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This section looks at the demand for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python) skills across the UK with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the last 3 months to 12 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkLAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Location
3 months to 12 May 2008Same period last year
Rank394557
Rank change on same period last yearUp+163
Matching permanent IT job ads855491
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.412 %0.218 %
As % of the category below1.282 %0.685 %
Salaries quoted793441
Average minimum salary£33,386£30,362
Average salary£36,337£33,300
% change on same period last year+9.12 %
Average maximum salary£39,287£36,238
UK excluding London average salary£31,975£32,083
% change on same period last year-0.33 %
Application Development UKApplication Development
UK
Matching permanent IT job ads6667171676
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled32.14 %31.86 %
Salaries quoted5652558938
Average minimum salary£37,299£38,492
Average salary£41,006£42,335
% change on same period last year-3.13 %
Average maximum salary£44,714£46,177
UK excluding London average salary£35,986£36,677
% change on same period last year-1.88 %

LAMP
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing LAMP across the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

LAMP Demand Trend

LAMP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing LAMP across the UK.

LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the UK over the past 3 months.

LAMP Salary Histogram

LAMP
Top 30 Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAMP within the UK over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
1EnglandUp+161838£36,377+9.20 %
2LondonUp+174454£40,485+13.58 %
3South EastUp+103135£34,417-2.73 %
4East of EnglandUp+382£35,948+5.60 %
5City of LondonUp+2372£39,667-15.60 %
6YorkshireDown-6155£29,625-7.85 %
7SurreyUp+6546£36,651-0.04 %
8South WestDown-1542£27,159-3.67 %
9CambridgeshireDown-2336£31,971-7.81 %
10West YorkshireDown-3330£27,121-13.80 %
11HertfordshireUp+1529£41,833+12.62 %
11North WestDown-1029£29,883+17.24 %
11HampshireDown-1429£29,931-22.75 %
12CambridgeDown-1628£31,907-13.08 %
13ManchesterUp+1524£29,567+12.02 %
14Tyne and WearUp+623£22,326-4.79 %
14North EastUp+1923£22,326-4.79 %
15West SussexUp+3722£29,571-4.60 %
15LeedsDown-3522£26,100-17.20 %
16South YorkshireDown-3321£32,429-3.29 %
17ScotlandUp+4117£30,750+9.82 %
17EssexDown-417£38,029+39.30 %
18CrawleyNew entry-14£28,269-
19SheffieldDown-1913£29,269-13.03 %
20NewcastleNew entry-11£21,864-
20KentDown-711£39,444+16.87 %
21East MidlandsNo change010£27,188+3.57 %
21RomfordNew entry-10£29,550-
22BasingstokeDown-339£27,167-22.38 %
22ChertseyNew entry-9£33,125-

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing LAMP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing LAMP.

11195 (77.45 %)PHP
21057 (68.50 %)MySQL
3917 (59.43 %)Linux
4793 (51.39 %)JavaScript
5762 (49.38 %)Apache
6665 (43.10 %)CSS
7576 (37.33 %)HTML
8482 (31.24 %)AJAX
9450 (29.16 %)Perl
10403 (26.12 %)XML
11368 (23.85 %)XHTML
12296 (19.18 %)OO
13282 (18.28 %)Web Development
14269 (17.43 %)SQL
15249 (16.14 %)PHP5
16201 (13.03 %)E-Commerce
17188 (12.18 %)OOP
18168 (10.89 %)Unix
19157 (10.17 %).NET
20130 (8.425 %)Finance
21115 (7.453 %)SQL Server
22110 (7.129 %)Marketing
23109 (7.064 %)Internet
24106 (6.870 %)Java
25102 (6.610 %)DHTML
26101 (6.546 %)Degree
2799 (6.416 %)Subversion
2892 (5.962 %)Python
2989 (5.768 %)Advertising
3084 (5.444 %)ASP.NET

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing LAMP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing LAMP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1665 (43.10 %)CSS
2576 (37.33 %)HTML
3482 (31.24 %)AJAX
4403 (26.12 %)XML
5368 (23.85 %)XHTML
6157 (10.17 %).NET
784 (5.444 %)ASP.NET
859 (3.824 %)SOAP
955 (3.564 %)ASP
1051 (3.305 %)WebServices
1139 (2.528 %)Ruby on Rails
1227 (1.750 %)XSL
1227 (1.750 %)XSLT
1326 (1.685 %)CPAN
1424 (1.555 %)Mason
1523 (1.491 %)jQuery
1523 (1.491 %)Symfony
1621 (1.361 %)DOM
1718 (1.167 %)JSON
1816 (1.037 %)J2EE
Application Platforms
1762 (49.38 %)Apache
282 (5.314 %)CMS
335 (2.268 %)IIS
418 (1.167 %)Tomcat
511 (0.713 %)MS Exchange
69 (0.583 %)SharePoint
76 (0.389 %)JBoss
76 (0.389 %)BizTalk Server
84 (0.259 %)ColdFusion
93 (0.194 %)TYPO3
93 (0.194 %)SharePoint Server 2007
102 (0.130 %)Zope
102 (0.130 %)Plone
102 (0.130 %)SugarCRM
102 (0.130 %)GroupWise
111 (0.065 %)EPiServer
111 (0.065 %)WordPress
111 (0.065 %)Community Server
111 (0.065 %)Site Server
111 (0.065 %)Lotus Domino
Applications
124 (1.555 %)Photoshop
29 (0.583 %)MS Office
29 (0.583 %)MS Excel
37 (0.454 %)Fireworks
46 (0.389 %)MS Visio
55 (0.324 %)Adobe Illustrator
64 (0.259 %)MS Project
73 (0.194 %)ImageReady
81 (0.065 %)Quicktime
Business Applications
111 (0.713 %)WebTrends
22 (0.130 %)Google Analytics
22 (0.130 %)Pegasus Opera
Communications & Networking
1109 (7.064 %)Internet
238 (2.463 %)TCP/IP
322 (1.426 %)VoIP
421 (1.361 %)LAN
519 (1.231 %)DNS
519 (1.231 %)Intranet
615 (0.972 %)SSL
714 (0.907 %)FTP
714 (0.907 %)HTTP
714 (0.907 %)Firewall
810 (0.648 %)SMTP
98 (0.518 %)SAN
107 (0.454 %)LDAP
115 (0.324 %)DHCP
115 (0.324 %)Extranet
124 (0.259 %)SSH
124 (0.259 %)Cisco IOS
124 (0.259 %)SNMP
133 (0.194 %)SMS
142 (0.130 %)Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
11057 (68.50 %)MySQL
2115 (7.453 %)SQL Server
326 (1.685 %)SQL Server 2005
419 (1.231 %)PostgreSQL
419 (1.231 %)SQL Server 2000
514 (0.907 %)RDBMS
610 (0.648 %)DB2
79 (0.583 %)Informix
88 (0.518 %)Data Mining
88 (0.518 %)GIS
96 (0.389 %)SQL Server Integration Services
104 (0.259 %)InterBase
104 (0.259 %)Firebird
104 (0.259 %)EDMS
113 (0.194 %)SQL Server 7
122 (0.130 %)Database Marketing
131 (0.065 %)FileMaker
131 (0.065 %)Oracle 10g
Development Applications
199 (6.416 %)Subversion
275 (4.861 %)Flash
331 (2.009 %)Dreamweaver
413 (0.843 %)Selenium
59 (0.583 %)FitNesse
65 (0.324 %)Bugzilla
65 (0.324 %)Eclipse
65 (0.324 %)Visual Studio
74 (0.259 %)WinRunner
74 (0.259 %)QuickTest Pro
82 (0.130 %)VSS/SourceSafe
91 (0.065 %)Xcode
91 (0.065 %)Oracle APEX
General
1130 (8.425 %)Finance
2110 (7.129 %)Marketing
389 (5.768 %)Advertising
438 (2.463 %)Retail
529 (1.879 %)Education
627 (1.750 %)Health
726 (1.685 %)Pensions
823 (1.491 %)Publishing
922 (1.426 %)Games
1020 (1.296 %)Telecoms
1114 (0.907 %)Banking
1213 (0.843 %)Insurance
1311 (0.713 %)Financial Institution
148 (0.518 %)Back Office
157 (0.454 %)Online Betting
166 (0.389 %)Investment Banking
175 (0.324 %)Music
184 (0.259 %)Billing
184 (0.259 %)Graphic Design
184 (0.259 %)Police
Job Titles
11205 (78.09 %)Developer
2555 (35.97 %)PHP Developer
3381 (24.69 %)Web Developer
4167 (10.82 %)Perl Developer
5158 (10.24 %)Senior Developer
6114 (7.388 %)PHP Web Developer
770 (4.537 %)Team Leader
770 (4.537 %)Administrator
866 (4.277 %)Senior PHP Developer
953 (3.435 %)Systems Administrator
1047 (3.046 %)Senior Web Developer
1144 (2.852 %)Junior
1144 (2.852 %)Programmer
1242 (2.722 %)MySQL Developer
1341 (2.657 %)Lead Developer
1437 (2.398 %)Applications Developer
1535 (2.268 %)Junior Developer
1630 (1.944 %)Development Team Leader
1728 (1.815 %)Development Manager
1825 (1.620 %)Analyst
Miscellaneous
161 (3.953 %)Web 2.0
255 (3.564 %)Social Network
348 (3.111 %)W3C
446 (2.981 %)Computer Science
515 (0.972 %)Mathematics
69 (0.583 %)iDTV
77 (0.454 %)E-Learning
86 (0.389 %)IPTV
95 (0.324 %)Blog
95 (0.324 %)Streaming Video
104 (0.259 %)Replication
104 (0.259 %)Asset Management
104 (0.259 %)Blackberry
104 (0.259 %)Data Protection Act
104 (0.259 %)Physics
104 (0.259 %)French Language
104 (0.259 %)German Language
104 (0.259 %)Italian Language
104 (0.259 %)Russian Language
104 (0.259 %)Spanish Language
Operating Systems
1917 (59.43 %)Linux
2168 (10.89 %)Unix
373 (4.731 %)Windows
451 (3.305 %)Debian
539 (2.528 %)Solaris
623 (1.491 %)FreeBSD
715 (0.972 %)SUSE
89 (0.583 %)Ubuntu
89 (0.583 %)AIX
89 (0.583 %)Mac OS X
95 (0.324 %)Windows Server 2003
95 (0.324 %)Fedora
104 (0.259 %)HPUX
112 (0.130 %)VxWorks
112 (0.130 %)pSOS
112 (0.130 %)NetWare
112 (0.130 %)Gentoo
112 (0.130 %)Windows Mobile
121 (0.065 %)Windows NT
121 (0.065 %)Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1296 (19.18 %)OO
2282 (18.28 %)Web Development
3201 (13.03 %)E-Commerce
4188 (12.18 %)OOP
554 (3.500 %)Agile Software Development
653 (3.435 %)Content Management
653 (3.435 %)Unit Testing
653 (3.435 %)MVC
752 (3.370 %)OOD
844 (2.852 %)SEO
940 (2.592 %)Web Design
1029 (1.879 %)TDD
1127 (1.750 %)Project Management
1222 (1.426 %)Internet Marketing
1319 (1.231 %)Software Engineering
1319 (1.231 %)CRM
1418 (1.167 %)Scrum
1515 (0.972 %)B2B
1614 (0.907 %)Load Balancing
1712 (0.778 %)Workflow
Programming Languages
11195 (77.45 %)PHP
2793 (51.39 %)JavaScript
3450 (29.16 %)Perl
4269 (17.43 %)SQL
5249 (16.14 %)PHP5
6106 (6.870 %)Java
7102 (6.610 %)DHTML
892 (5.962 %)Python
982 (5.314 %)PHP4
1072 (4.666 %)C#
1155 (3.564 %)ActionScript
1155 (3.564 %)Ruby
1244 (2.852 %)Shell Script
1331 (2.009 %)C
1430 (1.944 %)C++
1527 (1.750 %)VB
1620 (1.296 %)VB.NET
1713 (0.843 %)COBOL
188 (0.518 %)Delphi
188 (0.518 %)Lua
Qualifications
1101 (6.546 %)Degree
27 (0.454 %)RHCE
34 (0.259 %)MCP
34 (0.259 %)MCSE
34 (0.259 %)MCSA
34 (0.259 %)CCNA
34 (0.259 %)Cisco Certification
34 (0.259 %)Microsoft Certification
43 (0.194 %)SCSA
51 (0.065 %)PRINCE2 Certification
51 (0.065 %)PhD
51 (0.065 %)HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
116 (1.037 %)QA
22 (0.130 %)WCAG
31 (0.065 %)WAI
31 (0.065 %)ISO17799
31 (0.065 %)BS7799
31 (0.065 %)ISO27001
31 (0.065 %)PCI DSS
System Software
115 (0.972 %)Active Directory
28 (0.518 %)ISA Server
36 (0.389 %)Squid
44 (0.259 %)Xen
53 (0.194 %)Samba
62 (0.130 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
62 (0.130 %)NFS
71 (0.065 %)NetBackup
Systems Management
159 (3.824 %)SCOM
211 (0.713 %)Nagios
31 (0.065 %)EMC NetWorker
Vendors
180 (5.185 %)Red Hat
261 (3.953 %)Zend
349 (3.176 %)Oracle
434 (2.203 %)Microsoft
525 (1.620 %)Cisco
619 (1.231 %)HP
718 (1.167 %)VMware
813 (0.843 %)Macromedia
910 (0.648 %)Sun
910 (0.648 %)Sybase
106 (0.389 %)IBM
106 (0.389 %)Google
106 (0.389 %)Apple
114 (0.259 %)WatchGuard
114 (0.259 %)Adobe
114 (0.259 %)VERITAS
123 (0.194 %)Motorola
123 (0.194 %)SAP
123 (0.194 %)Yahoo!
132 (0.130 %)Perforce
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