LAMP Contracts in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 351 387 469
Rank change year-on-year +36 +82 +96
Contract jobs citing LAMP 2 4 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.022% 0.089%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.061% 0.090% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 10
10th Percentile £310 £420 £350
25th Percentile £325 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +8.11% +1.65%
75th Percentile £375 £550 £492
90th Percentile £390 £580 £494
England median daily rate £400 £503 £463
% change year-on-year -20.40% +8.65% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £83.00
England median hourly rate - - £83.00
% change year-on-year - - +80.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for LAMP in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for LAMP in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for LAMP in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Actifio
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat