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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 778 692 790
Rank change year-on-year -86 +98 +34
Permanent jobs citing LEMP Stack 6 3 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.006% 0.042%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.057% 0.034% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 30
10th Percentile £57,300 £39,975 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,250 £41,438 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,250 £46,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +58.38% -22.92% +41.18%
75th Percentile £95,000 £52,438 £77,500
90th Percentile - £54,725 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,500 £46,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +43.78% -11.90% +23.53%

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 10,599 8,737 16,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.22% 17.57% 19.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7,816 5,740 11,669
10th Percentile £40,375 £38,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £107,500
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 3 August 2026.

Salary histogram for LEMP Stack in the UK

LEMP Stack
Top 8 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 3 August 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 -63 6 £73,250 +58.38%
UK excluding London -90 3 £66,500 +43.78%
North West 0 2 - -
North of England -37 2 - -
London -41 2 £85,000 -
Midlands - 1 £66,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £66,500 -
Work from Home - 1 £54,000 - 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 6 (100.00%) nginx
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (16.67%) Apache
3 1 (16.67%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) npm
3 2 (33.33%) Nutanix
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) Cloudflare
4 1 (16.67%) CloudFront
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Route 53
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Multicast
2 2 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Vite
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Linux Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Node.js
2 3 (50.00%) LAMP
2 3 (50.00%) Laravel
2 3 (50.00%) Vue
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) LESS
3 2 (33.33%) React
3 2 (33.33%) REST
3 2 (33.33%) Sass
3 2 (33.33%) YAML
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (16.67%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) CentOS
2 2 (33.33%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) User Experience
4 2 (33.33%) AI
4 2 (33.33%) API Development
4 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) OO
4 2 (33.33%) OOP
4 2 (33.33%) Secure Coding
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
2 4 (66.67%) PHP
3 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) C#
5 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Nagios
1 2 (33.33%) Proxmox
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
1 2 (33.33%) Veeam
1 2 (33.33%) VMware