The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Sheffield 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 Sheffield 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 25 25 25
Rank change year-on-year
0 0
Contract jobs citing LAMP 1 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 0.633% 0.613% 2.098%
As % of the Application Development category 2.857% 1.515% 4.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £100 £225 £203
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-55.55% +11.11%
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
Sheffield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
35 66 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 22.15% 40.49% 52.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 42
Average daily rate £275 £293 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.98% -2.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £135 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £500 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
Average hourly rate £32.50 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
LAMP
South Yorkshire

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield LAMP Hourly Rate Trend

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 7 (100.00%) PHP
1 7 (100.00%) MySQL
1 7 (100.00%) Apache
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 6 (85.71%) MVC
2 6 (85.71%) Symfony
2 6 (85.71%) jQuery
2 6 (85.71%) HTML
2 6 (85.71%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) XML
2 6 (85.71%) XSLT
2 6 (85.71%) PHPUnit
2 6 (85.71%) HTML5
2 6 (85.71%) CSS3
2 6 (85.71%) Web Development
3 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 1 (14.29%) JBoss
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
3 1 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (14.29%) Confluence
3 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
3 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
3 1 (14.29%) HP

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 6 (85.71%) Symfony
1 6 (85.71%) jQuery
1 6 (85.71%) HTML
1 6 (85.71%) CSS
1 6 (85.71%) XML
1 6 (85.71%) XSLT
1 6 (85.71%) HTML5
1 6 (85.71%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
1 1 (14.29%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) PHPUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) PHP Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
2 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (85.71%) MVC
2 6 (85.71%) Web Development
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PHP
2 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 1 (14.29%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) JBoss
1 1 (14.29%) HP