The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 17 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 108 109 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 24 24 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 1.140% 1.062% -
As % of the Application Development category 3.822% 2.518% -
Number of salaries quoted 22 22 0
Average salary £33,000 £37,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -
All Application Development
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
628 953 720
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 29.82% 42.19% 38.67%
Number of salaries quoted 552 867 628
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LAMP
Berkshire

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the Reading region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reading LAMP Salary Histogram

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 41 (89.13%) PHP
2 36 (78.26%) MySQL
3 30 (65.22%) CSS
3 30 (65.22%) HTML
4 28 (60.87%) JavaScript
5 18 (39.13%) Web Services
5 18 (39.13%) jQuery
6 17 (36.96%) Linux
7 15 (32.61%) OOP
8 14 (30.43%) Python
8 14 (30.43%) Ruby
9 13 (28.26%) OO
9 13 (28.26%) Apache
10 12 (26.09%) MVC
11 11 (23.91%) XML
11 11 (23.91%) SQL Server
11 11 (23.91%) Ajax
12 10 (21.74%) Agile Software Development
12 10 (21.74%) SQL
13 8 (17.39%) Finance
14 7 (15.22%) Web Development
14 7 (15.22%) Ubuntu
14 7 (15.22%) Symfony
14 7 (15.22%) Zend
14 7 (15.22%) CodeIgniter
14 7 (15.22%) CakePHP
14 7 (15.22%) Django
14 7 (15.22%) Drupal
14 7 (15.22%) Unit Testing
14 7 (15.22%) CentOS

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 30 (65.22%) CSS
1 30 (65.22%) HTML
2 18 (39.13%) Web Services
2 18 (39.13%) jQuery
3 11 (23.91%) XML
3 11 (23.91%) Ajax
4 7 (15.22%) XSLT
4 7 (15.22%) RESTful
4 7 (15.22%) Symfony
4 7 (15.22%) CodeIgniter
4 7 (15.22%) CakePHP
4 7 (15.22%) Django
5 6 (13.04%) .NET
6 3 (6.522%) ASP.NET
6 3 (6.522%) Smarty
6 3 (6.522%) Memcached
7 2 (4.348%) JSON
8 1 (2.174%) Flash
8 1 (2.174%) XHTML
8 1 (2.174%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 13 (28.26%) Apache
2 7 (15.22%) Amazon AWS
2 7 (15.22%) Drupal
3 5 (10.87%) CMS
4 4 (8.696%) Magento
4 4 (8.696%) nginx
5 3 (6.522%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.522%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.522%) Amazon ELB
Applications
1 4 (8.696%) MS Excel
1 4 (8.696%) Google Apps
2 1 (2.174%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.348%) Intranet
2 1 (2.174%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (78.26%) MySQL
2 11 (23.91%) SQL Server
3 7 (15.22%) SQL Server 2000
3 7 (15.22%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.522%) Redis
4 3 (6.522%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (2.174%) Subversion
1 1 (2.174%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (17.39%) Finance
2 6 (13.04%) Marketing
3 1 (2.174%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (76.09%) Developer
2 24 (52.17%) PHP Developer
3 12 (26.09%) Web Developer
4 9 (19.57%) Software Developer
5 8 (17.39%) Administrator
6 6 (13.04%) Linux Administrator
6 6 (13.04%) PHP Web Developer
7 5 (10.87%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (8.696%) Junior
8 4 (8.696%) Junior Developer
9 3 (6.522%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 3 (6.522%) Senior Developer
10 2 (4.348%) Software Engineer
10 2 (4.348%) Systems Engineer
10 2 (4.348%) Junior PHP Developer
10 2 (4.348%) Senior PHP Developer
10 2 (4.348%) Senior PHP Web Developer
10 2 (4.348%) Senior Web Developer
10 2 (4.348%) LAMP Developer
10 2 (4.348%) Junior Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Client/Server
2 4 (8.696%) Replication
3 3 (6.522%) Open Source
3 3 (6.522%) Social Media
4 2 (4.348%) Blog
4 2 (4.348%) W3C
5 1 (2.174%) E-Learning
5 1 (2.174%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.96%) Linux
2 7 (15.22%) Ubuntu
2 7 (15.22%) CentOS
3 5 (10.87%) Apple iOS
4 3 (6.522%) Debian
4 3 (6.522%) UNIX
5 2 (4.348%) Windows
5 2 (4.348%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) OOP
2 13 (28.26%) OO
3 12 (26.09%) MVC
4 10 (21.74%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (15.22%) E-Commerce
5 7 (15.22%) Web Development
5 7 (15.22%) Unit Testing
6 5 (10.87%) Asset Management
7 4 (8.696%) Scrum
8 3 (6.522%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (6.522%) Online Marketing
8 3 (6.522%) OOD
8 3 (6.522%) Web Application Development
9 2 (4.348%) Project Planning
9 2 (4.348%) B2B
9 2 (4.348%) B2C
9 2 (4.348%) Content Management
10 1 (2.174%) Software Engineering
10 1 (2.174%) Software Testing
10 1 (2.174%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 41 (89.13%) PHP
2 28 (60.87%) JavaScript
3 14 (30.43%) Python
3 14 (30.43%) Ruby
4 10 (21.74%) SQL
5 7 (15.22%) Perl
6 5 (10.87%) C++
6 5 (10.87%) Java
7 3 (6.522%) C#
7 3 (6.522%) DataFlex
8 2 (4.348%) Objective-C
8 2 (4.348%) C
9 1 (2.174%) ActionScript
9 1 (2.174%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1 (2.174%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.348%) WAI
2 1 (2.174%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) Puppet
2 4 (8.696%) Nagios
2 4 (8.696%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Red Hat
1 7 (15.22%) Zend
2 5 (10.87%) Google
3 4 (8.696%) Percona
3 4 (8.696%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.522%) Twitter
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