Hybrid/Remote LAPP Stack Job Trends

LAPP Stack (Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP/Perl/Python)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring LAPP Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 443 466
Rank change year-on-year +93 +23 +237
Permanent jobs citing LAPP Stack 16 5 4
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.10% 0.029% 0.020%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.58% 0.094% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% +40.00% -16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

LAPP 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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,750 5,314 5,991
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.97% 30.71% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,178 3,474 5,076
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,375
25th Percentile £50,563 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.41%

LAPP Stack
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing LAPP Stack and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

LAPP Stack job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

LAPP Stack
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing LAPP Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing LAPP Stack

LAPP Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 16 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 16 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 16 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon ECR
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 6 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (37.50%) Route 53
2 6 (37.50%) Serverless
2 6 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (100.00%) DB2
1 16 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (100.00%) Banking
2 10 (62.50%) Investment Banking
3 6 (37.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Applications Support
2 15 (93.75%) Linux Support
3 11 (68.75%) Infrastructure Support
4 10 (62.50%) Unix Support
5 6 (37.50%) Applications Engineer
5 6 (37.50%) Applications Support Engineer
5 6 (37.50%) Support Engineer
6 5 (31.25%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (31.25%) Linux Support Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) LDAP
1 16 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (62.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
1 16 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 16 (100.00%) Unix
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Change Management
1 16 (100.00%) ITIL
1 16 (100.00%) Release Management
1 16 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (37.50%) Acceptance Criteria
2 6 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 16 (100.00%) Degree
1 16 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) IBM
1 16 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 10 (62.50%) ServiceNow