LAPP Stack Contract Job Trends

LAPP Stack (Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP/Perl/Python)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring LAPP Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 588 571 612
Rank change year-on-year -17 +41 +191
Contract jobs citing LAPP Stack 3 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.003% 0.017%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.037% 0.013% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £541 - £488
25th Percentile £584 - £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £500 £576
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% -13.23% -3.96%
75th Percentile £734 - £598
90th Percentile £774 - £600
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

LAPP 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,148 7,895 10,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.76% 21.74% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,407 4,968 7,275
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 121 188
10th Percentile £30.75 £22.00 £35.18
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.75 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -12.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -1.92% +19.13% -16.06%

LAPP Stack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

LAPP Stack job vacancy trend in the UK

LAPP Stack
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LAPP Stack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LAPP Stack

LAPP Stack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAPP Stack over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LAPP Stack in the UK

LAPP Stack
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LAPP Stack.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LAPP Stack

LAPP Stack
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAPP Stack within the UK over the 6 months to 25 November 2025. 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
London - 2 £663 - 3
England - 2 £663 - 8

LAPP Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (100.00%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Superset
2 1 (33.33%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) MinIO
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) InfiniBand
1 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) GIS
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (33.33%) EJB
1 1 (33.33%) Java EE
1 1 (33.33%) Java SE
1 1 (33.33%) Jinja
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) JSP
1 1 (33.33%) LAMP
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) libvirt
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) OpenLayers
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Alpine Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
1 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Web Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Ceph
2 1 (33.33%) iptables
2 1 (33.33%) KVM
2 1 (33.33%) Lustre
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) Samba
2 1 (33.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
1 1 (33.33%) HAProxy
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) SELinux
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) VMware