The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 19 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 217 178 140
Rank change year-on-year
-39 -38
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 45 89 150
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.559% 1.041% 1.514%
As % of the Application Development category 1.304% 2.168% 3.463%
Number of salaries quoted 42 58 131
Average salary £36,500 £32,750 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.45% -6.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £27,400
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £50,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
All Application Development
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
3450 4105 4332
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 42.85% 48.02% 43.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3110 3518 3792
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
LAMP
England

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridgeshire +28 25 £36,500 -13.09% 2
Hertfordshire -48 10 £42,500 +32.81% 3
Suffolk +2 8 £32,500 -18.75% 2
Essex +13 1 £42,500 +21.42% 2
LAMP
England

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 95 (80.51%) PHP
2 91 (77.12%) MySQL
3 83 (70.34%) Linux
4 69 (58.47%) Apache
5 54 (45.76%) JavaScript
6 53 (44.92%) CSS
7 49 (41.53%) HTML
8 34 (28.81%) jQuery
9 33 (27.97%) Web Development
10 32 (27.12%) OO
11 28 (23.73%) Zend
12 23 (19.49%) Degree
13 21 (17.80%) Red Hat
14 19 (16.10%) SQL
14 19 (16.10%) Ajax
15 18 (15.25%) PHP5
15 18 (15.25%) Perl
15 18 (15.25%) CMS
16 16 (13.56%) MVC
17 15 (12.71%) Android
17 15 (12.71%) Mobile App
18 14 (11.86%) Mobile Application Development
18 14 (11.86%) HTML5
18 14 (11.86%) .NET
18 14 (11.86%) XML
18 14 (11.86%) DNS
19 13 (11.02%) SMTP
19 13 (11.02%) Java
20 12 (10.17%) OOP
20 12 (10.17%) TCP/IP

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 53 (44.92%) CSS
2 49 (41.53%) HTML
3 34 (28.81%) jQuery
4 19 (16.10%) Ajax
5 14 (11.86%) HTML5
5 14 (11.86%) .NET
5 14 (11.86%) XML
6 12 (10.17%) CSS3
7 9 (7.627%) Web Services
8 8 (6.780%) JSP
9 7 (5.932%) XHTML
10 6 (5.085%) ASP
10 6 (5.085%) SOAP
11 5 (4.237%) RESTful
12 4 (3.390%) XSL
12 4 (3.390%) ASP.NET
12 4 (3.390%) JSON
12 4 (3.390%) Ruby on Rails
12 4 (3.390%) Zend Framework
12 4 (3.390%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 69 (58.47%) Apache
2 18 (15.25%) CMS
3 10 (8.475%) SharePoint
3 10 (8.475%) Magento
3 10 (8.475%) WordPress
4 9 (7.627%) Drupal
5 7 (5.932%) nginx
6 6 (5.085%) Moodle
6 6 (5.085%) Joomla!
7 3 (2.542%) Zope
7 3 (2.542%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.847%) Jetty
8 1 (0.847%) concrete5
8 1 (0.847%) Google App Engine
8 1 (0.847%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.86%) DNS
2 13 (11.02%) SMTP
3 12 (10.17%) TCP/IP
4 11 (9.322%) Internet
5 9 (7.627%) IMAP
5 9 (7.627%) POP3
6 8 (6.780%) Firewall
6 8 (6.780%) FTP
6 8 (6.780%) SAN
6 8 (6.780%) SSL
6 8 (6.780%) SSH
7 7 (5.932%) HTTP
8 3 (2.542%) UPnP
9 1 (0.847%) Network Security
9 1 (0.847%) Intranet
9 1 (0.847%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.847%) VPN
9 1 (0.847%) LAN
9 1 (0.847%) WLAN
9 1 (0.847%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (77.12%) MySQL
2 9 (7.627%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.542%) Big Data
3 3 (2.542%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (1.695%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.847%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.475%) Subversion
2 5 (4.237%) Git (software)
3 3 (2.542%) GCC
3 3 (2.542%) Automake
General
1 7 (5.932%) Marketing
2 4 (3.390%) Finance
3 3 (2.542%) Electronics
3 3 (2.542%) Publishing
3 3 (2.542%) Multimedia
4 1 (0.847%) Financial Institution
4 1 (0.847%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.847%) Retail
Job Titles
1 78 (66.10%) Developer
2 48 (40.68%) PHP Developer
3 28 (23.73%) Web Developer
4 21 (17.80%) LAMP Developer
5 18 (15.25%) PHP Web Developer
6 16 (13.56%) Administrator
7 13 (11.02%) Systems Administrator
8 12 (10.17%) Senior Developer
8 12 (10.17%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 12 (10.17%) Linux Administrator
9 9 (7.627%) PHP MySQL Developer
9 9 (7.627%) Web Administrator
10 7 (5.932%) Senior PHP Developer
10 7 (5.932%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.237%) Senior PHP Web Developer
11 5 (4.237%) Linux Engineer
11 5 (4.237%) Linux Specialist
11 5 (4.237%) Senior Web Developer
11 5 (4.237%) Infrastructure Specialist
12 4 (3.390%) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.71%) Mobile App
2 11 (9.322%) iPhone
2 11 (9.322%) Open Source
3 9 (7.627%) Computer Science
4 8 (6.780%) Replication
4 8 (6.780%) Clustering
5 3 (2.542%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.542%) Life Science
5 3 (2.542%) Social Media
6 2 (1.695%) New Media
6 2 (1.695%) Wiki
7 1 (0.847%) Mathematics
7 1 (0.847%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 83 (70.34%) Linux
2 15 (12.71%) Android
3 12 (10.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (8.475%) CentOS
5 8 (6.780%) Debian
6 6 (5.085%) Windows
7 4 (3.390%) Apple iOS
8 3 (2.542%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (1.695%) Fedora
9 2 (1.695%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.847%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.97%) Web Development
2 32 (27.12%) OO
3 16 (13.56%) MVC
4 14 (11.86%) Mobile Application Development
5 12 (10.17%) OOP
6 8 (6.780%) Load Balancing
7 7 (5.932%) E-Commerce
8 6 (5.085%) Digital Marketing
9 5 (4.237%) Time Management
9 5 (4.237%) Software Engineering
9 5 (4.237%) Agile Software Development
10 4 (3.390%) TDD
10 4 (3.390%) Content Management
10 4 (3.390%) SEO
10 4 (3.390%) Unit Testing
11 3 (2.542%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (2.542%) Multithreading
11 3 (2.542%) Web Application Development
11 3 (2.542%) UML
11 3 (2.542%) DNA
Programming Languages
1 95 (80.51%) PHP
2 54 (45.76%) JavaScript
3 19 (16.10%) SQL
4 18 (15.25%) PHP5
4 18 (15.25%) Perl
5 13 (11.02%) Java
6 11 (9.322%) Python
6 11 (9.322%) C++
7 9 (7.627%) Bash shell
8 8 (6.780%) C
9 5 (4.237%) PHP4
9 5 (4.237%) Objective-C
10 4 (3.390%) VB
11 3 (2.542%) Ruby
11 3 (2.542%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.542%) C#
11 3 (2.542%) Tcl
12 2 (1.695%) Scala
13 1 (0.847%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.847%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (19.49%) Degree
2 6 (5.085%) RHCE
3 2 (1.695%) CCNP
3 2 (1.695%) CCNA
3 2 (1.695%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.847%) JNCIA
4 1 (0.847%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.085%) SLA
2 4 (3.390%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.847%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.780%) Varnish
1 8 (6.780%) Sendmail
1 8 (6.780%) Xen
2 6 (5.085%) Postfix
3 5 (4.237%) NFS
3 5 (4.237%) Samba
4 3 (2.542%) OpenSSO
5 1 (0.847%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (5.932%) Puppet
1 7 (5.932%) Nagios
2 6 (5.085%) Cacti
3 2 (1.695%) Plesk
4 1 (0.847%) ZABBIX
4 1 (0.847%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 28 (23.73%) Zend
2 21 (17.80%) Red Hat
3 7 (5.932%) Oracle
4 6 (5.085%) Cisco
5 4 (3.390%) Juniper
6 3 (2.542%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.695%) IBM
7 2 (1.695%) Apple
8 1 (0.847%) Google
8 1 (0.847%) Facebook
8 1 (0.847%) Twitter
8 1 (0.847%) Sage
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Searchability are proud to be in brand new partnership with this first class, continually expanding Hosting Company in beginning of their search for a skilled Linux Systems Administrator...
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Canvey Island, Essex, South East
Position: LAMP DeveloperLocation: Canvey Island, EssexSalary: Up to £40K depending on experience-Description: You should be able to demonstrate a thorough working knowledge of Perl 5 and MySQL...
Net Recruit.co.uk Ltd
Salary: Up to GBP40,000
Posted: 13 June 2013
Canvey Island, Essex
Description: You should be able to demonstrate a thorough working knowledge of Perl 5 and MySQL within Linux/Unix/Apache CGI environment... (OO not important) -MySQL (+5 years) -...
Net Recruit.co.uk Ltd
Salary: Up to £40,000
Posted: 13 June 2013
Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
Developer will work closely with business analysts, software engineers, release management engineers, architects, and QA analysts implementing software solutions on the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)... -Object-...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Our existing platforms are split between Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 and a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack... - Examples of web based systems you’ve worked on; preferably using...
British Antarctic Survey
Salary: From £26,450 to £29,710 per annum
Posted: 4 June 2013
Bury St. Edmunds, East Anglia
Argyll Scott International
Salary: £70000 - £75000 per annum + 20% bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Illumina Cambridge Ltd
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum + industry leading benefits package!
Posted: 11 June 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
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