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 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 626 661 792
Rank change year-on-year +35 +131 -237
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 141 69 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.13% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 0.50% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 113 65 239
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £40,000 £40,683
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

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 13,294 13,874 39,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.17% 26.19% 32.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7,952 10,831 24,077
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,052 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,351 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +0.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £108,750 £106,289 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - - +9.52%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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 +10 136 £55,000 +4.76% 26
UK excluding London +4 128 £55,000 +4.76% 18
South East -7 48 £58,000 -12.45% 4
South West +16 35 £60,000 +14.29% 5
North of England -16 32 £52,500 +30.78% 4
North West -21 29 £52,500 +30.78% 3
Work from Home -17 20 £55,000 +4.76% 17
London -15 13 £55,000 +4.76% 10
Midlands -42 8 £53,750 +2.38% 2
West Midlands - 6 £55,000 - 2
Scotland - 4 £57,500 - 3
North East - 3 £55,000 - 1
East Midlands -31 2 £52,500 -
Wales - 2 £47,500 -

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 43 (30.50%) Apache
2 27 (19.15%) nginx
3 6 (4.26%) WordPress
4 5 (3.55%) CMS
5 3 (2.13%) Apache Solr
5 3 (2.13%) IIS
6 2 (1.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Magento
2 2 (1.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 61 (43.26%) AWS
2 51 (36.17%) GCP
3 17 (12.06%) Datadog
4 12 (8.51%) Serverless
5 10 (7.09%) SaaS
6 8 (5.67%) Azure
7 3 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.42%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.71%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.71%) Figma
9 1 (0.71%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.71%) npm
9 1 (0.71%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.55%) Firewall
2 4 (2.84%) DNS
3 3 (2.13%) SSL
3 3 (2.13%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.42%) DHCP
4 2 (1.42%) FTP
4 2 (1.42%) HTTP
4 2 (1.42%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.42%) SSH
5 1 (0.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (68.79%) MySQL
2 6 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.55%) Big Data
4 4 (2.84%) MariaDB
4 4 (2.84%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 51 (36.17%) Git
2 23 (16.31%) PHPUnit
3 6 (4.26%) Babel
3 6 (4.26%) JIRA
3 6 (4.26%) Mercurial
3 6 (4.26%) Selenium
4 5 (3.55%) Mocha
4 5 (3.55%) rollup.js
4 5 (3.55%) webpack
5 2 (1.42%) gulp
6 1 (0.71%) GitLab
6 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.71%) Vite
General
1 42 (29.79%) Finance
2 28 (19.86%) Retail
3 17 (12.06%) Games
4 15 (10.64%) Social Skills
5 6 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.55%) Marketing
7 2 (1.42%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.71%) Legal
Job Titles
1 73 (51.77%) Senior
2 58 (41.13%) Developer
3 40 (28.37%) Senior Developer
4 36 (25.53%) PHP Developer
5 30 (21.28%) Senior PHP Developer
6 28 (19.86%) Web Developer
7 27 (19.15%) Software Engineer
8 20 (14.18%) PHP Web Developer
9 17 (12.06%) Backend Developer
9 17 (12.06%) Senior Backend Developer
9 17 (12.06%) Senior PHP Web Developer
9 17 (12.06%) Senior Web Developer
10 15 (10.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 14 (9.93%) Lead
12 13 (9.22%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (8.51%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 9 (6.38%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (6.38%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 8 (5.67%) PHP Software Engineer
16 7 (4.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (60.99%) HTML
2 85 (60.28%) CSS
3 49 (34.75%) Laravel
4 48 (34.04%) React
5 26 (18.44%) LEMP Stack
6 25 (17.73%) Symfony
7 17 (12.06%) jQuery
8 15 (10.64%) Web Services
9 13 (9.22%) HTML5
10 11 (7.80%) Vue
11 9 (6.38%) RESTful
12 8 (5.67%) React Native
13 7 (4.96%) Sass
14 6 (4.26%) AngularJS
14 6 (4.26%) LAPP Stack
15 5 (3.55%) .NET
15 5 (3.55%) Jest
15 5 (3.55%) LESS
16 4 (2.84%) Ajax
16 4 (2.84%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.06%) Mobile App
2 16 (11.35%) Cybercrime
3 13 (9.22%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (4.26%) Cyber Security Posture
4 6 (4.26%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.13%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.42%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.42%) EPoS
6 2 (1.42%) Life Science
6 2 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.42%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.42%) Photography
6 2 (1.42%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.42%) Replication
7 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.71%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 60 (42.55%) Linux
2 8 (5.67%) Ubuntu
2 8 (5.67%) Windows
3 5 (3.55%) CentOS
4 3 (2.13%) Unix
5 2 (1.42%) AIX
5 2 (1.42%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.42%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.42%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.71%) Android
6 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (59.57%) OOP
2 60 (42.55%) MVC
3 56 (39.72%) E-Commerce
4 53 (37.59%) Software Engineering
5 47 (33.33%) Web Development
6 26 (18.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 23 (16.31%) Design Patterns
7 23 (16.31%) TDD
8 18 (12.77%) Agile
9 17 (12.06%) Computer Science
9 17 (12.06%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (11.35%) Digital Identity
11 15 (10.64%) CI/CD
11 15 (10.64%) SOLID
12 14 (9.93%) Mentoring
13 13 (9.22%) DevOps
14 12 (8.51%) BDD
14 12 (8.51%) Migration
14 12 (8.51%) Roadmaps
15 11 (7.80%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 133 (94.33%) PHP
2 85 (60.28%) JavaScript
3 12 (8.51%) Python
4 10 (7.09%) SQL
4 10 (7.09%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.55%) Go
6 3 (2.13%) Perl
6 3 (2.13%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.42%) AWK
7 2 (1.42%) C
7 2 (1.42%) C#
7 2 (1.42%) C++
7 2 (1.42%) Java
7 2 (1.42%) Korn
8 1 (0.71%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (12.77%) Degree
2 15 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 6 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.71%) GDPR
2 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (12.06%) Docker
2 2 (1.42%) KVM
2 2 (1.42%) Postfix
2 2 (1.42%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (5.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.42%) Ansible
2 2 (1.42%) Grafana
2 2 (1.42%) Nagios
2 2 (1.42%) Nessus
3 1 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (17.73%) Google
2 10 (7.09%) Twitter
3 7 (4.96%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.42%) IBM
4 2 (1.42%) Oracle
4 2 (1.42%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.42%) SAP
4 2 (1.42%) WooCommerce
4 2 (1.42%) Zoho
5 1 (0.71%) Apple