The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 119 134 123
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -11
Contract jobs citing LAMP 1 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.042% 0.032% 0.202%
As % of the Application Development category 0.193% 0.185% 0.821%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £375 - £250
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £310 £310
% change year-on-year
-4.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +14.54%
All Application Development
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
519 541 731
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 21.67% 17.20% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 247 310
Average daily rate £388 £340 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.97% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 11 64
Average hourly rate £35.00 £21.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.79% -49.41%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LAMP
South East

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing LAMP across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Berkshire LAMP Jobs Demand Trend

LAMP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing LAMP across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire LAMP Daily Rate Trend

LAMP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing LAMP across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire LAMP Hourly Rate Trend

LAMP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Slough - 1 £375 -
LAMP
South East

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing LAMP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited LAMP.

1 5 (83.33%) PHP
2 4 (66.67%) MySQL
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) OO
2 4 (66.67%) PHP5
3 3 (50.00%) Change Control
3 3 (50.00%) Apache
3 3 (50.00%) OOP
3 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 2 (33.33%) OOD
4 2 (33.33%) Internet
4 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (33.33%) MVC
4 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 2 (33.33%) Ajax
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Zend
4 2 (33.33%) Zend Framework
4 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (16.67%) Android
5 1 (16.67%) Egenera
5 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
5 1 (16.67%) Postfix
5 1 (16.67%) Sendmail
5 1 (16.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
5 1 (16.67%) VirtualBox

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing LAMP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited LAMP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) Ajax
1 2 (33.33%) Zend Framework
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Drupal
2 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Acrobat
1 1 (16.67%) QuarkXPress
1 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
1 1 (16.67%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) PHP Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior PHP Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
2 1 (16.67%) OpenBSD
2 1 (16.67%) FreeBSD
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) AIX
2 1 (16.67%) HPUX
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) OO
2 3 (50.00%) Change Control
2 3 (50.00%) OOP
3 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (33.33%) OOD
3 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PHP
2 4 (66.67%) PHP5
3 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SCSA
1 1 (16.67%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (16.67%) RHCE
1 1 (16.67%) HPUX Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) Postfix
1 1 (16.67%) Sendmail
1 1 (16.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (16.67%) VirtualBox
1 1 (16.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
1 1 (16.67%) OpenView
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Zend
2 1 (16.67%) Egenera
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Remedy
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Sun
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Intel
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Quark
2 1 (16.67%) JBoss
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle