The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 140 119 133
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +14
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 52 54 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 1.270% 1.490% 0.936%
As % of the Application Development category 2.439% 3.086% 2.200%
Number of salaries quoted 50 54 31
Average salary £30,000 £30,000 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -
All Application Development
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2132 1750 1682
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 52.06% 48.29% 42.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1954 1598 1559
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LAMP
North West

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Stockport - 2 £28,000 -
Altrincham -11 1 £33,500 +11.66%
Sale - 1 £33,500 -
LAMP
North West

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

1 133 (95.00%) PHP
2 112 (80.00%) MySQL
3 88 (62.86%) JavaScript
4 78 (55.71%) CSS
5 74 (52.86%) Linux
6 69 (49.29%) HTML
7 57 (40.71%) Apache
8 55 (39.29%) MVC
8 55 (39.29%) Zend
9 50 (35.71%) E-Commerce
10 42 (30.00%) OO
11 35 (25.00%) jQuery
12 31 (22.14%) XML
13 30 (21.43%) OOP
14 28 (20.00%) XHTML
14 28 (20.00%) PHP5
15 25 (17.86%) Magento
16 22 (15.71%) Ruby
16 22 (15.71%) HTML5
17 21 (15.00%) Web Services
17 21 (15.00%) Java
18 20 (14.29%) SQL
18 20 (14.29%) Ajax
18 20 (14.29%) Scrum
19 19 (13.57%) CMS
19 19 (13.57%) Web Development
20 17 (12.14%) Open Source
21 16 (11.43%) REST
21 16 (11.43%) Drupal
22 15 (10.71%) CSS3

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 78 (55.71%) CSS
2 69 (49.29%) HTML
3 35 (25.00%) jQuery
4 31 (22.14%) XML
5 28 (20.00%) XHTML
6 22 (15.71%) HTML5
7 21 (15.00%) Web Services
8 20 (14.29%) Ajax
9 16 (11.43%) REST
10 15 (10.71%) CSS3
11 13 (9.286%) Zend Framework
12 12 (8.571%) SOAP
13 11 (7.857%) CodeIgniter
14 10 (7.143%) CakePHP
15 9 (6.429%) Symfony
15 9 (6.429%) Memcached
16 6 (4.286%) ASP.NET MVC
16 6 (4.286%) Yii
16 6 (4.286%) Ruby on Rails
16 6 (4.286%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 57 (40.71%) Apache
2 25 (17.86%) Magento
3 19 (13.57%) CMS
4 16 (11.43%) Drupal
5 13 (9.286%) WordPress
6 9 (6.429%) nginx
7 5 (3.571%) concrete5
8 4 (2.857%) Joomla!
8 4 (2.857%) Tomcat
9 2 (1.429%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.714%) Orchard CMS
10 1 (0.714%) Moodle
10 1 (0.714%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.714%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.429%) HTTP
2 4 (2.857%) SAN
3 2 (1.429%) DNS
4 1 (0.714%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (80.00%) MySQL
2 9 (6.429%) Redis
3 4 (2.857%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.714%) Big Data
4 1 (0.714%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.714%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (0.714%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (7.143%) Subversion
2 7 (5.000%) Git (software)
3 3 (2.143%) Selenium
4 2 (1.429%) Capistrano
4 2 (1.429%) Behat
5 1 (0.714%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.714%) NetBeans
5 1 (0.714%) NUnit
General
1 12 (8.571%) Games
2 10 (7.143%) Finance
3 9 (6.429%) Marketing
4 6 (4.286%) Retail
5 4 (2.857%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.143%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 126 (90.00%) Developer
2 84 (60.00%) PHP Developer
3 23 (16.43%) Web Developer
4 18 (12.86%) Software Engineer
5 15 (10.71%) PHP Web Developer
5 15 (10.71%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 14 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.286%) LAMP Developer
8 9 (6.429%) Senior PHP Developer
9 8 (5.714%) Drupal Developer
9 8 (5.714%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (5.714%) Junior Developer
9 8 (5.714%) Junior
10 7 (5.000%) PHP Drupal Developer
11 4 (2.857%) Perl Developer
11 4 (2.857%) Principal Software Engineer
11 4 (2.857%) Principal Engineer
12 3 (2.143%) Project Manager
12 3 (2.143%) Java/J2EE Developer
12 3 (2.143%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.14%) Open Source
2 12 (8.571%) Semantic Web
2 12 (8.571%) BBC
2 12 (8.571%) Ontologies
3 11 (7.857%) Mobile App
4 9 (6.429%) Social Network
5 6 (4.286%) Computer Science
6 4 (2.857%) SaaS
7 3 (2.143%) W3C
8 2 (1.429%) iPhone
9 1 (0.714%) iPad
9 1 (0.714%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 74 (52.86%) Linux
2 2 (1.429%) Windows
3 1 (0.714%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.714%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.714%) UNIX
3 1 (0.714%) Android
3 1 (0.714%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (39.29%) MVC
2 50 (35.71%) E-Commerce
3 42 (30.00%) OO
4 30 (21.43%) OOP
5 20 (14.29%) Scrum
6 19 (13.57%) Web Development
7 14 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 13 (9.286%) SOA
8 13 (9.286%) Agile Software Development
9 12 (8.571%) Game Development
9 12 (8.571%) UML
10 11 (7.857%) Mobile Application Development
11 10 (7.143%) SEO
12 8 (5.714%) Analytics
13 7 (5.000%) E-business
13 7 (5.000%) CRM
13 7 (5.000%) RUP
13 7 (5.000%) Content Management
14 5 (3.571%) Web Design
15 3 (2.143%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 133 (95.00%) PHP
2 88 (62.86%) JavaScript
3 28 (20.00%) PHP5
4 22 (15.71%) Ruby
5 21 (15.00%) Java
6 20 (14.29%) SQL
7 12 (8.571%) ActionScript
8 5 (3.571%) Perl
9 1 (0.714%) Scala
9 1 (0.714%) Bash shell
9 1 (0.714%) Python
9 1 (0.714%) C#
9 1 (0.714%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.714%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (5.000%) Degree
2 1 (0.714%) MySQL Certification
2 1 (0.714%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.143%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.429%) Varnish
2 3 (2.143%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.714%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.429%) Plesk
Vendors
1 55 (39.29%) Zend
2 5 (3.571%) VMware
3 4 (2.857%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.143%) JBoss
4 3 (2.143%) Oracle
5 1 (0.714%) Facebook
5 1 (0.714%) Twitter
5 1 (0.714%) Apple
5 1 (0.714%) Google
Manchester, Lancashire
The candidate is expected to demonstrate excellent experience in technologies such as PHP 5.3 or 5.4, preferably back end. The client are also locking for exposure...
TEKsystems
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, North West
High levels of innovation and a very unique product offering have led to company growth and an increased client base resulting in the need to find an ambitious...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
5 years minimum experience with HTML/XHTML and CSS... 3 years minimum experience working with the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) arena... Experience of developing and implementing open...
Bullit Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Manchester, North West
The team is friendly and collaborative - an excellent working environment for the right candidate-Easily commutable from: Manchester, Liverpool, Stockport, Chester, Oldham, Warrington, Rochdale, Blacburn, Huddersfield
OPUS
Salary: GBP28000 to GBP38000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Manchester, North West
PHP Developer / Web Developer- Manchester- £28,000-£35,000- OOP, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, MySQL, RESTfulKey Words: PHP, OOP, ``Object Oriented``, LAMP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, RESTfulPHP Developers...
OPUS
Salary: GBP28000 to GBP35000 per annum
Posted: 26 April 2013
Altrincham, Cheshire
OO PHP. MVC. LAMP. Frameworks (Symfony a big plus) MySQL. HTML/CSS/JavaScript... XML, JSON, Ajax, HTTP, SOAP, Rest, sockets) Sound understanding of design patterns & Object Oriented Design.
TEP Events International limited
Salary: Unspecified Dependent upon experience
Posted: 17 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Key Skill: PHP, MySql, Symfony, Zend, Cake, Drupal, Joomla, CMS, Magento, OS Commerce, XHTML / CSS, Jquery , Java Script... Excellent PHP/MySql developments skills... Symfony, Zend, or Cake... Drupal...
OCC
Salary: Market related
Posted: 23 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Symfony, Zend, or Cake.Experience with one or more open source CMS system e.g. Drupal or Joomla.Experience with open source e-commerce platforms e.g... jQuery...
OCC Computing
Salary: Market related
Posted: 24 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester , North West .Leading Identity Management Company who provide solutions that enable the right access to the right systems... Skills and Knowledge: Essential: - Java development - Tomcat/JBOSS/Websphere -...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 25,000 - 30,000 + Bens
Posted: 22 May 2013