LEMP Stack Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring LEMP Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 704 637 856
Rank change year-on-year -67 +219 +92
Permanent jobs citing LEMP Stack 11 10 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.024% 0.042%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.12% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 35
10th Percentile £46,250 £57,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,750 £71,250 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £83,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.60% +39.58% +41.18%
75th Percentile £67,250 £86,563 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,125 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,500 £68,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.27% +14.58% +45.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,692 8,481 20,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.82% 20.14% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,347 6,479 15,736
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

LEMP Stack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

LEMP Stack job vacancy trend in the UK

LEMP Stack
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LEMP Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LEMP Stack

LEMP Stack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LEMP Stack over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Salary histogram for LEMP Stack in the UK

LEMP Stack
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LEMP Stack within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -61 11 £66,500 -20.60% 1
UK excluding London -66 8 £66,500 -3.27% 1
Work from Home -5 7 £66,500 -21.76% 3
Midlands - 5 £66,500 -
West Midlands - 5 £66,500 -
London -17 2 £85,000 +1.49%
South West -55 2 £48,750 -42.65%
North West -38 1 £47,500 -9.52% 1
North of England -49 1 £47,500 -9.52% 1

LEMP 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 11 (100.00%) nginx
2 7 (63.64%) CMS
3 2 (18.18%) Apache
3 2 (18.18%) Headless CMS
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (18.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (45.45%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) GitHub
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) DigitalOcean
4 2 (18.18%) Nutanix
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) Cloudflare
5 1 (9.09%) CloudFront
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Route 53
5 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) Multicast
2 2 (18.18%) VLAN
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) MySQL
2 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Git
2 5 (45.45%) Vite
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Product Owner
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) PHP Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (9.09%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Web Developer
4 1 (9.09%) PHP Laravel Developer
4 1 (9.09%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Laravel
1 7 (63.64%) Vue
2 6 (54.55%) CSS
2 6 (54.55%) HTML
2 6 (54.55%) YAML
3 5 (45.45%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (36.36%) Node.js
5 2 (18.18%) LAMP
5 2 (18.18%) LoopBack
5 2 (18.18%) Nuxt
6 1 (9.09%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) CentOS
2 2 (18.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Backlog Management
2 5 (45.45%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 5 (45.45%) Business Strategy
2 5 (45.45%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Product Backlog
2 5 (45.45%) Product Vision
2 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
2 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (45.45%) User Experience
2 5 (45.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) E-Commerce
5 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) PHP
2 8 (72.73%) Bash
2 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) QA
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
1 2 (18.18%) Nagios
1 2 (18.18%) Proxmox
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
1 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
1 2 (18.18%) Veeam
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe