The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 20 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 Hertfordshire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 54 78 66
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -12
Contract jobs citing LAMP 2 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.309% 0.203% 0.107%
As % of the Application Development category 0.909% 0.662% 0.418%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £275 £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +14.54%
All Application Development
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
220 302 239
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 34.00% 30.66% 25.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 146 108
Average daily rate £350 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £275 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £463 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 23
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £19.60 £32.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.00 £36.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
LAMP
East of England

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire LAMP Daily Rate Trend

LAMP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £275 - 3
LAMP
East of England

LAMP
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, 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 6 (100.00%) PHP
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Apache
3 3 (50.00%) CSS
3 3 (50.00%) Web Services
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
3 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) Git (software)
4 2 (33.33%) Subversion
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Silverlight
5 1 (16.67%) nginx
5 1 (16.67%) XML

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, 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 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) Web Services
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) Silverlight
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) nginx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git (software)
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) LAMP Developer
2 2 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 2 (33.33%) PHP MySQL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PHP
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript