Essex LAMP Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python) skills within the Essex 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 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Location Altrincham Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Cirencester City of London Clapham Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Doncaster Dorset Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Goole Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Telford Thames Valley Thornton Heath Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Waltham Abbey Walton-on-Thames Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Wimborne Winchester Windsor Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	118	130
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching permanent IT job ads	9	2
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.325 %	0.248 %
Salaries quoted	9	2
Average minimum salary	£34,444	£35,000
Average salary	£37,056	£40,000
% change on same period last year	-7.36 %
Average maximum salary	£39,667	£45,000
UK excluding London average salary	£33,499	£31,605
% change on same period last year	+5.99 %
Application Development Essex
Matching permanent IT job ads	679	807
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.393 %	0.347 %
Salaries quoted	586	735
Average minimum salary	£35,952	£37,239
Average salary	£38,313	£39,546
% change on same period last year	-3.11 %
Average maximum salary	£40,675	£41,853
UK excluding London average salary	£35,990	£36,664
% change on same period last year	-1.83 %
LAMP East of England

LAMP
Demand Trend

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

LAMP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the Essex region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Southend-on-Sea	-	5	£40,000	-
Waltham Abbey	-	1	£28,500	-

LAMP East of England

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Essex 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 29 (87.88 %) PHP 2 12 (36.36 %) Computer Science 3 11 (33.33 %) MySQL 3 11 (33.33 %) Linux 4 10 (30.30 %) HTML 5 9 (27.27 %) Web Design 5 9 (27.27 %) AJAX 6 8 (24.24 %) Advertising 7 7 (21.21 %) Perl 8 6 (18.18 %) JavaScript 8 6 (18.18 %) CSS 8 6 (18.18 %) Apache 8 6 (18.18 %) Red Hat 8 6 (18.18 %) Red Hat Linux 9 5 (15.15 %) Xen

9 5 (15.15 %) Degree 9 5 (15.15 %) E-Commerce 10 4 (12.12 %) Flash 10 4 (12.12 %) Windows 10 4 (12.12 %) AIX 10 4 (12.12 %) Solaris 10 4 (12.12 %) LDAP 10 4 (12.12 %) Sun 10 4 (12.12 %) SNMP 10 4 (12.12 %) Cisco 10 4 (12.12 %) IBM 10 4 (12.12 %) Photoshop 10 4 (12.12 %) Java 10 4 (12.12 %) Shell Script 10 4 (12.12 %) Debian

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Essex 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 10 (30.30 %) HTML 2 9 (27.27 %) AJAX 3 6 (18.18 %) CSS 4 3 (9.091 %) XML 4 3 (9.091 %) XHTML 5 2 (6.061 %) jQuery 5 2 (6.061 %) .NET 6 1 (3.030 %) ASP 6 1 (3.030 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 6 (18.18 %) Apache 2 1 (3.030 %) CMS 2 1 (3.030 %) IIS
Applications 1 4 (12.12 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 4 (12.12 %) LDAP 1 4 (12.12 %) SNMP 1 4 (12.12 %) Cisco IOS 2 2 (6.061 %) Internet 3 1 (3.030 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (33.33 %) MySQL 2 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 4 (12.12 %) Flash 2 1 (3.030 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 8 (24.24 %) Advertising 2 3 (9.091 %) Finance 3 2 (6.061 %) Games 3 2 (6.061 %) Marketing 4 1 (3.030 %) Graphic Design 4 1 (3.030 %) Online Betting 4 1 (3.030 %) Pensions 4 1 (3.030 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 23 (69.70 %) Developer 2 21 (63.64 %) PHP Developer 3 9 (27.27 %) Systems Administrator 3 9 (27.27 %) Administrator 4 8 (24.24 %) LAMP Developer 5 6 (18.18 %) Web Developer 5 6 (18.18 %) Linux Systems Administrator 5 6 (18.18 %) Linux Administrator 6 4 (12.12 %) Consultant 6 4 (12.12 %) Infrastructure Consultant 7 3 (9.091 %) PHP Web Developer 8 2 (6.061 %) Senior PHP Developer 8 2 (6.061 %) Project Manager 8 2 (6.061 %) Senior Developer 9 1 (3.030 %) .NET Developer 9 1 (3.030 %) Systems Developer 9 1 (3.030 %) Junior 9 1 (3.030 %) Graduate Web Developer 9 1 (3.030 %) Graduate Developer 9 1 (3.030 %) Flash Developer
Miscellaneous 1 12 (36.36 %) Computer Science 2 4 (12.12 %) Mathematics 3 2 (6.061 %) BBC 4 1 (3.030 %) E-Learning 4 1 (3.030 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 11 (33.33 %) Linux 2 6 (18.18 %) Red Hat Linux 3 4 (12.12 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 4 (12.12 %) Debian 3 4 (12.12 %) Windows 3 4 (12.12 %) AIX 3 4 (12.12 %) Solaris 4 3 (9.091 %) UNIX 5 2 (6.061 %) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (27.27 %) Web Design 2 5 (15.15 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (9.091 %) OOP 3 3 (9.091 %) SEO 4 1 (3.030 %) OOA/OOD 4 1 (3.030 %) OOD 4 1 (3.030 %) Software Engineering 4 1 (3.030 %) Web Development 4 1 (3.030 %) Matrix Management	Programming Languages 1 29 (87.88 %) PHP 2 7 (21.21 %) Perl 3 6 (18.18 %) JavaScript 4 4 (12.12 %) Java 4 4 (12.12 %) Shell Script 5 3 (9.091 %) SQL 6 1 (3.030 %) ActionScript 6 1 (3.030 %) PHP5
Qualifications 1 5 (15.15 %) Degree	System Software 1 5 (15.15 %) Xen 2 4 (12.12 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 6 (18.18 %) Red Hat 2 4 (12.12 %) VMware 2 4 (12.12 %) Cisco 2 4 (12.12 %) IBM 2 4 (12.12 %) Sun 3 1 (3.030 %) Adobe 3 1 (3.030 %) Zend