Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the East Midlands region.

 LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank10799188
Rank change year-on-year
Down-8Up+89
Matching permanent IT job ads15287
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands0.628 %1.163 %0.118 %
As % of the Application Development category1.710 %2.595 %0.344 %
Salaries quoted11267
Average salary£30,000£32,250£27,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.970 %+19.44 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,000£23,500£24,600
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£40,000£35,500
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£32,500£30,000
% change year-on-year
-+8.330 %
East Midlands IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
East Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
87710792034
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands36.71 %44.81 %34.24 %
Salaries quoted7989591771
Average salary£33,000£30,500£30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.190 %+1.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,000£23,500£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£40,000£40,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
LAMP EnglandLAMP
England

LAMP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing LAMP across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

East Midlands LAMP Demand Trend

LAMP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing LAMP across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands LAMP Salary Trend

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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LeicestershireUp+99£27,500+14.58 %
NottinghamshireUp+46£32,500+2.36 %
LAMP EnglandLAMP
England

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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.

125 (100.00 %)PHP
224 (96.00 %)MySQL
320 (80.00 %)CSS
418 (72.00 %)JavaScript
514 (56.00 %)PHP5
611 (44.00 %)jQuery
611 (44.00 %)AJAX
710 (40.00 %)Web Services
710 (40.00 %)XML
88 (32.00 %)Linux
88 (32.00 %)HTML
88 (32.00 %)OO
88 (32.00 %)XHTML
88 (32.00 %)Web Development
97 (28.00 %)CMS
97 (28.00 %)Subversion
106 (24.00 %)Marketing
106 (24.00 %)MooTools
106 (24.00 %)VPN
106 (24.00 %)Intranet
106 (24.00 %)XSL
115 (20.00 %)SQL Server
115 (20.00 %)SQL
115 (20.00 %)ASP
115 (20.00 %)Degree
115 (20.00 %)PHP4
115 (20.00 %)Computer Science
115 (20.00 %)W3C
124 (16.00 %)Open Source
124 (16.00 %)ERP

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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.

East Midlands IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
120 (80.00 %)CSS
211 (44.00 %)AJAX
211 (44.00 %)jQuery
310 (40.00 %)Web Services
310 (40.00 %)XML
48 (32.00 %)HTML
48 (32.00 %)XHTML
56 (24.00 %)MooTools
56 (24.00 %)XSL
65 (20.00 %)ASP
73 (12.00 %)SOAP
82 (8.000 %)Flash
82 (8.000 %)OpenGL
82 (8.000 %)DirectX
82 (8.000 %)HTML5
91 (4.000 %).NET
East Midlands IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
17 (28.00 %)CMS
24 (16.00 %)Apache
32 (8.000 %)Joomla!
32 (8.000 %)WordPress
East Midlands IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (16.00 %)Photoshop
East Midlands IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
16 (24.00 %)VPN
16 (24.00 %)Intranet
22 (8.000 %)IPsec
22 (8.000 %)HTTP
31 (4.000 %)TCP/IP
31 (4.000 %)DNS
East Midlands IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
124 (96.00 %)MySQL
25 (20.00 %)SQL Server
East Midlands IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
17 (28.00 %)Subversion
East Midlands IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
16 (24.00 %)Marketing
21 (4.000 %)Pensions
East Midlands IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
123 (92.00 %)Developer
214 (56.00 %)Web Developer
214 (56.00 %)PHP Developer
38 (32.00 %)Senior Developer
47 (28.00 %)PHP Web Developer
56 (24.00 %)Senior PHP Developer
56 (24.00 %)Senior Web Developer
64 (16.00 %)Senior PHP Web Developer
73 (12.00 %)LAMP Developer
82 (8.000 %)Lead Developer
91 (4.000 %)Programmer
91 (4.000 %)Systems Engineer
91 (4.000 %)Development Manager
91 (4.000 %)Linux Engineer
91 (4.000 %)PHP Programmer
East Midlands IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
15 (20.00 %)W3C
15 (20.00 %)Computer Science
24 (16.00 %)Open Source
32 (8.000 %)Client/Server
32 (8.000 %)Visualisation
East Midlands IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
18 (32.00 %)Linux
22 (8.000 %)Fedora
22 (8.000 %)Red Hat Linux
31 (4.000 %)UNIX
East Midlands IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
18 (32.00 %)OO
18 (32.00 %)Web Development
24 (16.00 %)OOP
24 (16.00 %)ERP
33 (12.00 %)E-Commerce
33 (12.00 %)SEO
42 (8.000 %)MVC
51 (4.000 %)Agile Software Development
East Midlands IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
125 (100.00 %)PHP
218 (72.00 %)JavaScript
314 (56.00 %)PHP5
45 (20.00 %)PHP4
45 (20.00 %)SQL
51 (4.000 %)Perl
51 (4.000 %)C#
East Midlands IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
15 (20.00 %)Degree
East Midlands IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (4.000 %)Active Directory
East Midlands IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12 (8.000 %)Red Hat