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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 601 690 722
Rank change year-on-year +89 +32 -113
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 91 206 267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.08% 0.98% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 86 188 218
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,500 £38,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £49,136
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +1.76% -1.73%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £76,563
90th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% - -5.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

LAMP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing LAMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for LAMP in the UK

LAMP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for LAMP in the UK

LAMP
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for LAMP in the UK

LAMP
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP within the UK 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
UK excluding London +127 83 £60,000 +33.33% 13
England +54 81 £58,750 +17.50% 18
South West +78 32 £60,000 +50.00% 3
Work from Home +121 24 £53,750 +2.38% 27
South East +101 23 £60,000 +40.35% 3
North of England +81 14 £52,500 +38.16% 6
Scotland +140 10 £60,000 -7.69% 1
North West +31 9 £52,500 +101.92% 4
London +78 8 £56,250 +4.65% 7
North East - 5 £55,000 -
Midlands +59 4 £61,250 +16.67%
West Midlands +47 4 £61,250 -

LAMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.59%) Apache
2 2 (2.20%) nginx
3 1 (1.10%) IIS
3 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 70 (76.92%) AWS
2 58 (63.74%) GCP
3 6 (6.59%) SaaS
4 4 (4.40%) Azure
5 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.30%) Serverless
6 2 (2.20%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.10%) Datadog
7 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.10%) npm
7 1 (1.10%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) DNS
1 2 (2.20%) FTP
1 2 (2.20%) HTTP
1 2 (2.20%) HTTPS
1 2 (2.20%) SSH
1 2 (2.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (91.21%) MySQL
2 2 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.10%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 74 (81.32%) Git
2 5 (5.49%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.10%) Babel
3 1 (1.10%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.10%) JIRA
3 1 (1.10%) Vite
General
1 49 (53.85%) Finance
2 45 (49.45%) Games
3 22 (24.18%) Retail
4 4 (4.40%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 49 (53.85%) Senior
2 36 (39.56%) Developer
3 31 (34.07%) PHP Developer
4 25 (27.47%) Senior Developer
4 25 (27.47%) Senior PHP Developer
5 21 (23.08%) Software Engineer
6 16 (17.58%) PHP Software Engineer
7 13 (14.29%) Lead
8 8 (8.79%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (6.59%) Junior
10 6 (6.59%) Junior Developer
10 6 (6.59%) PHP Web Developer
10 6 (6.59%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 6 (6.59%) Web Developer
11 5 (5.49%) Development Team Leader
11 5 (5.49%) Lead Software Engineer
11 5 (5.49%) Team Leader
12 4 (4.40%) Junior PHP Developer
13 3 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (85.71%) CSS
1 78 (85.71%) HTML
2 65 (71.43%) Laravel
3 21 (23.08%) Web Services
4 17 (18.68%) React
5 13 (14.29%) RESTful
6 8 (8.79%) AngularJS
6 8 (8.79%) jQuery
7 7 (7.69%) Vue
8 3 (3.30%) Node.js
8 3 (3.30%) React Native
8 3 (3.30%) Symfony
9 2 (2.20%) CakePHP
9 2 (2.20%) EDI
9 2 (2.20%) Jest
9 2 (2.20%) Loki
9 2 (2.20%) REST
9 2 (2.20%) Tailwind CSS
9 2 (2.20%) XML
10 1 (1.10%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 39 (42.86%) Mobile App
2 12 (13.19%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.20%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.20%) Life Science
3 2 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.20%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (2.20%) Replication
4 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.78%) Linux
2 2 (2.20%) AIX
2 2 (2.20%) CentOS
2 2 (2.20%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (2.20%) Ubuntu
2 2 (2.20%) Unix
2 2 (2.20%) Windows
3 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (85.71%) OOP
2 73 (80.22%) E-Commerce
3 62 (68.13%) MVC
4 46 (50.55%) Web Development
5 41 (45.05%) Software Engineering
6 15 (16.48%) Full-Stack Development
7 13 (14.29%) Design Patterns
8 11 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (12.09%) SOLID
9 8 (8.79%) Test Automation
10 7 (7.69%) TDD
11 6 (6.59%) Code Quality
11 6 (6.59%) DevOps
11 6 (6.59%) Project Delivery
11 6 (6.59%) Regression Testing
12 5 (5.49%) CI/CD
12 5 (5.49%) Fintech
13 4 (4.40%) Agile
13 4 (4.40%) Mentoring
13 4 (4.40%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 90 (98.90%) PHP
2 79 (86.81%) JavaScript
3 7 (7.69%) Python
4 4 (4.40%) Go
5 3 (3.30%) C
5 3 (3.30%) Perl
6 2 (2.20%) AWK
6 2 (2.20%) C++
6 2 (2.20%) Korn
6 2 (2.20%) SQL
7 1 (1.10%) Bash
7 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (4.40%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) QA
System Software
1 9 (9.89%) Docker
2 2 (2.20%) KVM
2 2 (2.20%) Postfix
2 2 (2.20%) Sendmail
3 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.20%) Ansible
2 2 (2.20%) Grafana
2 2 (2.20%) Nagios
2 2 (2.20%) Nessus
3 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (24.18%) Twitter
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.30%) Google
4 2 (2.20%) IBM
4 2 (2.20%) Oracle
4 2 (2.20%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.20%) SAP
4 2 (2.20%) Tenable
5 1 (1.10%) Apple
5 1 (1.10%) Zend