LAMP Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 517 596 604
Rank change year-on-year +79 +8 -110
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 62 167 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 1.14% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 59 150 121
10th Percentile £33,050 £28,850 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,500 £63,750 £83,750
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
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 5,393 14,629 15,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.59% 19.53% 26.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,306 10,509 8,772
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,063 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,250 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%

LAMP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing LAMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for LAMP in the UK excluding London

LAMP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LAMP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for LAMP in the UK excluding London

LAMP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAMP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 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
South West +73 20 £61,250 +63.33% 2
South East +62 20 £39,000 -25.71% 3
North of England +32 11 £52,500 +38.16% 6
Scotland +128 8 £60,000 -7.69% 1
North West 0 7 £52,500 +101.92% 2
West Midlands +52 3 £67,500 - 6
Midlands +41 3 £67,500 +28.57% 6
North East - 3 £55,000 -
Yorkshire +49 1 £44,000 +14.29% 4
LAMP
UK

LAMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (6.45%) Apache
2 2 (3.23%) nginx
3 1 (1.61%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 44 (70.97%) AWS
2 37 (59.68%) GCP
3 5 (8.06%) SaaS
4 2 (3.23%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.61%) Datadog
5 1 (1.61%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.61%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (96.77%) MySQL
2 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (85.48%) Git
2 6 (9.68%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 34 (54.84%) Finance
2 30 (48.39%) Games
3 16 (25.81%) Retail
4 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (56.45%) Senior
2 34 (54.84%) Developer
3 27 (43.55%) PHP Developer
4 20 (32.26%) Senior Developer
5 19 (30.65%) Senior PHP Developer
6 9 (14.52%) Lead
7 8 (12.90%) PHP Software Engineer
7 8 (12.90%) Software Engineer
8 7 (11.29%) Junior
8 7 (11.29%) Junior Developer
8 7 (11.29%) Web Developer
9 6 (9.68%) PHP Web Developer
9 6 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (8.06%) Development Team Leader
10 5 (8.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (8.06%) Junior PHP Developer
10 5 (8.06%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 5 (8.06%) Team Leader
11 3 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (4.84%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (91.94%) CSS
1 57 (91.94%) HTML
2 41 (66.13%) Laravel
3 15 (24.19%) Web Services
4 13 (20.97%) RESTful
5 11 (17.74%) React
6 8 (12.90%) jQuery
7 7 (11.29%) AngularJS
8 6 (9.68%) Vue
9 3 (4.84%) Jest
9 3 (4.84%) REST
10 2 (3.23%) CakePHP
10 2 (3.23%) LEMP Stack
10 2 (3.23%) Node.js
10 2 (3.23%) Tailwind CSS
11 1 (1.61%) Memcached
11 1 (1.61%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 26 (41.94%) Mobile App
2 6 (9.68%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.84%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (88.71%) OOP
2 51 (82.26%) E-Commerce
3 42 (67.74%) MVC
4 32 (51.61%) Web Development
5 22 (35.48%) Software Engineering
6 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (14.52%) Design Patterns
8 8 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (12.90%) Test Automation
9 7 (11.29%) SOLID
10 6 (9.68%) Code Quality
11 5 (8.06%) Project Delivery
11 5 (8.06%) Regression Testing
12 4 (6.45%) CI/CD
12 4 (6.45%) Data Protection
12 4 (6.45%) TDD
13 3 (4.84%) Fintech
13 3 (4.84%) Front End Development
13 3 (4.84%) Functional Testing
13 3 (4.84%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 62 (100.00%) PHP
2 57 (91.94%) JavaScript
3 4 (6.45%) Python
4 3 (4.84%) Go
5 2 (3.23%) C
5 2 (3.23%) Perl
6 1 (1.61%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) QA
2 1 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (20.97%) Twitter
2 3 (4.84%) Google
3 1 (1.61%) PayPal
3 1 (1.61%) Zend