14%) Ceph
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) iptables
2 1 (7.14%) KVM
2 1 (7.14%) Lustre
2 1 (7.14%) NFS
2 1 (7.14%) Samba
2 1 (7.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (21.43%) SCCM
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) HAProxy
3 1 (7.14%) SELinux
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Aruba
2 3 (21.43%) Palo Alto
2 3 (21.43%) ProCurve
2 3 (21.43%) Synology
2 3 (21.43%) Veeam
2 3 (21.43%) VMware
2 3 (21.43%) Zerto
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle