The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 19 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 Oxfordshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 49 49 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing LAMP 2 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.427% 0.696% -
As % of the Application Development category 1.923% 2.286% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £275 £288 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.34% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -
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
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
104 175 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 22.22% 30.43% 42.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 90 131
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £488 £391
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 2
Average hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
LAMP
South East

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
Oxford +1 1 £275 +18.91% 4
Banbury - - - -
LAMP
South East

LAMP
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) PHP5
2 3 (60.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (60.00%) Drupal
2 3 (60.00%) Marketing
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) CSS
4 1 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) Google
4 1 (20.00%) OOD
4 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
4 1 (20.00%) Symfony
4 1 (20.00%) Zend
4 1 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
4 1 (20.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) Google Maps API
4 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
4 1 (20.00%) ExpressionEngine
4 1 (20.00%) HTML5
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Media
4 1 (20.00%) Facebook
4 1 (20.00%) Twitter

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) Symfony
1 1 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (20.00%) jQuery
1 1 (20.00%) Google Maps API
1 1 (20.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Drupal
2 1 (20.00%) ExpressionEngine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (60.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) PHP Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Web Developer
3 2 (40.00%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (20.00%) PHP Programmer
4 1 (20.00%) Programmer
4 1 (20.00%) Drupal Developer
4 1 (20.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) OO
1 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) PHP5
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Zend
1 1 (20.00%) Facebook
1 1 (20.00%) Twitter