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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for LAMP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited LAMP over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 683 739 634
Rank change year-on-year +56 -105 -171
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 208 258 757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.25% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.99% 0.84% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 190 211 490
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,375 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £57,500 £75,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £65,250 £92,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

LAMP is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,097 30,626 64,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.27% 30.16% 40.72%
Number of salaries quoted 15,763 18,846 30,127
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.57% +14.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £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 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for LAMP in the UK

LAMP
Top 15 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 May 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 +41 204 £50,000 +5.26% 34
UK excluding London -5 165 £45,000 - 20
Work from Home -11 98 £52,500 +10.53% 12
South West +4 61 £40,000 -11.11% 3
London +98 42 £53,751 -20.37% 14
South East -6 31 £52,500 +31.25% 3
Midlands +12 27 £52,500 +23.53% 5
East of England +10 25 £50,000 -41.18%
East Midlands - 20 £52,500 - 3
North of England +31 18 £38,000 -15.56% 9
North West -8 10 £26,000 -42.22% 7
Yorkshire +84 8 £38,500 +10.00% 2
West Midlands 0 7 - - 2
Scotland - 2 £65,000 -
Wales +9 1 £50,000 +11.11%

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 41 (19.71%) Apache
2 35 (16.83%) WordPress
3 22 (10.58%) nginx
4 18 (8.65%) IIS
5 15 (7.21%) Drupal
6 12 (5.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (4.81%) SharePoint
8 4 (1.92%) Apache Solr
8 4 (1.92%) CloudStack
8 4 (1.92%) ColdFusion
8 4 (1.92%) Tomcat
9 3 (1.44%) CMS
10 2 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.96%) Moodle
11 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.48%) Confluence
11 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.48%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.92%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.48%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 10 (4.81%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.48%) Magento
2 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (26.92%) AWS
2 15 (7.21%) Azure
3 14 (6.73%) SaaS
4 10 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.81%) OneDrive
5 5 (2.40%) Amazon S3
5 5 (2.40%) GCP
5 5 (2.40%) GitHub
5 5 (2.40%) npm
6 3 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (1.44%) PaaS
7 2 (0.96%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 2 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (0.96%) Cloudflare
7 2 (0.96%) Datadog
7 2 (0.96%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.96%) Mimecast
7 2 (0.96%) OpenDNS
7 2 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.69%) DNS
1 16 (7.69%) SAN
2 14 (6.73%) Firewall
2 14 (6.73%) NAS
3 12 (5.77%) iSCSI
3 12 (5.77%) VPN
4 10 (4.81%) Fibre Channel
4 10 (4.81%) Wireless
5 6 (2.88%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.88%) VLAN
6 4 (1.92%) FTP
6 4 (1.92%) SMTP
7 3 (1.44%) HTTP
8 2 (0.96%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.96%) IPsec
8 2 (0.96%) Network Security
8 2 (0.96%) OSPF
8 2 (0.96%) RIP
8 2 (0.96%) VRRP
8 2 (0.96%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (68.75%) MySQL
2 18 (8.65%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.37%) Big Data
3 7 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.88%) MariaDB
5 5 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.40%) Redis
6 4 (1.92%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.44%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.96%) phpMyAdmin
8 2 (0.96%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.48%) Firebird
9 1 (0.48%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.48%) Presto
9 1 (0.48%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 60 (28.85%) Git
2 18 (8.65%) JIRA
3 11 (5.29%) Subversion
4 5 (2.40%) webpack
5 4 (1.92%) PHPUnit
6 3 (1.44%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.96%) git-flow
7 2 (0.96%) Selenium
8 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.48%) GitLab
8 1 (0.48%) WiX
General
1 25 (12.02%) Retail
2 21 (10.10%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.13%) Finance
4 10 (4.81%) Banking
4 10 (4.81%) Retail Banking
5 5 (2.40%) Marketing
5 5 (2.40%) Tech for Good
5 5 (2.40%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.92%) Health Technology
7 2 (0.96%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.96%) German Language
7 2 (0.96%) Law
7 2 (0.96%) Legal
7 2 (0.96%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.48%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.48%) Electronics
8 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 124 (59.62%) Developer
2 71 (34.13%) PHP Developer
3 41 (19.71%) Web Developer
4 37 (17.79%) Senior
4 37 (17.79%) Software Engineer
5 34 (16.35%) PHP Software Engineer
6 32 (15.38%) Senior Developer
7 26 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
8 20 (9.62%) PHP Web Developer
9 15 (7.21%) Senior PHP Developer
10 12 (5.77%) Full Stack PHP Developer
11 11 (5.29%) Full Stack Web Developer
11 11 (5.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.33%) Network Engineer
13 8 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (3.85%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.85%) Software Developer
13 8 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
14 7 (3.37%) Drupal Developer
14 7 (3.37%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (53.85%) HTML
1 112 (53.85%) Laravel
2 108 (51.92%) CSS
3 64 (30.77%) jQuery
4 58 (27.88%) Web Services
5 42 (20.19%) RESTful
6 33 (15.87%) Symfony
6 33 (15.87%) Vue
7 30 (14.42%) HTML5
8 25 (12.02%) LEMP Stack
9 18 (8.65%) React
10 16 (7.69%) Sass
11 14 (6.73%) REST
11 14 (6.73%) SOAP
12 13 (6.25%) CSS3
13 9 (4.33%) AngularJS
14 8 (3.85%) XML
15 7 (3.37%) SVG
16 6 (2.88%) JSON
16 6 (2.88%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.77%) Replication
2 11 (5.29%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (4.33%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.37%) Animation
4 7 (3.37%) Video Editing
5 5 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.40%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.40%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.92%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.92%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.92%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.96%) iPhone
7 2 (0.96%) PKI
8 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.48%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.48%) Clustering
8 1 (0.48%) Derivative
8 1 (0.48%) NHS
8 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (35.58%) Linux
2 24 (11.54%) Windows
3 16 (7.69%) Ubuntu
4 12 (5.77%) Windows Server
5 11 (5.29%) VMS
6 10 (4.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (4.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.44%) CentOS
8 1 (0.48%) Android
8 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.48%) Rocky
8 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (52.88%) OOP
2 90 (43.27%) MVC
3 51 (24.52%) Web Development
4 48 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 33 (15.87%) CRM
5 33 (15.87%) Full Stack Development
6 30 (14.42%) E-Commerce
6 30 (14.42%) Mentoring
7 28 (13.46%) Agile
8 19 (9.13%) OO
9 16 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
9 16 (7.69%) TDD
10 15 (7.21%) Project Management
11 12 (5.77%) DevOps
11 12 (5.77%) Fintech
11 12 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (5.29%) User Experience
13 10 (4.81%) API Integration
13 10 (4.81%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (4.33%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 175 (84.13%) PHP
2 107 (51.44%) JavaScript
3 27 (12.98%) SQL
4 23 (11.06%) Python
5 15 (7.21%) Java
6 10 (4.81%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.37%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.92%) Bash
8 4 (1.92%) CFML
8 4 (1.92%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.44%) Go
10 2 (0.96%) C#
10 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.48%) C
11 1 (0.48%) C++
11 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.48%) Ruby
11 1 (0.48%) Scala
11 1 (0.48%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 13 (6.25%) Degree
2 4 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.92%) QA
2 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.96%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 27 (12.98%) Docker
2 14 (6.73%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.81%) vSphere
4 6 (2.88%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.96%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.96%) pfSense
6 2 (0.96%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.48%) etcd
7 1 (0.48%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (4.81%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (4.81%) SCCM
2 9 (4.33%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.88%) cPanel
4 5 (2.40%) Ansible
4 5 (2.40%) Plesk
5 4 (1.92%) Puppet
5 4 (1.92%) Terraform
6 2 (0.96%) Backup Exec
6 2 (0.96%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.48%) Cacti
7 1 (0.48%) Consul
7 1 (0.48%) Grafana
7 1 (0.48%) Icinga
7 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 21 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.21%) VMware
3 12 (5.77%) Aruba
3 12 (5.77%) Veeam
4 10 (4.81%) Palo Alto
4 10 (4.81%) ProCurve
4 10 (4.81%) Synology
4 10 (4.81%) Zerto
5 7 (3.37%) Adobe
6 6 (2.88%) Twitter
7 4 (1.92%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.44%) Google
9 2 (0.96%) Acronis
9 2 (0.96%) Cisco
9 2 (0.96%) Citrix
9 2 (0.96%) HP
9 2 (0.96%) Oracle
9 2 (0.96%) SonicWALL
9 2 (0.96%) Sophos
9 2 (0.96%) Veritas