The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Application Development category for the Wales region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank - 88 -
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 0 10 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales - 0.849% -
As % of the Application Development category - 2.174% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 9 0
Average salary - £45,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -
All Application Development
Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
545 460 446
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 43.50% 39.05% 43.98%
Number of salaries quoted 500 413 412
Average salary £32,500 £31,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.17% -16.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £52,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LAMP
UK

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) Zend
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) Drupal
2 2 (66.67%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) WordPress
2 2 (66.67%) Magento
2 2 (66.67%) Joomla!
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) CMS
3 1 (33.33%) Open Text
3 1 (33.33%) RedDot
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) Content Management
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales 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 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Zend Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Smarty
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Drupal
1 2 (66.67%) WordPress
1 2 (66.67%) Magento
1 2 (66.67%) Joomla!
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Statistics
1 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
1 1 (33.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Content Management
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Zend
2 1 (33.33%) Open Text
2 1 (33.33%) RedDot