The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Sussex 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 Sussex region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 111 106 84
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -22
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 2 2 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Sussex 0.133% 0.141% 1.840%
As % of the Application Development category 0.333% 0.370% 4.592%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 23
Average salary £40,000 £24,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+63.26% -30.00%
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -
All Application Development
West Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
601 540 588
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Sussex 40.09% 38.00% 40.08%
Number of salaries quoted 514 464 542
Average salary £38,500 £36,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.47% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LAMP
South East

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 Sussex region.

West Sussex LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Sussex 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%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) PHP5
3 1 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) Tomcat

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Sussex 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 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) PHP Developer
1 2 (66.67%) PHP MySQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) OO
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) PHP5
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Crawley, West Sussex
Experience with MySQL / Oracle / MS SQL Server... Good MySQL / Oracle / MS SQL Server experience... Knowledge and experience of: JQuery, XML and XML schemas, JSON and SOAP... Objective-C /...
TTR UK Ltd
Posted: 17 May 2013