The first part of the table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank179214201
Rank change year-on-year
Up+35Down-13
Matching permanent IT job ads175913791019
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.459 %1.125 %1.067 %
As % of the Application Development category3.490 %2.807 %2.798 %
Number of salaries quoted16051299968
Average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£24,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£50,000£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£32,500£30,500
% change year-on-year
-+6.55 %
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
504084911936413
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK41.80 %40.06 %38.14 %
Number of salaries quoted447934339731363
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

LAMP
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing LAMP within 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 citing LAMP within the UK.

LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

LAMP Salary Histogram

LAMP
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 within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+291697£37,500+7.14 %
LondonUp+54966£45,000+12.50 %
South EastUp+5273£35,000+7.69 %
YorkshireUp+12129£32,500+8.33 %
City of LondonUp+32121£45,000+12.50 %
East of EnglandDown-3199£32,500-7.14 %
North WestDown-979£30,000-
HertfordshireUp+4676£32,500-27.77 %
West YorkshireUp+168£35,000+9.37 %
West MidlandsUp+657£28,000-16.41 %
SurreyUp+1956£51,250+70.83 %
South WestDown-3555£29,750-15.00 %
ManchesterUp+1253£30,000+7.14 %
BuckinghamshireDown-347£30,000-14.28 %
BerkshireDown-1540£38,750+19.23 %
LeedsDown-1837£34,000+4.61 %
South YorkshireUp+1935£26,000-8.77 %
OxfordshireUp+1635£32,500-
HampshireDown-3733£37,500+15.38 %
East MidlandsDown-229£27,500-4.34 %
ScotlandUp+128£35,000-
East SussexNo change027£29,000+1.75 %
BirminghamUp+824£32,500-4.41 %
ReadingUp+923£31,500+53.65 %
Hemel HempsteadUp+623£33,000-26.66 %
BrightonDown-923£29,000+1.75 %
StainesNew entry-23£55,000-
OxfordUp+2920£32,500-
SheffieldUp+1120£30,000+25.00 %
CheshireDown-3020£32,500+8.33 %

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

12586 (78.20 %)PHP
22169 (65.59 %)MySQL
31780 (53.83 %)Linux
41600 (48.38 %)JavaScript
51590 (48.08 %)CSS
61422 (43.00 %)HTML
71328 (40.16 %)Apache
8812 (24.55 %)OO
9769 (23.25 %)jQuery
10724 (21.89 %)E-Commerce
11622 (18.81 %)PHP5
12614 (18.57 %)Java
13608 (18.39 %)XML
14602 (18.20 %)Web Development
15596 (18.02 %)Zend
15596 (18.02 %)Perl
16582 (17.60 %)SQL
17573 (17.33 %)Subversion
18563 (17.02 %)Open Source
19552 (16.69 %)Ajax
20513 (15.51 %)MVC
21504 (15.24 %)Drupal
22499 (15.09 %)Python
23450 (13.61 %)OOP
24432 (13.06 %)Degree
25428 (12.94 %)UNIX
26404 (12.22 %)Agile Software Development
27362 (10.95 %)CMS
28354 (10.70 %)XHTML
29350 (10.58 %)HTML5

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11590 (48.08 %)CSS
21422 (43.00 %)HTML
3769 (23.25 %)jQuery
4608 (18.39 %)XML
5552 (16.69 %)Ajax
6354 (10.70 %)XHTML
7350 (10.58 %)HTML5
8299 (9.041 %)Web Services
9222 (6.713 %).NET
10202 (6.108 %)Zend Framework
11197 (5.957 %)CSS3
12185 (5.594 %)Symfony
13174 (5.262 %)CakePHP
14167 (5.050 %)SOAP
15142 (4.294 %)J2EE
16139 (4.203 %)Flash
17134 (4.052 %)CodeIgniter
1894 (2.842 %)Ruby on Rails
1990 (2.721 %)XSLT
2086 (2.601 %)REST
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11328 (40.16 %)Apache
2504 (15.24 %)Drupal
3362 (10.95 %)CMS
4233 (7.046 %)WordPress
5163 (4.929 %)Joomla!
6127 (3.840 %)Tomcat
7126 (3.810 %)Magento
897 (2.933 %)Amazon EC2
996 (2.903 %)Amazon AWS
1076 (2.298 %)WebLogic
1161 (1.845 %)IIS
1251 (1.542 %)nginx
1338 (1.149 %)Facebook Platform
1431 (0.937 %)Amazon S3
1526 (0.786 %)Apache Solr
1622 (0.665 %)Documentum
1718 (0.544 %)SugarCRM
1816 (0.484 %)SharePoint
1915 (0.454 %)MS Exchange
2014 (0.423 %)WebSphere Application Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1103 (3.115 %)Photoshop
276 (2.298 %)MS Excel
335 (1.058 %)MS Visio
415 (0.454 %)MS Office
511 (0.333 %)Adobe Illustrator
64 (0.121 %)Fireworks
73 (0.091 %)MS Project
82 (0.060 %)InDesign
82 (0.060 %)MS PowerPoint
82 (0.060 %)Google Apps
91 (0.030 %)Final Cut Pro
91 (0.030 %)Mingle
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
130 (0.907 %)Google Analytics
222 (0.665 %)Optimost
222 (0.665 %)SiteCatalyst
35 (0.151 %)Oracle Applications
35 (0.151 %)Summit
44 (0.121 %)Oracle EBS R12
53 (0.091 %)Oracle EBS
62 (0.060 %)Tridion
62 (0.060 %)Dynamics NAV
71 (0.030 %)Dynamics CRM
71 (0.030 %)WebTrends
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1312 (9.435 %)Internet
2183 (5.534 %)HTTP
3182 (5.503 %)DNS
4158 (4.778 %)TCP/IP
5142 (4.294 %)Firewall
679 (2.389 %)Intranet
753 (1.603 %)DHCP
847 (1.421 %)SMTP
946 (1.391 %)VPN
946 (1.391 %)SAN
1045 (1.361 %)SSL
1144 (1.331 %)Extranet
1238 (1.149 %)VoIP
1336 (1.089 %)NAS
1431 (0.937 %)Asterisk PBX
1530 (0.907 %)Broadband
1629 (0.877 %)SSH
1728 (0.847 %)LDAP
1728 (0.847 %)HTTPS
1825 (0.756 %)RTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12169 (65.59 %)MySQL
2194 (5.866 %)SQL Server
3140 (4.233 %)NoSQL
4101 (3.054 %)PostgreSQL
573 (2.207 %)MongoDB
664 (1.935 %)Hadoop
736 (1.089 %)Apache Cassandra
831 (0.937 %)RDBMS
922 (0.665 %)Redis
1020 (0.605 %)Informix
1114 (0.423 %)Data Warehouse
1212 (0.363 %)Pentaho
1212 (0.363 %)Apache Hive
1310 (0.302 %)Data Mining
1310 (0.302 %)FileMaker
149 (0.272 %)SQL Server 2008
149 (0.272 %)CouchDB
149 (0.272 %)Oracle 11g
158 (0.242 %)ETL
167 (0.212 %)Oracle 10g
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1573 (17.33 %)Subversion
2296 (8.951 %)Git (software)
396 (2.903 %)Selenium
463 (1.905 %)PHPUnit
556 (1.693 %)Mercurial
648 (1.451 %)Eclipse
738 (1.149 %)JIRA
833 (0.998 %)Hudson
930 (0.907 %)Dreamweaver
1024 (0.726 %)PEAR
1123 (0.695 %)Ant
1217 (0.514 %)Maven
1315 (0.454 %)FitNesse
1315 (0.454 %)Cucumber
1413 (0.393 %)Bugzilla
1413 (0.393 %)QuickTest Pro
1512 (0.363 %)WebDriver
1610 (0.302 %)TeamCity
178 (0.242 %)Talend Open Studio
178 (0.242 %)Atlassian Bamboo
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1336 (10.16 %)Marketing
2322 (9.737 %)Finance
3120 (3.629 %)Retail
4118 (3.568 %)Games
582 (2.480 %)Publishing
662 (1.875 %)Advertising
752 (1.572 %)Telecoms
847 (1.421 %)Back Office
928 (0.847 %)Legal
1020 (0.605 %)Music
1118 (0.544 %)Billing
1216 (0.484 %)Manufacturing
1311 (0.333 %)Financial Institution
148 (0.242 %)Automotive
148 (0.242 %)Law
148 (0.242 %)French Language
157 (0.212 %)German Language
157 (0.212 %)Multimedia
166 (0.181 %)Banking
175 (0.151 %)Electronics
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12192 (66.28 %)Developer
21303 (39.40 %)PHP Developer
3427 (12.91 %)Web Developer
4363 (10.98 %)Administrator
5342 (10.34 %)Senior Developer
6327 (9.888 %)Systems Administrator
7297 (8.981 %)LAMP Developer
8232 (7.015 %)Linux Administrator
9226 (6.834 %)PHP MySQL Developer
10211 (6.380 %)Linux Systems Administrator
11190 (5.745 %)PHP Web Developer
12186 (5.624 %)Architect
13174 (5.262 %)Senior PHP Developer
14146 (4.415 %)Drupal Developer
15128 (3.871 %)Perl Developer
16106 (3.205 %)Junior
1788 (2.661 %)Software Engineer
1886 (2.601 %)Junior Developer
1978 (2.359 %)Lead Developer
2075 (2.268 %)Analyst
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1563 (17.02 %)Open Source
2251 (7.590 %)Computer Science
3194 (5.866 %)Social Media
4127 (3.840 %)Digital Media
5113 (3.417 %)Web 2.0
6111 (3.357 %)SaaS
793 (2.812 %)Replication
876 (2.298 %)W3C
876 (2.298 %)Online Games
971 (2.147 %)Social Network
1061 (1.845 %)iPhone
1154 (1.633 %)Cloud Computing
1154 (1.633 %)Management Information System
1253 (1.603 %)Clustering
1341 (1.240 %)Mathematics
1439 (1.179 %)New Media
1530 (0.907 %)E-Learning
1626 (0.786 %)iPad
1721 (0.635 %)Blackberry
1721 (0.635 %)Physics
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11780 (53.83 %)Linux
2428 (12.94 %)UNIX
3262 (7.923 %)CentOS
4222 (6.713 %)Windows
5171 (5.171 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6156 (4.717 %)Debian
7133 (4.022 %)Android
8127 (3.840 %)Apple iOS
9119 (3.598 %)Ubuntu
1038 (1.149 %)Windows Server 2008
1137 (1.119 %)Solaris
1233 (0.998 %)Windows Server 2003
1319 (0.575 %)Mac OS X
1416 (0.484 %)VMS
1416 (0.484 %)SUSE
159 (0.272 %)FreeBSD
168 (0.242 %)Windows XP
177 (0.212 %)Fedora
185 (0.151 %)Windows 7
194 (0.121 %)OpenBSD
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1812 (24.55 %)OO
2724 (21.89 %)E-Commerce
3602 (18.20 %)Web Development
4513 (15.51 %)MVC
5450 (13.61 %)OOP
6404 (12.22 %)Agile Software Development
7331 (10.01 %)Scrum
8229 (6.925 %)Content Management
9188 (5.685 %)SEO
10181 (5.473 %)TDD
11151 (4.566 %)CRM
12148 (4.475 %)Continuous Integration
13134 (4.052 %)Project Management
14115 (3.477 %)Release Management
1596 (2.903 %)ITIL
1687 (2.631 %)Web Application Development
1784 (2.540 %)Waterfall
1876 (2.298 %)Unit Testing
1975 (2.268 %)Configuration Management
2072 (2.177 %)B2C
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12586 (78.20 %)PHP
21600 (48.38 %)JavaScript
3622 (18.81 %)PHP5
4614 (18.57 %)Java
5596 (18.02 %)Perl
6582 (17.60 %)SQL
7499 (15.09 %)Python
8306 (9.253 %)Bash shell
9246 (7.439 %)Ruby
10166 (5.020 %)C++
11149 (4.506 %)C
12135 (4.082 %)C#
13122 (3.689 %)Shell Script
1458 (1.754 %)ActionScript
1542 (1.270 %)Objective-C
1638 (1.149 %)XPath
1737 (1.119 %)PHP4
1824 (0.726 %)Groovy
1923 (0.695 %)T-SQL
2021 (0.635 %)ActionScript 3.0
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1432 (13.06 %)Degree
260 (1.814 %)RHCE
330 (0.907 %)Cisco Certification
330 (0.907 %)CCNA
330 (0.907 %)RHCT
422 (0.665 %)ISEB
515 (0.454 %)ISTQB
614 (0.423 %)Security Cleared
713 (0.393 %)HND
88 (0.242 %)SC Cleared
97 (0.212 %)Microsoft Certification
106 (0.181 %)LPIC
115 (0.151 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
115 (0.151 %)MySQL Certification
124 (0.121 %)Linux+ Certification
124 (0.121 %)MCSE
133 (0.091 %)MCITP
133 (0.091 %)VCP4
142 (0.060 %)PRINCE2 Certification
151 (0.030 %)ITIL Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
184 (2.540 %)QA
240 (1.210 %)WAI
324 (0.726 %)SLA
423 (0.695 %)PCI DSS
57 (0.212 %)ISO/IEC 27001
62 (0.060 %)ISO 9001
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
168 (2.056 %)VMware Infrastructure
241 (1.240 %)vSphere
332 (0.968 %)Postfix
431 (0.937 %)Varnish
529 (0.877 %)Active Directory
622 (0.665 %)Sendmail
721 (0.635 %)Xen
811 (0.333 %)Samba
910 (0.302 %)NFS
109 (0.272 %)VMware ESX
109 (0.272 %)XenServer
116 (0.181 %)vCloud
116 (0.181 %)OpenSSO
124 (0.121 %)Oracle RAC
124 (0.121 %)VMware Server
124 (0.121 %)Hyper-V
124 (0.121 %)Oracle RMAN
124 (0.121 %)Terminal Services
133 (0.091 %)Squid
142 (0.060 %)Terminal Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1136 (4.112 %)Puppet
277 (2.328 %)Nagios
332 (0.968 %)Cacti
429 (0.877 %)ZABBIX
513 (0.393 %)Nessus
513 (0.393 %)Red Hat Satellite
611 (0.333 %)Plesk
77 (0.212 %)Zenoss
84 (0.121 %)Sysprep
84 (0.121 %)MOM
93 (0.091 %)OpenView
93 (0.091 %)vCenter
93 (0.091 %)HP Quality Center
93 (0.091 %)Munin
93 (0.091 %)CFEngine
102 (0.060 %)Ganglia
102 (0.060 %)HP SIM
111 (0.030 %)Data Guard
111 (0.030 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
111 (0.030 %)Backup Exec
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1596 (18.02 %)Zend
2288 (8.709 %)Red Hat
3180 (5.443 %)Facebook
4137 (4.143 %)Microsoft
5121 (3.659 %)Oracle
6118 (3.568 %)Cisco
7113 (3.417 %)VMware
8111 (3.357 %)Google
996 (2.903 %)JBoss
1057 (1.724 %)Twitter
1148 (1.451 %)ATG
1239 (1.179 %)SAP
1336 (1.089 %)Vignette
1434 (1.028 %)Adobe
1434 (1.028 %)Percona
1533 (0.998 %)HP
1625 (0.756 %)Akamai
1723 (0.695 %)Sitecore
1723 (0.695 %)NetApp
1822 (0.665 %)Omniture