The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 18 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 Swindon region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 46 36 40
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +4
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 10 27 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 1.961% 4.584% 2.632%
As % of the Application Development category 5.051% 10.23% 7.104%
Number of salaries quoted 8 27 13
Average salary £34,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.33% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £38,000 £25,600
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £48,800 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
All Application Development
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
198 264 183
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 38.82% 44.82% 37.04%
Number of salaries quoted 178 223 173
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
LAMP
Wiltshire

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Swindon LAMP Salary Histogram

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 55 (100.00%) PHP
1 55 (100.00%) Linux
2 53 (96.36%) OO
2 53 (96.36%) MySQL
3 49 (89.09%) SQL
3 49 (89.09%) Apache
4 47 (85.45%) Oracle
5 43 (78.18%) SOA
5 43 (78.18%) QA
6 40 (72.73%) C
6 40 (72.73%) C++
7 39 (70.91%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (67.27%) Automated Testing
9 35 (63.64%) Integration Testing
9 35 (63.64%) DSDM
10 26 (47.27%) Finance
11 19 (34.55%) Configuration Management
12 12 (21.82%) Agile Software Development
13 8 (14.55%) Telecoms
13 8 (14.55%) Retail
14 3 (5.455%) jQuery
14 3 (5.455%) Open Source
14 3 (5.455%) Ajax
14 3 (5.455%) OOP
14 3 (5.455%) CMS
14 3 (5.455%) HTML
14 3 (5.455%) JavaScript
14 3 (5.455%) CSS
15 2 (3.636%) Web Services
15 2 (3.636%) C#

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 3 (5.455%) HTML
1 3 (5.455%) CSS
1 3 (5.455%) Ajax
1 3 (5.455%) jQuery
2 2 (3.636%) WCF
2 2 (3.636%) Web Services
2 2 (3.636%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 49 (89.09%) Apache
2 3 (5.455%) CMS
3 2 (3.636%) Joomla!
3 2 (3.636%) Drupal
3 2 (3.636%) WordPress
3 2 (3.636%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.636%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (96.36%) MySQL
2 2 (3.636%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.636%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (3.636%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 26 (47.27%) Finance
2 8 (14.55%) Retail
2 8 (14.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (100.00%) Developer
2 30 (54.55%) Software Developer
3 15 (27.27%) LAMP Developer
4 10 (18.18%) PHP Developer
5 4 (7.273%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 1 (1.818%) Principal Software Developer
6 1 (1.818%) Software Engineer
6 1 (1.818%) Senior PHP Developer
6 1 (1.818%) Software Development Team Leader
6 1 (1.818%) C Developer
6 1 (1.818%) Software Team Leader
6 1 (1.818%) Senior Developer
6 1 (1.818%) C++ Developer
6 1 (1.818%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (1.818%) Team Leader
6 1 (1.818%) Development Team Leader
6 1 (1.818%) Senior Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 39 (70.91%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.455%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 55 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (96.36%) OO
2 43 (78.18%) SOA
3 37 (67.27%) Automated Testing
4 35 (63.64%) DSDM
4 35 (63.64%) Integration Testing
5 19 (34.55%) Configuration Management
6 12 (21.82%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (5.455%) OOP
8 2 (3.636%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (3.636%) Performance Management
8 2 (3.636%) Software Engineering
9 1 (1.818%) TDD
9 1 (1.818%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 55 (100.00%) PHP
2 49 (89.09%) SQL
3 40 (72.73%) C
3 40 (72.73%) C++
4 3 (5.455%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.636%) Perl
5 2 (3.636%) C#
5 2 (3.636%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.636%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (3.636%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (78.18%) QA
Vendors
1 47 (85.45%) Oracle
2 1 (1.818%) Zend