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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 696 727 635
Rank change year-on-year +31 -92 -181
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 214 223 793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.24% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.99% 0.81% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 197 181 482
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +17.03%
75th Percentile £60,000 £78,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £92,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -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 21,541 27,618 70,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.52% 29.18% 41.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16,014 17,838 29,844
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +17.27%
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +32 210 £50,000 +5.26% 16
UK excluding London -1 169 £46,250 +2.78% 8
Work from Home -9 97 £52,500 - 14
South West +9 59 £37,500 -16.67% 1
London +96 43 £55,001 -21.43% 8
South East -15 38 £52,500 +35.48% 1
Midlands -1 27 £52,500 +23.53%
East of England +7 25 £50,000 -16.67%
East Midlands - 20 £52,500 -
North of England +16 17 £38,000 -15.56% 5
North West -25 9 £26,000 -42.22% 2
Yorkshire +67 8 £38,500 +10.00% 2
West Midlands -22 7 - -
Scotland - 2 £65,000 -
Wales +9 1 £50,000 +11.11% 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 41 (19.16%) Apache
2 34 (15.89%) WordPress
3 22 (10.28%) nginx
4 17 (7.94%) IIS
5 15 (7.01%) Drupal
6 11 (5.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (4.21%) SharePoint
8 4 (1.87%) Apache Solr
8 4 (1.87%) CloudStack
8 4 (1.87%) CMS
8 4 (1.87%) ColdFusion
8 4 (1.87%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.93%) Moodle
10 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.47%) Confluence
10 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.47%) PrestaShop
Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.87%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.47%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 10 (4.67%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.47%) Magento
2 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 61 (28.50%) AWS
2 17 (7.94%) SaaS
3 16 (7.48%) Azure
4 9 (4.21%) GCP
4 9 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (4.21%) OneDrive
5 5 (2.34%) Amazon S3
5 5 (2.34%) GitHub
5 5 (2.34%) npm
6 3 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (1.40%) PaaS
7 2 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 2 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (0.93%) Cloudflare
7 2 (0.93%) Datadog
7 2 (0.93%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.93%) Mimecast
7 2 (0.93%) OpenDNS
7 2 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.01%) DNS
1 15 (7.01%) SAN
2 13 (6.07%) Firewall
2 13 (6.07%) NAS
3 11 (5.14%) iSCSI
3 11 (5.14%) VPN
4 9 (4.21%) Fibre Channel
4 9 (4.21%) Wireless
5 6 (2.80%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.80%) VLAN
6 4 (1.87%) FTP
6 4 (1.87%) SMTP
7 3 (1.40%) HTTP
8 2 (0.93%) DHCP
8 2 (0.93%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.93%) LAN
8 2 (0.93%) OSPF
8 2 (0.93%) RIP
8 2 (0.93%) VRRP
8 2 (0.93%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (69.16%) MySQL
2 17 (7.94%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.27%) Big Data
3 7 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.80%) MariaDB
5 5 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.34%) Redis
6 4 (1.87%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.40%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.93%) phpMyAdmin
8 2 (0.93%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.47%) Firebird
9 1 (0.47%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.47%) Presto
9 1 (0.47%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 62 (28.97%) Git
2 19 (8.88%) JIRA
3 11 (5.14%) Subversion
4 6 (2.80%) PHPUnit
5 5 (2.34%) webpack
6 4 (1.87%) Selenium
7 3 (1.40%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.93%) git-flow
9 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.47%) GitLab
General
1 25 (11.68%) Finance
2 23 (10.75%) Retail
2 23 (10.75%) Social Skills
3 10 (4.67%) Banking
3 10 (4.67%) Retail Banking
4 7 (3.27%) Tech for Good
5 5 (2.34%) Marketing
6 4 (1.87%) Health Technology
6 4 (1.87%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.93%) German Language
7 2 (0.93%) Law
7 2 (0.93%) Legal
7 2 (0.93%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.47%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.47%) Electronics
8 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 123 (57.48%) Developer
2 68 (31.78%) PHP Developer
3 42 (19.63%) Senior
3 42 (19.63%) Software Engineer
4 41 (19.16%) Web Developer
5 34 (15.89%) PHP Software Engineer
6 32 (14.95%) Senior Developer
7 29 (13.55%) Full Stack Developer
8 20 (9.35%) PHP Web Developer
9 13 (6.07%) Senior PHP Developer
10 11 (5.14%) Full Stack PHP Developer
10 11 (5.14%) Full Stack Web Developer
10 11 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.74%) Network Engineer
11 8 (3.74%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.27%) Drupal Developer
12 7 (3.27%) Lead
12 7 (3.27%) Software Developer
12 7 (3.27%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (52.80%) HTML
2 111 (51.87%) Laravel
3 109 (50.93%) CSS
4 65 (30.37%) jQuery
5 58 (27.10%) Web Services
6 42 (19.63%) RESTful
7 34 (15.89%) Vue
8 32 (14.95%) HTML5
8 32 (14.95%) Symfony
9 25 (11.68%) LEMP Stack
10 21 (9.81%) React
11 16 (7.48%) Sass
12 15 (7.01%) REST
13 14 (6.54%) SOAP
14 13 (6.07%) CSS3
15 9 (4.21%) XHTML
16 8 (3.74%) AngularJS
16 8 (3.74%) XML
17 7 (3.27%) SVG
18 6 (2.80%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.14%) Replication
2 10 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (4.67%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.27%) Animation
4 7 (3.27%) Video Editing
5 5 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.34%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.34%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.87%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.87%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.87%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.93%) iPhone
7 2 (0.93%) PKI
7 2 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.47%) Clustering
8 1 (0.47%) Derivative
8 1 (0.47%) NHS
8 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (34.58%) Linux
2 23 (10.75%) Windows
3 15 (7.01%) Ubuntu
4 11 (5.14%) Windows Server
5 10 (4.67%) VMS
6 9 (4.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (4.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.40%) CentOS
8 1 (0.47%) Android
8 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.47%) Rocky
8 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (53.74%) OOP
2 89 (41.59%) MVC
3 51 (23.83%) Software Engineering
3 51 (23.83%) Web Development
4 38 (17.76%) Full Stack Development
5 33 (15.42%) CRM
6 30 (14.02%) E-Commerce
7 29 (13.55%) Mentoring
8 28 (13.08%) Agile
9 20 (9.35%) TDD
10 19 (8.88%) OO
11 16 (7.48%) Performance Optimisation
12 15 (7.01%) Project Management
13 14 (6.54%) DevOps
14 12 (5.61%) Fintech
15 11 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 11 (5.14%) Test Automation
15 11 (5.14%) User Experience
16 10 (4.67%) API Integration
17 9 (4.21%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 180 (84.11%) PHP
2 109 (50.93%) JavaScript
3 28 (13.08%) SQL
4 26 (12.15%) Python
5 15 (7.01%) Java
6 9 (4.21%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.27%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.80%) Go
9 4 (1.87%) Bash
9 4 (1.87%) CFML
9 4 (1.87%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.93%) C#
10 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.47%) C
11 1 (0.47%) C++
11 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.47%) Ruby
11 1 (0.47%) Scala
11 1 (0.47%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 13 (6.07%) Degree
2 4 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.87%) QA
2 3 (1.40%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 32 (14.95%) Docker
2 13 (6.07%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.21%) vSphere
4 6 (2.80%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.93%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.93%) pfSense
6 2 (0.93%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.47%) etcd
7 1 (0.47%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 12 (5.61%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (4.21%) SCCM
3 6 (2.80%) cPanel
4 5 (2.34%) Ansible
4 5 (2.34%) Plesk
5 4 (1.87%) Puppet
5 4 (1.87%) Terraform
6 2 (0.93%) Backup Exec
6 2 (0.93%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.47%) Cacti
7 1 (0.47%) Consul
7 1 (0.47%) Grafana
7 1 (0.47%) Icinga
7 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 20 (9.35%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.54%) VMware
3 11 (5.14%) Aruba
3 11 (5.14%) Veeam
4 9 (4.21%) Palo Alto
4 9 (4.21%) ProCurve
4 9 (4.21%) Synology
4 9 (4.21%) Zerto
5 7 (3.27%) Adobe
6 5 (2.34%) Google
6 5 (2.34%) Twitter
7 4 (1.87%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.93%) Acronis
8 2 (0.93%) Cisco
8 2 (0.93%) Citrix
8 2 (0.93%) HP
8 2 (0.93%) Oracle
8 2 (0.93%) SonicWALL
8 2 (0.93%) Sophos
8 2 (0.93%) Veritas