LAMP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP/Perl/Python)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 298 343 461
Rank change year-on-year +45 +118 +119
Contract jobs citing LAMP 6 2 16
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.013% 0.062%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.23% 0.055% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 13
10th Percentile £413 - £310
25th Percentile £414 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -13.51% -4.15%
75th Percentile £452 £425 £488
90th Percentile £454 - £494
UK median daily rate £400 £503 £456
% change year-on-year -20.40% +10.14% -8.75%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

LAMP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing LAMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

LAMP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

LAMP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing LAMP.

LAMP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

LAMP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing LAMP.

LAMP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

LAMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (83.33%) Apache
2 4 (66.67%) CMS
2 4 (66.67%) Confluence
2 4 (66.67%) Drupal
2 4 (66.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) MySQL
2 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) PHP Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) PHP Developer
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 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) OO
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 4 (66.67%) Kanban
2 4 (66.67%) MVC
2 4 (66.67%) OOP
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) OO PHP
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) Zend