The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 22 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 Middlesex region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 55 56 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 3 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 0.573% 0.391% -
As % of the Application Development category 2.479% 1.418% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
Average salary £23,000 £62,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-63.20% -
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -
All Application Development
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
121 141 287
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 23.09% 27.59% 41.00%
Number of salaries quoted 95 129 207
Average salary £42,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LAMP
South East

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Middlesex LAMP Salary Histogram

LAMP
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) UNIX
1 4 (66.67%) Solaris
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Apache
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 4 (66.67%) CentOS
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (33.33%) XPath
2 2 (33.33%) Regular Expression
2 2 (33.33%) Internet
2 2 (33.33%) NNTP
2 2 (33.33%) MS Office
2 2 (33.33%) XML
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) XHTML
2 2 (33.33%) FTP
2 2 (33.33%) HTTP
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 2 (33.33%) Regular Expression
1 2 (33.33%) XML
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
1 2 (33.33%) NNTP
1 2 (33.33%) FTP
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) UNIX Systems Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) UNIX Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 4 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) LAMP Developer
2 2 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) UNIX
1 4 (66.67%) Solaris
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) CentOS
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) XPath
1 2 (33.33%) PHP
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat