LAMP Job Trends in England

LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP/Perl/Python)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring LAMP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 553 591
Rank change year-on-year -22 +38 +151
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 23 118 105
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.044% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.37% 1.14% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 23 90 100
10th Percentile £32,125 £42,250 £31,700
25th Percentile £38,500 £48,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £46,875 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £64,750 £75,000 £68,375
UK median annual salary £43,750 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.45% +4.76% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,192 10,388 12,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.85% 21.51% 24.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,759 6,104 10,139
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,087 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

LAMP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

LAMP job vacancy trend in England

LAMP
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing LAMP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing LAMP

LAMP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAMP in England over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for LAMP in England

LAMP
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP within the England region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
West Midlands +40 11 £39,000 -36.33% 5
Midlands +25 11 £39,000 -29.09% 8
London +43 7 £45,000 -18.18%
South West -27 3 £65,000 +8.33% 1
North West +1 1 £47,500 -9.52% 1
North of England -7 1 £47,500 -9.52% 6
LAMP
UK

LAMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 10 (43.48%) IIS
2 9 (39.13%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) SaaS
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.35%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (56.52%) MySQL
2 10 (43.48%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) PHPUnit
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Advertising
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Support Specialist
2 7 (30.43%) Applications Support
3 6 (26.09%) Applications Specialist
3 6 (26.09%) Applications Support Specialist
3 6 (26.09%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Administrator
4 4 (17.39%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (17.39%) Technical Specialist
4 4 (17.39%) Technical Support
4 4 (17.39%) Technical Support Specialist
5 3 (13.04%) DevOps Administrator
5 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Linux Support
5 3 (13.04%) Linux Support Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) REST
1 4 (17.39%) SOAP
2 3 (13.04%) CSS
2 3 (13.04%) HTML
2 3 (13.04%) Symfony
3 2 (8.70%) RESTful
4 1 (4.35%) Alpine.js
4 1 (4.35%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) Laravel
4 1 (4.35%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (91.30%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) CentOS
3 4 (17.39%) Ubuntu
4 3 (13.04%) Rocky
5 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (4.35%) Debian
6 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) CRM
2 10 (43.48%) Customer Experience
3 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) Case Management
4 4 (17.39%) DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Proactive Management
4 4 (17.39%) Process Improvement
5 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
5 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) MVC
6 2 (8.70%) OOP
6 2 (8.70%) Test Automation
7 1 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (4.35%) Knowledge Management
7 1 (4.35%) Mentoring
7 1 (4.35%) Task Automation
7 1 (4.35%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) PHP
2 13 (56.52%) JavaScript
3 11 (47.83%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) Shell Script
4 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.70%) Perl
6 1 (4.35%) Bash
6 1 (4.35%) Python
6 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL Certification
2 1 (4.35%) RHCE
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Postfix
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Ansible
2 3 (13.04%) Nagios
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
3 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Opsgenie
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
1 10 (43.48%) Oracle
1 10 (43.48%) Salesforce
2 4 (17.39%) HubSpot
3 1 (4.35%) Adobe
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) VMware
3 1 (4.35%) Zend