The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South East 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 180 192 227
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +35
Contract jobs citing LAMP 44 47 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.565% 0.463% 0.251%
As % of the Application Development category 2.322% 2.069% 0.956%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 11
Average daily rate £313 £303 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.30% +0.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £350 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £310 £310
% change year-on-year
-4.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £31.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +14.54%
All Application Development
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1895 2272 2721
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.31% 22.39% 26.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1005 1122 1263
Average daily rate £350 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 103 197
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £17.50 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £41.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LAMP
England

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East LAMP Daily Rate Trend

LAMP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAMP across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East LAMP Daily Rate Histogram

LAMP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East 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 South East 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
East Sussex +9 15 £325 +62.50%
Hampshire -10 7 £300 -5.51%
Surrey +12 6 £450 +28.64%
West Sussex +23 5 £383 +27.50%
Buckinghamshire +11 5 £250 -
Oxfordshire +3 3 £285 +62.85%
Berkshire +15 1 £375 -
Kent 0 1 - -
Home Counties - 1 £300 -
LAMP
England

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 54 (77.14%) PHP
2 39 (55.71%) MySQL
3 33 (47.14%) JavaScript
4 29 (41.43%) CSS
5 28 (40.00%) jQuery
6 27 (38.57%) HTML
7 24 (34.29%) OOP
8 21 (30.00%) MVC
9 20 (28.57%) OO
10 19 (27.14%) E-Commerce
11 17 (24.29%) Linux
12 15 (21.43%) Drupal
13 14 (20.00%) PHP5
14 13 (18.57%) Apache
15 11 (15.71%) SQL
15 11 (15.71%) Scrum
16 10 (14.29%) Zend
17 9 (12.86%) XML
18 8 (11.43%) Git (software)
18 8 (11.43%) C#
19 7 (10.00%) MS Office
19 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
19 7 (10.00%) JSON
20 6 (8.571%) Degree
20 6 (8.571%) .NET
20 6 (8.571%) HTML5
21 5 (7.143%) ASP.NET
21 5 (7.143%) XHTML
21 5 (7.143%) Service Delivery
21 5 (7.143%) Computer Science

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 29 (41.43%) CSS
2 28 (40.00%) jQuery
3 27 (38.57%) HTML
4 9 (12.86%) XML
5 7 (10.00%) JSON
6 6 (8.571%) .NET
6 6 (8.571%) HTML5
7 5 (7.143%) ASP.NET
7 5 (7.143%) XHTML
7 5 (7.143%) WCF
7 5 (7.143%) WF
7 5 (7.143%) Ajax
7 5 (7.143%) Zend Framework
8 3 (4.286%) XHR
8 3 (4.286%) REST
8 3 (4.286%) CodeIgniter
9 2 (2.857%) SOAP
9 2 (2.857%) Web Services
9 2 (2.857%) WinForms
9 2 (2.857%) Symfony
Application Platforms
1 15 (21.43%) Drupal
2 13 (18.57%) Apache
3 4 (5.714%) Moodle
3 4 (5.714%) Magento
4 2 (2.857%) lighttpd
5 1 (1.429%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.429%) Windows Azure
5 1 (1.429%) ExpressionEngine
5 1 (1.429%) ESB
5 1 (1.429%) WordPress
5 1 (1.429%) CMS
5 1 (1.429%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.429%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.429%) MSMQ
Applications
1 7 (10.00%) MS Office
2 2 (2.857%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.429%) Google Apps
3 1 (1.429%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.429%) QuarkXPress
3 1 (1.429%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.286%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.857%) Internet
2 2 (2.857%) Firewall
3 1 (1.429%) DNS
3 1 (1.429%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (55.71%) MySQL
2 3 (4.286%) GIS
3 1 (1.429%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Git (software)
2 5 (7.143%) Subversion
3 4 (5.714%) PHPUnit
4 1 (1.429%) Phing
4 1 (1.429%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.429%) Hudson
4 1 (1.429%) Ant
4 1 (1.429%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (7.143%) Finance
2 4 (5.714%) Marketing
3 2 (2.857%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.857%) Retail
4 1 (1.429%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.429%) Banking
4 1 (1.429%) Legal
4 1 (1.429%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (72.86%) Developer
2 33 (47.14%) PHP Developer
3 9 (12.86%) LAMP Developer
4 7 (10.00%) Web Developer
4 7 (10.00%) Architect
5 5 (7.143%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.714%) Drupal Developer
7 3 (4.286%) PHP MySQL Developer
7 3 (4.286%) PHP Web Developer
7 3 (4.286%) Programmer
8 2 (2.857%) Web Programmer
8 2 (2.857%) Web Engineer
9 1 (1.429%) MySQL DBA
9 1 (1.429%) Linux Server Engineer
9 1 (1.429%) Moodle Developer
9 1 (1.429%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 1 (1.429%) Linux Engineer
9 1 (1.429%) PHP Programmer
9 1 (1.429%) Senior PHP Developer
9 1 (1.429%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.143%) Computer Science
2 4 (5.714%) Open Source
3 2 (2.857%) Digital Media
3 2 (2.857%) Kindle
4 1 (1.429%) Blog
4 1 (1.429%) E-Learning
4 1 (1.429%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (24.29%) Linux
2 3 (4.286%) Windows
3 2 (2.857%) UNIX
4 1 (1.429%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.429%) Android
4 1 (1.429%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.429%) OpenBSD
4 1 (1.429%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.429%) FreeBSD
4 1 (1.429%) AIX
4 1 (1.429%) HPUX
4 1 (1.429%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (34.29%) OOP
2 21 (30.00%) MVC
3 20 (28.57%) OO
4 19 (27.14%) E-Commerce
5 11 (15.71%) Scrum
6 5 (7.143%) Service Delivery
6 5 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (5.714%) Web Development
7 4 (5.714%) Unit Testing
8 3 (4.286%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (4.286%) Test Automation
8 3 (4.286%) Change Control
8 3 (4.286%) Migration
8 3 (4.286%) OOD
9 2 (2.857%) Data Protection
9 2 (2.857%) Performance Testing
10 1 (1.429%) Business Transformation
10 1 (1.429%) Data Migration
10 1 (1.429%) BDD
10 1 (1.429%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (77.14%) PHP
2 33 (47.14%) JavaScript
3 14 (20.00%) PHP5
4 11 (15.71%) SQL
5 8 (11.43%) C#
6 3 (4.286%) C++
7 2 (2.857%) Perl
8 1 (1.429%) Ruby
8 1 (1.429%) Python
8 1 (1.429%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (8.571%) Degree
2 1 (1.429%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.429%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.429%) SCSA
2 1 (1.429%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (1.429%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (1.429%) RHCE
2 1 (1.429%) HPUX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.857%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (4.286%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.857%) Varnish
3 1 (1.429%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (1.429%) Postfix
3 1 (1.429%) Sendmail
3 1 (1.429%) VirtualBox
3 1 (1.429%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (1.429%) NetBackup
1 1 (1.429%) OpenView
Vendors
1 10 (14.29%) Zend
2 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.286%) VMware
4 2 (2.857%) Oracle
4 2 (2.857%) BMC
4 2 (2.857%) Google
4 2 (2.857%) Twitter
5 1 (1.429%) Facebook
5 1 (1.429%) Omniture
5 1 (1.429%) Egenera
5 1 (1.429%) Remedy
5 1 (1.429%) IBM
5 1 (1.429%) Veritas
5 1 (1.429%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.429%) Quark
5 1 (1.429%) Sun
5 1 (1.429%) HP
5 1 (1.429%) Intel
5 1 (1.429%) JBoss
South East
A large digital agency with multiple offices are currently looking to take on a PHP developer on a temp-perm basis. There growing rapidly and need extra resource...
Premier Group Recruitment
Rate: £150.00 - £250.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
UK South, South East
A large digital agency with multiple offices are currently looking to take on a PHP developer on a temp-perm basis.There growing rapidly and need extra resource...
Premier Group
Rate: £150.00 - £250.00 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Hampshire
PHP Developer required for an exiting project based in Hampshire. Looking for a seasoned PHP developer working on a LAMP stack and also working closely with HTML/CSS.
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Rate: £250 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Portsmouth, South East
The successful Contract PHP Developer will support the company's global ecommerce expansion and will assist with digital projects. The PHP Developer will also develop and test reliable...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £275 - £300 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Contract PHP Developer - Hampshire Coast - circa £300pd... The successful Contract PHP Developer will support the company's global ecommerce expansion and will assist with digital projects. The PHP...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £275 - £300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
West Sussex, South East
Moodle Developer - OOP PHP / MVC / CMS / Moodle / HTML / CSS / JavaScriptA leading technology company based in East Sussex are looking for a PHP Developer to start a 6 month...
OPUS
Rate: GBP175 to GBP200 per day
Posted: 26 April 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Contract LAMP Web Solutions Developer - Hampshire Coast - circa £300pd... The successful Contract LAMP Developer will support the company's global ecommerce expansion and will assist with digital projects.....
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £275 - £300 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Portsmouth, South East
The successful Contract LAMP Developer will support the company's global ecommerce expansion and will assist with digital projects. The LAMP Web Solutions Developer will also develop and...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £275 - £300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Ashford, Kent
PHP Drupal Developer PHP Web Developer - Web Programmer - Drupal - MYSQL Server - LAMP - WAMP - HTML - CSS - Web Services - Soap - XML - AJAX - Software House - Programming - WordPress - Ashford Kent... client side...
Reflex Computer Recruitment
Rate: Good Chance it will roll
Posted: 23 May 2013
West Sussex, South East
Drupal Developer OR Themer, West Sussex - Immediate start!!!Drupal 6 or 7 / PHP / LAMP / HTML5 / JavaScript / jQuery / Responsive DesignMy client are going through a period of continued growth...
OPUS
Rate: Competitive Rate or Permanent Placement
Posted: 2 May 2013
Surrey
Must be from a software development background with up to date skills in ASP.Net, C#.Net, SQL 2008, WCF, WF and associated design patterns... *Computer sciences or...
Fusion People
Rate: £500 per day + market rates
Posted: 21 May 2013