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 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 616 693 724
Rank change year-on-year +77 +31 -103
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 90 209 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 0.99% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 83 191 213
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +26.32% +5.56% -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 8,858 21,074 30,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.19% 21.24% 30.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,395 15,767 18,787
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,907
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.11% +7.89%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £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 11 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 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
UK excluding London +101 81 £60,000 +26.32% 31
England +34 80 £57,500 +15.00% 46
South West +75 29 £60,000 +50.00% 5
South East +93 25 £52,500 - 10
Work from Home +83 25 £52,500 - 40
North of England +58 13 £52,500 +38.16% 13
Scotland +130 10 £60,000 -7.69% 1
London +78 9 £56,250 +2.27% 20
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
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 7 (7.78%) Apache
2 1 (1.11%) IIS
2 1 (1.11%) nginx
2 1 (1.11%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 70 (77.78%) AWS
2 56 (62.22%) GCP
3 10 (11.11%) SaaS
4 3 (3.33%) Azure
4 3 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.33%) Serverless
5 2 (2.22%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.11%) Datadog
6 1 (1.11%) IaaS
6 1 (1.11%) npm
6 1 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) DNS
1 2 (2.22%) FTP
1 2 (2.22%) HTTP
1 2 (2.22%) HTTPS
1 2 (2.22%) SSH
1 2 (2.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (92.22%) MySQL
2 3 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.11%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 75 (83.33%) Git
2 7 (7.78%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.11%) Babel
3 1 (1.11%) GitLab
3 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.11%) JIRA
3 1 (1.11%) Vite
General
1 50 (55.56%) Finance
2 44 (48.89%) Games
3 21 (23.33%) Retail
4 3 (3.33%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 47 (52.22%) Senior
2 37 (41.11%) Developer
3 30 (33.33%) PHP Developer
4 24 (26.67%) Senior Developer
4 24 (26.67%) Senior PHP Developer
5 19 (21.11%) Software Engineer
6 16 (17.78%) PHP Software Engineer
7 13 (14.44%) Lead
8 8 (8.89%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (7.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (6.67%) Junior
10 6 (6.67%) Junior Developer
10 6 (6.67%) PHP Web Developer
10 6 (6.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 6 (6.67%) Web Developer
11 5 (5.56%) Development Team Leader
11 5 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
11 5 (5.56%) Team Leader
12 4 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (84.44%) CSS
1 76 (84.44%) HTML
2 63 (70.00%) Laravel
3 20 (22.22%) Web Services
4 18 (20.00%) React
5 15 (16.67%) RESTful
6 10 (11.11%) jQuery
7 8 (8.89%) AngularJS
8 6 (6.67%) Vue
9 4 (4.44%) Jest
9 4 (4.44%) Node.js
9 4 (4.44%) REST
10 3 (3.33%) React Native
11 2 (2.22%) .NET
11 2 (2.22%) CakePHP
11 2 (2.22%) EDI
11 2 (2.22%) Loki
11 2 (2.22%) Tailwind CSS
11 2 (2.22%) XML
12 1 (1.11%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 38 (42.22%) Mobile App
2 11 (12.22%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.44%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.22%) Life Science
4 2 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.22%) Replication
5 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.89%) Linux
2 3 (3.33%) Unix
3 2 (2.22%) AIX
3 2 (2.22%) CentOS
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (84.44%) OOP
2 70 (77.78%) E-Commerce
3 59 (65.56%) MVC
4 45 (50.00%) Web Development
5 38 (42.22%) Software Engineering
6 14 (15.56%) Design Patterns
6 14 (15.56%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (12.22%) SOLID
8 10 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.11%) TDD
9 9 (10.00%) Test Automation
10 7 (7.78%) CI/CD
10 7 (7.78%) Fintech
11 6 (6.67%) Code Quality
11 6 (6.67%) DevOps
11 6 (6.67%) Project Delivery
11 6 (6.67%) Regression Testing
12 5 (5.56%) Agile
12 5 (5.56%) Roadmaps
13 4 (4.44%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 88 (97.78%) PHP
2 77 (85.56%) JavaScript
3 8 (8.89%) Python
4 4 (4.44%) C
4 4 (4.44%) Go
4 4 (4.44%) Perl
5 2 (2.22%) AWK
5 2 (2.22%) C++
5 2 (2.22%) Korn
5 2 (2.22%) SQL
5 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.11%) Bash
6 1 (1.11%) Java
6 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 12 (13.33%) Docker
2 3 (3.33%) KVM
3 2 (2.22%) Postfix
3 2 (2.22%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.22%) Grafana
2 2 (2.22%) Nagios
2 2 (2.22%) Nessus
2 2 (2.22%) Terraform
3 1 (1.11%) Ansible
3 1 (1.11%) CFEngine
3 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (23.33%) Twitter
2 3 (3.33%) Google
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.33%) Oracle
3 2 (2.22%) IBM
3 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.22%) SAP
3 2 (2.22%) Tenable
4 1 (1.11%) Apple
4 1 (1.11%) VMware
4 1 (1.11%) Zend