LAMP Job Trends in Central London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring LAMP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 184 178
Rank change year-on-year +44 -6 +113
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 1 1 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.053% 0.031% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.23% 0.12% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £37,500
25th Percentile £43,375 £85,000 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £90,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -51.39% +56.52% -
75th Percentile £44,125 £95,000 £65,313
90th Percentile - - £79,750
London median annual salary £55,000 £100,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year -45.00% +77.78% -11.42%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 443 841 1,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 23.50% 26.32% 30.40%
Number of salaries quoted 387 562 925
10th Percentile £54,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £113,750 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £125,500 £115,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% +2.38%

LAMP
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

LAMP job vacancy trend in Central London

LAMP
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing LAMP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing LAMP

LAMP
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP within the Central London region over the 6 months to 29 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +38 1 £43,750 -51.39% 3
LAMP
London

LAMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Support
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Rocky
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios