LEMP Stack Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 444 - 390
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LEMP Stack 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.008% - 0.020%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.051% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
UK median daily rate £550 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,898 2,374 3,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.83% 18.45% 16.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,602 1,644 2,127
10th Percentile £350 £325 £323
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £663 £650 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 84 213
10th Percentile £37.25 £35.08 £21.88
25th Percentile £53.75 £56.03 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.35 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

LEMP Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

LEMP Stack job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

LEMP Stack
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing LEMP Stack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing LEMP Stack

LEMP Stack
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 the UK excluding London 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