LAPP Stack Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

LAPP Stack (Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP/Perl/Python)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring LAPP Stack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LAPP Stack 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 300 342 473
Rank change year-on-year +42 +131 +150
Contract jobs citing LAPP Stack 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.020% 0.015%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.082% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - £445
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile - - £713
90th Percentile - - £735
UK median daily rate £380 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -32.44% -2.17% -23.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

LAPP Stack 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%

LAPP Stack
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

LAPP Stack trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

LAPP Stack
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

LAPP Stack daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

LAPP Stack
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 4 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 4 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) HTTP
1 4 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 4 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (100.00%) Parquet
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (100.00%) Presto
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Poetry
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Dask
1 4 (100.00%) React
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform