The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 21 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 Birmingham 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 46 - 41
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Open Source 3 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.667% - 0.409%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.333% - 2.469%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £400 - £125
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
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
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
90 84 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 20.00% 13.50% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 38 40
Average daily rate £325 £310 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.75% +0.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £241 £175 £173
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £518 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 7
Average hourly rate £32.50 £13.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+140.74% +3.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £11.15 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £92.20 £17.50 £61.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Open Source
West Midlands

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Open Source Daily Rate Trend

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Kanban
2 3 (50.00%) BDD
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Extreme Programming
2 3 (50.00%) Java EE
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) J2EE
3 2 (33.33%) PHP
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (33.33%) Internet
3 2 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (16.67%) JBehave
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (16.67%) Selenium

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 3 (50.00%) Java EE
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) J2EE
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (16.67%) WCF
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (16.67%) JBehave
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) FitNesse
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Agile Java Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 2 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
4 1 (16.67%) PHP Developer
4 1 (16.67%) BizTalk Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Business Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Kanban
2 3 (50.00%) BDD
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Extreme Programming
3 2 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
4 1 (16.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C++
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle