LAMP Contracts

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 563 648 756
Rank change year-on-year +85 +108 -110
Contract jobs citing LAMP 12 34 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.061% 0.094%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.26% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 50
10th Percentile £400 £300 £331
25th Percentile £461 £363 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.59% -7.50% +19.76%
75th Percentile £638 £488 £559
90th Percentile £1,000 £516 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +12.77% -6.00% +51.52%
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% +170.59%
75th Percentile - - £50.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 contract job vacancies 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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for LAMP in the UK

LAMP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAMP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LAMP in the UK

LAMP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for LAMP in the UK

LAMP
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +68 11 £530 +11.58% 16
UK excluding London +40 8 £530 +12.77% 8
South East - 6 £475 - 1
London +74 2 £500 +5.26% 8
Midlands - 2 £1,000 -
West Midlands - 2 £1,000 -
Work from Home +99 1 - - 14

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 9 (75.00%) Apache
2 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (16.67%) IIS
3 2 (16.67%) Jadu
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (16.67%) WordPress
4 1 (8.33%) CMS
4 1 (8.33%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
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%) SSL
4 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.33%) tcpdump
4 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) MySQL
2 6 (50.00%) MariaDB
3 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) French Language
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) PHP Developer
3 2 (16.67%) C# 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%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Full Stack 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%) LAPP Stack
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) SOAP
2 2 (16.67%) Symfony
2 2 (16.67%) Twig
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) jQuery
3 1 (8.33%) LEMP Stack
3 1 (8.33%) libvirt
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 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 2 (16.67%) VMS
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 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%) 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%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (8.33%) Open Source
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (8.33%) User Experience
3 1 (8.33%) Web Application Development
3 1 (8.33%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) PHP
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Bash
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) Perl
3 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) vSphere
3 1 (8.33%) Ceph
3 1 (8.33%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) iptables
3 1 (8.33%) KVM
3 1 (8.33%) Lustre
3 1 (8.33%) NFS
3 1 (8.33%) Postfix
3 1 (8.33%) Samba
3 1 (8.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) HAProxy
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Puppet
2 1 (8.33%) SELinux
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) 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