LEMP Stack Contract Job Trends in England

LEMP Stack (Linux, Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP/Perl/Python)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring LEMP Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 - 526
Rank change year-on-year - - +113
Contract jobs citing LEMP Stack 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.005% - 0.014%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.025% - 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
UK median daily rate £550 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

LEMP Stack falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,925 5,396 7,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.22% 22.28% 20.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,251 3,732 5,333
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.70%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 100 231
10th Percentile £30.55 £33.25 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.13 £50.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.64
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.43 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

LEMP Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LEMP Stack relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

LEMP Stack job vacancy trend in England

LEMP Stack
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing LEMP Stack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing LEMP Stack

LEMP Stack
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing LEMP Stack.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing LEMP Stack

LEMP Stack
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 LEMP Stack within the England region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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
Midlands - 1 £550 -
South East - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 £550 -
LEMP Stack
UK

LEMP Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) nginx
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Vite
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) YAML
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) LAMP
2 1 (50.00%) Laravel
2 1 (50.00%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Server Building
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Dovecot
1 1 (50.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat