LAMP Jobs in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 357 350
Rank change year-on-year +62 -7 +3
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 20 36 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.21% 0.20% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.48% 1.13% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 17 35 48
10th Percentile - £35,000 £27,275
25th Percentile £30,500 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £52,500 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +35.48% -22.50%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile - £70,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,349 3,179 3,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.93% 18.04% 28.38%
Number of salaries quoted 873 2,514 2,702
10th Percentile £32,700 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £92,500
England median annual salary £66,274 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.46% -11.11% +3.85%

LAMP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing LAMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for LAMP in the South East

LAMP
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LAMP in the South East.

Salary trend for LAMP in the South East

LAMP
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAMP in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for LAMP in the South East

LAMP
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Kent +43 12 £31,000 -22.50% 1
Thames Valley +65 5 £60,000 +14.29% 1
Oxfordshire - 5 £60,000 -
Hampshire +64 3 £37,500 -37.50%
LAMP
England

LAMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) GCP
3 5 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (90.00%) Git
2 5 (25.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 12 (60.00%) Retail
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Developer
2 9 (45.00%) Senior
3 7 (35.00%) Junior
3 7 (35.00%) Junior Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Junior PHP Developer
4 5 (25.00%) PHP Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (15.00%) SaaS Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior PHP Developer
6 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) QA Tester
6 2 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (85.00%) CSS
1 17 (85.00%) HTML
2 12 (60.00%) Web Services
3 10 (50.00%) Laravel
3 10 (50.00%) RESTful
4 3 (15.00%) Jest
4 3 (15.00%) jQuery
4 3 (15.00%) React
4 3 (15.00%) REST
5 2 (10.00%) CakePHP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (15.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) OOP
2 14 (70.00%) E-Commerce
3 12 (60.00%) MVC
4 8 (40.00%) Design Patterns
4 8 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) TDD
8 3 (15.00%) B2B
8 3 (15.00%) Data Privacy
8 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
8 3 (15.00%) Fintech
8 3 (15.00%) Mobile First
8 3 (15.00%) Refactoring
8 3 (15.00%) Responsive Web Design
9 2 (10.00%) DevOps
9 2 (10.00%) Functional Testing
9 2 (10.00%) High Availability
9 2 (10.00%) System Testing
9 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) PHP
2 17 (85.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) C
3 2 (10.00%) Perl
3 2 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Twitter
2 1 (5.00%) Google