Berkshire LAMP Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Location Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Cheshunt Church Stretton Cirencester City of London Clapham Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Great Yarmouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes Morecambe Much Wenlock Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Telford Thornton Heath Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Waltham Abbey Walton-on-Thames Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimborne Winchester Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	213	206
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching permanent IT job ads	27	80
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.036 %
As % of the category below	0.989 %	2.161 %
Salaries quoted	27	74
Average minimum salary	£27,037	£34,581
Average salary	£31,056	£38,794
% change on same period last year	-19.94 %
Average maximum salary	£35,074	£43,007
UK excluding London average salary	£31,582	£32,278
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
Application Development Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2731	3702
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.762 %	1.657 %
Salaries quoted	2397	3129
Average minimum salary	£37,422	£37,302
Average salary	£41,144	£40,928
% change on same period last year	+0.52 %
Average maximum salary	£44,866	£44,554
UK excluding London average salary	£36,010	£36,558
% change on same period last year	-1.49 %
LAMP South East

LAMP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing LAMP across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

LAMP
Salary Trend

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

LAMP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

LAMP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+22	14	£27,429	-17.33 %
Slough	-2	6	£27,250	-27.33 %

LAMP South East

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 45 (93.75 %) PHP 2 41 (85.42 %) MySQL 3 32 (66.67 %) Linux 4 30 (62.50 %) Apache 5 26 (54.17 %) XML 6 25 (52.08 %) AJAX 7 24 (50.00 %) CSS 8 21 (43.75 %) XHTML 9 12 (25.00 %) JavaScript 10 11 (22.92 %) Java 11 9 (18.75 %) SQL 11 9 (18.75 %) WebServices 11 9 (18.75 %) Windows 11 9 (18.75 %) OO 11 9 (18.75 %) PHP5

12 8 (16.67 %) Games 13 7 (14.58 %) Advertising 13 7 (14.58 %) UNIX 13 7 (14.58 %) ColdFusion 14 6 (12.50 %) Sybase 14 6 (12.50 %) HTML 15 5 (10.42 %) .NET 15 5 (10.42 %) J2EE 15 5 (10.42 %) E-Commerce 15 5 (10.42 %) Telecoms 15 5 (10.42 %) Content Management 15 5 (10.42 %) Spring 15 5 (10.42 %) CentOS 16 4 (8.333 %) Red Hat Linux 16 4 (8.333 %) PHP4

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 26 (54.17 %) XML 2 25 (52.08 %) AJAX 3 24 (50.00 %) CSS 4 21 (43.75 %) XHTML 5 9 (18.75 %) WebServices 6 6 (12.50 %) HTML 7 5 (10.42 %) .NET 7 5 (10.42 %) J2EE 7 5 (10.42 %) Spring 8 4 (8.333 %) Hibernate 9 3 (6.250 %) Symfony 9 3 (6.250 %) CakePHP 9 3 (6.250 %) WAMP 10 2 (4.167 %) ASP 11 1 (2.083 %) Ruby on Rails 11 1 (2.083 %) Java EE	Application Platforms 1 30 (62.50 %) Apache 2 7 (14.58 %) ColdFusion 3 4 (8.333 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 1 (2.083 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.083 %) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence 1 41 (85.42 %) MySQL 2 4 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2 4 (8.333 %) DB2	General 1 8 (16.67 %) Games 2 7 (14.58 %) Advertising 3 5 (10.42 %) Telecoms 4 4 (8.333 %) Online Games 5 1 (2.083 %) Music 5 1 (2.083 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 36 (75.00 %) Developer 2 22 (45.83 %) LAMP Developer 3 20 (41.67 %) PHP Developer 4 9 (18.75 %) Web Developer 5 8 (16.67 %) Software Engineer 5 8 (16.67 %) PHP Web Developer 6 4 (8.333 %) PHP Programmer 6 4 (8.333 %) Web Engineer 6 4 (8.333 %) Applications Support Engineer 6 4 (8.333 %) Software Support Engineer 6 4 (8.333 %) IT Manager 6 4 (8.333 %) Senior Developer 6 4 (8.333 %) Programmer 6 4 (8.333 %) Support Engineer 6 4 (8.333 %) Applications Support 7 3 (6.250 %) MySQL Developer 7 3 (6.250 %) Senior PHP Developer 8 1 (2.083 %) Software Team Leader 8 1 (2.083 %) Senior Software Engineer 8 1 (2.083 %) Team Leader	Miscellaneous 1 4 (8.333 %) German Language 2 3 (6.250 %) Danish Language 2 3 (6.250 %) Dutch Language 2 3 (6.250 %) Finnish Language 2 3 (6.250 %) Norwegian Language 2 3 (6.250 %) Swedish Language 3 1 (2.083 %) Russian Language 3 1 (2.083 %) Japanese Language
Operating Systems 1 32 (66.67 %) Linux 2 9 (18.75 %) Windows 3 7 (14.58 %) UNIX 4 5 (10.42 %) CentOS 5 4 (8.333 %) Red Hat Linux 5 4 (8.333 %) FreeBSD 5 4 (8.333 %) SUSE 5 4 (8.333 %) Debian	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (18.75 %) OO 2 5 (10.42 %) E-Commerce 2 5 (10.42 %) Content Management 3 3 (6.250 %) Web Development 4 2 (4.167 %) Process Management 4 2 (4.167 %) OOP 5 1 (2.083 %) OOA/OOD 5 1 (2.083 %) OOD 5 1 (2.083 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (2.083 %) Software Engineering
Programming Languages 1 45 (93.75 %) PHP 2 12 (25.00 %) JavaScript 3 11 (22.92 %) Java 4 9 (18.75 %) PHP5 4 9 (18.75 %) SQL 5 4 (8.333 %) Shell Script 5 4 (8.333 %) Perl 5 4 (8.333 %) PHP4 6 2 (4.167 %) C++ 7 1 (2.083 %) C# 7 1 (2.083 %) Ruby 7 1 (2.083 %) Python 7 1 (2.083 %) Erlang	Qualifications 1 1 (2.083 %) Degree 1 1 (2.083 %) MySQL Certification
Vendors 1 6 (12.50 %) Sybase 2 4 (8.333 %) Red Hat 2 4 (8.333 %) Zend 2 4 (8.333 %) Oracle 3 3 (6.250 %) Sun