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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 593 589
Rank change year-on-year +101 -4 -86
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 81 167 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.59% 1.17% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 75 149 139
10th Percentile £35,500 £28,700 £27,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £35,000 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £63,750 £89,250
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 5,103 14,312 16,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.06% 20.16% 27.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,589 10,307 9,086
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £73,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.11% +7.89%

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 11 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 11 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 +75 29 £60,000 +50.00% 5
South East +93 25 £52,500 - 10
North of England +58 13 £52,500 +38.16% 13
Scotland +130 10 £60,000 -7.69% 1
North West +1 9 £52,500 +101.92% 10
West Midlands +57 4 £61,250 - 5
Midlands +42 4 £61,250 +16.67% 5
North East - 4 £55,000 -
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 6 (7.41%) Apache
2 1 (1.23%) IIS
2 1 (1.23%) nginx
2 1 (1.23%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 61 (75.31%) AWS
2 51 (62.96%) GCP
3 8 (9.88%) SaaS
4 3 (3.70%) Azure
4 3 (3.70%) Serverless
5 2 (2.47%) Cloudflare
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.23%) Datadog
6 1 (1.23%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) DNS
1 2 (2.47%) FTP
1 2 (2.47%) HTTP
1 2 (2.47%) HTTPS
1 2 (2.47%) SSH
1 2 (2.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (93.83%) MySQL
2 2 (2.47%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 68 (83.95%) Git
2 6 (7.41%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.23%) Babel
3 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.23%) Vite
General
1 44 (54.32%) Finance
2 39 (48.15%) Games
3 21 (25.93%) Retail
4 2 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.47%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.47%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (56.79%) Senior
2 35 (43.21%) Developer
3 29 (35.80%) PHP Developer
4 23 (28.40%) Senior Developer
4 23 (28.40%) Senior PHP Developer
5 15 (18.52%) Software Engineer
6 13 (16.05%) Lead
7 12 (14.81%) PHP Software Engineer
8 8 (9.88%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (8.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (7.41%) Junior
10 6 (7.41%) Junior Developer
10 6 (7.41%) PHP Web Developer
10 6 (7.41%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 6 (7.41%) Web Developer
11 5 (6.17%) Development Team Leader
11 5 (6.17%) Lead Software Engineer
11 5 (6.17%) Team Leader
12 4 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (4.94%) Junior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (86.42%) CSS
1 70 (86.42%) HTML
2 57 (70.37%) Laravel
3 20 (24.69%) Web Services
4 16 (19.75%) React
5 14 (17.28%) RESTful
6 9 (11.11%) jQuery
7 8 (9.88%) AngularJS
8 6 (7.41%) Vue
9 3 (3.70%) Jest
9 3 (3.70%) Node.js
9 3 (3.70%) React Native
9 3 (3.70%) REST
10 2 (2.47%) CakePHP
10 2 (2.47%) EDI
10 2 (2.47%) Loki
10 2 (2.47%) Tailwind CSS
10 2 (2.47%) XML
11 1 (1.23%) .NET
11 1 (1.23%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 33 (40.74%) Mobile App
2 11 (13.58%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.47%) Life Science
4 2 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.47%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.47%) Replication
5 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.52%) Linux
2 2 (2.47%) AIX
2 2 (2.47%) CentOS
2 2 (2.47%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (2.47%) Unix
3 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (86.42%) OOP
2 65 (80.25%) E-Commerce
3 54 (66.67%) MVC
4 40 (49.38%) Web Development
5 33 (40.74%) Software Engineering
6 13 (16.05%) Design Patterns
6 13 (16.05%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (13.58%) SOLID
8 10 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (9.88%) TDD
9 8 (9.88%) Test Automation
10 6 (7.41%) CI/CD
10 6 (7.41%) Code Quality
10 6 (7.41%) Fintech
10 6 (7.41%) Project Delivery
10 6 (7.41%) Regression Testing
11 5 (6.17%) DevOps
12 3 (3.70%) Data Privacy
12 3 (3.70%) Mentoring
12 3 (3.70%) Mobile First
Programming Languages
1 81 (100.00%) PHP
2 70 (86.42%) JavaScript
3 7 (8.64%) Python
4 4 (4.94%) C
4 4 (4.94%) Go
4 4 (4.94%) Perl
5 2 (2.47%) AWK
5 2 (2.47%) C++
5 2 (2.47%) Korn
6 1 (1.23%) SQL
6 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) QA
System Software
1 9 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (2.47%) KVM
2 2 (2.47%) Postfix
2 2 (2.47%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 4 (4.94%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.47%) Grafana
2 2 (2.47%) Nagios
2 2 (2.47%) Nessus
Vendors
1 18 (22.22%) Twitter
2 3 (3.70%) Google
2 3 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.47%) IBM
3 2 (2.47%) Oracle
3 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.47%) SAP
3 2 (2.47%) Tenable
4 1 (1.23%) Zend