The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 20 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank - 82 65
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 0 2 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire - 0.203% 1.316%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.495% 3.364%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 11
Average salary - £31,750 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.83%
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -
All Application Development
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
314 404 327
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 28.99% 41.06% 39.11%
Number of salaries quoted 283 344 317
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LAMP
East of England

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire LAMP Jobs Demand Trend

LAMP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing LAMP across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited LAMP.

1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
2 1 (33.33%) PHP5
2 1 (33.33%) WAMP
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited LAMP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (33.33%) WAMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) PHP5
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Luton, South East
Essential: At least 5 years commercial Linux data centre experience Linux server (inc. Apache, mySQL) LAMP TCP/IP networking over Cisco Catalyst switches Storage Area Networks, including FC...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Luton, South East
TCP/IP networking over Cisco Catalyst switches Storage Area Networks, including FC and iSCSI switching Desirable: Windows Server (up to 2008) including Microsoft Cluster Services, Microsoft IIS web...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013