The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 23 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 171 127 137
Rank change year-on-year
-44 +10
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 33 57 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.659% 1.256% 0.829%
As % of the Application Development category 1.624% 2.931% 2.212%
Number of salaries quoted 33 53 34
Average salary £30,000 £28,000 £33,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -17.03%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £23,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £49,250 £37,500 £39,250
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -
All Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2032 1945 1582
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 40.58% 42.84% 37.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1815 1745 1445
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LAMP
England

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

West Midlands LAMP Salary Histogram

LAMP
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 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
Staffordshire - 7 £27,500 -
Birmingham -25 6 £50,000 +53.84%
Warwickshire -2 5 £30,000 +7.14%
Coventry - 4 £28,500 -
Shropshire - 4 £30,000 -
Worcestershire +6 3 £35,000 +12.00%
Wolverhampton - 3 £30,000 -
West Bromwich - 1 £40,000 -
LAMP
England

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 84 (96.55%) PHP
2 53 (60.92%) CSS
3 52 (59.77%) MySQL
4 49 (56.32%) JavaScript
4 49 (56.32%) HTML
5 48 (55.17%) Linux
6 32 (36.78%) jQuery
7 31 (35.63%) Apache
8 28 (32.18%) Java
9 27 (31.03%) PHP5
10 26 (29.89%) Perl
11 24 (27.59%) OO
12 23 (26.44%) C++
13 21 (24.14%) Ruby
14 18 (20.69%) OOP
14 18 (20.69%) XML
14 18 (20.69%) UNIX
15 17 (19.54%) MVC
15 17 (19.54%) Ruby on Rails
15 17 (19.54%) HTML5
16 16 (18.39%) Mobile App
16 16 (18.39%) Web Services
17 15 (17.24%) Drupal
17 15 (17.24%) Digital Media
17 15 (17.24%) nginx
18 14 (16.09%) CSS3
18 14 (16.09%) PostgreSQL
19 13 (14.94%) DHCP
19 13 (14.94%) ActionScript
20 12 (13.79%) Degree

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 53 (60.92%) CSS
2 49 (56.32%) HTML
3 32 (36.78%) jQuery
4 18 (20.69%) XML
5 17 (19.54%) Ruby on Rails
5 17 (19.54%) HTML5
6 16 (18.39%) Web Services
7 14 (16.09%) CSS3
8 9 (10.34%) Ajax
9 6 (6.897%) RESTful
10 3 (3.448%) CodeIgniter
10 3 (3.448%) CakePHP
10 3 (3.448%) XHTML
11 2 (2.299%) SOAP
11 2 (2.299%) J2EE
11 2 (2.299%) Symfony
11 2 (2.299%) JSON
11 2 (2.299%) Yii
12 1 (1.149%) Node.js
12 1 (1.149%) REST
Application Platforms
1 31 (35.63%) Apache
2 15 (17.24%) Drupal
2 15 (17.24%) nginx
3 9 (10.34%) CMS
4 7 (8.046%) Magento
4 7 (8.046%) WordPress
5 6 (6.897%) Tomcat
6 4 (4.598%) Apache Solr
6 4 (4.598%) Amazon AWS
7 2 (2.299%) lighttpd
7 2 (2.299%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.149%) Google App Engine
Applications
1 1 (1.149%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.149%) MS Project
1 1 (1.149%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.94%) DHCP
2 11 (12.64%) Modbus
3 6 (6.897%) Internet
4 4 (4.598%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.598%) DNS
4 4 (4.598%) SAN
4 4 (4.598%) Network Security
5 1 (1.149%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (59.77%) MySQL
2 14 (16.09%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.897%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.897%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.149%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.149%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.149%) CouchDB
4 1 (1.149%) Redis
4 1 (1.149%) Big Data
4 1 (1.149%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (1.149%) QlikView
4 1 (1.149%) SQLite
4 1 (1.149%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.149%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (12.64%) Selenium
2 5 (5.747%) Git (software)
2 5 (5.747%) Subversion
3 3 (3.448%) RSpec
3 3 (3.448%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.448%) WATIR
4 1 (1.149%) Hudson
4 1 (1.149%) Xcode
4 1 (1.149%) Maven
General
1 2 (2.299%) Games
1 2 (2.299%) Marketing
2 1 (1.149%) Finance
2 1 (1.149%) Manufacturing
2 1 (1.149%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 78 (89.66%) Developer
2 46 (52.87%) PHP Developer
3 30 (34.48%) Web Developer
4 19 (21.84%) LAMP Developer
5 18 (20.69%) PHP Web Developer
6 15 (17.24%) Applications Developer
7 9 (10.34%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 7 (8.046%) PHP MySQL Developer
8 7 (8.046%) Lead Developer
9 6 (6.897%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.747%) Senior Applications Developer
11 4 (4.598%) Administrator
11 4 (4.598%) Linux Administrator
11 4 (4.598%) Drupal Developer
11 4 (4.598%) PHP Drupal Developer
12 3 (3.448%) Front-End Developer
12 3 (3.448%) Team Leader
13 2 (2.299%) Programmer
13 2 (2.299%) Web Team Leader
13 2 (2.299%) Lead Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.39%) Mobile App
2 15 (17.24%) Digital Media
3 11 (12.64%) Computer Science
4 8 (9.195%) Device Driver
4 8 (9.195%) Open Source
5 6 (6.897%) Graphic Design
5 6 (6.897%) SaaS
6 4 (4.598%) Replication
7 2 (2.299%) Statistics
8 1 (1.149%) Social Media
8 1 (1.149%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.149%) Blog
8 1 (1.149%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.149%) iPhone
8 1 (1.149%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.149%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 48 (55.17%) Linux
2 18 (20.69%) UNIX
3 4 (4.598%) Debian
3 4 (4.598%) CentOS
3 4 (4.598%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.299%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.149%) Android
5 1 (1.149%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (27.59%) OO
2 18 (20.69%) OOP
3 17 (19.54%) MVC
4 12 (13.79%) Mobile Application Development
5 11 (12.64%) Software Engineering
5 11 (12.64%) E-Commerce
6 8 (9.195%) Web Development
7 7 (8.046%) Web Design
8 6 (6.897%) Content Management
9 4 (4.598%) RUP
9 4 (4.598%) E-business
9 4 (4.598%) Automated Testing
9 4 (4.598%) BDD
10 3 (3.448%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (2.299%) SEO
11 2 (2.299%) Load Balancing
12 1 (1.149%) Infrastructure Management
12 1 (1.149%) Technical Architecture
12 1 (1.149%) Refactoring
12 1 (1.149%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 84 (96.55%) PHP
2 49 (56.32%) JavaScript
3 28 (32.18%) Java
4 27 (31.03%) PHP5
5 26 (29.89%) Perl
6 23 (26.44%) C++
7 21 (24.14%) Ruby
8 13 (14.94%) ActionScript
9 10 (11.49%) Python
10 5 (5.747%) SQL
11 1 (1.149%) C#
11 1 (1.149%) VBA
11 1 (1.149%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (4.598%) Postfix
1 4 (4.598%) Sendmail
1 4 (4.598%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 4 (4.598%) Nagios
2 2 (2.299%) Plesk
Vendors
1 4 (4.598%) Red Hat
1 4 (4.598%) VMware
2 3 (3.448%) Zend
3 2 (2.299%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.149%) Facebook
4 1 (1.149%) Rackspace
4 1 (1.149%) Google
4 1 (1.149%) Apple
4 1 (1.149%) Oracle
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Roc Search, PHP Developer, Backend, Symfony, Zend, LAMP,Birmingham,£35k) Roc Search is working alongside their client, a digital based organisation, to source a solid Backend Developer to...
Roc Search
Salary: £31 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 21 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: 20 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Your skills and experience: - Must have strong knowledge of PHP 5 / OOP and MySQL- Some experience of the Bootstrap CSS Framework and Codeigniter / MVC would be preferred but...
Salary: £22000 - £26000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Ideally you'll have knowledge of Ruby, JavaScript, CSS, XML, HTML, Apache, Linux and WML... - Zend Smarty, Symfony MVC framework exposure - Knowledge of PHP 5 Object Orientated PHP,...
BTR Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: From £18,000 to £22,000 per annum plus bens
Posted: 20 May 2013
Warwick, Warwickshire, United Kingdom, East...
This is an exciting role for someone who is proficient in CSS / HTML / JavaScript / jQuery and looking to join a successful European company... They will assist in the...
Easy Web Recruitment
Salary: £Competitive
Posted: 22 May 2013
Warwick, Warwickshire
To be successful in this role you will have: - Proven web design / development experience, being proficient in CSS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and MS Office... An interest...
EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: £Competitive
Posted: 21 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Also required is unit testing, automated testing and continuous integration, with an emphasis on refactoring is a key to this role. Tech skills; PHP, node.js, ruby, MangoDB,...
ISL
Salary: £45000.00 - £55000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 17 May 2013