Manchester LAMP Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python) skills within the Manchester 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Location Altrincham Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Chelmsford Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chorley City of London Clapham Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Dewsbury Doncaster Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Gerrards Cross Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Telford Thames Valley Thornton Heath Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wallingford Walsall Waltham Abbey Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Wimborne Windsor Wirral Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	158	196
Rank change on same period last year	+38
Matching permanent IT job ads	22	18
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	1.314 %	0.775 %
Salaries quoted	19	18
Average minimum salary	£26,316	£22,667
Average salary	£28,421	£24,694
% change on same period last year	+15.09 %
Average maximum salary	£30,526	£26,722
UK excluding London average salary	£34,231	£31,399
% change on same period last year	+9.01 %
Application Development Manchester
Matching permanent IT job ads	1674	2322
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.926 %	0.974 %
Salaries quoted	1426	2004
Average minimum salary	£28,592	£32,922
Average salary	£31,741	£36,824
% change on same period last year	-13.80 %
Average maximum salary	£34,890	£40,726
UK excluding London average salary	£35,934	£36,795
% change on same period last year	-2.33 %
LAMP North West

LAMP
Demand Trend

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

LAMP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Bolton	-	5	£23,200	-
Altrincham	-	2	£30,000	-

LAMP North West

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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 47 (97.92 %) PHP 2 36 (75.00 %) JavaScript 2 36 (75.00 %) CSS 2 36 (75.00 %) Linux 3 34 (70.83 %) MySQL 4 32 (66.67 %) Apache 5 27 (56.25 %) XHTML 5 27 (56.25 %) PHP5 6 17 (35.42 %) OOP 7 13 (27.08 %) OO 7 13 (27.08 %) HTML 8 12 (25.00 %) SQL 8 12 (25.00 %) Web Design 8 12 (25.00 %) AJAX 9 10 (20.83 %) XML

9 10 (20.83 %) Flash 10 9 (18.75 %) Web Development 10 9 (18.75 %) Finance 11 8 (16.67 %) Pensions 11 8 (16.67 %) Content Management 11 8 (16.67 %) Perl 11 8 (16.67 %) C++ 12 7 (14.58 %) Insurance 12 7 (14.58 %) W3C 12 7 (14.58 %) Internet 13 6 (12.50 %) .NET 14 5 (10.42 %) ASP.NET 14 5 (10.42 %) UNIX 14 5 (10.42 %) E-Commerce 14 5 (10.42 %) SEO

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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 36 (75.00 %) CSS 2 27 (56.25 %) XHTML 3 13 (27.08 %) HTML 4 12 (25.00 %) AJAX 5 10 (20.83 %) XML 6 6 (12.50 %) .NET 7 5 (10.42 %) ASP.NET 8 3 (6.250 %) XSLT 8 3 (6.250 %) Adobe Flex 8 3 (6.250 %) Silverlight 9 2 (4.167 %) XSL 9 2 (4.167 %) ASP 10 1 (2.083 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 32 (66.67 %) Apache 2 1 (2.083 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (2.083 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 7 (14.58 %) Internet 2 4 (8.333 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 34 (70.83 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 10 (20.83 %) Flash 2 4 (8.333 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 9 (18.75 %) Finance 2 8 (16.67 %) Pensions 3 7 (14.58 %) Insurance 4 4 (8.333 %) Marketing 5 2 (4.167 %) Education 6 1 (2.083 %) Advertising 6 1 (2.083 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 46 (95.83 %) Developer 2 30 (62.50 %) PHP Developer 3 17 (35.42 %) Web Developer 4 15 (31.25 %) LAMP Developer 5 11 (22.92 %) PHP Web Developer 6 5 (10.42 %) Senior PHP Developer 6 5 (10.42 %) Senior Developer 7 4 (8.333 %) Senior Web Developer 7 4 (8.333 %) Senior PHP Web Developer 8 2 (4.167 %) MySQL Developer 9 1 (2.083 %) PHP Programmer 9 1 (2.083 %) Web Programmer 9 1 (2.083 %) Software Developer 9 1 (2.083 %) Senior Software Developer 9 1 (2.083 %) Analyst 9 1 (2.083 %) Programmer 9 1 (2.083 %) 2nd Line Support 9 1 (2.083 %) Technical Analyst 9 1 (2.083 %) Web Designer
Miscellaneous 1 7 (14.58 %) W3C 2 1 (2.083 %) Management Information System 2 1 (2.083 %) Photography	Operating Systems 1 36 (75.00 %) Linux 2 5 (10.42 %) UNIX 3 2 (4.167 %) Windows 4 1 (2.083 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (2.083 %) Windows XP 4 1 (2.083 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (35.42 %) OOP 2 13 (27.08 %) OO 3 12 (25.00 %) Web Design 4 9 (18.75 %) Web Development 5 8 (16.67 %) Content Management 6 5 (10.42 %) E-Commerce 6 5 (10.42 %) SEO 7 3 (6.250 %) Digital Marketing 8 2 (4.167 %) OOD 9 1 (2.083 %) B2B 9 1 (2.083 %) B2C 9 1 (2.083 %) Logistics 9 1 (2.083 %) Internet Marketing	Programming Languages 1 47 (97.92 %) PHP 2 36 (75.00 %) JavaScript 3 27 (56.25 %) PHP5 4 12 (25.00 %) SQL 5 8 (16.67 %) Perl 5 8 (16.67 %) C++ 6 3 (6.250 %) PHP4 7 2 (4.167 %) C# 8 1 (2.083 %) Java
Qualifications 1 2 (4.167 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (2.083 %) Terminal Services
Vendors 1 1 (2.083 %) Adobe