The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 24 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 Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 30 34 42
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +8
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 10 14 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 3.390% 4.204% 0.356%
As % of the Application Development category 11.76% 10.69% 0.813%
Number of salaries quoted 10 14 1
Average salary £46,250 £40,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.62% +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -
All Application Development
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
85 131 123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 28.81% 39.34% 43.77%
Number of salaries quoted 74 123 117
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £30,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £80,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LAMP
London

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the Croydon region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Croydon LAMP Salary Histogram

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 15 (88.24%) PHP
1 15 (88.24%) jQuery
2 14 (82.35%) MySQL
2 14 (82.35%) Linux
3 9 (52.94%) CSS
3 9 (52.94%) JavaScript
4 8 (47.06%) XHTML
4 8 (47.06%) PHP5
5 7 (41.18%) Zend
5 7 (41.18%) Web Development
5 7 (41.18%) Subversion
5 7 (41.18%) HTML
5 7 (41.18%) Publishing
6 6 (35.29%) CMS
6 6 (35.29%) MVC
6 6 (35.29%) Java
6 6 (35.29%) Apache
6 6 (35.29%) Python
6 6 (35.29%) Ajax
6 6 (35.29%) Zend Framework
6 6 (35.29%) Symfony
6 6 (35.29%) PHP4
6 6 (35.29%) Node.js
7 5 (29.41%) Mobile App
7 5 (29.41%) Mobile Application Development
7 5 (29.41%) C
8 3 (17.65%) WordPress
9 2 (11.76%) CSS3
9 2 (11.76%) Cacti
9 2 (11.76%) Zenoss

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 15 (88.24%) jQuery
2 9 (52.94%) CSS
3 8 (47.06%) XHTML
4 7 (41.18%) HTML
5 6 (35.29%) Ajax
5 6 (35.29%) Zend Framework
5 6 (35.29%) Symfony
5 6 (35.29%) Node.js
6 2 (11.76%) CSS3
6 2 (11.76%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) CMS
1 6 (35.29%) Apache
2 3 (17.65%) WordPress
3 1 (5.882%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (82.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Subversion
2 1 (5.882%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Publishing
2 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Developer
2 13 (76.47%) PHP Developer
3 9 (52.94%) Senior PHP Developer
3 9 (52.94%) Senior Developer
4 8 (47.06%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 6 (35.29%) Junior Developer
5 6 (35.29%) Junior
5 6 (35.29%) Junior PHP Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (11.76%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Administrator
7 1 (5.882%) Programmer
7 1 (5.882%) Lead PHP Developer
7 1 (5.882%) Front-End Developer
7 1 (5.882%) PHP Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.882%) Open Source
2 1 (5.882%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) CentOS
3 1 (5.882%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Web Development
2 6 (35.29%) MVC
3 5 (29.41%) Mobile Application Development
4 2 (11.76%) Web Accessibility
4 2 (11.76%) Information Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) SEO
5 1 (5.882%) Configuration Management
5 1 (5.882%) OO
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) PHP
2 9 (52.94%) JavaScript
3 8 (47.06%) PHP5
4 6 (35.29%) Java
4 6 (35.29%) Python
4 6 (35.29%) PHP4
5 5 (29.41%) C
6 1 (5.882%) Perl
6 1 (5.882%) Bash shell
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Cacti
1 2 (11.76%) Zenoss
1 2 (11.76%) Nagios
2 1 (5.882%) Puppet
2 1 (5.882%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Zend
2 1 (5.882%) VMware
2 1 (5.882%) HP
2 1 (5.882%) Dell