The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 24 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 Watford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank - 57 66
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 0 5 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford - 1.449% 0.447%
As % of the Application Development category - 2.632% 0.877%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 2
Average salary - £30,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +1.69%
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -
All Application Development
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
126 190 228
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 43.45% 55.07% 51.01%
Number of salaries quoted 93 118 168
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,400 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £51,500 £61,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LAMP
Hertfordshire

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) PHP5
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) WordPress
2 1 (50.00%) WAMP
2 1 (50.00%) Magento
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) WAMP
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) WordPress
1 1 (50.00%) Magento
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL Developer
1 1 (50.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) PHP5
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Watford, Hertfordshire
A leading name in the high-tech development market has an urgent requirement for a UNIX Application Administrator with 3+ years experience of Solaris, Linux administration and scripting.....
Technical Futures
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum + Share Awards
Posted: 21 May 2013
Watford, Hertfordshire
The Essential Skills CentOS / Redhat - Linux / UNIX Systems Administrator for at least 5 years... LAMP. Shell - Perl / Bash... UNIX / Linux Systems Administrator - Team Leader - CentOS / Redhat / LAMP / Web...
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £45000 - £52000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013