The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 17 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 Cambridge 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 35 42 31
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -11
Contract jobs citing Open Source 6 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.754% 1.675% 0.400%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.522% 6.034% 2.174%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
Average daily rate £225 £338 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% +71.05%
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
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
92 116 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 26.90% 27.75% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 59 13
Average daily rate £263 £299 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.13% -14.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £197 £225 £298
10% offered a daily rate of more than £389 £403 £394
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 11
Average hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +240.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £21.20 £10.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £36.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Open Source
Cambridgeshire

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Open Source Hourly Rate Trend

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 (57.14%) PHP
1 4 (57.14%) MySQL
1 4 (57.14%) CSS
1 4 (57.14%) CMS
1 4 (57.14%) Drupal
1 4 (57.14%) PHP5
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) OO
3 2 (28.57%) XHTML
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 2 (28.57%) OOD
3 2 (28.57%) C++
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Assembly Language
3 2 (28.57%) W3C
3 2 (28.57%) Web Design
3 2 (28.57%) WordPress
3 2 (28.57%) Android
3 2 (28.57%) Magento
3 2 (28.57%) Git (software)
3 2 (28.57%) Information Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Software Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) HTML5
3 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (28.57%) Subversion
3 2 (28.57%) Ruby
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Media
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (14.29%) NetApp

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 4 (57.14%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) XHTML
2 2 (28.57%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) CMS
1 4 (57.14%) Drupal
2 2 (28.57%) WordPress
2 2 (28.57%) Magento
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Subversion
1 2 (28.57%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) PHP Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Drupal Developer
3 1 (14.29%) PHP Drupal Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) W3C
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Android
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) OO
1 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
1 2 (28.57%) OOD
1 2 (28.57%) Web Design
1 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (28.57%) Information Architecture
1 2 (28.57%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PHP
1 4 (57.14%) PHP5
2 2 (28.57%) Assembly Language
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby
2 2 (28.57%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) NFS
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) NetApp
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 1 (14.29%) VMware
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