LAMP Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring LAMP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LAMP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 528 623
Rank change year-on-year +55 +95 +84
Contract jobs citing LAMP 12 14 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.038% 0.059%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% 0.19% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 13
10th Percentile £323 £398 £350
25th Percentile £344 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £503 £463
Median % change year-on-year -20.40% +8.65% -2.63%
75th Percentile £447 £628 £494
90th Percentile £483 £1,000 £499
UK median daily rate £400 £503 £456
% change year-on-year -20.40% +10.14% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £83.00
UK median hourly rate - - £83.00
% change year-on-year - - +80.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

LAMP falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LAMP in England

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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 1 May 2025. 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 +45 6 £350 -26.12% 3
London +36 2 £350 -30.00% 8
South West - 2 £515 - 3
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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 10 (83.33%) Apache
2 5 (41.67%) Confluence
3 4 (33.33%) CMS
3 4 (33.33%) Drupal
3 4 (33.33%) WordPress
4 3 (25.00%) Tomcat
5 2 (16.67%) IIS
6 1 (8.33%) JBoss
6 1 (8.33%) WebLogic
6 1 (8.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (8.33%) IaaS
2 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Internet
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.33%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) MySQL
2 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (33.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (8.33%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 4 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (33.33%) Git
3 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (8.33%) PHPUnit
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Korean Language
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) PHP Software Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Support
3 2 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) PHP Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Web Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Web Hosting Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) CSS
1 5 (41.67%) HTML
2 4 (33.33%) Ajax
2 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 4 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
2 4 (33.33%) jQuery
2 4 (33.33%) SOAP
2 4 (33.33%) Web Services
3 3 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (8.33%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Legacy Code
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Unix
3 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (25.00%) Windows
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (8.33%) CentOS
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
1 6 (50.00%) OO
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Design Patterns
2 5 (41.67%) OOP
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Kanban
3 4 (33.33%) MVC
3 4 (33.33%) Scrum
3 4 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
5 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Line Management
5 1 (8.33%) Migration
5 1 (8.33%) OO PHP
5 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) PHP
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) Java
4 3 (25.00%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) C#
5 1 (8.33%) Python
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (33.33%) Zend
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) Actifio
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle