Hertfordshire LAMP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python) skills within the Hertfordshire 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 29 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 East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Gloucestershire Guildford 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 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 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	92
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	2	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.545 %	1.205 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£160
Average daily rate	£450	£160
% change on same period last year	+181.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£160
UK excluding London average daily rate	£282	£165
% change on same period last year	+71.12 %
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	£30.76	£25.40
% change on same period last year	+21.11 %
Application Development Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	367	498
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.489 %	0.497 %
Daily rates quoted	166	213
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£325
Average daily rate	£384	£348
% change on same period last year	+10.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£412	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.86	£30.97
Average hourly rate	£32.09	£32.31
% change on same period last year	-0.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.33	£33.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.03
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
LAMP East of England

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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

LAMP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

LAMP
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 11 (100.00 %) XML 1 11 (100.00 %) AJAX 2 9 (81.82 %) Retail 2 9 (81.82 %) HTTP 2 9 (81.82 %) WebServices 2 9 (81.82 %) HTML 2 9 (81.82 %) SQL 2 9 (81.82 %) .NET 2 9 (81.82 %) IIS 2 9 (81.82 %) ASP.NET 3 7 (63.64 %) BizTalk Server 4 5 (45.45 %) B2B 4 5 (45.45 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 6 2 (18.18 %) Apache

6 2 (18.18 %) MySQL 6 2 (18.18 %) JavaScript 6 2 (18.18 %) PHP 6 2 (18.18 %) Agile Software Development 7 1 (9.091 %) Back Office 7 1 (9.091 %) Advertising 7 1 (9.091 %) PHP5 7 1 (9.091 %) PHP4 7 1 (9.091 %) Web Development 7 1 (9.091 %) Google 7 1 (9.091 %) ActionScript 7 1 (9.091 %) CSS 7 1 (9.091 %) XHTML 7 1 (9.091 %) Linux

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 11 (100.00 %) XML 1 11 (100.00 %) AJAX 2 9 (81.82 %) WebServices 2 9 (81.82 %) HTML 2 9 (81.82 %) .NET 2 9 (81.82 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (9.091 %) CSS 3 1 (9.091 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 9 (81.82 %) IIS 2 7 (63.64 %) BizTalk Server 3 2 (18.18 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 9 (81.82 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (45.45 %) SQL Server Integration Services 2 2 (18.18 %) MySQL
General 1 9 (81.82 %) Retail 2 1 (9.091 %) Back Office 2 1 (9.091 %) Advertising	Job Titles 1 9 (81.82 %) Architect 2 4 (36.36 %) Solutions Architect 3 3 (27.27 %) Lead Architect 4 2 (18.18 %) Developer 4 2 (18.18 %) Web Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Senior Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Senior Web Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) IT Architect 5 1 (9.091 %) .NET Architect
Operating Systems 1 1 (9.091 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (45.45 %) B2B 2 2 (18.18 %) Agile Software Development 3 1 (9.091 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 9 (81.82 %) SQL 2 2 (18.18 %) JavaScript 2 2 (18.18 %) PHP 3 1 (9.091 %) ActionScript 3 1 (9.091 %) PHP5 3 1 (9.091 %) PHP4	Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 2 1 (9.091 %) Google