LAMP Job Trends in Birmingham

LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP/Perl/Python)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring LAMP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 125 -
Rank change year-on-year +23 - -
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 6 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.34% 0.28% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.63% 1.41% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38,500 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £67,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% - -
75th Percentile £39,500 £75,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £39,000 £61,250 -
% change year-on-year -36.33% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

LAMP falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 228 355 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.10% 19.68% 21.31%
Number of salaries quoted 207 184 255
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,497 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,720 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,813 £69,775
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,750 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -5.28%

LAMP
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

LAMP job vacancy trend in Birmingham

LAMP
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing LAMP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing LAMP

LAMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 6 (100.00%) Apache
1 6 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Applications Specialist
1 6 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 6 (100.00%) Applications Support Specialist
1 6 (100.00%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CRM
1 6 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) PHP
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
1 6 (100.00%) Salesforce