LAMP Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring LAMP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 189 178
Rank change year-on-year +10 -11 +127
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 1 26 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.016% 0.50% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 2.92% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 19 9
10th Percentile - £45,000 £35,267
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £40,144
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +30.78% -25.66%
75th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £45,000
90th Percentile - - £56,000
England median annual salary £43,125 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -21.59% +4.76% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 513 889 996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.28% 17.19% 25.36%
Number of salaries quoted 439 557 792
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £74,000
90th Percentile £82,750 £83,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

LAMP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

LAMP job vacancy trend in the North West

LAMP
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing LAMP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing LAMP

LAMP
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Manchester +2 1 £47,500 -9.52%
LAMP
England

LAMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) LEMP Stack
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe