The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 107 85 89
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +4
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 11 27 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.604% 1.658% 0.294%
As % of the Application Development category 1.692% 4.821% 0.962%
Number of salaries quoted 10 23 4
Average salary £40,250 £32,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.84% -4.41%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £27,000 £25,950
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £34,700
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
All Application Development
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
650 560 416
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 35.71% 34.40% 30.57%
Number of salaries quoted 582 516 384
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +10.29%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,450 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
LAMP
West Midlands

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Birmingham LAMP Salary Histogram

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 12 (100.00%) PHP
2 8 (66.67%) CMS
2 8 (66.67%) MySQL
2 8 (66.67%) CSS
3 7 (58.33%) HTML
4 6 (50.00%) Drupal
5 4 (33.33%) Zend
5 4 (33.33%) Content Management
5 4 (33.33%) Web Development
5 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (33.33%) Linux
5 4 (33.33%) E-business
5 4 (33.33%) Apache
5 4 (33.33%) RUP
5 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
6 3 (25.00%) HTML5
6 3 (25.00%) OOP
6 3 (25.00%) Refactoring
6 3 (25.00%) Symfony
6 3 (25.00%) jQuery
6 3 (25.00%) WordPress
7 2 (16.67%) Android
7 2 (16.67%) CodeIgniter
7 2 (16.67%) PHP5
7 2 (16.67%) Google
7 2 (16.67%) Web Services
7 2 (16.67%) XML
7 2 (16.67%) Subversion
7 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
7 2 (16.67%) Yii

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 8 (66.67%) CSS
2 7 (58.33%) HTML
3 3 (25.00%) Symfony
3 3 (25.00%) jQuery
3 3 (25.00%) HTML5
4 2 (16.67%) Yii
4 2 (16.67%) CodeIgniter
4 2 (16.67%) Web Services
4 2 (16.67%) XML
4 2 (16.67%) CSS3
5 1 (8.333%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 8 (66.67%) CMS
2 6 (50.00%) Drupal
3 4 (33.33%) Apache
4 3 (25.00%) WordPress
5 1 (8.333%) Joomla!
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (8.333%) Hadoop
2 1 (8.333%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.333%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
2 9 (75.00%) PHP Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Drupal Developer
3 4 (33.33%) PHP Drupal Developer
4 3 (25.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Android
2 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) RUP
1 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 4 (33.33%) E-business
1 4 (33.33%) Web Development
1 4 (33.33%) Content Management
2 3 (25.00%) OOP
2 3 (25.00%) Refactoring
3 1 (8.333%) Unit Testing
3 1 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (8.333%) MVC
3 1 (8.333%) Web Design
3 1 (8.333%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) PHP5
4 1 (8.333%) Ruby
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Zend
2 2 (16.67%) Google
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Roc Search, PHP Developer, Backend, Symfony, Zend, LAMP,Birmingham,£35k) Roc Search is working alongside their client, a digital based organisation, to source a solid Backend Developer to...
Roc Search
Salary: £31 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 15 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
The Web Developer who will be degree educated with strong PHP and MySQL skills, and ideally knowledge of frameworks such as Zend... The role would suit a web...
CV Screen Ltd
Salary: Up to £40k plus benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
We are on the look out for a talented and hard working PHP developer to join us as our relaxed office in Digbeth Birmingham, we currently have a...
Develo Design
Salary: From £26,000 to £32,000 per annum
Posted: 31 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
The role will provide exposure to the following technologies: PHP 5 Strong understanding of OOP Source code management - SVN HTML 5, CSS 3 XML Strong MySQL JavaScript - jQuery...
Roc Search
Salary: £30000 - £32000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Redhat - Centos - Fedora - Debian - Unix - MySQL / Apache2 Desirable / Chance to learn - Networking - Infrastructure - Vmware - Java JBoss - SAN A leading IT services company in Birmingham are looking to grow...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £22000 - £35000 per annum + great company
Posted: 14 June 2013