LEMP Stack Job Trends in Manchester

LEMP Stack (Linux, Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP/Perl/Python)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring LEMP Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 142 173
Rank change year-on-year +7 +31 +83
Permanent jobs citing LEMP Stack 1 9 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.030% 0.35% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.26% 1.53% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - - £51,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% -14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 382 590 995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 11.64% 23.14% 27.66%
Number of salaries quoted 322 361 827
10th Percentile £29,750 £41,500 £38,084
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,375 £88,750 £84,419
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

LEMP Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

LEMP Stack job vacancy trend in Manchester

LEMP Stack
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing LEMP Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing LEMP Stack

LEMP Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe