The first table below looks at the demand for the LAMP Developer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP Developer
Rank 753 755 711
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a LAMP Developer 105 141 160
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.097% 0.117% 0.130%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.103% 0.123% 0.138%
Number of salaries quoted 89 133 153
Average salary £34,500 £36,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.47% +4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,500 £27,800
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £50,000 £46,750
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £30,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -11.76%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101791 114576 116360
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.44% 94.74% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 84727 98303 98213
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

LAMP Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing LAMP Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

LAMP Developer Jobs Demand Trend

LAMP Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing LAMP Developer within the UK.

LAMP Developer Salary Trend

LAMP Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP Developer over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

LAMP Developer Salary Histogram

LAMP Developer
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England +2 105 £34,500 -5.47%
South East +33 34 £30,000 -
London -25 31 £42,500 +6.25%
East Sussex +20 19 £30,000 -4.76%
Brighton +16 19 £30,000 -4.76%
South West +14 16 £34,250 -2.14%
West Yorkshire -5 11 - -
Yorkshire -23 11 - -
Leeds - 11 - -
Oxfordshire -9 8 £32,500 +8.33%
Oxford -12 8 £32,500 +8.33%
Wiltshire +14 7 £34,500 -1.42%
Swindon +11 7 £34,500 -1.42%
Gloucestershire +15 6 £42,500 -
East of England +7 6 £33,750 +43.61%
Hammersmith - 6 £46,500 -
City of London +5 5 £42,500 -5.55%
West Midlands -17 4 £30,000 +13.20%
Surrey - 4 £37,500 -
Cambridgeshire - 4 £37,500 -
Cheltenham +20 3 £32,500 -
Devon - 3 £32,500 -
Cambridge - 3 £37,500 -
Worcestershire +6 2 £33,750 +27.35%
Lichfield - 2 £30,000 -
Worcester - 2 £33,750 -
Suffolk - 2 £25,000 -
Staffordshire - 2 £30,000 -
Tamworth - 2 £30,000 -
Middlesex - 2 £23,000 -

LAMP Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited LAMP Developer in their job title 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 with LAMP Developer in their job title.

1 263 (100.00%) LAMP
2 249 (94.68%) PHP
3 216 (82.13%) MySQL
4 154 (58.56%) JavaScript
5 153 (58.17%) CSS
6 133 (50.57%) Linux
7 131 (49.81%) HTML
8 104 (39.54%) Apache
9 96 (36.50%) jQuery
10 94 (35.74%) OO
11 87 (33.08%) PHP5
12 69 (26.24%) Ajax
13 66 (25.10%) OOP
14 54 (20.53%) MVC
15 52 (19.77%) HTML5
16 45 (17.11%) XML
17 43 (16.35%) Zend
18 40 (15.21%) E-Commerce
19 39 (14.83%) Web Development
20 36 (13.69%) Degree
21 35 (13.31%) Perl
21 35 (13.31%) Marketing
22 31 (11.79%) Open Source
23 30 (11.41%) C++
23 30 (11.41%) SQL
23 30 (11.41%) Agile Software Development
24 29 (11.03%) Python
24 29 (11.03%) XHTML
25 28 (10.65%) CMS
26 27 (10.27%) CSS3

LAMP Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited LAMP Developer in their job title 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 with LAMP Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 263 (100.00%) LAMP
2 153 (58.17%) CSS
3 131 (49.81%) HTML
4 96 (36.50%) jQuery
5 69 (26.24%) Ajax
6 52 (19.77%) HTML5
7 45 (17.11%) XML
8 29 (11.03%) XHTML
9 27 (10.27%) CSS3
10 26 (9.886%) Web Services
11 24 (9.125%) JSON
12 19 (7.224%) Zend Framework
13 15 (5.703%) RESTful
14 14 (5.323%) Flash
14 14 (5.323%) SOAP
15 10 (3.802%) DHTML
15 10 (3.802%) Apache Flex
15 10 (3.802%) CodeIgniter
15 10 (3.802%) CakePHP
16 9 (3.422%) Symfony
Application Platforms
1 104 (39.54%) Apache
2 28 (10.65%) CMS
3 17 (6.464%) Magento
4 16 (6.084%) Drupal
5 14 (5.323%) nginx
6 13 (4.943%) Amazon AWS
6 13 (4.943%) WordPress
7 8 (3.042%) Moodle
8 6 (2.281%) Joomla!
9 5 (1.901%) Facebook Platform
10 4 (1.521%) concrete5
11 2 (0.760%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (1.521%) MS Office
2 2 (0.760%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.380%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.281%) Google Analytics
2 2 (0.760%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.703%) HTTP
2 9 (3.422%) DNS
2 9 (3.422%) HTTPS
3 6 (2.281%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.521%) Internet
5 3 (1.141%) NNTP
5 3 (1.141%) SMTP
5 3 (1.141%) FTP
6 2 (0.760%) SSL
6 2 (0.760%) SAN
7 1 (0.380%) SSH
7 1 (0.380%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.380%) Trixbox
7 1 (0.380%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (82.13%) MySQL
2 11 (4.183%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.662%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.760%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (0.760%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.760%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (0.760%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.380%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 23 (8.745%) Subversion
2 21 (7.985%) Git (software)
3 17 (6.464%) GitHub
4 4 (1.521%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.521%) JIRA
5 1 (0.380%) PHPUnit
General
1 35 (13.31%) Marketing
2 16 (6.084%) Finance
3 7 (2.662%) Retail
4 6 (2.281%) Advertising
5 5 (1.901%) Investment Banking
5 5 (1.901%) Banking
6 3 (1.141%) Games
7 2 (0.760%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.760%) Publishing
8 1 (0.380%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.380%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.79%) Open Source
2 18 (6.844%) Social Media
3 17 (6.464%) Cloud Computing
4 16 (6.084%) Computer Science
5 14 (5.323%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (4.563%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.662%) Video Editing
7 7 (2.662%) Web 2.0
8 5 (1.901%) Social Network
8 5 (1.901%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.141%) iPhone
9 3 (1.141%) iPad
9 3 (1.141%) Social Gaming
9 3 (1.141%) Smartphone
9 3 (1.141%) Mobile Games
9 3 (1.141%) Replication
9 3 (1.141%) E-Learning
10 2 (0.760%) Mathematics
10 2 (0.760%) W3C
11 1 (0.380%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 133 (50.57%) Linux
2 11 (4.183%) Android
2 11 (4.183%) Apple iOS
3 9 (3.422%) UNIX
4 7 (2.662%) Windows
5 5 (1.901%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.901%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.760%) Fedora
6 2 (0.760%) SUSE
7 1 (0.380%) Debian
7 1 (0.380%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (35.74%) OO
2 66 (25.10%) OOP
3 54 (20.53%) MVC
4 40 (15.21%) E-Commerce
5 39 (14.83%) Web Development
6 30 (11.41%) Agile Software Development
7 25 (9.506%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (7.985%) Software Engineering
9 14 (5.323%) Automated Testing
10 12 (4.563%) Unit Testing
11 11 (4.183%) SEO
11 11 (4.183%) Scrum
11 11 (4.183%) Web Design
11 11 (4.183%) Mobile Application Development
12 9 (3.422%) Configuration Management
12 9 (3.422%) DSDM
12 9 (3.422%) SOA
12 9 (3.422%) Integration Testing
13 6 (2.281%) Analytics
14 5 (1.901%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 249 (94.68%) PHP
2 154 (58.56%) JavaScript
3 87 (33.08%) PHP5
4 35 (13.31%) Perl
5 30 (11.41%) C++
5 30 (11.41%) SQL
6 29 (11.03%) Python
7 22 (8.365%) C
7 22 (8.365%) Ruby
8 20 (7.605%) PHP4
9 14 (5.323%) Java
10 7 (2.662%) XPath
11 6 (2.281%) ActionScript
11 6 (2.281%) Bash shell
12 4 (1.521%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.141%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.760%) XAML
14 2 (0.760%) Lua
14 2 (0.760%) Tcl
14 2 (0.760%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (13.69%) Degree
2 1 (0.380%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.563%) QA
2 4 (1.521%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (0.760%) OpenSSO
Systems Management
1 3 (1.141%) Nagios
Vendors
1 43 (16.35%) Zend
2 19 (7.224%) Oracle
3 18 (6.844%) Facebook
4 15 (5.703%) Twitter
5 8 (3.042%) Adobe
6 7 (2.662%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.281%) Google
8 5 (1.901%) Dell
9 4 (1.521%) Nokia
10 3 (1.141%) Microsoft
10 3 (1.141%) Perforce
10 3 (1.141%) Omniture
11 2 (0.760%) VMware
12 1 (0.380%) Salesforce.com
Oxford, South East
There are immediate interviews available for two Web 2.0/LAMP developers. As the PHP Developer, you will possess skills within: * jQuery/HTML/CSS * PHP * MySQL Other requirements...
Computer Futures
Salary: £28000 - £36000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Oxford, South East
There are immediate interviews available for two Web 2.0/LAMP developers. As the PHP Developer, you will possess skills within: * jQuery/HTML/CSS * PHP * MySQL Other requirements...
Computer Futures
Salary: £28000 - £36000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Oxford, South East
There are immediate interviews available for two Web 2.0/LAMP developers. As the PHP Developer, you will possess skills within: * jQuery/HTML/CSS * PHP * MySQL Other requirements...
Computer Futures
Salary: £28000 - £36000 per annum
Posted: 15 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
Guildford, Surrey
Demonstrable commercial experience of developing PHP mid-tier on a MySQL back end database... Desirable Skills: TDD experience... (Senior Developer, LAMP, PHP, MySQL, Ajax, Apache, API, XML, Surrey,...
ninesharp
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + 10% bonus and benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
This really is a fantastic opportunity with great benefits based in the city centre, close to public transport links. The ideal candidate will have lots of commercial experience...
JP Specialist Contracts
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
In order to win this opportunity you will have advanced PHP and MySQL skills. Strength in Object Orientated Programming. Experience of the following would be advantageous... Brighton, East...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000 Per Annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
You will possess; - Proven Web Development experience - Experience of back end and front end PHP development (LAMP) - Javascript experience (hand coding) including libraries such as JQuery - HTML, CSS...
Mortimer Spinks
Posted: 13 May 2013
Surrey
Demonstrable commercial experience of developing PHP mid-tier on a MySQL back end database... Desirable Skills: TDD experience. Ecommerce payment gateway development experience... (Developer, LAMP, PHP, MySQL, Ajax,...
ninesharp
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Wiltshire
Key Requirements Exceptional Object Orientated PHP5+ skills with strong commercial experience... SQL skills and ability to optimize queries... Strong Front End skills able to code XHTML/HTML, JavaScript...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Wiltshire, South West
Key Requirements Exceptional Object Orientated PHP5+ skills with strong commercial experience. Experience creating technical solutions from conceptualisation to delivery Solid communication skills able to liaise with clients through...
greywood
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Leicestershire
Fully experienced back-end developer with extremely strong PHP and MySQL skills... *Proficient with XHTML / CSS / AJAX / Javascript, XML and other cross platform skills. *Knowledge of DNS, Apache...
JP Specialist Contracts
Salary: £50000 per annum + Pension + Bonus + Life/Health
Posted: 17 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
As such we are looking for excellent team players and good communicators with solid PHP Developer / Web Developer exposure, incorporating the following technologies: -PHP / OOP (Ruby or other...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25000 - 35000 Per Annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Essential Skills: Demonstrable commercial experience of frontend PHP development and HTML, Ajax, CSS and HTML... C++, Python, Javascript, LUA, Unix shell scripting... (Developer, Web Developer, PHP, SQL Server...
ninesharp
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + competitive benefits
Posted: 12 May 2013