The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 22 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 166 181 160
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -21
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 51 40 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.977% 0.639% 0.565%
As % of the Application Development category 2.969% 1.625% 1.454%
Number of salaries quoted 46 38 29
Average salary £42,500 £38,750 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.67% +19.23%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £26,500 £25,700
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £47,500 £45,500
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -
All Application Development
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1718 2461 1994
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 32.90% 39.32% 38.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1546 2221 1782
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LAMP
South East

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Berkshire LAMP Salary Histogram

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 22 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +2 25 £35,000 +11.11%
Maidenhead - 11 £67,500 -
Slough - 2 £42,500 -
Wokingham - 1 £27,500 -
Newbury - 1 £34,000 -
LAMP
South East

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 79 (79.00%) PHP
2 71 (71.00%) MySQL
3 59 (59.00%) JavaScript
3 59 (59.00%) CSS
4 57 (57.00%) Linux
5 56 (56.00%) HTML
6 38 (38.00%) jQuery
7 33 (33.00%) Apache
8 31 (31.00%) E-Commerce
9 27 (27.00%) OO
10 25 (25.00%) Red Hat
11 24 (24.00%) Ajax
12 23 (23.00%) CMS
13 22 (22.00%) Web Services
13 22 (22.00%) XML
14 21 (21.00%) Windows
14 21 (21.00%) Agile Software Development
14 21 (21.00%) CentOS
15 19 (19.00%) Magento
15 19 (19.00%) Drupal
15 19 (19.00%) Microsoft
16 18 (18.00%) OOP
16 18 (18.00%) MVC
16 18 (18.00%) Google
16 18 (18.00%) Open Source
17 17 (17.00%) Ruby
18 15 (15.00%) SQL
18 15 (15.00%) SQL Server
18 15 (15.00%) Cisco
18 15 (15.00%) HTML5

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 59 (59.00%) CSS
2 56 (56.00%) HTML
3 38 (38.00%) jQuery
4 24 (24.00%) Ajax
5 22 (22.00%) Web Services
5 22 (22.00%) XML
6 15 (15.00%) HTML5
6 15 (15.00%) CSS3
7 9 (9.000%) XSLT
8 8 (8.000%) CakePHP
9 7 (7.000%) CodeIgniter
9 7 (7.000%) Symfony
9 7 (7.000%) Django
9 7 (7.000%) JSON
9 7 (7.000%) RESTful
9 7 (7.000%) XHTML
10 6 (6.000%) .NET
11 3 (3.000%) Memcached
11 3 (3.000%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 3 (3.000%) Smarty
Application Platforms
1 33 (33.00%) Apache
2 23 (23.00%) CMS
3 19 (19.00%) Magento
3 19 (19.00%) Drupal
4 11 (11.00%) Amazon AWS
4 11 (11.00%) MS Exchange
5 10 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
6 9 (9.000%) nginx
7 8 (8.000%) WordPress
8 7 (7.000%) ExpressionEngine
9 6 (6.000%) Joomla!
10 3 (3.000%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.000%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.000%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (3.000%) Mule
10 3 (3.000%) Tomcat
11 2 (2.000%) WebLogic
11 2 (2.000%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (2.000%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 11 (11.00%) Google Apps
2 10 (10.00%) Photoshop
3 8 (8.000%) MS Excel
4 5 (5.000%) MS Office
5 4 (4.000%) Acrobat
5 4 (4.000%) QuarkXPress
6 2 (2.000%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.00%) LDAP
2 11 (11.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (6.000%) HTTP
4 4 (4.000%) DHCP
4 4 (4.000%) Internet
5 3 (3.000%) DNS
6 2 (2.000%) SSL
6 2 (2.000%) Intranet
6 2 (2.000%) SSH
7 1 (1.000%) Firewall
7 1 (1.000%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (71.00%) MySQL
2 15 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (7.000%) SQL Server 2000
4 6 (6.000%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.000%) Redis
5 3 (3.000%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.000%) DB2
6 2 (2.000%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.000%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.000%) Jackrabbit
7 1 (1.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 6 (6.000%) Subversion
2 5 (5.000%) Git (software)
3 2 (2.000%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.000%) JIRA
3 2 (2.000%) FishEye
3 2 (2.000%) JProfiler
4 1 (1.000%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (14.00%) Marketing
2 8 (8.000%) Finance
3 7 (7.000%) Publishing
4 6 (6.000%) Retail
5 4 (4.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (66.00%) Developer
2 36 (36.00%) PHP Developer
3 29 (29.00%) Web Developer
4 24 (24.00%) Administrator
5 22 (22.00%) Systems Administrator
6 16 (16.00%) Linux Administrator
7 14 (14.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 13 (13.00%) PHP Web Developer
9 9 (9.000%) Senior Developer
9 9 (9.000%) Software Developer
10 8 (8.000%) Front-End Developer
11 7 (7.000%) Front-End Web Developer
11 7 (7.000%) Lead Web Developer
11 7 (7.000%) Drupal Developer
11 7 (7.000%) Lead Developer
12 6 (6.000%) Junior
13 5 (5.000%) Analyst
13 5 (5.000%) Support Analyst
14 4 (4.000%) Junior Developer
14 4 (4.000%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.00%) Open Source
2 7 (7.000%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.000%) Social Media
3 3 (3.000%) Mathematics
3 3 (3.000%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (3.000%) Replication
4 2 (2.000%) W3C
4 2 (2.000%) Clustering
4 2 (2.000%) Blog
5 1 (1.000%) SaaS
5 1 (1.000%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.000%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 57 (57.00%) Linux
2 21 (21.00%) Windows
2 21 (21.00%) CentOS
3 10 (10.00%) SUSE
4 8 (8.000%) Ubuntu
5 7 (7.000%) Android
6 6 (6.000%) UNIX
6 6 (6.000%) Apple iOS
7 4 (4.000%) Windows 7
8 3 (3.000%) Debian
9 2 (2.000%) Solaris
9 2 (2.000%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (2.000%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (1.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.00%) E-Commerce
2 27 (27.00%) OO
3 21 (21.00%) Agile Software Development
4 18 (18.00%) OOP
4 18 (18.00%) MVC
5 14 (14.00%) Web Development
5 14 (14.00%) Scrum
6 13 (13.00%) OOD
7 12 (12.00%) Penetration Testing
8 10 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
9 7 (7.000%) Unit Testing
9 7 (7.000%) SEO
10 6 (6.000%) Migration
10 6 (6.000%) Content Management
10 6 (6.000%) Asset Management
10 6 (6.000%) Data Protection
11 4 (4.000%) Project Management
12 3 (3.000%) Online Marketing
12 3 (3.000%) Web Application Development
13 2 (2.000%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 79 (79.00%) PHP
2 59 (59.00%) JavaScript
3 17 (17.00%) Ruby
4 15 (15.00%) SQL
5 14 (14.00%) Python
6 11 (11.00%) Java
7 10 (10.00%) Perl
8 6 (6.000%) C++
8 6 (6.000%) PHP5
9 3 (3.000%) DataFlex
9 3 (3.000%) Objective-C
9 3 (3.000%) C
9 3 (3.000%) C#
10 2 (2.000%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.000%) Groovy
11 1 (1.000%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 4 (4.000%) Degree
2 2 (2.000%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.000%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.000%) WAI
2 1 (1.000%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (10.00%) Puppet
2 9 (9.000%) Nagios
3 3 (3.000%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 25 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 19 (19.00%) Microsoft
3 18 (18.00%) Google
4 15 (15.00%) Cisco
5 8 (8.000%) Zend
6 7 (7.000%) Adobe
7 6 (6.000%) Twitter
8 4 (4.000%) Oracle
8 4 (4.000%) Quark
9 3 (3.000%) Percona
9 3 (3.000%) CA
9 3 (3.000%) NetApp
9 3 (3.000%) IBM
10 2 (2.000%) JBoss
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