LAMP Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 390 441
Rank change year-on-year +59 +51 +36
Contract jobs citing LAMP 8 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.043% 0.025%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.33% 0.27% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 2
10th Percentile £340 £393 £414
25th Percentile £344 £446 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £503 £470
Median % change year-on-year -30.35% +6.91% -6.00%
75th Percentile £443 £728 £505
90th Percentile £491 £1,000 £526
UK median daily rate £400 £503 £456
% change year-on-year -20.40% +10.14% -8.75%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,391 3,290 4,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.69% 15.85% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,652 2,153 3,284
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 199 91
10th Percentile £31.71 £21.63 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.80 £75.00 £78.00
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for LAMP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for LAMP in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAMP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LAMP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for LAMP in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South West - 2 £515 - 3
LAMP
UK

LAMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (100.00%) Apache
2 4 (50.00%) CMS
2 4 (50.00%) Confluence
2 4 (50.00%) Drupal
2 4 (50.00%) WordPress
3 2 (25.00%) IIS
3 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Internet
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) MySQL
2 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Korean Language
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) PHP Software Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) IT Support
2 2 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Hosting Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Ajax
1 4 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) jQuery
1 4 (50.00%) SOAP
1 4 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Legacy Code
2 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Unix
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Kanban
1 4 (50.00%) MVC
1 4 (50.00%) OO
1 4 (50.00%) OOP
1 4 (50.00%) Scrum
1 4 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Line Management
3 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (50.00%) Zend
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat