The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 17 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 Cheshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank - 64 72
Contract jobs citing LAMP 0 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire - 0.371% 0.101%
As % of the Application Development category - 1.261% 0.382%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £275 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -31.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £311 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.61% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.25 £35.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-32.16% +30.00%
All Application Development
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
165 238 262
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.85% 29.46% 26.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 127 175
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £306
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £488 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 3
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -13.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LAMP
North West

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire LAMP Hourly Rate Trend

LAMP
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 4 (100.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
3 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) OOP
3 2 (50.00%) Apache
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Puppet
3 2 (50.00%) Perl
4 1 (25.00%) CSS3
4 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
4 1 (25.00%) Joomla!
4 1 (25.00%) Zend
4 1 (25.00%) Zend Framework
4 1 (25.00%) PHP5
4 1 (25.00%) WordPress
4 1 (25.00%) HTML5
4 1 (25.00%) CMS
4 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) CSS
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) HTML
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) Zend Framework
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) CMS
2 1 (25.00%) Joomla!
2 1 (25.00%) WordPress
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Technician
1 2 (50.00%) PHP Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) PHP5
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Zend