The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 17 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 West Sussex 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 36 57 -
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -
Contract jobs citing LAMP 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 1.295% 0.158% -
As % of the Application Development category 5.682% 0.667% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Average daily rate £383 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £311 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.61% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.25 £35.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-32.16% +30.00%
All Application Development
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
88 150 87
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 22.80% 23.70% 19.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 101 50
Average daily rate £400 £350 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +14.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £475 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 5
Average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £50.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -20.00%
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 West Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West Sussex 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 West Sussex region.

West Sussex 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 West Sussex region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Sussex LAMP Daily Rate Histogram

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 West Sussex region over the 3 months to 17 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
Gatwick +12 3 £475 +58.33%
LAMP
South East

LAMP
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 3 (60.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) OOP
2 2 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) BMC
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
3 1 (20.00%) XHTML
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) CMS
3 1 (20.00%) E-Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Web Design
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
3 1 (20.00%) Blog
3 1 (20.00%) QlikView
3 1 (20.00%) Drupal
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) WordPress
3 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
3 1 (20.00%) Moodle
3 1 (20.00%) PHPUnit
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) XHTML
2 1 (20.00%) jQuery
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Drupal
1 1 (20.00%) WordPress
1 1 (20.00%) Moodle
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (20.00%) PHPUnit
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Drupal Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Moodle Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) E-Learning
1 1 (20.00%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) OOP
1 2 (40.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) Web Design
2 1 (20.00%) Web Development
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) BMC
West Sussex, South East
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West Sussex, South East
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OPUS
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Posted: 2 May 2013