Staffordshire LAMP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python) skills within the Staffordshire 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Location Abingdon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Clapham East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Manchester Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Sheffield South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wimbledon Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
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	£301	£170
% change on same period last year	+77.16 %
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	£30.32	£27.00
% change on same period last year	+12.28 %
Application Development Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	68	47
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.090 %	0.047 %
Daily rates quoted	15	15
Average minimum daily rate	£357	£337
Average daily rate	£370	£348
% change on same period last year	+6.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.71	£32.86
Average hourly rate	£25.07	£33.57
% change on same period last year	-25.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.43	£34.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.72	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-1.69 %
LAMP West 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 Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.