LAMP Contracts in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 153 198 -
Rank change year-on-year +45 - -
Contract jobs citing LAMP 6 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.13% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.20% 0.96% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £339 £388 -
25th Percentile £341 £415 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £474 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.12% - -
75th Percentile £359 £531 -
90th Percentile £361 £591 -
England median daily rate £400 £503 £463
% change year-on-year -20.40% +8.65% -2.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 500 730 1,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.61% 13.13% 17.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 462 737
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £411 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £591 £619 £638
90th Percentile £661 £661 £719
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 37
10th Percentile £28.99 £35.00 £40.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.13 £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.13 £76.25 £79.61
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

LAMP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing LAMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for LAMP in the South East

LAMP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LAMP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for LAMP in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LAMP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for LAMP in the South East

LAMP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP within the South East 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
Hampshire +25 4 - - 1
Surrey - 2 £350 -
LAMP
England

LAMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (100.00%) Apache
2 4 (66.67%) CMS
2 4 (66.67%) Confluence
2 4 (66.67%) Drupal
2 4 (66.67%) WordPress
3 2 (33.33%) IIS
3 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Korean Language
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) PHP Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) IT Support
2 2 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Hosting Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Ajax
1 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (66.67%) CodeIgniter
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) jQuery
1 4 (66.67%) SOAP
1 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Legacy Code
2 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Unix
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 4 (66.67%) Kanban
1 4 (66.67%) MVC
1 4 (66.67%) OO
1 4 (66.67%) OOP
1 4 (66.67%) Scrum
1 4 (66.67%) Secure Coding
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) Zend