LAMP Jobs in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring LAMP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited LAMP over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 625 638 696
Rank change year-on-year +13 +58 -57
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 58 206 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.69% 1.17% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 53 189 180
10th Percentile £33,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £37,500 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £72,813
90th Percentile £72,500 £69,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 8,391 17,586 26,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.35% 19.89% 29.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,177 14,228 16,256
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,698 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,037 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,019 £110,000
UK median annual salary £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%

LAMP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing LAMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for LAMP in England

LAMP
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LAMP in England.

Salary trend for LAMP in England

LAMP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAMP in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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
South West +80 20 £62,500 +66.67% 2
South East +74 20 £39,000 -25.71% 3
North of England +33 10 £52,500 +38.16% 6
North West -2 7 £52,500 +101.92% 1
London +85 6 £55,000 0.00% 14
North East - 3 £55,000 -
West Midlands +59 2 £67,500 - 6
Midlands +35 2 £67,500 +28.57% 6
LAMP
UK

LAMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (10.34%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 43 (74.14%) AWS
2 32 (55.17%) GCP
3 9 (15.52%) SaaS
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.45%) Azure
5 2 (3.45%) Cloudflare
5 2 (3.45%) IaaS
5 2 (3.45%) PaaS
6 1 (1.72%) Datadog
6 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) DNS
1 1 (1.72%) FTP
1 1 (1.72%) HTTP
1 1 (1.72%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.72%) SSH
1 1 (1.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (96.55%) MySQL
2 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 50 (86.21%) Git
2 7 (12.07%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (51.72%) Finance
2 24 (41.38%) Games
3 15 (25.86%) Retail
4 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.72%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (44.83%) Developer
1 26 (44.83%) Senior
2 20 (34.48%) PHP Developer
3 14 (24.14%) Senior Developer
3 14 (24.14%) Senior PHP Developer
4 10 (17.24%) Lead
5 8 (13.79%) Software Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) PHP Software Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) Junior
7 6 (10.34%) Junior Developer
7 6 (10.34%) PHP Web Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Web Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Development Team Leader
8 5 (8.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (8.62%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Team Leader
9 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.90%) Junior PHP Developer
9 4 (6.90%) SaaS Developer
10 3 (5.17%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (86.21%) CSS
1 50 (86.21%) HTML
2 35 (60.34%) Laravel
3 14 (24.14%) Web Services
4 13 (22.41%) React
4 13 (22.41%) RESTful
5 9 (15.52%) jQuery
6 7 (12.07%) AngularJS
7 5 (8.62%) Vue
8 4 (6.90%) Jest
8 4 (6.90%) Node.js
8 4 (6.90%) REST
9 2 (3.45%) .NET
9 2 (3.45%) CakePHP
9 2 (3.45%) LAPP Stack
9 2 (3.45%) Tailwind CSS
10 1 (1.72%) LEMP Stack
10 1 (1.72%) Loki
10 1 (1.72%) React Native
10 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.76%) Mobile App
2 7 (12.07%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (6.90%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Life Science
5 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.97%) Linux
2 3 (5.17%) Unix
3 1 (1.72%) AIX
3 1 (1.72%) CentOS
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (86.21%) OOP
2 44 (75.86%) E-Commerce
3 34 (58.62%) MVC
4 25 (43.10%) Web Development
5 21 (36.21%) Software Engineering
6 10 (17.24%) Design Patterns
7 9 (15.52%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (15.52%) TDD
7 9 (15.52%) Test Automation
8 8 (13.79%) SOLID
9 6 (10.34%) CI/CD
10 5 (8.62%) Code Quality
10 5 (8.62%) Fintech
10 5 (8.62%) Project Delivery
10 5 (8.62%) Regression Testing
11 4 (6.90%) B2B
11 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (6.90%) Load Balancing
11 4 (6.90%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 56 (96.55%) PHP
2 50 (86.21%) JavaScript
3 7 (12.07%) Python
4 4 (6.90%) Go
5 3 (5.17%) C
5 3 (5.17%) Perl
6 2 (3.45%) Bash
6 2 (3.45%) Java
6 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.72%) AWK
7 1 (1.72%) C++
7 1 (1.72%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 9 (15.52%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) KVM
3 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.45%) Xen
4 1 (1.72%) Postfix
4 1 (1.72%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 5 (8.62%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.45%) CFEngine
2 2 (3.45%) Progress Chef
2 2 (3.45%) Puppet
2 2 (3.45%) Terraform
3 1 (1.72%) Grafana
3 1 (1.72%) Nagios
3 1 (1.72%) Nessus
Vendors
1 12 (20.69%) Twitter
2 3 (5.17%) Google
2 3 (5.17%) Oracle
3 2 (3.45%) VMware
4 1 (1.72%) IBM
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.72%) SAP
4 1 (1.72%) Tenable
4 1 (1.72%) Zend