LAMP Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring LAMP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 166 170
Rank change year-on-year +40 +4 +111
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 1 1 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.062% 0.036% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.26% 0.14% 0.84%
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
Central London median annual salary £43,750 £90,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -51.39% +56.52% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 390 739 949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 24.33% 26.70% 30.95%
Number of salaries quoted 340 502 867
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £130,250 £120,000 £116,250
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% -

LAMP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

LAMP job vacancy trend in the City of London

LAMP
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing LAMP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing LAMP

LAMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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