Halifax LAMP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python) skills within the Halifax 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Location Abingdon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Clapham East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Manchester Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Sheffield South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wimbledon Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	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	£294	£170
% change on same period last year	+73.01 %
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	£30.74	£27.00
% change on same period last year	+13.84 %
Application Development Halifax
Matching contract IT job ads	45	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.007 %
Daily rates quoted	21	5
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£279
Average daily rate	£333	£304
% change on same period last year	+9.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
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	£32.73	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
LAMP West Yorkshire

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.