Dorset LAMP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python) skills within the Dorset 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Location Abingdon Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Chertsey Chichester Cirencester City of London Crawley Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenwich Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire Huddersfield Hull Ilford Kent Kings Langley Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Musselburgh Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Romford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wallingford Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Windsor Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	107	91
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching permanent IT job ads	5	4
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.687 %	0.825 %
Salaries quoted	5	4
Average minimum salary	£23,667	£24,500
Average salary	£26,417	£27,250
% change on same period last year	-3.05 %
Average maximum salary	£29,167	£30,000
UK excluding London average salary	£32,277	£31,738
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Application Development Dorset
Matching permanent IT job ads	728	485
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.357 %	0.215 %
Salaries quoted	498	407
Average minimum salary	£31,770	£31,839
Average salary	£35,392	£35,107
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Average maximum salary	£39,013	£38,374
UK excluding London average salary	£35,972	£36,627
% change on same period last year	-1.78 %
LAMP South West

LAMP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing LAMP across the Dorset 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 ads citing LAMP across the Dorset region.

LAMP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the Dorset region over the past 3 months.

LAMP
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP within the Dorset region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Bournemouth	-27	3	£21,500	-21.10 %
2	Poole	-	2	£27,000	-

LAMP South West

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Dorset region citing LAMP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing LAMP.

1 7 (87.50 %) CSS 2 6 (75.00 %) MySQL 2 6 (75.00 %) PHP 3 5 (62.50 %) Web Development 3 5 (62.50 %) XML 3 5 (62.50 %) Linux 4 4 (50.00 %) XHTML 5 3 (37.50 %) Retail 5 3 (37.50 %) Telecoms 5 3 (37.50 %) E-Commerce 5 3 (37.50 %) Motorola 5 3 (37.50 %) W3C 5 3 (37.50 %) Apache 5 3 (37.50 %) HTML 5 3 (37.50 %) Marketing

5 3 (37.50 %) Internet Marketing 6 2 (25.00 %) Copywriting 6 2 (25.00 %) OO 6 2 (25.00 %) SEO 6 2 (25.00 %) Degree 6 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript 6 2 (25.00 %) Pay per click 6 2 (25.00 %) Advertising 6 2 (25.00 %) AJAX 7 1 (12.50 %) Web 2.0 7 1 (12.50 %) CMS 7 1 (12.50 %) Ergonomics 7 1 (12.50 %) Finance 7 1 (12.50 %) Content Management 7 1 (12.50 %) Insurance

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Dorset region citing LAMP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing LAMP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (87.50 %) CSS 2 5 (62.50 %) XML 3 4 (50.00 %) XHTML 4 3 (37.50 %) HTML 5 2 (25.00 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) Apache 2 1 (12.50 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Photoshop	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (75.00 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Flash	General 1 3 (37.50 %) Telecoms 1 3 (37.50 %) Retail 1 3 (37.50 %) Marketing 2 2 (25.00 %) Advertising 3 1 (12.50 %) Insurance 3 1 (12.50 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 6 (75.00 %) Developer 2 4 (50.00 %) PHP Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) Web Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Senior Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) PHP Web Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Senior PHP Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (37.50 %) W3C 2 2 (25.00 %) Copywriting 3 1 (12.50 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (12.50 %) Ergonomics
Operating Systems 1 5 (62.50 %) Linux 2 1 (12.50 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (62.50 %) Web Development 2 3 (37.50 %) Internet Marketing 2 3 (37.50 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (25.00 %) SEO 3 2 (25.00 %) OO 3 2 (25.00 %) Pay per click 4 1 (12.50 %) Content Management 4 1 (12.50 %) OOD
Programming Languages 1 6 (75.00 %) PHP 2 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript 3 1 (12.50 %) Java 3 1 (12.50 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 2 (25.00 %) Degree
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Motorola