The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 90 79 88
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +9
Contract jobs citing LAMP 23 33 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 1.212% 1.440% 0.715%
As % of the Application Development category 4.042% 6.022% 2.902%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 27 7
Average daily rate £325 £290 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.06% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £278 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £325 £420
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
569 548 448
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 29.98% 23.91% 24.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 326 231
Average daily rate £300 £310 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.22% +8.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £213 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £380 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 18
Average hourly rate £33.00 £13.75 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+140.00% -67.64%
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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire -3 20 £325 +13.53%
South Yorkshire -1 2 - -
North Yorkshire - 1 - -
LAMP
England

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 33 (76.74%) PHP
2 24 (55.81%) MySQL
3 20 (46.51%) Apache
4 18 (41.86%) Linux
5 15 (34.88%) Java
6 14 (32.56%) XML
7 13 (30.23%) CSS
7 13 (30.23%) jQuery
8 12 (27.91%) MVC
8 12 (27.91%) Agile Software Development
9 11 (25.58%) JavaScript
9 11 (25.58%) Oracle
9 11 (25.58%) HTTP
9 11 (25.58%) HTML5
9 11 (25.58%) CSS3
10 10 (23.26%) .NET
11 9 (20.93%) Web Services
11 9 (20.93%) PHP5
12 8 (18.60%) HTML
12 8 (18.60%) TDD
13 7 (16.28%) SOAP
13 7 (16.28%) OOP
13 7 (16.28%) Java EE
13 7 (16.28%) REST
14 6 (13.95%) XSLT
14 6 (13.95%) Ajax
14 6 (13.95%) Web Development
14 6 (13.95%) JSON
14 6 (13.95%) Symfony
14 6 (13.95%) PHPUnit

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 14 (32.56%) XML
2 13 (30.23%) CSS
2 13 (30.23%) jQuery
3 11 (25.58%) HTML5
3 11 (25.58%) CSS3
4 10 (23.26%) .NET
5 9 (20.93%) Web Services
6 8 (18.60%) HTML
7 7 (16.28%) SOAP
7 7 (16.28%) Java EE
7 7 (16.28%) REST
8 6 (13.95%) JSON
8 6 (13.95%) Symfony
8 6 (13.95%) Ajax
8 6 (13.95%) XSLT
9 5 (11.63%) Node.js
10 4 (9.302%) POSIX
11 3 (6.977%) J2EE
11 3 (6.977%) iOS SDK
12 2 (4.651%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 20 (46.51%) Apache
2 5 (11.63%) ESB
2 5 (11.63%) nginx
2 5 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (11.63%) Amazon S3
2 5 (11.63%) Amazon AWS
2 5 (11.63%) Route 53
3 2 (4.651%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.651%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (2.326%) CMS
4 1 (2.326%) Drupal
4 1 (2.326%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.326%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.58%) HTTP
2 4 (9.302%) DNS
2 4 (9.302%) Internet
3 2 (4.651%) SAN
3 2 (4.651%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.326%) NAS
4 1 (2.326%) DHCP
4 1 (2.326%) Firewall
4 1 (2.326%) SSL
4 1 (2.326%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (55.81%) MySQL
2 5 (11.63%) MongoDB
2 5 (11.63%) Redis
2 5 (11.63%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.302%) SimpleDB
3 4 (9.302%) Couchbase
3 4 (9.302%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.302%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.326%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (2.326%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) PHPUnit
2 2 (4.651%) Introscope
General
1 5 (11.63%) Games
2 2 (4.651%) Retail
2 2 (4.651%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.326%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) Developer
2 13 (30.23%) PHP Developer
3 10 (23.26%) Architect
4 8 (18.60%) Software Engineer
5 6 (13.95%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.977%) Technical Architect
6 3 (6.977%) Web Developer
6 3 (6.977%) Consultant
6 3 (6.977%) PHP Web Developer
6 3 (6.977%) Mobile Applications Developer
6 3 (6.977%) Mobile Developer
6 3 (6.977%) PHP MySQL Developer
7 2 (4.651%) LAMP Developer
7 2 (4.651%) Software Architect
7 2 (4.651%) Java Developer
8 1 (2.326%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (2.326%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.326%) Linux Administrator
8 1 (2.326%) Applications Developer
8 1 (2.326%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.977%) Open Source
2 3 (6.977%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.977%) iPhone
3 2 (4.651%) Client/Server
3 2 (4.651%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.326%) Web 2.0
4 1 (2.326%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 18 (41.86%) Linux
2 5 (11.63%) Windows
3 4 (9.302%) UNIX
4 3 (6.977%) Apple iOS
4 3 (6.977%) Android
5 2 (4.651%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.326%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) MVC
1 12 (27.91%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (18.60%) TDD
3 7 (16.28%) OOP
4 6 (13.95%) Web Development
5 5 (11.63%) Unified Process
5 5 (11.63%) Kanban
5 5 (11.63%) E-Commerce
5 5 (11.63%) SOA
5 5 (11.63%) Configuration Management
6 4 (9.302%) OO
6 4 (9.302%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (6.977%) UML
7 3 (6.977%) Scrum
8 2 (4.651%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (4.651%) RUP
8 2 (4.651%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (4.651%) Load Balancing
8 2 (4.651%) Security Testing
8 2 (4.651%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (76.74%) PHP
2 15 (34.88%) Java
3 11 (25.58%) JavaScript
4 9 (20.93%) PHP5
5 5 (11.63%) Bash shell
5 5 (11.63%) Ruby
5 5 (11.63%) C++
5 5 (11.63%) Python
6 3 (6.977%) C#
6 3 (6.977%) Perl
6 3 (6.977%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.326%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.326%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.977%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.977%) QA
2 1 (2.326%) WAI
System Software
1 3 (6.977%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.651%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Puppet
2 4 (9.302%) CA Wily
3 2 (4.651%) OpenView
3 2 (4.651%) Splunk
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) Oracle
2 4 (9.302%) Red Hat
2 4 (9.302%) VMware
3 2 (4.651%) JBoss
3 2 (4.651%) HP
4 1 (2.326%) Terracotta
4 1 (2.326%) Percona
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