LAMP Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for LAMP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LAMP over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 609 703
Rank change year-on-year +84 +94 -131
Contract jobs citing LAMP 12 28 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.059% 0.085%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.26% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 34
10th Percentile £398 £366 £331
25th Percentile £415 £419 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% -6.25% +14.94%
75th Percentile £628 £489 £550
90th Percentile £1,000 £499 £593
UK median daily rate £503 £456 £500
% change year-on-year +10.14% -8.75% +19.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.00
Median hourly rate - £83.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year - +80.43% -
75th Percentile - - £50.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £83.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year - +80.43% +170.59%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,636 10,805 18,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.76% 22.74% 26.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,406 8,012 14,143
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £570
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -2.54% +14.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £791 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 132 201
10th Percentile £22.70 £30.08 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +23.81% +11.70%
75th Percentile £66.88 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -25.49% +23.81% +16.67%

LAMP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing LAMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for LAMP in England

LAMP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LAMP in England.

Daily rate trend for LAMP in England

LAMP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAMP in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LAMP in England

LAMP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LAMP in England.

Hourly rate trend for LAMP in England

LAMP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 7 £474 - 3
London +66 2 £500 +6.67% 15
Midlands - 2 £1,000 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £1,000 - 1
LAMP
UK

LAMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (66.67%) Apache
2 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (16.67%) CMS
3 2 (16.67%) IIS
3 2 (16.67%) Jadu
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (16.67%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) HTTP
2 3 (25.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (16.67%) NAS
3 2 (16.67%) SAN
3 2 (16.67%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) Wireless
4 1 (8.33%) DHCP
4 1 (8.33%) InfiniBand
4 1 (8.33%) Kerberos
4 1 (8.33%) LAN
4 1 (8.33%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (8.33%) SSH
4 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.33%) VLAN
4 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) MySQL
2 5 (41.67%) MariaDB
3 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (16.67%) Power BI
5 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) PHP Developer
3 2 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 1 (8.33%) LAMP Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior LAMP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) LDAP
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) SOAP
2 2 (16.67%) Symfony
2 2 (16.67%) Twig
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) jQuery
3 1 (8.33%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (8.33%) Laravel
3 1 (8.33%) libvirt
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 2 (16.67%) VMS
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) DevOps
1 3 (25.00%) Migration
1 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (16.67%) Agile
2 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
2 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (16.67%) Database Migration
2 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) TDD
2 2 (16.67%) Workflow
3 1 (8.33%) B2B
3 1 (8.33%) B2C
3 1 (8.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (8.33%) Project Management
3 1 (8.33%) User Experience
3 1 (8.33%) Web Application Development
3 1 (8.33%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) PHP
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Perl
4 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) vSphere
2 1 (8.33%) Ceph
2 1 (8.33%) iptables
2 1 (8.33%) KVM
2 1 (8.33%) Lustre
2 1 (8.33%) NFS
2 1 (8.33%) Samba
2 1 (8.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) HAProxy
2 1 (8.33%) SELinux
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Aruba
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 2 (16.67%) ProCurve
2 2 (16.67%) Synology
2 2 (16.67%) Veeam
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) Zerto