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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for LEMP Stack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited LEMP Stack over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 856 936 1103
Rank change year-on-year +80 +167 -295
Permanent jobs citing LEMP Stack 40 34 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.032% 0.084%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 0.11% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 35 21 76
10th Percentile £35,000 - £32,500
25th Percentile £49,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £57,458
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -26.03% +4.47%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £63,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £41,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +45.45% -21.43% +10.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

LEMP Stack is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20,974 31,729 61,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.39% 30.32% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,673 19,469 30,328
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

LEMP Stack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing LEMP Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for LEMP Stack in the UK

LEMP Stack
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LEMP Stack.

Salary trend for LEMP Stack in the UK

LEMP Stack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LEMP Stack over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for LEMP Stack in the UK

LEMP Stack
Top 11 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 27 April 2024. 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 +120 40 £60,000 +41.18% 9
UK excluding London +22 29 £60,000 +45.45% 6
Work from Home +87 17 £75,000 +76.47% 11
London +133 11 £70,000 -1.75% 4
South East +37 11 £60,000 +41.18%
North of England +54 8 £51,500 - 3
West Midlands +30 5 - -
Midlands +12 5 - - 2
South West +3 5 £35,000 -17.65% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £35,000 - 1
North West +13 3 £60,000 - 2

LEMP Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 34 (85.00%) nginx
2 16 (40.00%) Apache
3 4 (10.00%) Apache Solr
3 4 (10.00%) Confluence
4 1 (2.50%) CMS
4 1 (2.50%) Headless CMS
4 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) AWS
2 9 (22.50%) Azure
3 8 (20.00%) GitHub
4 7 (17.50%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (17.50%) Amazon S3
4 7 (17.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (15.00%) GCP
6 5 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
6 5 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (12.50%) npm
7 4 (10.00%) ChatGPT
8 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.00%) SaaS
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.50%) Azure Stack
9 1 (2.50%) Cloudflare
9 1 (2.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) MQTT
1 5 (12.50%) Reverse Proxy
1 5 (12.50%) VPN
2 4 (10.00%) VLAN
3 2 (5.00%) DKIM
3 2 (5.00%) DMARC
3 2 (5.00%) DNS
3 2 (5.00%) Firewall
3 2 (5.00%) FTP
3 2 (5.00%) Network Security
3 2 (5.00%) SMTP
3 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (90.00%) MySQL
2 10 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (25.00%) Redis
3 9 (22.50%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (22.50%) MariaDB
4 8 (20.00%) NoSQL
5 5 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (10.00%) Squirro
7 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
7 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.50%) InfluxDB
8 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (40.00%) Git
2 12 (30.00%) JIRA
3 5 (12.50%) webpack
4 2 (5.00%) git-flow
4 2 (5.00%) GitLab
5 1 (2.50%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.50%) PHPUnit
5 1 (2.50%) Subversion
General
1 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.00%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Banking
3 4 (10.00%) Health Technology
3 4 (10.00%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Cantonese Language
4 1 (2.50%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (2.50%) Marketing
4 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (50.00%) Developer
2 13 (32.50%) Full Stack Developer
2 13 (32.50%) PHP Developer
3 8 (20.00%) Senior
3 8 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 7 (17.50%) Senior Full Stack Developer
5 6 (15.00%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 6 (15.00%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Full Stack Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) PHP Web Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Site Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Software Engineering Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Software Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Web Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Web Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Web Hosting Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (62.50%) LAMP
2 20 (50.00%) HTML
2 20 (50.00%) React
3 18 (45.00%) CSS
4 11 (27.50%) HTML5
4 11 (27.50%) Laravel
5 9 (22.50%) jQuery
6 7 (17.50%) REST
6 7 (17.50%) Vue
7 6 (15.00%) CSS3
7 6 (15.00%) GraphQL
8 5 (12.50%) gRPC
8 5 (12.50%) Knex.js
8 5 (12.50%) LAPP Stack
8 5 (12.50%) LESS
8 5 (12.50%) Node.js
8 5 (12.50%) React Native
8 5 (12.50%) RESTful
8 5 (12.50%) Sass
8 5 (12.50%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 5 (12.50%) IoT
3 2 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.00%) iPhone
3 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Replication
3 2 (5.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 38 (95.00%) Linux
2 5 (12.50%) Unix
3 3 (7.50%) Ubuntu
4 2 (5.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) DevOps
2 17 (42.50%) Full Stack Development
3 14 (35.00%) Agile
4 12 (30.00%) OOP
5 9 (22.50%) Use Case
6 8 (20.00%) Microservices
7 7 (17.50%) API Integration
7 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
7 7 (17.50%) Web Development
8 6 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (15.00%) Customer Service
8 6 (15.00%) Data Protection
8 6 (15.00%) OO
8 6 (15.00%) User Experience
9 5 (12.50%) API Development
9 5 (12.50%) Design Patterns
9 5 (12.50%) Mobile Application Development
9 5 (12.50%) SDLC
9 5 (12.50%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 21 (52.50%) JavaScript
2 20 (50.00%) PHP
3 14 (35.00%) Python
4 8 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 7 (17.50%) Bash
6 5 (12.50%) JSX
6 5 (12.50%) R
7 3 (7.50%) SQL
8 1 (2.50%) Go
8 1 (2.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) etcd
Systems Management
1 10 (25.00%) Ansible
2 6 (15.00%) Terraform
3 4 (10.00%) Puppet
4 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.00%) HAProxy
5 2 (5.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.50%) Cacti
6 1 (2.50%) Consul
6 1 (2.50%) Grafana
6 1 (2.50%) Icinga
6 1 (2.50%) Plesk
6 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.00%) Google
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat