East Sussex LAMP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python) skills within the East Sussex region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Farnborough Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Henley-on-Thames Home Counties Ipswich Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire London Luton Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Salisbury Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.852 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£255	£259
% change on same period last year	-1.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.79	£22.91
% change on same period last year	+12.55 %
Application Development East Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	54	85
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.077 %	0.088 %
Daily rates quoted	14	30
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£292
Average daily rate	£298	£310
% change on same period last year	-3.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.42	£22.73
Average hourly rate	£23.94	£26.27
% change on same period last year	-8.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.46	£29.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.79	£32.03
% change on same period last year	-3.85 %
LAMP South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

LAMP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing LAMP across the East Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

LAMP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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 East Sussex region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Brighton	-	1	-	-

LAMP South East

LAMP
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 2 (66.67 %) HTML 1 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript 1 2 (66.67 %) PHP 1 2 (66.67 %) MySQL 1 2 (66.67 %) CSS 2 1 (33.33 %) SOAP 2 1 (33.33 %) Linux 2 1 (33.33 %) OOP 2 1 (33.33 %) Apache 2 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 2 1 (33.33 %) Internet 2 1 (33.33 %) Ruby 2 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 2 1 (33.33 %) Ruby on Rails

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 (66.67 %) HTML 1 2 (66.67 %) CSS 2 1 (33.33 %) SOAP 2 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 2 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 2 1 (33.33 %) Ruby on Rails	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) MySQL
Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) Web Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Lead Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) PHP Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) PHP Web Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Lead Architect 3 1 (33.33 %) Architect	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript 1 2 (66.67 %) PHP 2 1 (33.33 %) Ruby