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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 161 170 160
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -10
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 83 79 75
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 1.155% 1.113% 1.092%
As % of the Application Development category 2.347% 2.263% 2.475%
Number of salaries quoted 81 78 65
Average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
90% offered a salary of more than £24,100 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £36,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -
All Application Development
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
3536 3491 3030
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 49.21% 49.18% 44.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3150 3162 2776
Average salary £34,000 £33,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.49% -1.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LAMP
England

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Salary Histogram

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

North West 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 North West 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
Manchester -21 52 £30,000 -
Cheshire -3 12 £30,500 -6.15%
Lancashire +9 11 £29,000 +36.47%
Merseyside +27 8 £30,000 -4.00%
LAMP
England

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 196 (92.45%) PHP
2 167 (78.77%) MySQL
3 126 (59.43%) CSS
4 124 (58.49%) JavaScript
5 116 (54.72%) HTML
6 108 (50.94%) Linux
7 78 (36.79%) Apache
8 76 (35.85%) MVC
8 76 (35.85%) Zend
9 66 (31.13%) E-Commerce
10 60 (28.30%) OO
11 56 (26.42%) jQuery
12 51 (24.06%) PHP5
13 45 (21.23%) OOP
14 44 (20.75%) XML
15 34 (16.04%) Java
16 33 (15.57%) Scrum
17 32 (15.09%) Web Development
18 31 (14.62%) Web Services
18 31 (14.62%) XHTML
19 30 (14.15%) Agile Software Development
20 29 (13.68%) Ajax
21 28 (13.21%) Magento
22 25 (11.79%) HTML5
23 24 (11.32%) TDD
23 24 (11.32%) Ruby
24 23 (10.85%) Retail
24 23 (10.85%) SQL
24 23 (10.85%) CSS3
25 22 (10.38%) Open Source

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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
1 126 (59.43%) CSS
2 116 (54.72%) HTML
3 56 (26.42%) jQuery
4 44 (20.75%) XML
5 31 (14.62%) Web Services
5 31 (14.62%) XHTML
6 29 (13.68%) Ajax
7 25 (11.79%) HTML5
8 23 (10.85%) CSS3
9 21 (9.906%) REST
10 20 (9.434%) Zend Framework
11 18 (8.491%) SOAP
12 15 (7.075%) CodeIgniter
13 14 (6.604%) CakePHP
14 12 (5.660%) Symfony
15 9 (4.245%) Memcached
16 7 (3.302%) Ruby on Rails
17 6 (2.830%) ASP.NET MVC
17 6 (2.830%) Yii
17 6 (2.830%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 78 (36.79%) Apache
2 28 (13.21%) Magento
3 20 (9.434%) CMS
4 17 (8.019%) Drupal
5 15 (7.075%) WordPress
6 10 (4.717%) Tomcat
7 9 (4.245%) nginx
8 6 (2.830%) Jetty
9 5 (2.358%) concrete5
10 4 (1.887%) Joomla!
11 3 (1.415%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.472%) IIS
12 1 (0.472%) Orchard CMS
12 1 (0.472%) Moodle
12 1 (0.472%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 5 (2.358%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.943%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.075%) HTTP
2 8 (3.774%) SAN
3 3 (1.415%) DNS
4 2 (0.943%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (78.77%) MySQL
2 9 (4.245%) Redis
3 4 (1.887%) Data Mining
3 4 (1.887%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.887%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.415%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.943%) Big Data
6 1 (0.472%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.472%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.472%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.472%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 18 (8.491%) Subversion
2 10 (4.717%) Git (software)
3 6 (2.830%) JIRA
4 5 (2.358%) Log4j
4 5 (2.358%) Maven
4 5 (2.358%) Ant
4 5 (2.358%) JUnit
5 4 (1.887%) Selenium
6 2 (0.943%) Behat
6 2 (0.943%) Capistrano
7 1 (0.472%) NetBeans
7 1 (0.472%) NUnit
7 1 (0.472%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.472%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.472%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.472%) Zend Studio
General
1 23 (10.85%) Retail
2 17 (8.019%) Finance
3 12 (5.660%) Games
4 9 (4.245%) Marketing
5 4 (1.887%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.415%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 181 (85.38%) Developer
2 130 (61.32%) PHP Developer
3 42 (19.81%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 34 (16.04%) Web Developer
5 18 (8.491%) PHP Web Developer
5 18 (8.491%) Software Engineer
5 18 (8.491%) LAMP Developer
6 15 (7.075%) Senior Developer
7 10 (4.717%) Senior PHP Developer
8 8 (3.774%) Drupal Developer
8 8 (3.774%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (3.774%) Junior Developer
8 8 (3.774%) Junior
9 7 (3.302%) Software Developer
9 7 (3.302%) PHP Drupal Developer
10 5 (2.358%) Team Leader
11 4 (1.887%) Software Manager
11 4 (1.887%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (1.887%) Designer
11 4 (1.887%) Head of Architecture
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.38%) Open Source
2 12 (5.660%) BBC
2 12 (5.660%) Ontologies
2 12 (5.660%) Semantic Web
3 11 (5.189%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.245%) Social Network
5 8 (3.774%) SaaS
6 6 (2.830%) Computer Science
7 3 (1.415%) W3C
8 2 (0.943%) iPhone
8 2 (0.943%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.472%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.472%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 108 (50.94%) Linux
2 12 (5.660%) UNIX
3 5 (2.358%) Solaris
4 3 (1.415%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.943%) CentOS
5 2 (0.943%) Windows
6 1 (0.472%) Debian
6 1 (0.472%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.472%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.472%) Android
6 1 (0.472%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (35.85%) MVC
2 66 (31.13%) E-Commerce
3 60 (28.30%) OO
4 45 (21.23%) OOP
5 33 (15.57%) Scrum
6 32 (15.09%) Web Development
7 30 (14.15%) Agile Software Development
8 24 (11.32%) TDD
9 15 (7.075%) Software Engineering
10 14 (6.604%) SOA
11 12 (5.660%) UML
11 12 (5.660%) Game Development
12 11 (5.189%) Mobile Application Development
12 11 (5.189%) SEO
13 10 (4.717%) Web Design
14 9 (4.245%) Analytics
15 8 (3.774%) Time Management
15 8 (3.774%) CRM
16 7 (3.302%) E-business
16 7 (3.302%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 196 (92.45%) PHP
2 124 (58.49%) JavaScript
3 51 (24.06%) PHP5
4 34 (16.04%) Java
5 24 (11.32%) Ruby
6 23 (10.85%) SQL
7 12 (5.660%) ActionScript
8 11 (5.189%) PHP4
9 5 (2.358%) Perl
10 1 (0.472%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.472%) C
10 1 (0.472%) C#
10 1 (0.472%) Python
10 1 (0.472%) Bash shell
10 1 (0.472%) Scala
10 1 (0.472%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (4.717%) Degree
2 2 (0.943%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.472%) ISEB
3 1 (0.472%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.774%) QA
System Software
1 9 (4.245%) Varnish
2 3 (1.415%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.943%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.472%) vSphere
4 1 (0.472%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (0.943%) Plesk
2 1 (0.472%) Puppet
2 1 (0.472%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 76 (35.85%) Zend
2 12 (5.660%) Oracle
3 6 (2.830%) VMware
4 5 (2.358%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.887%) Adobe
5 4 (1.887%) JBoss
6 3 (1.415%) Apple
7 2 (0.943%) Google
8 1 (0.472%) RightScale
8 1 (0.472%) Facebook
8 1 (0.472%) Twitter
8 1 (0.472%) Rackspace
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
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
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
Blackpool, North West
A nationally recognised dealership based in Blackpool is looking to expand their team by appointing an experienced Web Developer.
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £28000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Oldham, North West
Skills Required: - PHP - Symfony (ideally Symfony2) - LAMP (Linux,Apache,MySQL,PHP) The Role: As a senior PHP developer on the Web team, you will be developing their client'...
Computer Futures
Salary: £30000 - £37000 per annum
Posted: 15 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
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: 18 May 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, 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
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
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
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
Manchester, Lancashire
Integrate HTML, CSS and JS into CMS templates with editable regions and settings. We use Wordpress and Zend - but the ability to adapt to new PHP CMS backends...
Reason Digital
Salary: From £25,000 to £32,000 per annum depending upon experience.
Posted: 27 April 2013
Warrington, North West
Internet Access & Firewalling - Juniper/Cisco Router/Firewall, ADSL. - Branch site networks - WiFi, ADSL, iPad, iPhone - SAN - IBM Fibre Channel SAN - VMWare - Virtual Infrastructure and ESXi servers - Backup & Replication.
Jagger Talent Commercial Recruiters
Salary: £30,000 - £40,000 per year
Posted: 22 May 2013
Newton-Le-Willows, Merseyside
Experience with Cloud Computing (Cloudstack, Amazon EC2, Rightscale) Vast understanding of Linux system administration - working specifically with RHEL/ OEL/ CentOS/ Ubuntu. Vmware ESXi/ Vsphere installation and administration... Advanced...
Trader Media Group Ltd
Salary: Up to £37,000 per annum plus on-call, bonus and great benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Lancashire, North West
Responsibilities * Ensure that live 24/7 services are monitored and kept up * Pro-actively maintain servers/services to prevent outages * Configuration of new machines/servers/networks * Provide out-...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £20000.00 - £28000.00 per annum + BENEFITS
Posted: 10 May 2013