LAMP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring LAMP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 489 584
Rank change year-on-year -92 +95 -3
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 15 57 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.022% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% 1.14% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 14 54 151
10th Percentile £48,750 £31,925 £29,000
25th Percentile £51,717 £36,938 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile - £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,500 £72,125 £63,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% +5.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,368 4,991 14,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.05% 16.84% 18.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,286 3,183 10,634
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,225 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.85% +10.38% -11.11%

LAMP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

LAMP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

LAMP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing LAMP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing LAMP

LAMP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAMP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for LAMP in the UK excluding London

LAMP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
South East -33 7 £60,000 +56.86% 5
West Midlands -21 5 £60,000 -11.11% 1
Midlands -34 5 £60,000 -11.11% 1
North West -22 2 £47,500 -9.52%
North of England -42 2 £47,500 -9.52%
South West -71 1 £52,246 -16.41% 3
LAMP
UK

LAMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (26.67%) Apache
2 2 (13.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) npm
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) VoIP
2 1 (6.67%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (6.67%) LAN
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) PHPUnit
2 2 (13.33%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (86.67%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) PHP Developer
3 6 (40.00%) Senior
3 6 (40.00%) Senior Developer
4 5 (33.33%) LAMP Developer
4 5 (33.33%) PHP LAMP Developer
5 4 (26.67%) Backend Developer
5 4 (26.67%) Senior Backend Developer
6 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) CSS
1 3 (20.00%) HTML
1 3 (20.00%) Node.js
1 3 (20.00%) React
2 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) jQuery
2 2 (13.33%) LEMP Stack
2 2 (13.33%) XHTML
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.67%) Jest
3 1 (6.67%) Laravel
3 1 (6.67%) LESS
3 1 (6.67%) Middleware
3 1 (6.67%) pytest
3 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) Sass
3 1 (6.67%) Vue
3 1 (6.67%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Debian
2 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) OOP
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (33.33%) TDD
3 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) Architectural Design
5 1 (6.67%) Clean Code
5 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.67%) Prompt Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) Go
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) HNC
2 1 (6.67%) HND
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Adobe
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft