North East LAMP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python) skills within the North East 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Location Altrincham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Clapham Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Doncaster Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Hull Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Preston Reading Reigate Romford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Staines Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Wimborne Windsor Wirral Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	68	81
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching permanent IT job ads	21	5
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	4.839 %	1.062 %
Salaries quoted	21	5
Average minimum salary	£23,238	£23,200
Average salary	£24,476	£23,500
% change on same period last year	+4.15 %
Average maximum salary	£25,714	£23,800
UK excluding London average salary	£34,958	£30,432
% change on same period last year	+14.87 %
Application Development North East
Matching permanent IT job ads	434	471
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.229 %	0.193 %
Salaries quoted	355	397
Average minimum salary	£30,820	£29,380
Average salary	£33,630	£32,810
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Average maximum salary	£36,440	£36,241
UK excluding London average salary	£35,873	£36,830
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
LAMP England

LAMP
Demand Trend

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

LAMP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the North East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

LAMP
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP within the North East region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Tyne and Wear	+13	21	£24,476	+4.15 %

LAMP England

LAMP
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North East 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 36 (100.00 %) PHP 2 27 (75.00 %) MySQL 3 20 (55.56 %) Linux 3 20 (55.56 %) Apache 4 15 (41.67 %) Macromedia 4 15 (41.67 %) Dreamweaver 4 15 (41.67 %) COBOL 5 12 (33.33 %) Web Development 6 10 (27.78 %) Pensions 7 7 (19.44 %) Health 8 4 (11.11 %) Police 8 4 (11.11 %) XML 9 3 (8.333 %) CSS 10 2 (5.556 %) C 10 2 (5.556 %) HTML

10 2 (5.556 %) SQL Server 11 1 (2.778 %) SQL 11 1 (2.778 %) JavaScript 11 1 (2.778 %) Perl 11 1 (2.778 %) UML 11 1 (2.778 %) OO 11 1 (2.778 %) CGI 11 1 (2.778 %) Flash 11 1 (2.778 %) Internet 11 1 (2.778 %) SEO 11 1 (2.778 %) Finance 11 1 (2.778 %) Marketing 11 1 (2.778 %) Degree 11 1 (2.778 %) Internet Marketing

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North East 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 4 (11.11 %) XML 2 3 (8.333 %) CSS 3 2 (5.556 %) HTML 4 1 (2.778 %) CGI	Application Platforms 1 20 (55.56 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.778 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 27 (75.00 %) MySQL 2 2 (5.556 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 15 (41.67 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (2.778 %) Flash	General 1 10 (27.78 %) Pensions 2 7 (19.44 %) Health 3 4 (11.11 %) Police 4 1 (2.778 %) Marketing 4 1 (2.778 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 36 (100.00 %) Developer 2 35 (97.22 %) Web Developer 3 19 (52.78 %) PHP Developer 4 18 (50.00 %) PHP Web Developer 5 1 (2.778 %) PHP Programmer 5 1 (2.778 %) MySQL Developer 5 1 (2.778 %) Programmer	Operating Systems 1 20 (55.56 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (33.33 %) Web Development 2 1 (2.778 %) Internet Marketing 2 1 (2.778 %) UML 2 1 (2.778 %) OO 2 1 (2.778 %) SEO	Programming Languages 1 36 (100.00 %) PHP 2 15 (41.67 %) COBOL 3 2 (5.556 %) C 4 1 (2.778 %) JavaScript 4 1 (2.778 %) Perl 4 1 (2.778 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (2.778 %) Degree	Vendors 1 15 (41.67 %) Macromedia