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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 691 729 690
Rank change year-on-year +38 -39 -242
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 151 158 691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.20% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.86% 0.71% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 140 131 414
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62,625 £78,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +17.65%

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 17,601 22,313 69,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.48% 27.65% 39.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12,656 16,103 29,822
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,875 £83,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,289 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for LAMP in the UK

LAMP
Top 14 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 26 July 2024. 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 +34 149 £52,500 +5.00% 19
UK excluding London -4 125 £52,500 +16.67% 20
South East +22 51 £58,000 +36.47% 7
Work from Home 0 51 £52,500 - 7
South West +10 31 £42,500 -10.53% 2
London +65 24 £77,500 -
Midlands -12 19 £52,500 +20.00% 5
North of England -7 15 £51,500 +14.44% 3
East Midlands - 11 £52,500 - 1
North West -24 9 £52,500 +9.64% 1
East of England -1 8 £50,000 +25.00% 2
West Midlands -6 8 £70,000 +60.00% 4
Yorkshire +58 6 £45,250 +27.46% 2
Scotland - 1 - - 1

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 25 (16.56%) Apache
2 21 (13.91%) nginx
2 21 (13.91%) WordPress
3 9 (5.96%) IIS
4 7 (4.64%) CMS
4 7 (4.64%) Drupal
5 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (3.31%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.65%) Apache Solr
7 2 (1.32%) CloudStack
7 2 (1.32%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.66%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.66%) Moodle
8 1 (0.66%) PrestaShop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Magento
2 1 (0.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (25.83%) AWS
2 18 (11.92%) GCP
3 11 (7.28%) Azure
4 6 (3.97%) Datadog
5 5 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.31%) npm
5 5 (3.31%) OneDrive
5 5 (3.31%) SaaS
6 2 (1.32%) Cloudflare
6 2 (1.32%) GitHub
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.66%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (0.66%) Discord
7 1 (0.66%) IaaS
7 1 (0.66%) PaaS
7 1 (0.66%) Serverless
7 1 (0.66%) Wix.com
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.64%) NAS
1 7 (4.64%) SAN
2 6 (3.97%) DNS
2 6 (3.97%) Firewall
3 5 (3.31%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (3.31%) iSCSI
3 5 (3.31%) VPN
3 5 (3.31%) Wireless
4 3 (1.99%) FTP
4 3 (1.99%) VLAN
5 1 (0.66%) HTTP
5 1 (0.66%) LAN
5 1 (0.66%) SMTP
5 1 (0.66%) SSL
5 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (63.58%) MySQL
2 8 (5.30%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (3.97%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.32%) Big Data
4 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.66%) Firebird
5 1 (0.66%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.66%) Presto
5 1 (0.66%) Redis
5 1 (0.66%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 42 (27.81%) Git
2 19 (12.58%) JIRA
3 13 (8.61%) PHPUnit
4 7 (4.64%) Selenium
5 6 (3.97%) webpack
6 3 (1.99%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.32%) Subversion
8 1 (0.66%) Babel
8 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.66%) Mocha
8 1 (0.66%) rollup.js
General
1 36 (23.84%) Finance
2 17 (11.26%) Retail
3 16 (10.60%) Social Skills
4 6 (3.97%) Tech for Good
5 3 (1.99%) Health Technology
5 3 (1.99%) Marketing
6 2 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.66%) Agriculture
7 1 (0.66%) Electronics
7 1 (0.66%) Legal
7 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 85 (56.29%) Developer
2 61 (40.40%) Senior
3 54 (35.76%) PHP Developer
4 36 (23.84%) Senior Developer
5 29 (19.21%) Software Engineer
6 21 (13.91%) Full Stack Developer
7 20 (13.25%) Senior PHP Developer
8 19 (12.58%) Web Developer
9 14 (9.27%) PHP Software Engineer
9 14 (9.27%) PHP Web Developer
10 11 (7.28%) Senior Full Stack Developer
11 10 (6.62%) Full Stack Engineer
11 10 (6.62%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 10 (6.62%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
11 10 (6.62%) Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
11 10 (6.62%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (5.30%) Backend Developer
12 8 (5.30%) Full Stack PHP Developer
13 6 (3.97%) Senior Backend Developer
13 6 (3.97%) Senior PHP Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (52.32%) HTML
2 74 (49.01%) CSS
3 57 (37.75%) Laravel
4 37 (24.50%) React
5 30 (19.87%) HTML5
6 29 (19.21%) Web Services
7 28 (18.54%) jQuery
8 27 (17.88%) RESTful
9 23 (15.23%) LEMP Stack
9 23 (15.23%) Symfony
10 17 (11.26%) Vue
11 13 (8.61%) REST
12 12 (7.95%) Sass
13 11 (7.28%) CSS3
14 9 (5.96%) Django
14 9 (5.96%) XHTML
15 7 (4.64%) Ajax
15 7 (4.64%) AngularJS
16 6 (3.97%) LESS
16 6 (3.97%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.26%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (5.96%) Cybercrime
3 6 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.97%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.31%) Replication
5 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.32%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.32%) iPhone
6 2 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.66%) Animation
7 1 (0.66%) Derivative
7 1 (0.66%) NHS
7 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.66%) Video Editing
7 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (33.77%) Linux
2 11 (7.28%) Windows
3 10 (6.62%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.97%) VMS
4 6 (3.97%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (3.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.32%) Android
6 2 (1.32%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.66%) CentOS
7 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.66%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (52.32%) OOP
2 54 (35.76%) MVC
3 40 (26.49%) Software Engineering
4 38 (25.17%) Full Stack Development
5 29 (19.21%) Web Development
6 27 (17.88%) E-Commerce
7 21 (13.91%) OO
8 20 (13.25%) Agile
9 14 (9.27%) CRM
9 14 (9.27%) DevOps
9 14 (9.27%) Mentoring
10 11 (7.28%) Load Balancing
10 11 (7.28%) Migration
10 11 (7.28%) TDD
11 10 (6.62%) User Experience
12 9 (5.96%) Design Patterns
12 9 (5.96%) Digital Identity
12 9 (5.96%) OO PHP
12 9 (5.96%) Project Management
13 8 (5.30%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 126 (83.44%) PHP
2 74 (49.01%) JavaScript
3 22 (14.57%) SQL
4 17 (11.26%) Python
5 6 (3.97%) Go
5 6 (3.97%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.31%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.99%) Java
8 2 (1.32%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.66%) Bash
9 1 (0.66%) C#
9 1 (0.66%) C++
9 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.66%) Ruby
9 1 (0.66%) Scala
9 1 (0.66%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 7 (4.64%) Degree
2 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.66%) QA
2 1 (0.66%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (12.58%) Docker
2 6 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.31%) vSphere
4 3 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.66%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 11 (7.28%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (3.31%) SCCM
3 3 (1.99%) Plesk
4 2 (1.32%) cPanel
5 1 (0.66%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (6.62%) Google
2 8 (5.30%) VMware
3 7 (4.64%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.31%) Aruba
4 5 (3.31%) Palo Alto
4 5 (3.31%) ProCurve
4 5 (3.31%) Synology
4 5 (3.31%) Veeam
4 5 (3.31%) Zerto
5 4 (2.65%) Twitter
6 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.66%) Apple
7 1 (0.66%) Oracle
7 1 (0.66%) Sony