The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 19 June 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 City of London 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 193 168 241
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +73
Contract jobs citing LAMP 17 44 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.251% 0.568% 0.100%
As % of the Application Development category 0.864% 2.127% 0.356%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 27 8
Average daily rate £325 £375 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +42.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £281 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -
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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1968 2069 2810
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 29.03% 26.73% 28.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1556 1584 2206
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £290 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 25 23
Average hourly rate £41.50 £32.50 £41.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.69% -21.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £19.00 £16.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.50 £50.50 £107.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
LAMP
London

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London LAMP Daily Rate Trend

LAMP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAMP across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London LAMP Daily Rate Histogram

LAMP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London LAMP Hourly Rate Trend

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 28 (80.00%) PHP
2 17 (48.57%) MySQL
2 17 (48.57%) CSS
3 15 (42.86%) HTML
4 13 (37.14%) JavaScript
5 12 (34.29%) Linux
6 10 (28.57%) jQuery
6 10 (28.57%) HTML5
7 9 (25.71%) CSS3
7 9 (25.71%) Zend
8 7 (20.00%) E-Commerce
9 6 (17.14%) Red Hat
9 6 (17.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (17.14%) Open Source
10 5 (14.29%) Zend Framework
10 5 (14.29%) Marketing
10 5 (14.29%) Finance
10 5 (14.29%) Scrum
10 5 (14.29%) Oracle
10 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
11 4 (11.43%) Java
11 4 (11.43%) SQL
11 4 (11.43%) OO
11 4 (11.43%) Apache
11 4 (11.43%) Agile Software Development
11 4 (11.43%) TDD
11 4 (11.43%) Subversion
11 4 (11.43%) Ruby
11 4 (11.43%) Ajax
11 4 (11.43%) Drupal

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 17 (48.57%) CSS
2 15 (42.86%) HTML
3 10 (28.57%) jQuery
3 10 (28.57%) HTML5
4 9 (25.71%) CSS3
5 5 (14.29%) Zend Framework
6 4 (11.43%) Ajax
7 3 (8.571%) XHTML
7 3 (8.571%) ASP
7 3 (8.571%) Symfony
8 2 (5.714%) XML
8 2 (5.714%) .NET
8 2 (5.714%) Django
9 1 (2.857%) Apache Flex
9 1 (2.857%) WCF
9 1 (2.857%) CodeIgniter
9 1 (2.857%) JSON
9 1 (2.857%) WebSphere
9 1 (2.857%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (2.857%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.43%) Apache
1 4 (11.43%) Drupal
2 3 (8.571%) CMS
3 2 (5.714%) Magento
3 2 (5.714%) ElasticSearch
3 2 (5.714%) SugarCRM
4 1 (2.857%) WordPress
4 1 (2.857%) Joomla!
4 1 (2.857%) DotNetNuke
4 1 (2.857%) IIS
4 1 (2.857%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.857%) concrete5
4 1 (2.857%) Confluence
4 1 (2.857%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Summit
1 2 (5.714%) Front Arena
2 1 (2.857%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.714%) Internet
1 2 (5.714%) SMTP
1 2 (5.714%) HTTP
2 1 (2.857%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.857%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.857%) DNS
2 1 (2.857%) SSL
2 1 (2.857%) Intranet
2 1 (2.857%) Extranet
2 1 (2.857%) Firewall
2 1 (2.857%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (48.57%) MySQL
2 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.571%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (5.714%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (5.714%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (5.714%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.857%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.857%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.857%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Subversion
2 2 (5.714%) GitHub
3 1 (2.857%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.857%) JIRA
3 1 (2.857%) Git (software)
3 1 (2.857%) Flash Builder
General
1 5 (14.29%) Marketing
1 5 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (5.714%) Back Office
2 2 (5.714%) Banking
3 1 (2.857%) Retail
3 1 (2.857%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (74.29%) Developer
2 9 (25.71%) PHP Developer
3 8 (22.86%) Front-End Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Web Developer
5 3 (8.571%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (8.571%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (8.571%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (8.571%) Administrator
6 2 (5.714%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 2 (5.714%) Architect
6 2 (5.714%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.714%) PHP Web Developer
6 2 (5.714%) LAMP Developer
6 2 (5.714%) Digital Project Manager
7 1 (2.857%) Drupal Developer
7 1 (2.857%) PHP Drupal Developer
7 1 (2.857%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.857%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.857%) Senior Linux Administrator
7 1 (2.857%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Open Source
2 2 (5.714%) Client/Server
2 2 (5.714%) Clustering
3 1 (2.857%) Mathematics
3 1 (2.857%) Social Network
3 1 (2.857%) Replication
3 1 (2.857%) Firmware
3 1 (2.857%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.857%) Social Media
3 1 (2.857%) iPad
3 1 (2.857%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 12 (34.29%) Linux
2 6 (17.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (8.571%) Windows
4 1 (2.857%) Android
4 1 (2.857%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.857%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.857%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 5 (14.29%) Scrum
3 4 (11.43%) OO
3 4 (11.43%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (11.43%) TDD
4 3 (8.571%) Web Development
4 3 (8.571%) MVC
5 2 (5.714%) BDD
5 2 (5.714%) Load Balancing
6 1 (2.857%) Kanban
6 1 (2.857%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (2.857%) Pair Programming
6 1 (2.857%) Information Security
6 1 (2.857%) SEO
6 1 (2.857%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (2.857%) Extreme Programming
6 1 (2.857%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (2.857%) Data Modelling
6 1 (2.857%) ETL
6 1 (2.857%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (80.00%) PHP
2 13 (37.14%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.43%) Java
3 4 (11.43%) SQL
3 4 (11.43%) Ruby
4 3 (8.571%) PHP5
5 2 (5.714%) Bash shell
5 2 (5.714%) Python
5 2 (5.714%) Perl
6 1 (2.857%) Groovy
6 1 (2.857%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.857%) C#
6 1 (2.857%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.857%) Scala
6 1 (2.857%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 1 (2.857%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.857%) Security Cleared
1 1 (2.857%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 1 (2.857%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.857%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (8.571%) Nagios
2 2 (5.714%) Puppet
2 2 (5.714%) Splunk
2 2 (5.714%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Zend
2 6 (17.14%) Red Hat
3 5 (14.29%) Oracle
4 2 (5.714%) Sybase
4 2 (5.714%) Murex
4 2 (5.714%) Calypso
5 1 (2.857%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.857%) VMware
5 1 (2.857%) EMC
5 1 (2.857%) NetApp
5 1 (2.857%) Cisco
5 1 (2.857%) Business Objects
5 1 (2.857%) SAP
5 1 (2.857%) JBoss
5 1 (2.857%) Rackspace
5 1 (2.857%) Akamai
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