The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 58 79 62
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -17
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 29 13 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 3.284% 1.384% 1.393%
As % of the Application Development category 7.945% 3.704% 3.409%
Number of salaries quoted 28 10 9
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% +27.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £35,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £37,500 £33,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
All Application Development
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
365 351 264
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 41.34% 37.38% 40.87%
Number of salaries quoted 343 338 246
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +5.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £24,100
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £62,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
LAMP
Hampshire

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Southampton LAMP Salary Histogram

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 46 (100.00%) PHP
2 36 (78.26%) Linux
3 30 (65.22%) JavaScript
4 27 (58.70%) MySQL
4 27 (58.70%) CSS
5 25 (54.35%) OOP
5 25 (54.35%) PHP5
6 23 (50.00%) Zend
7 20 (43.48%) OO
8 19 (41.30%) HTML5
9 17 (36.96%) Degree
10 16 (34.78%) XHTML
11 15 (32.61%) E-Commerce
11 15 (32.61%) Subversion
12 13 (28.26%) jQuery
12 13 (28.26%) Git (software)
13 12 (26.09%) MVC
13 12 (26.09%) Perl
13 12 (26.09%) C++
13 12 (26.09%) Java
14 11 (23.91%) HTML
14 11 (23.91%) SQL
14 11 (23.91%) Apple iOS
15 10 (21.74%) Apache
15 10 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
16 9 (19.57%) Big Data
16 9 (19.57%) Drupal
16 9 (19.57%) WordPress
17 8 (17.39%) Mathematics
17 8 (17.39%) Computer Science

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 27 (58.70%) CSS
2 19 (41.30%) HTML5
3 16 (34.78%) XHTML
4 13 (28.26%) jQuery
5 11 (23.91%) HTML
6 6 (13.04%) Web Services
7 5 (10.87%) Node.js
7 5 (10.87%) CSS3
7 5 (10.87%) Zend Framework
8 4 (8.696%) Smarty
8 4 (8.696%) Ajax
9 3 (6.522%) DOM
10 2 (4.348%) Semantic HTML
10 2 (4.348%) Backbone.js
11 1 (2.174%) Ruby on Rails
11 1 (2.174%) J2EE
11 1 (2.174%) Flash
11 1 (2.174%) cocos2d
11 1 (2.174%) YUI
Application Platforms
1 10 (21.74%) Apache
2 9 (19.57%) Drupal
2 9 (19.57%) WordPress
3 5 (10.87%) Joomla!
3 5 (10.87%) Magento
4 3 (6.522%) PrestaShop
5 1 (2.174%) CMS
5 1 (2.174%) lighttpd
5 1 (2.174%) Moodle
Applications
1 3 (6.522%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.174%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (58.70%) MySQL
2 10 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (19.57%) Big Data
4 8 (17.39%) NoSQL
5 7 (15.22%) MongoDB
6 6 (13.04%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (13.04%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.174%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (32.61%) Subversion
2 13 (28.26%) Git (software)
3 2 (4.348%) PhoneGap
General
1 5 (10.87%) Finance
2 3 (6.522%) Advertising
3 2 (4.348%) Games
Job Titles
1 36 (78.26%) Developer
2 32 (69.57%) PHP Developer
3 13 (28.26%) Software Engineer
4 10 (21.74%) Software Developer
5 9 (19.57%) Web Developer
5 9 (19.57%) PHP Web Developer
6 7 (15.22%) Junior
6 7 (15.22%) Linux Administrator
6 7 (15.22%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 7 (15.22%) Junior Developer
6 7 (15.22%) Systems Administrator
6 7 (15.22%) Administrator
7 6 (13.04%) PHP MySQL Developer
8 4 (8.696%) Junior PHP Developer
9 3 (6.522%) Graduate Developer
9 3 (6.522%) Graduate
9 3 (6.522%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 2 (4.348%) Web Engineer
10 2 (4.348%) Senior Developer
10 2 (4.348%) Senior PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Mathematics
1 8 (17.39%) Computer Science
2 5 (10.87%) iPad
2 5 (10.87%) SaaS
3 1 (2.174%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 36 (78.26%) Linux
2 11 (23.91%) Apple iOS
3 7 (15.22%) UNIX
4 6 (13.04%) Windows
5 1 (2.174%) FreeBSD
5 1 (2.174%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (54.35%) OOP
2 20 (43.48%) OO
3 15 (32.61%) E-Commerce
4 12 (26.09%) MVC
5 8 (17.39%) B2B
5 8 (17.39%) B2C
6 5 (10.87%) OOA/OOD
6 5 (10.87%) Project Management
7 4 (8.696%) Web Development
8 3 (6.522%) Multithreading
9 2 (4.348%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (4.348%) SEO
9 2 (4.348%) Agile Software Development
10 1 (2.174%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) PHP
2 30 (65.22%) JavaScript
3 25 (54.35%) PHP5
4 12 (26.09%) Perl
4 12 (26.09%) C++
4 12 (26.09%) Java
5 11 (23.91%) SQL
6 7 (15.22%) C
7 6 (13.04%) Bash shell
8 3 (6.522%) Objective-C
9 1 (2.174%) Ruby
9 1 (2.174%) ActionScript
9 1 (2.174%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 17 (36.96%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 23 (50.00%) Zend
2 5 (10.87%) VMware
3 4 (8.696%) Facebook
4 3 (6.522%) Adobe
5 2 (4.348%) Yahoo!
5 2 (4.348%) Google
6 1 (2.174%) Oracle
Southampton, Hampshire
Southampton, Hampshire OOP PHP5, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Linux, version control, MVC framework PHP Software Engineer/Developer required to join the strategic team of a fast growing software...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + pension, healthcare, bonus
Posted: 13 June 2013
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Skill Set Summary: - 5+ years' experience in the development of high performance web solutions - Experience of big data and ideally knowledge of noSQL - (Primary) PHP, PHP5, OOP - (Secondary)...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013