The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey 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 Surrey 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 74 86 98
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +12
Contract jobs citing LAMP 6 9 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.520% 0.559% 0.272%
As % of the Application Development category 1.765% 1.965% 0.926%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
Average daily rate £450 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.64% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £240 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £410 £370
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
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
340 458 540
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 29.49% 28.43% 29.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 263 296
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 16
Average hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £19.00 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £41.50 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LAMP
South East

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey LAMP Hourly Rate Trend

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 (70.00%) C#
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Scrum
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (50.00%) .NET
3 5 (50.00%) MS Office
3 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 5 (50.00%) Degree
3 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (50.00%) WCF
3 5 (50.00%) WF
4 4 (40.00%) PHP
4 4 (40.00%) MySQL
4 4 (40.00%) HTML
5 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (20.00%) C++
6 2 (20.00%) CSS
6 2 (20.00%) Windows
6 2 (20.00%) Linux
6 2 (20.00%) WinForms
6 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (20.00%) Zend
6 2 (20.00%) Drupal
6 2 (20.00%) WPF
7 1 (10.00%) Git (software)
7 1 (10.00%) Open Source
7 1 (10.00%) PHPUnit
7 1 (10.00%) BDD

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 5 (50.00%) .NET
1 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (50.00%) WCF
1 5 (50.00%) WF
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) CSS
3 2 (20.00%) WinForms
3 2 (20.00%) WPF
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (10.00%) Symfony
4 1 (10.00%) jQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Drupal
2 1 (10.00%) ESB
2 1 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) MSMQ
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (10.00%) PHPUnit
1 1 (10.00%) Phing
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
1 1 (10.00%) Ant
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Programmer
2 2 (20.00%) Web Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Web Programmer
2 2 (20.00%) Web Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) LAMP Developer
3 1 (10.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 1 (10.00%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (10.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Scrum
2 5 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) BDD
4 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Release Management
4 1 (10.00%) TDD
4 1 (10.00%) Pair Programming
4 1 (10.00%) Extreme Programming
4 1 (10.00%) OO
4 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) C#
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) PHP
4 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (20.00%) C++
6 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Zend
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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...
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Rate: £500 per day + market rates
Posted: 21 May 2013