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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 53 80 64
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -16
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 8 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 1.790% 0.297% 0.216%
As % of the Application Development category 3.571% 0.578% 0.476%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 1
Average salary £30,000 £31,250 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.00% -40.47%
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -
All Application Development
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
224 346 210
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 50.11% 51.41% 45.36%
Number of salaries quoted 194 311 168
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
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 Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside LAMP Salary Trend

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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool - 8 £30,000 -
LAMP
North West

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 17 (70.83%) PHP
2 16 (66.67%) MySQL
3 13 (54.17%) TDD
4 11 (45.83%) PHP5
5 10 (41.67%) OO
6 8 (33.33%) Apache
6 8 (33.33%) OOP
7 7 (29.17%) Release Management
7 7 (29.17%) Zend
7 7 (29.17%) Agile Software Development
7 7 (29.17%) Linux
7 7 (29.17%) Oracle
7 7 (29.17%) CSS
7 7 (29.17%) HTML
7 7 (29.17%) Java
8 6 (25.00%) Zend Framework
8 6 (25.00%) jQuery
9 5 (20.83%) ETL
9 5 (20.83%) Scrum
10 4 (16.67%) Web Design
10 4 (16.67%) Finance
10 4 (16.67%) SAN
10 4 (16.67%) Project Management
10 4 (16.67%) Web Services
10 4 (16.67%) UNIX
10 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (16.67%) Data Mining
10 4 (16.67%) MapReduce
10 4 (16.67%) Time Management
10 4 (16.67%) SaaS

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 7 (29.17%) CSS
1 7 (29.17%) HTML
2 6 (25.00%) Zend Framework
2 6 (25.00%) jQuery
3 4 (16.67%) Web Services
3 4 (16.67%) MapReduce
4 1 (4.167%) XML
4 1 (4.167%) JSP
4 1 (4.167%) SOAP
4 1 (4.167%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 8 (33.33%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (66.67%) MySQL
2 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (16.67%) Data Mining
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Zend Studio
1 1 (4.167%) JIRA
1 1 (4.167%) Subversion
General
1 4 (16.67%) Finance
1 4 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Developer
2 15 (62.50%) PHP Developer
3 8 (33.33%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 5 (20.83%) LAMP Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Software Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Head of Architecture
6 3 (12.50%) Software Manager
6 3 (12.50%) Quality Manager
6 3 (12.50%) QA Manager
7 1 (4.167%) Web Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Development Manager
7 1 (4.167%) Senior Manager
7 1 (4.167%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Senior Development Manager
7 1 (4.167%) Lead PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) UNIX
3 1 (4.167%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) TDD
2 10 (41.67%) OO
3 8 (33.33%) OOP
4 7 (29.17%) Release Management
4 7 (29.17%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (20.83%) ETL
5 5 (20.83%) Scrum
6 4 (16.67%) Web Design
6 4 (16.67%) Project Management
6 4 (16.67%) Time Management
6 4 (16.67%) Waterfall
6 4 (16.67%) Network Design
6 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Unit Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Test Scripting
7 3 (12.50%) System Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Resource Management
7 3 (12.50%) Software Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (70.83%) PHP
2 11 (45.83%) PHP5
3 7 (29.17%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Zend
1 7 (29.17%) Oracle
2 1 (4.167%) Rackspace
Liverpool, Merseyside
You must have a solid understanding and experience of PHP, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), and test driven development (both functional and non-funtional test on code)... You will...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: From £25,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
Magento developer , php developer, MySQL, Javascript, LAMP developer, programmer Magento PHP Developer Liverpool L19 , £30- 35 k D.O.E + bens/bonus 23 days holiday +bank holidays (8)...
Acceler-IT
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum +bens+bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013