LAMP Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring LAMP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 646 580 644
Rank change year-on-year -66 +64 +114
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 26 123 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.039% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.34% 1.12% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 26 97 158
10th Percentile £32,125 £39,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £48,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,125 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £55,313 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,625 £73,250 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,000 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.17% +27.78% -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 7,545 11,030 17,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.34% 22.13% 23.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,546 6,658 14,215
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +7.48% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

LAMP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

LAMP job vacancy trend in the UK

LAMP
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LAMP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LAMP

LAMP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LAMP over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Salary histogram for LAMP in the UK

LAMP
Top 9 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 12 February 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
England -55 23 £42,500 -22.73% 16
UK excluding London -64 15 £39,000 -32.17% 17
Work from Home +34 12 £42,375 -19.29% 3
West Midlands +23 11 £39,000 -29.09% 4
Midlands 0 11 £39,000 -29.09% 5
London +27 7 £45,000 -18.18%
South West -46 3 £65,000 +8.33% 1
North West -6 1 £47,500 -9.52% 2
North of England -31 1 £47,500 -9.52% 6

LAMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (38.46%) IIS
2 9 (34.62%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) SaaS
2 4 (15.38%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.85%) Azure
3 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) MySQL
2 10 (38.46%) SQL Server
3 3 (11.54%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) PHPUnit
General
1 14 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Advertising
3 1 (3.85%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Support Specialist
2 7 (26.92%) Applications Support
3 6 (23.08%) Applications Specialist
3 6 (23.08%) Applications Support Specialist
3 6 (23.08%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Administrator
4 4 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Specialist
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Support
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Support Specialist
5 3 (11.54%) DevOps Administrator
5 3 (11.54%) DevOps Systems Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Linux DevOps Administrator
5 3 (11.54%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Support Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) REST
1 4 (15.38%) SOAP
2 3 (11.54%) CSS
2 3 (11.54%) HTML
2 3 (11.54%) Symfony
3 2 (7.69%) Middleware
3 2 (7.69%) React Native
3 2 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (3.85%) Alpine.js
4 1 (3.85%) Kafka
4 1 (3.85%) Laravel
4 1 (3.85%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) ARM Cortex
3 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (84.62%) Linux
2 6 (23.08%) CentOS
3 5 (19.23%) Ubuntu
4 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (11.54%) Rocky
5 2 (7.69%) Android
5 2 (7.69%) Debian
5 2 (7.69%) Nucleus RTOS
5 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) CRM
2 10 (38.46%) Customer Experience
3 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 5 (19.23%) DevOps
5 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Case Management
6 4 (15.38%) Proactive Management
6 4 (15.38%) Process Improvement
7 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
7 3 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
8 2 (7.69%) Configuration Management
8 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (7.69%) Mobile Application Development
8 2 (7.69%) MVC
8 2 (7.69%) OOP
8 2 (7.69%) Service Management
8 2 (7.69%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) PHP
2 13 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (42.31%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) Perl
4 3 (11.54%) Python
4 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
4 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.69%) C
5 2 (7.69%) C#
6 1 (3.85%) Bash
6 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.69%) PhD
4 1 (3.85%) MySQL Certification
4 1 (3.85%) RHCE
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
1 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Ansible
2 3 (11.54%) Nagios
3 2 (7.69%) Terraform
4 1 (3.85%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.85%) Opsgenie
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
1 10 (38.46%) Oracle
1 10 (38.46%) Salesforce
2 4 (15.38%) HubSpot
3 1 (3.85%) Adobe
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.85%) VMware
3 1 (3.85%) Zend