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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for LAMP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited LAMP over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 673 714 619
Rank change year-on-year +41 -95 -144
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 205 267 752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.26% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.97% 0.85% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 187 219 495
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,375 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,271 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -3.46% +17.65%
75th Percentile £57,500 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £92,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,058 31,283 63,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.37% 30.13% 40.47%
Number of salaries quoted 15,741 19,277 30,292
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

LAMP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for LAMP in the UK

LAMP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LAMP.

Salary trend for LAMP in the UK

LAMP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAMP over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for LAMP in the UK

LAMP
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +37 201 £50,000 +5.26% 36
UK excluding London 0 164 £45,000 - 23
Work from Home -1 98 £52,500 +5.00% 16
South West +2 61 £40,000 -11.11% 2
London +91 40 £53,751 -20.37% 12
South East -2 30 £42,750 +6.88% 5
Midlands +17 27 £52,500 +23.53% 6
East of England +11 25 £50,000 -41.18% 1
East Midlands - 20 £52,500 - 3
North of England +34 18 £38,000 -15.56% 10
North West -9 10 £26,000 -42.22% 7
Yorkshire +96 8 £38,500 +10.00% 3
West Midlands +14 7 - - 3
Scotland - 2 £65,000 -
Wales +13 1 £50,000 +11.11%

LAMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 40 (19.51%) Apache
2 35 (17.07%) WordPress
3 22 (10.73%) nginx
4 17 (8.29%) IIS
5 15 (7.32%) Drupal
6 12 (5.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (4.88%) SharePoint
8 4 (1.95%) Apache Solr
8 4 (1.95%) CloudStack
8 4 (1.95%) ColdFusion
8 4 (1.95%) Tomcat
9 3 (1.46%) CMS
10 2 (0.98%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.98%) Moodle
11 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.49%) Confluence
11 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.49%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 4 (1.95%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.95%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.49%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 11 (5.37%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.49%) Magento
2 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (25.85%) AWS
2 14 (6.83%) Azure
3 13 (6.34%) SaaS
4 10 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.88%) OneDrive
5 5 (2.44%) Amazon S3
5 5 (2.44%) GitHub
5 5 (2.44%) npm
6 4 (1.95%) GCP
7 3 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.98%) Cloudflare
8 2 (0.98%) Datadog
8 2 (0.98%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.98%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.98%) OpenDNS
8 2 (0.98%) PaaS
8 2 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.80%) DNS
1 16 (7.80%) SAN
2 14 (6.83%) Firewall
2 14 (6.83%) NAS
3 12 (5.85%) iSCSI
3 12 (5.85%) VPN
4 10 (4.88%) Fibre Channel
4 10 (4.88%) Wireless
5 6 (2.93%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.93%) VLAN
6 4 (1.95%) FTP
6 4 (1.95%) SMTP
7 3 (1.46%) HTTP
8 2 (0.98%) DHCP
8 2 (0.98%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.98%) LAN
8 2 (0.98%) OSPF
8 2 (0.98%) RIP
8 2 (0.98%) VRRP
8 2 (0.98%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (68.78%) MySQL
2 17 (8.29%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.41%) Big Data
3 7 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.93%) MariaDB
5 5 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.44%) Redis
6 4 (1.95%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.46%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.98%) phpMyAdmin
8 2 (0.98%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.49%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.49%) Presto
9 1 (0.49%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 60 (29.27%) Git
2 17 (8.29%) JIRA
3 11 (5.37%) Subversion
4 5 (2.44%) webpack
5 4 (1.95%) PHPUnit
6 3 (1.46%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.98%) git-flow
7 2 (0.98%) Selenium
8 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.49%) GitLab
8 1 (0.49%) WiX
General
1 25 (12.20%) Retail
2 19 (9.27%) Social Skills
3 18 (8.78%) Finance
4 10 (4.88%) Banking
4 10 (4.88%) Retail Banking
5 5 (2.44%) Marketing
5 5 (2.44%) Tech for Good
5 5 (2.44%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.95%) Health Technology
7 2 (0.98%) German Language
7 2 (0.98%) Law
7 2 (0.98%) Legal
7 2 (0.98%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.49%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.49%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 124 (60.49%) Developer
2 71 (34.63%) PHP Developer
3 41 (20.00%) Web Developer
4 36 (17.56%) Software Engineer
5 35 (17.07%) Senior
6 34 (16.59%) PHP Software Engineer
7 32 (15.61%) Senior Developer
8 27 (13.17%) Full Stack Developer
9 20 (9.76%) PHP Web Developer
10 15 (7.32%) Senior PHP Developer
11 12 (5.85%) Full Stack PHP Developer
12 11 (5.37%) Full Stack Web Developer
12 11 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (4.39%) Network Engineer
14 8 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (3.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (3.90%) Systems Engineer
15 7 (3.41%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (3.41%) Backend Developer
15 7 (3.41%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (54.63%) Laravel
2 111 (54.15%) HTML
3 108 (52.68%) CSS
4 64 (31.22%) jQuery
5 58 (28.29%) Web Services
6 42 (20.49%) RESTful
7 33 (16.10%) Symfony
7 33 (16.10%) Vue
8 30 (14.63%) HTML5
9 25 (12.20%) LEMP Stack
10 19 (9.27%) React
11 16 (7.80%) Sass
12 14 (6.83%) REST
12 14 (6.83%) SOAP
13 13 (6.34%) CSS3
14 9 (4.39%) AngularJS
15 8 (3.90%) XML
16 7 (3.41%) SVG
17 6 (2.93%) XHTML
18 5 (2.44%) LESS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.85%) Replication
2 11 (5.37%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.41%) Animation
4 7 (3.41%) Video Editing
5 6 (2.93%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.44%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.95%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.95%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.95%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.98%) iPhone
8 2 (0.98%) PKI
9 1 (0.49%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.49%) Clustering
9 1 (0.49%) NHS
9 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.49%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 73 (35.61%) Linux
2 23 (11.22%) Windows
3 15 (7.32%) Ubuntu
4 12 (5.85%) Windows Server
5 10 (4.88%) VMS
5 10 (4.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (4.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.46%) CentOS
7 1 (0.49%) Android
7 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.49%) Rocky
7 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (53.66%) OOP
2 90 (43.90%) MVC
3 51 (24.88%) Web Development
4 46 (22.44%) Software Engineering
5 34 (16.59%) Full Stack Development
6 33 (16.10%) CRM
7 30 (14.63%) E-Commerce
7 30 (14.63%) Mentoring
8 28 (13.66%) Agile
9 19 (9.27%) OO
10 16 (7.80%) Performance Optimisation
10 16 (7.80%) TDD
11 15 (7.32%) Project Management
12 12 (5.85%) DevOps
12 12 (5.85%) Fintech
12 12 (5.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 10 (4.88%) API Integration
13 10 (4.88%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (4.88%) User Experience
14 9 (4.39%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 174 (84.88%) PHP
2 106 (51.71%) JavaScript
3 26 (12.68%) SQL
4 22 (10.73%) Python
5 15 (7.32%) Java
6 10 (4.88%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.41%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.95%) Bash
8 4 (1.95%) CFML
8 4 (1.95%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.98%) Go
9 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.49%) C
10 1 (0.49%) C#
10 1 (0.49%) C++
10 1 (0.49%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.49%) Scala
10 1 (0.49%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 12 (5.85%) Degree
2 4 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
1 3 (1.46%) QA
2 2 (0.98%) HIPAA
2 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (13.17%) Docker
2 14 (6.83%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.88%) vSphere
4 6 (2.93%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.98%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.98%) pfSense
6 2 (0.98%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.49%) etcd
7 1 (0.49%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (4.88%) SCCM
2 9 (4.39%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.93%) cPanel
4 5 (2.44%) Ansible
4 5 (2.44%) Plesk
5 4 (1.95%) Puppet
5 4 (1.95%) Terraform
6 2 (0.98%) Backup Exec
6 2 (0.98%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.98%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.49%) Cacti
7 1 (0.49%) Consul
7 1 (0.49%) Grafana
7 1 (0.49%) Icinga
7 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 21 (10.24%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.32%) VMware
3 12 (5.85%) Aruba
3 12 (5.85%) Veeam
4 10 (4.88%) Palo Alto
4 10 (4.88%) ProCurve
4 10 (4.88%) Synology
4 10 (4.88%) Zerto
5 7 (3.41%) Adobe
6 6 (2.93%) Twitter
7 4 (1.95%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.46%) Google
9 2 (0.98%) Acronis
9 2 (0.98%) Cisco
9 2 (0.98%) Citrix
9 2 (0.98%) HP
9 2 (0.98%) Oracle
9 2 (0.98%) SonicWALL
9 2 (0.98%) Sophos
9 2 (0.98%) Veritas