The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Application Development category for the Leicestershire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing LAMP 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 2.370% - -
As % of the Application Development category 6.667% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £265 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £310 £310
% change year-on-year
-4.83% -
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
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
75 58 108
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 35.55% 27.10% 46.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 21 26
Average daily rate £300 £275 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -6.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £150 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £408 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 19
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.81%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LAMP
East Midlands

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire LAMP Daily 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Loughborough - 2 £265 -
LAMP
East Midlands

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) PHP
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) PHPUnit
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
3 4 (66.67%) SOAP
3 4 (66.67%) Web Services
3 4 (66.67%) XML
3 4 (66.67%) XHTML
3 4 (66.67%) jQuery
3 4 (66.67%) Ajax
3 4 (66.67%) JSON
3 4 (66.67%) REST
4 3 (50.00%) SEO
4 3 (50.00%) Subversion
5 2 (33.33%) HTML5
5 2 (33.33%) MVC
5 2 (33.33%) CMS
5 2 (33.33%) CSS3
6 1 (16.67%) C++
6 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
6 1 (16.67%) Adobe
6 1 (16.67%) Apple
6 1 (16.67%) Mobile Commerce
6 1 (16.67%) Linux
6 1 (16.67%) Apache
6 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
6 1 (16.67%) Waterfall

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 5 (83.33%) HTML
1 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) SOAP
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 4 (66.67%) XML
2 4 (66.67%) XHTML
2 4 (66.67%) jQuery
2 4 (66.67%) Ajax
2 4 (66.67%) JSON
2 4 (66.67%) REST
3 2 (33.33%) HTML5
3 2 (33.33%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) WordPress
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) PHPUnit
2 3 (50.00%) Subversion
3 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) PHP Developer
2 2 (33.33%) PHP Web Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Web Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) SEO
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
4 1 (16.67%) Mobile Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) C++
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe
1 1 (16.67%) Apple
1 1 (16.67%) Zend