The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 21 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 Dorset region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 59 53 54
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +1
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 8 5 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 1.307% 1.014% 2.083%
As % of the Application Development category 2.899% 2.212% 4.878%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 12
Average salary £42,500 £30,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+41.66% -14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -
All Application Development
Dorset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
276 226 246
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 45.10% 45.84% 42.71%
Number of salaries quoted 250 201 197
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -4.41%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £23,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,000 £38,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LAMP
South West

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Dorset 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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 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
Bournemouth - 7 £42,500 -
LAMP
South West

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 18 (85.71%) PHP
1 18 (85.71%) MySQL
2 16 (76.19%) CSS
2 16 (76.19%) HTML
2 16 (76.19%) JavaScript
3 15 (71.43%) Linux
3 15 (71.43%) PHP5
4 14 (66.67%) E-Commerce
5 12 (57.14%) Web Development
5 12 (57.14%) OOP
5 12 (57.14%) OO
6 11 (52.38%) Subversion
6 11 (52.38%) Content Management
6 11 (52.38%) Marketing
6 11 (52.38%) CMS
6 11 (52.38%) WordPress
6 11 (52.38%) Release Management
6 11 (52.38%) Drupal
6 11 (52.38%) Magento
6 11 (52.38%) Plesk
7 6 (28.57%) ExpressionEngine
7 6 (28.57%) CSS3
8 5 (23.81%) HTML5
8 5 (23.81%) Joomla!
8 5 (23.81%) QA
9 4 (19.05%) Open Source
10 3 (14.29%) VCP4
10 3 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (14.29%) VMware

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 16 (76.19%) CSS
1 16 (76.19%) HTML
2 6 (28.57%) CSS3
3 5 (23.81%) HTML5
4 2 (9.524%) XML
4 2 (9.524%) SOAP
4 2 (9.524%) jQuery
5 1 (4.762%) Google Maps API
5 1 (4.762%) WAMP
5 1 (4.762%) REST
5 1 (4.762%) Ajax
5 1 (4.762%) Apache Flex
5 1 (4.762%) CakePHP
5 1 (4.762%) Web Services
5 1 (4.762%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 11 (52.38%) CMS
1 11 (52.38%) WordPress
1 11 (52.38%) Drupal
1 11 (52.38%) Magento
2 6 (28.57%) ExpressionEngine
3 5 (23.81%) Joomla!
4 3 (14.29%) Apache
5 1 (4.762%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Internet
2 2 (9.524%) DNS
2 2 (9.524%) Firewall
3 1 (4.762%) IMAP
3 1 (4.762%) POP3
3 1 (4.762%) SMTP
3 1 (4.762%) HTTP
3 1 (4.762%) HTTPS
3 1 (4.762%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (85.71%) MySQL
2 1 (4.762%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.762%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Subversion
General
1 11 (52.38%) Marketing
2 1 (4.762%) Back Office
2 1 (4.762%) Publishing
2 1 (4.762%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (76.19%) Developer
1 16 (76.19%) PHP Developer
2 13 (61.90%) Web Developer
2 13 (61.90%) PHP Web Developer
3 4 (19.05%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Lead PHP Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Lead Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 2 (9.524%) Systems Support
5 2 (9.524%) Consultant
5 2 (9.524%) Support Consultant
6 1 (4.762%) Project Consultant
6 1 (4.762%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (4.762%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.762%) Technical Support Consultant
6 1 (4.762%) Technical Project Manager
6 1 (4.762%) Technical Support
6 1 (4.762%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Open Source
2 2 (9.524%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.762%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.762%) Streaming Media
3 1 (4.762%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 15 (71.43%) Linux
2 2 (9.524%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.762%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 12 (57.14%) Web Development
2 12 (57.14%) OOP
2 12 (57.14%) OO
3 11 (52.38%) Content Management
3 11 (52.38%) Release Management
4 3 (14.29%) MVC
5 2 (9.524%) Project Planning
6 1 (4.762%) High Availability
6 1 (4.762%) Refactoring
6 1 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (85.71%) PHP
2 16 (76.19%) JavaScript
3 15 (71.43%) PHP5
4 1 (4.762%) SQL
4 1 (4.762%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.762%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) VCP4
1 3 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) QA
2 1 (4.762%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Plesk
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) VMware
1 3 (14.29%) HP
2 2 (9.524%) Dell
2 2 (9.524%) Red Hat
2 2 (9.524%) Cisco
2 2 (9.524%) SonicWALL
3 1 (4.762%) Facebook
3 1 (4.762%) Twitter
3 1 (4.762%) Google