The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Open Source 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 96 110 107
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -3
Contract jobs citing Open Source 24 25 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.002% 0.795% 0.739%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.357% 4.132% 3.866%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 17
Average daily rate £413 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.92% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £300 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £430 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £41.25 £33.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +23.13%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
448 605 569
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 18.71% 19.24% 19.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 253 230
Average daily rate £375 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £545 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 31 34
Average hourly rate £18.00 £22.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £14.48 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.00 £50.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Open Source across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Berkshire Open Source Jobs Demand Trend

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Open Source across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Open Source Daily Rate Trend

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Open Source across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire Open Source Daily Rate Histogram

Open Source
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Open Source across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Open Source Hourly Rate Trend

Open Source
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +13 12 £275 -31.25%
Slough -8 2 £375 -
Windsor -1 1 £550 +69.23%
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Open Source 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Open Source.

1 9 (28.13%) GIS
2 8 (25.00%) Java
2 8 (25.00%) .NET
3 7 (21.88%) ETL
3 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (18.75%) HTML
4 6 (18.75%) Linux
5 5 (15.63%) UML
5 5 (15.63%) CSS
5 5 (15.63%) Windows
5 5 (15.63%) SQL
5 5 (15.63%) Perl
5 5 (15.63%) C
5 5 (15.63%) MySQL
5 5 (15.63%) Oracle
5 5 (15.63%) TOGAF
5 5 (15.63%) MODAF
5 5 (15.63%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (15.63%) Digital Media
5 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (12.50%) ArchiMate
6 4 (12.50%) Big Data
6 4 (12.50%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (12.50%) Web Testing
6 4 (12.50%) Time Management
6 4 (12.50%) LTE
6 4 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 4 (12.50%) Windows Azure

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Open Source also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Open Source. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (25.00%) .NET
2 6 (18.75%) HTML
3 5 (15.63%) CSS
4 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 2 (6.250%) CSS3
5 2 (6.250%) HTML5
5 2 (6.250%) Spring
5 2 (6.250%) Velocity
5 2 (6.250%) J2EE
5 2 (6.250%) XML
5 2 (6.250%) XSLT
6 1 (3.125%) Middleware
6 1 (3.125%) XHTML
6 1 (3.125%) JMS
6 1 (3.125%) Servlets
6 1 (3.125%) Struts
6 1 (3.125%) Oracle ADF
6 1 (3.125%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.125%) JSR 168
6 1 (3.125%) FreeMarker
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.50%) Windows Azure
1 4 (12.50%) CMS
1 4 (12.50%) ArcGIS
2 2 (6.250%) Drupal
2 2 (6.250%) Joomla!
2 2 (6.250%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.125%) ColdFusion
3 1 (3.125%) Apache
3 1 (3.125%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (3.125%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.125%) Liferay
3 1 (3.125%) Jetty
3 1 (3.125%) Alfresco
3 1 (3.125%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (3.125%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (3.125%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Radio Access Network
1 4 (12.50%) LTE
1 4 (12.50%) 2G
1 4 (12.50%) ATM
1 4 (12.50%) IPv4
1 4 (12.50%) 3G
2 1 (3.125%) DSL
2 1 (3.125%) Broadband
2 1 (3.125%) DNS
2 1 (3.125%) LDAP
2 1 (3.125%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) GIS
2 5 (15.63%) MySQL
3 4 (12.50%) Big Data
3 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.125%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.125%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 3 (9.375%) Visual Studio Team System
2 3 (9.375%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.125%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.125%) IntelliJ
3 1 (3.125%) Ant
3 1 (3.125%) JUnit
3 1 (3.125%) Subversion
3 1 (3.125%) Git (software)
3 1 (3.125%) GitHub
General
1 4 (12.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.250%) Automotive
3 1 (3.125%) Banking
3 1 (3.125%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Architect
2 9 (28.13%) Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (9.375%) Analyst
5 3 (9.375%) Test Analyst
5 3 (9.375%) Data Architect
5 3 (9.375%) PHP Developer
5 3 (9.375%) Technical Leader
5 3 (9.375%) Automation Test Analyst
5 3 (9.375%) Automation Analyst
6 2 (6.250%) Information Systems Architect
6 2 (6.250%) Designer
6 2 (6.250%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.250%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (6.250%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
6 2 (6.250%) Systems Architect
6 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 2 (6.250%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.250%) Information Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Digital Media
2 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.125%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.125%) Replication
3 1 (3.125%) Clustering
3 1 (3.125%) Blog
3 1 (3.125%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Windows
3 3 (9.375%) Solaris
3 3 (9.375%) UNIX
4 1 (3.125%) AIX
4 1 (3.125%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) ETL
1 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (15.63%) UML
2 5 (15.63%) TOGAF
2 5 (15.63%) MODAF
2 5 (15.63%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (12.50%) ArchiMate
3 4 (12.50%) Web Testing
3 4 (12.50%) Time Management
3 4 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 4 (12.50%) eTOM
3 4 (12.50%) Automated Testing
3 4 (12.50%) Migration
3 4 (12.50%) ITIL
3 4 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 3 (9.375%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (9.375%) Data Management
4 3 (9.375%) Fault Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) Java
2 5 (15.63%) SQL
2 5 (15.63%) Perl
2 5 (15.63%) C
3 4 (12.50%) C#
3 4 (12.50%) PHP
4 3 (9.375%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.250%) Bash shell
6 1 (3.125%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.125%) Python
6 1 (3.125%) Ruby
6 1 (3.125%) Scala
6 1 (3.125%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (6.250%) Security Cleared
1 2 (6.250%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.375%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.125%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle
2 4 (12.50%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 4 (12.50%) Huawei
2 4 (12.50%) Greenplum
2 4 (12.50%) NEC
2 4 (12.50%) Business Objects
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Citrix
2 4 (12.50%) Ericsson
2 4 (12.50%) Mapinfo
2 4 (12.50%) ESRI
3 1 (3.125%) Sun
3 1 (3.125%) VMware
3 1 (3.125%) GigaSpaces
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