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 Halifax 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 Halifax region.

 LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank11-52
Rank change year-on-year
New entry-No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads1907
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax16.38 %-1.400 %
As % of the Application Development category28.79 %-2.869 %
Salaries quoted1907
Average salary£31,500-£23,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,300-£23,300
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£37,500-£24,200
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£32,500£30,000
% change year-on-year
-+8.330 %
Halifax IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Halifax
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6661244
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax56.90 %44.53 %48.80 %
Salaries quoted6459226
Average salary£32,500£30,000£31,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.330 %-4.000 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,000£23,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£40,000£39,000£40,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
LAMP West YorkshireLAMP
West Yorkshire

LAMP
Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Top 24 Related IT Skills

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

124 (100.00 %)PHP
220 (83.33 %)SQL
220 (83.33 %)JavaScript
314 (58.33 %)Migration
314 (58.33 %)PHP5
412 (50.00 %)PHP4
58 (33.33 %)HTML
58 (33.33 %)CSS
65 (20.83 %)Linux
74 (16.67 %)XML
83 (12.50 %)MySQL
92 (8.333 %)Java
92 (8.333 %)C
92 (8.333 %)C++
92 (8.333 %)Apache
92 (8.333 %)SMTP
92 (8.333 %)HTTP
92 (8.333 %)TCP/IP
92 (8.333 %)Education
92 (8.333 %)Debian
92 (8.333 %)AJAX
92 (8.333 %)Ubuntu
101 (4.167 %)XHTML
101 (4.167 %).NET

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Halifax IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
18 (33.33 %)HTML
18 (33.33 %)CSS
24 (16.67 %)XML
32 (8.333 %)AJAX
41 (4.167 %)XHTML
41 (4.167 %).NET
Halifax IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (8.333 %)Apache
Halifax IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (8.333 %)SMTP
12 (8.333 %)HTTP
12 (8.333 %)TCP/IP
Halifax IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13 (12.50 %)MySQL
Halifax IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (8.333 %)Education
Halifax IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
122 (91.67 %)Developer
122 (91.67 %)PHP Developer
212 (50.00 %)Technical Specialist
212 (50.00 %)Lead PHP Developer
212 (50.00 %)Lead Developer
32 (8.333 %)Administrator
32 (8.333 %)Linux Administrator
41 (4.167 %)PHP Web Developer
41 (4.167 %)Web Developer
Halifax IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15 (20.83 %)Linux
22 (8.333 %)Debian
22 (8.333 %)Ubuntu
Halifax IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
114 (58.33 %)Migration
Halifax IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
124 (100.00 %)PHP
220 (83.33 %)SQL
220 (83.33 %)JavaScript
314 (58.33 %)PHP5
412 (50.00 %)PHP4
52 (8.333 %)C
52 (8.333 %)C++
52 (8.333 %)Java