LAMP Contract Job Trends in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring LAMP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 370 392
Rank change year-on-year -5 +22 +147
Contract jobs citing LAMP 3 3 13
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.021% 0.020% 0.069%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.080% 0.078% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £347 £269 £645
25th Percentile £376 £274 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £285 £688
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -58.58% +25.09%
75th Percentile £506 £294 -
90th Percentile £525 £298 -
England median daily rate £450 £363 £638
% change year-on-year +24.14% -43.16% +15.95%

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 3,762 3,862 4,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.28% 25.74% 25.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,547 2,520 3,652
10th Percentile £361 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.46% -1.75%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 19 30
10th Percentile £33.43 £34.65 £31.77
25th Percentile £43.77 £38.38 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -17.31%
75th Percentile £63.56 £63.75 £71.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.80 £78.75
England median hourly rate £58.00 £63.75 £51.89
% change year-on-year -9.02% +22.86% -20.17%

LAMP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LAMP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

LAMP job vacancy trend in London

LAMP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing LAMP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing LAMP

LAMP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAMP in London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LAMP in London

LAMP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing LAMP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing LAMP

LAMP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP within the London region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Central London - 2 £393 -
LAMP
England

LAMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) InfiniBand
1 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Laravel
1 2 (66.67%) Symfony
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) DOM
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) libvirt
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) e-Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) API Integration
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 1 (33.33%) ERP
1 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Logistics
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) OOD
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) SOLID
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Ceph
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) iptables
1 1 (33.33%) KVM
1 1 (33.33%) Lustre
1 1 (33.33%) NFS
1 1 (33.33%) Samba
1 1 (33.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) HAProxy
1 1 (33.33%) SELinux
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform