LAMP Jobs in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 226 246
Rank change year-on-year +78 +20 -61
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 32 61 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.92% 0.66% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.41% 3.11% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 30 57 33
10th Percentile £52,125 £30,000 £33,600
25th Percentile £56,250 £31,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70,625 £50,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £57,500 -
England median annual salary £58,750 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +17.50% +5.26% -5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 499 1,962 1,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.32% 21.28% 25.93%
Number of salaries quoted 395 1,548 1,093
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,025 £35,483
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,274 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £66,253 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%

LAMP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for LAMP in the South West

LAMP
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for LAMP in the South West

LAMP
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAMP in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for LAMP in the South West

LAMP
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol +76 17 £60,000 - 3
Dorset +5 10 £57,500 +43.75%
Wiltshire +49 3 £67,500 +42.11%
Devon - 2 £70,000 -
LAMP
England

LAMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (3.13%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 22 (68.75%) AWS
2 16 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (9.38%) SaaS
3 3 (9.38%) Serverless
4 2 (6.25%) Cloudflare
5 1 (3.13%) Azure
5 1 (3.13%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (84.38%) MySQL
2 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (71.88%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Babel
2 1 (3.13%) Vite
General
1 16 (50.00%) Finance
1 16 (50.00%) Games
2 5 (15.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Developer
2 13 (40.63%) PHP Developer
2 13 (40.63%) Senior
3 11 (34.38%) Lead
4 8 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 8 (25.00%) Senior PHP Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Development Team Leader
5 5 (15.63%) PHP Web Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Software Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Team Leader
5 5 (15.63%) Web Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) SaaS Software Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Technical Leader
7 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (3.13%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (87.50%) CSS
1 28 (87.50%) HTML
2 27 (84.38%) Laravel
3 7 (21.88%) React
4 5 (15.63%) RESTful
4 5 (15.63%) Web Services
5 3 (9.38%) Node.js
5 3 (9.38%) React Native
6 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
6 2 (6.25%) Symfony
6 2 (6.25%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (3.13%) Sass
7 1 (3.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (81.25%) OOP
2 25 (78.13%) E-Commerce
3 22 (68.75%) MVC
3 22 (68.75%) Web Development
4 13 (40.63%) Software Engineering
5 5 (15.63%) SOLID
6 3 (9.38%) Agile
6 3 (9.38%) BDD
6 3 (9.38%) CI/CD
6 3 (9.38%) Computer Science
6 3 (9.38%) Fintech
6 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
6 3 (9.38%) TDD
7 2 (6.25%) Front End Development
7 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (3.13%) API Development
8 1 (3.13%) Machine Learning
8 1 (3.13%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) PHP
2 28 (87.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.38%) Python
4 2 (6.25%) Go
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Twitter