LEMP Stack Jobs

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring LEMP Stack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited LEMP Stack over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 727 862 881
Rank change year-on-year +135 +19 +230
Permanent jobs citing LEMP Stack 8 37 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.036% 0.019%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.080% 0.18% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 5 32 14
10th Percentile £42,900 £36,125 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £60,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +41.18% -24.78%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £85,750 £85,000 £57,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,250 £56,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year -17.78% +32.35% -22.73%

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 9,964 20,738 23,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.58% 20.03% 27.89%
Number of salaries quoted 6,057 15,221 17,000
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,227
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £66,375
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.60% +2.12%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for LEMP Stack in the UK

LEMP Stack
Top 6 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 12 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +121 8 £82,500 +37.50% 2
London +88 6 £85,000 +21.43%
UK excluding London +129 2 £46,250 -17.78% 3
Work from Home +76 2 £85,000 +21.43% 3
North of England +35 2 £46,250 -11.90% 1
North West +6 2 £46,250 -11.90%

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 8 (100.00%) nginx
2 3 (37.50%) Tomcat
3 2 (25.00%) Apache
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (37.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Datadog
2 1 (12.50%) Google Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
2 1 (12.50%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) Multicast
1 3 (37.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Back Office
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Head of Digital
1 3 (37.50%) Head of IT
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Backend Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Backend Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior PHP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior PHP Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) LAMP
2 2 (25.00%) Laravel
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) Memcached
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) Symfony
3 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) CentOS
2 3 (37.50%) Rocky
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (50.00%) Web Development
3 3 (37.50%) Business Strategy
3 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
3 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Data Security
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
3 3 (37.50%) Low Latency
3 3 (37.50%) Workflow
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
5 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (62.50%) PHP
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (37.50%) Bash
4 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Samba
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) Nagios
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Proxmox
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
1 3 (37.50%) SolarWinds
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) PayPal
3 1 (12.50%) Veeam
3 1 (12.50%) Zend