Northamptonshire LAMP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python) skills within the Northamptonshire 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Location Abingdon Aylesbury Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London East of England East Sussex England Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Leeds London M4 Corridor Manchester Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wimbledon Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	32
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	5.263 %
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	£286	£165
% change on same period last year	+73.28 %
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	£29.18	£24.80
% change on same period last year	+17.64 %
Application Development Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	57	57
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.077 %	0.056 %
Daily rates quoted	17	12
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£332
Average daily rate	£291	£342
% change on same period last year	-15.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£307	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£336
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£28.40
Average hourly rate	-	£31.90
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.38	£32.95
% change on same period last year	-1.71 %
LAMP East Midlands

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 Northamptonshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.