The first table below looks at the demand for the LAMP Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAMP Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles advertised for the England 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP Developer
Rank 507 537 553
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +16
Contract jobs requiring a LAMP Developer 11 25 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.026% 0.047% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.051% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 16
Average daily rate £265 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.46% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £214 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £311 £350 £369
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £325 £334
% change year-on-year
-23.07% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £31.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.50 -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38380 49421 52947
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.44% 92.55% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22598 27956 29382
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1965 2419 2806
Average hourly rate £18.88 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.02% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.13 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
LAMP Developer
UK

LAMP Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing LAMP Developer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England LAMP Developer Jobs Demand Trend

LAMP Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England LAMP Developer Daily Rate Trend

LAMP Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England LAMP Developer Hourly Rate Trend

LAMP Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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
London +23 3 £313 +10.61%
East of England - 3 £250 -
Yorkshire -4 2 £265 -18.46%
South West +30 1 £275 -
South East +13 1 £288 +2.22%
North West - 1 £250 -
LAMP Developer
UK

LAMP Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited LAMP Developer in their job title 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 with LAMP Developer in their job title.

1 30 (100.00%) PHP
1 30 (100.00%) LAMP
2 27 (90.00%) MySQL
3 17 (56.67%) Linux
4 16 (53.33%) Apache
5 15 (50.00%) CSS
6 13 (43.33%) JavaScript
7 12 (40.00%) HTML
8 8 (26.67%) OO
9 7 (23.33%) jQuery
10 6 (20.00%) Web Development
10 6 (20.00%) XML
11 5 (16.67%) XHTML
11 5 (16.67%) Zend
11 5 (16.67%) HTML5
12 4 (13.33%) Git (software)
12 4 (13.33%) JSON
12 4 (13.33%) E-Commerce
13 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
13 3 (10.00%) Project Management
13 3 (10.00%) Oracle
13 3 (10.00%) Symfony
13 3 (10.00%) Subversion
13 3 (10.00%) Moodle
13 3 (10.00%) XHR
14 2 (6.667%) Facebook
14 2 (6.667%) Ajax
14 2 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (6.667%) WordPress
14 2 (6.667%) Drupal

LAMP Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited LAMP Developer in their job title 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 with LAMP Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 30 (100.00%) LAMP
2 15 (50.00%) CSS
3 12 (40.00%) HTML
4 7 (23.33%) jQuery
5 6 (20.00%) XML
6 5 (16.67%) XHTML
6 5 (16.67%) HTML5
7 4 (13.33%) JSON
8 3 (10.00%) Symfony
8 3 (10.00%) XHR
9 2 (6.667%) Ajax
9 2 (6.667%) CodeIgniter
9 2 (6.667%) Web Services
10 1 (3.333%) DHTML
10 1 (3.333%) ASP
10 1 (3.333%) XSL
10 1 (3.333%) SOAP
10 1 (3.333%) CakePHP
10 1 (3.333%) Zend Framework
10 1 (3.333%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 16 (53.33%) Apache
2 3 (10.00%) Moodle
3 2 (6.667%) WordPress
3 2 (6.667%) Drupal
4 1 (3.333%) Joomla!
4 1 (3.333%) ExpressionEngine
Applications
1 1 (3.333%) MS Excel
1 1 (3.333%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.333%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (90.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git (software)
2 3 (10.00%) Subversion
3 1 (3.333%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (3.333%) Legal
1 1 (3.333%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.333%) Social Media
1 1 (3.333%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 17 (56.67%) Linux
2 2 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.333%) UNIX
3 1 (3.333%) Windows
3 1 (3.333%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) OO
2 6 (20.00%) Web Development
3 4 (13.33%) E-Commerce
4 3 (10.00%) Project Management
5 2 (6.667%) OOP
6 1 (3.333%) MVC
6 1 (3.333%) SEO
6 1 (3.333%) Migration
6 1 (3.333%) Release Management
6 1 (3.333%) Unit Testing
6 1 (3.333%) Data Migration
6 1 (3.333%) Web Design
6 1 (3.333%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (3.333%) Load Balancing
6 1 (3.333%) Responsive Web Design
6 1 (3.333%) Analytics
6 1 (3.333%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) PHP
2 13 (43.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.667%) PHP5
4 1 (3.333%) Java
4 1 (3.333%) Perl
4 1 (3.333%) SQL
4 1 (3.333%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (3.333%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (3.333%) Postfix
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Zend
2 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (6.667%) Facebook
4 1 (3.333%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.333%) Google
4 1 (3.333%) Twitter
London
My client is looking for LAMP back-end developer who will be working with one front-end developer and a tech director overseeing to deliver a whole campaign...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
My client is looking for LAMP back-end developer who will be working with one front-end developer and a tech director overseeing to deliver a whole campaign...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Contract LAMP Web Solutions Developer - Hampshire Coast - circa £300pd... The successful Contract LAMP Developer will support the company's global ecommerce expansion and will assist with digital projects.....
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £275 - £300 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Portsmouth, South East
The successful Contract LAMP Developer will support the company's global ecommerce expansion and will assist with digital projects. The LAMP Web Solutions Developer will also develop and...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £275 - £300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
The PHP Developer will have a strong background in designing and delivering complex web based applications using PHP, Linux, MySQL and ideally working with the Zend framework. Additionally...
People Source Consulting
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013