LEMP Stack Job Trends in the West Midlands

LEMP Stack (Linux, Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP/Perl/Python)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring LEMP Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing LEMP Stack 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.028% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.23% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 - -
75th Percentile £67,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £53,250 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% -2.65%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 432 842 627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.99% 15.31% 18.28%
Number of salaries quoted 348 456 528
10th Percentile £32,125 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,918 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -6.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £76,625
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +2.27%

LEMP Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

LEMP Stack job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

LEMP Stack
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing LEMP Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing LEMP Stack

LEMP Stack
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LEMP Stack within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Bilston - 1 £66,500 - 1
LEMP Stack
England

LEMP Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Vite
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker