The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the London 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 211 154 193
Rank change year-on-year
-57 +39
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 594 952 739
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 1.342% 1.790% 1.234%
As % of the Application Development category 3.388% 4.349% 3.098%
Number of salaries quoted 525 873 690
Average salary £45,000 £43,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.65% +7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £57,550
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
All Application Development
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
17533 21891 23852
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 39.62% 41.15% 39.83%
Number of salaries quoted 15146 19476 20990
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £34,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
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 London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

London 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 London region.

London LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Salary Histogram

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

London 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 London 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
City of London -40 85 £55,000 +10.00% 28
Hammersmith +10 9 £46,500 +16.25% 1
Croydon -9 8 £43,750 +9.37% 2
Hounslow - 8 £65,000 -
Paddington +7 4 £45,000 -34.54%
Kingston Upon Thames -2 2 £50,000 +11.11%
Westminster - 2 £36,500 -
Twickenham +2 1 £26,000 -22.96% 3
Hayes - 1 £40,000 -
LAMP
England

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the London 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.

1 782 (65.60%) PHP
2 657 (55.12%) MySQL
3 590 (49.50%) Linux
4 536 (44.97%) JavaScript
5 453 (38.00%) CSS
6 360 (30.20%) Apache
7 312 (26.17%) HTML
8 298 (25.00%) jQuery
9 272 (22.82%) MVC
10 266 (22.32%) Python
11 260 (21.81%) Open Source
12 251 (21.06%) E-Commerce
13 250 (20.97%) HTML5
14 236 (19.80%) Java
15 235 (19.71%) OO
16 210 (17.62%) CMS
17 198 (16.61%) Perl
18 186 (15.60%) Zend
19 181 (15.18%) Subversion
20 180 (15.10%) Agile Software Development
21 179 (15.02%) Git (software)
22 178 (14.93%) Web Development
22 178 (14.93%) SQL
23 172 (14.43%) Drupal
24 154 (12.92%) Ajax
25 143 (12.00%) CSS3
26 136 (11.41%) Finance
27 135 (11.33%) Web Services
28 132 (11.07%) Scrum
29 130 (10.91%) .NET

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the London 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
1 453 (38.00%) CSS
2 312 (26.17%) HTML
3 298 (25.00%) jQuery
4 250 (20.97%) HTML5
5 154 (12.92%) Ajax
6 143 (12.00%) CSS3
7 135 (11.33%) Web Services
8 130 (10.91%) .NET
9 119 (9.983%) XHTML
10 110 (9.228%) XML
10 110 (9.228%) Symfony
11 65 (5.453%) JSON
12 61 (5.117%) REST
13 60 (5.034%) Zend Framework
14 54 (4.530%) ASP.NET
15 45 (3.775%) Flash
16 44 (3.691%) SOAP
17 41 (3.440%) CodeIgniter
18 39 (3.272%) Node.js
19 32 (2.685%) Django
Application Platforms
1 360 (30.20%) Apache
2 210 (17.62%) CMS
3 172 (14.43%) Drupal
4 72 (6.040%) nginx
5 69 (5.789%) WordPress
6 63 (5.285%) Amazon AWS
7 54 (4.530%) Apache Solr
8 48 (4.027%) Magento
9 43 (3.607%) IIS
10 37 (3.104%) Tomcat
11 32 (2.685%) Documentum
12 27 (2.265%) Alfresco
12 27 (2.265%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (1.846%) ElasticSearch
14 20 (1.678%) Joomla!
15 18 (1.510%) Liferay
16 11 (0.923%) Sitecore CMS
17 10 (0.839%) Amazon S3
18 9 (0.755%) Facebook Platform
18 9 (0.755%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 38 (3.188%) MS Excel
2 28 (2.349%) Photoshop
3 6 (0.503%) MS Office
3 6 (0.503%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.336%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.168%) Google Apps
6 1 (0.084%) InDesign
6 1 (0.084%) MS PowerPoint
6 1 (0.084%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 7 (0.587%) Google Analytics
2 3 (0.252%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.168%) Optimost
3 2 (0.168%) SiteCatalyst
4 1 (0.084%) Summit
4 1 (0.084%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 93 (7.802%) Internet
2 92 (7.718%) DNS
3 66 (5.537%) HTTP
4 45 (3.775%) TCP/IP
5 44 (3.691%) Firewall
6 34 (2.852%) SAN
7 28 (2.349%) FTP
8 26 (2.181%) SSL
9 17 (1.426%) NAS
10 16 (1.342%) LDAP
11 15 (1.258%) SMTP
12 13 (1.091%) Unified Communications
12 13 (1.091%) SSH
13 12 (1.007%) VoIP
14 10 (0.839%) BSS
15 9 (0.755%) WAN
16 8 (0.671%) SMS
16 8 (0.671%) LAN
17 7 (0.587%) iSCSI
18 6 (0.503%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 657 (55.12%) MySQL
2 102 (8.557%) SQL Server
3 97 (8.138%) NoSQL
4 79 (6.628%) MongoDB
5 52 (4.362%) Big Data
6 34 (2.852%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (1.846%) MarkLogic
8 21 (1.762%) Redis
9 20 (1.678%) Hadoop
10 15 (1.258%) RDBMS
11 14 (1.174%) SQL Server 2005
12 9 (0.755%) CouchDB
13 8 (0.671%) Pentaho
13 8 (0.671%) SQL Server 2008
13 8 (0.671%) Jackrabbit
14 7 (0.587%) Oracle 8/8i
15 6 (0.503%) Couchbase
15 6 (0.503%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (0.503%) LevelDB
16 5 (0.419%) Amazon DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 181 (15.18%) Subversion
2 179 (15.02%) Git (software)
3 58 (4.866%) Jenkins
4 44 (3.691%) PHPUnit
5 33 (2.768%) Selenium
6 31 (2.601%) JIRA
6 31 (2.601%) GitHub
7 15 (1.258%) JUnit
8 12 (1.007%) Visual Studio
8 12 (1.007%) Maven
9 11 (0.923%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 10 (0.839%) NUnit
10 10 (0.839%) Moq
10 10 (0.839%) SpecFlow
11 9 (0.755%) Rhino Mocks
11 9 (0.755%) Mockito
12 8 (0.671%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.503%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.419%) Team Foundation Server
15 4 (0.336%) Aptana Studio
General
1 136 (11.41%) Finance
2 86 (7.215%) Publishing
3 65 (5.453%) Marketing
4 64 (5.369%) Games
5 35 (2.936%) Back Office
6 33 (2.768%) Retail
7 30 (2.517%) Advertising
8 17 (1.426%) Legal
8 17 (1.426%) Banking
9 13 (1.091%) Billing
10 9 (0.755%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.503%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.336%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.336%) Music Industry
12 4 (0.336%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.252%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.168%) Russian Language
15 1 (0.084%) French Language
15 1 (0.084%) Front Office
15 1 (0.084%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 659 (55.29%) Developer
2 367 (30.79%) PHP Developer
3 186 (15.60%) Senior Developer
4 177 (14.85%) Administrator
5 141 (11.83%) Systems Administrator
6 117 (9.815%) Senior PHP Developer
7 110 (9.228%) Web Developer
8 103 (8.641%) Linux Administrator
9 98 (8.221%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 92 (7.718%) Architect
11 74 (6.208%) Systems Engineer
12 66 (5.537%) LAMP Developer
13 65 (5.453%) Solutions Architect
14 56 (4.698%) Linux Engineer
14 56 (4.698%) Lead Developer
15 52 (4.362%) Drupal Developer
16 47 (3.943%) PHP MySQL Developer
17 46 (3.859%) Junior
18 41 (3.440%) Front-End Developer
19 28 (2.349%) PHP Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 260 (21.81%) Open Source
2 108 (9.060%) Computer Science
3 65 (5.453%) SaaS
4 49 (4.111%) Mobile App
5 37 (3.104%) Digital Media
6 28 (2.349%) Replication
7 26 (2.181%) Social Network
7 26 (2.181%) Taxonomies
8 25 (2.097%) Social Media
9 19 (1.594%) Online Games
9 19 (1.594%) Web 2.0
10 18 (1.510%) N-Tier
11 16 (1.342%) Clustering
11 16 (1.342%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (1.174%) Streaming Video
12 14 (1.174%) E-Learning
13 13 (1.091%) PaaS
14 12 (1.007%) Mathematics
14 12 (1.007%) Streaming Music
14 12 (1.007%) Streaming Media
Operating Systems
1 590 (49.50%) Linux
2 122 (10.23%) UNIX
3 115 (9.648%) CentOS
4 114 (9.564%) Windows
5 106 (8.893%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 100 (8.389%) Ubuntu
7 63 (5.285%) Debian
8 47 (3.943%) Apple iOS
9 43 (3.607%) Android
10 34 (2.852%) Solaris
11 25 (2.097%) FreeBSD
12 12 (1.007%) Windows Server 2003
12 12 (1.007%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.336%) VMS
13 4 (0.336%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.252%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.168%) Windows Phone 7
15 2 (0.168%) Windows Phone
16 1 (0.084%) Mac OS X Server
16 1 (0.084%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (22.82%) MVC
2 251 (21.06%) E-Commerce
3 235 (19.71%) OO
4 180 (15.10%) Agile Software Development
5 178 (14.93%) Web Development
6 132 (11.07%) Scrum
7 116 (9.732%) OOP
8 82 (6.879%) TDD
9 81 (6.795%) Content Management
10 68 (5.705%) Continuous Integration
11 66 (5.537%) ITIL
12 63 (5.285%) Project Management
12 63 (5.285%) Unit Testing
13 50 (4.195%) Configuration Management
14 49 (4.111%) B2B
15 42 (3.523%) BDD
16 37 (3.104%) B2C
17 36 (3.020%) SOA
18 34 (2.852%) Data Modelling
19 33 (2.768%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 782 (65.60%) PHP
2 536 (44.97%) JavaScript
3 266 (22.32%) Python
4 236 (19.80%) Java
5 198 (16.61%) Perl
6 178 (14.93%) SQL
7 128 (10.74%) PHP5
8 120 (10.07%) Bash shell
9 101 (8.473%) C#
10 79 (6.628%) Ruby
11 52 (4.362%) C
12 46 (3.859%) Shell Script
13 26 (2.181%) C++
14 24 (2.013%) Objective-C
14 24 (2.013%) T-SQL
15 13 (1.091%) PHP4
15 13 (1.091%) VB.NET
16 10 (0.839%) ActionScript
16 10 (0.839%) PowerShell
17 9 (0.755%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 130 (10.91%) Degree
2 10 (0.839%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 8 (0.671%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (0.671%) CCNA
3 8 (0.671%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 7 (0.587%) MCSE
4 7 (0.587%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.419%) ISEB
6 3 (0.252%) VTSP
6 3 (0.252%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.168%) PhD
7 2 (0.168%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.084%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (0.084%) RHCA
8 1 (0.084%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.084%) PMP
8 1 (0.084%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (4.111%) QA
2 14 (1.174%) SLA
3 7 (0.587%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.336%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.168%) WAI
6 1 (0.084%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 72 (6.040%) VMware Infrastructure
2 56 (4.698%) Varnish
3 22 (1.846%) NFS
4 15 (1.258%) Active Directory
5 14 (1.174%) Gluster
6 11 (0.923%) XenServer
7 9 (0.755%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.671%) Samba
9 6 (0.503%) XenApp
10 5 (0.419%) VMware ESX
11 4 (0.336%) Squid
11 4 (0.336%) Xen
11 4 (0.336%) vSphere
12 3 (0.252%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.252%) OpenSSO
12 3 (0.252%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.252%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.084%) Postfix
13 1 (0.084%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.084%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 125 (10.49%) Puppet
2 97 (8.138%) Nagios
3 46 (3.859%) Cacti
4 45 (3.775%) ZABBIX
5 24 (2.013%) Munin
6 9 (0.755%) Vagrant
6 9 (0.755%) Zenoss
7 8 (0.671%) Splunk
7 8 (0.671%) Ganglia
8 6 (0.503%) OpenView
9 4 (0.336%) Backup Exec
10 3 (0.252%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.252%) CFEngine
10 3 (0.252%) Cisco IPCC
11 1 (0.084%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.084%) Plesk
Vendors
1 186 (15.60%) Zend
2 116 (9.732%) Red Hat
3 105 (8.809%) VMware
4 89 (7.466%) Microsoft
5 88 (7.383%) Oracle
6 43 (3.607%) Facebook
7 39 (3.272%) Twitter
8 34 (2.852%) Google
9 33 (2.768%) hybris
10 32 (2.685%) Vignette
11 31 (2.601%) ATG
12 25 (2.097%) Cisco
13 20 (1.678%) JBoss
14 19 (1.594%) Citrix
15 18 (1.510%) HP
16 17 (1.426%) Adobe
17 15 (1.258%) Juniper
18 11 (0.923%) Sitecore
18 11 (0.923%) Akamai
19 10 (0.839%) Percona
City, London
Undertaking both front-end and back-end development, based on PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other technologies as needed... * Excellent knowledge of PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS and...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
The successful incumbent will be offered an autonomous platform to provide constructive support to the business and aid the ongoing development of the firm's internationally recognised online...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
PHP / MySQL / LAMP / PHP / PHP / MySQL / LAMP / PHP/ PHP / MySQL / LAMP / PHP... Greenfield Development Fantastic opportunity for skilled PHP Developers to join an outstanding technical team in an...
IT Rockstars Recruitment
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Job Title: PHP Developer - Financial Trading PlatformLocation: LondonSalary: £50000 - £60000 per annumKey Skills:• PHP Developer• Good understanding of web application specifically LAMP• JavaScript• Excellent in writing MySQL queries,...
Satigo
Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 per year
Posted: 10 June 2013
City of London
Job Title: PHP Developer - Financial Trading PlatformLocation: LondonSalary: £50000 - £60000 per annumKey Skills:•PHP Developer•Good understanding of web application specifically LAMP•JavaScript•Excellent in writing MySQL queries,...
Satigo
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 7 June 2013
City, London
Parallel Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
London, South East
Creation Recruitment
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 per year
Posted: 5 June 2013
City, London
Harrington Starr
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
harringtonstarr
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 16 June 2013
City of London
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £28000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 3 June 2013
City, London
FIRST POINT IT RESOURCING
Salary: £35000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Twickenham, Middlesex
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Satigo
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
London
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 7 June 2013
City, London
FIRST POINT IT RESOURCING
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
City of London
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Harnham
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + comprehensive benefits package
Posted: 16 June 2013
Hammersmith , London, United Kingdom
Agilisys
Salary: £25,000 - £30,000
Posted: 14 June 2013
Croydon, South East
OPUS
Salary: GBP30000 to GBP50000 per annum + Benefits: Excellent Benefits Package
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Marcus Donald People
Salary: £30000 to £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
South West London
Salary: £40000 per annum
Posted: 28 May 2013
London
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £25,000 to £40,000 per annum + excellent package and bonus
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £35000 to £45000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013