The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 18 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 Hampshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 87 82 100
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +18
Contract jobs citing LAMP 13 11 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.810% 0.704% 0.268%
As % of the Application Development category 2.725% 2.423% 0.936%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 2
Average daily rate £300 £310 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.22% +77.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £286 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +14.54%
All Application Development
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
477 454 534
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 29.72% 29.05% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 209 218
Average daily rate £325 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £423 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 50 71
Average hourly rate £40.00 £39.00 £36.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% +7.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.13 £20.00 £33.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £42.50 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
LAMP
South East

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire LAMP Hourly Rate Trend

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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Portsmouth - 11 £300 - 4
Romsey - - - -
Southampton - - - - 1
Basingstoke - - - -
Fareham - - - - 1
Havant - - - -
LAMP
South East

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 14 (82.35%) PHP
2 13 (76.47%) CSS
3 12 (70.59%) JavaScript
3 12 (70.59%) OOP
3 12 (70.59%) E-Commerce
3 12 (70.59%) jQuery
4 11 (64.71%) HTML
5 9 (52.94%) MySQL
6 8 (47.06%) Subversion
6 8 (47.06%) Zend
6 8 (47.06%) Linux
6 8 (47.06%) Apache
6 8 (47.06%) Git (software)
7 7 (41.18%) Retail
7 7 (41.18%) PHPUnit
7 7 (41.18%) Kindle
7 7 (41.18%) ISO 9001
8 5 (29.41%) Magento
9 3 (17.65%) OO
10 2 (11.76%) XML
10 2 (11.76%) Scrum
10 2 (11.76%) GIS
10 2 (11.76%) MVC
10 2 (11.76%) JSON
10 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
10 2 (11.76%) REST
11 1 (5.882%) Jenkins
11 1 (5.882%) Windows Azure
11 1 (5.882%) Open Source
11 1 (5.882%) Hudson

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 13 (76.47%) CSS
2 12 (70.59%) jQuery
3 11 (64.71%) HTML
4 2 (11.76%) REST
4 2 (11.76%) XML
4 2 (11.76%) JSON
5 1 (5.882%) Zend Framework
5 1 (5.882%) .NET
5 1 (5.882%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 8 (47.06%) Apache
2 5 (29.41%) Magento
3 1 (5.882%) Windows Azure
3 1 (5.882%) CMS
3 1 (5.882%) Joomla!
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) MySQL
2 2 (11.76%) GIS
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Subversion
1 8 (47.06%) Git (software)
2 7 (41.18%) PHPUnit
3 1 (5.882%) Hudson
3 1 (5.882%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.882%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (41.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Developer
2 10 (58.82%) PHP Developer
3 3 (17.65%) LAMP Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Joomla! Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Tester
4 1 (5.882%) GIS Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Performance Tester
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Kindle
2 1 (5.882%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) OOP
1 12 (70.59%) E-Commerce
2 3 (17.65%) OO
3 2 (11.76%) MVC
3 2 (11.76%) Scrum
3 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.882%) Performance Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (5.882%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) PHP
2 12 (70.59%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.882%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Zend
2 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
Portsmouth, South East
The successful Contract PHP Developer will support the company's global ecommerce expansion and will assist with digital projects. The PHP Developer will also develop and test reliable...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £275 - £400 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013
Portsmouth, South East
The successful Contract PHP Developer will support the company's global ecommerce expansion and will assist with digital projects. The PHP Developer will also develop and test reliable...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £275 - £300 per day
Posted: 10 June 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: 29 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 - £400 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013