Open Source Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 22 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 East of England 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 94 117 112
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -5
Contract jobs citing Open Source 22 14 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.011% 0.470% 0.689%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.536% 2.247% 3.766%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 9
Average daily rate £320 £425 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.70% -22.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £145 £400 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £500 £637
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 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 £34.75
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +18.70%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 485 623 478
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 22.28% 20.90% 18.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 276 191
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £450 £491
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 68 67
Average hourly rate £33.00 £25.00 £25.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+32.00% -1.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £13.30 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £48.40 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Open Source
England

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 22 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
Norfolk - 8 - -
Cambridgeshire +12 7 £225 -43.75%
Hertfordshire +10 4 £450 -
Essex - 3 £450 -
Open Source
England

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 12 (44.44%) .NET
1 12 (44.44%) CSS
2 11 (40.74%) E-Commerce
3 10 (37.04%) OO
3 10 (37.04%) Java
3 10 (37.04%) JavaScript
4 9 (33.33%) C#
5 8 (29.63%) MS Excel
5 8 (29.63%) B2C
5 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
5 8 (29.63%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (25.93%) Apache
6 7 (25.93%) UML
6 7 (25.93%) SQL
6 7 (25.93%) Web Services
6 7 (25.93%) XML
6 7 (25.93%) Oracle
7 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
7 6 (22.22%) J2EE
7 6 (22.22%) JSP
7 6 (22.22%) Struts
7 6 (22.22%) PHP
7 6 (22.22%) DHTML
7 6 (22.22%) XML Schema
7 6 (22.22%) RUP
7 6 (22.22%) Hibernate
7 6 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (22.22%) Struts2
7 6 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (22.22%) Spring

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 12 (44.44%) .NET
1 12 (44.44%) CSS
2 7 (25.93%) Web Services
2 7 (25.93%) XML
3 6 (22.22%) J2EE
3 6 (22.22%) JSP
3 6 (22.22%) Struts
3 6 (22.22%) DHTML
3 6 (22.22%) XML Schema
3 6 (22.22%) Hibernate
3 6 (22.22%) Struts2
3 6 (22.22%) Spring
3 6 (22.22%) JSF
4 3 (11.11%) XHTML
5 2 (7.407%) HTML
5 2 (7.407%) HTML5
6 1 (3.704%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 7 (25.93%) Apache
2 6 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (18.52%) CMS
4 4 (14.81%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (14.81%) Liferay
4 4 (14.81%) Drupal
5 2 (7.407%) Documentum
5 2 (7.407%) Magento
5 2 (7.407%) WordPress
6 1 (3.704%) Sakai Project
Applications
1 8 (29.63%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.704%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (18.52%) JasperReports
2 5 (18.52%) MySQL
3 4 (14.81%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (14.81%) GIS
4 1 (3.704%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Maven
2 2 (7.407%) Subversion
2 2 (7.407%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (11.11%) Finance
1 3 (11.11%) Publishing
2 1 (3.704%) Billing
2 1 (3.704%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (70.37%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Software Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Java Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (11.11%) PHP Developer
6 2 (7.407%) Applications Support
7 1 (3.704%) Java/J2EE Architect
7 1 (3.704%) Drupal Developer
7 1 (3.704%) PHP Drupal Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Designer
7 1 (3.704%) Applications Manager
7 1 (3.704%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (3.704%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.704%) Java Architect
7 1 (3.704%) Report Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Linux Specialist
7 1 (3.704%) Administrator
7 1 (3.704%) Architect
7 1 (3.704%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.407%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.407%) W3C
2 2 (7.407%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.704%) Digital Media
3 1 (3.704%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
2 2 (7.407%) Android
2 2 (7.407%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.704%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) E-Commerce
2 10 (37.04%) OO
3 8 (29.63%) B2C
4 7 (25.93%) UML
5 6 (22.22%) RUP
5 6 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (22.22%) Unit Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Workflow
6 4 (14.81%) Migration
6 4 (14.81%) Requirements Analysis
6 4 (14.81%) Data Migration
6 4 (14.81%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (7.407%) OOD
7 2 (7.407%) Service Delivery
7 2 (7.407%) Change Management
7 2 (7.407%) Project Planning
7 2 (7.407%) Problem Management
7 2 (7.407%) Web Design
7 2 (7.407%) Content Management
7 2 (7.407%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Java
1 10 (37.04%) JavaScript
2 9 (33.33%) C#
3 7 (25.93%) SQL
4 6 (22.22%) PHP
5 4 (14.81%) PHP5
6 3 (11.11%) Ruby
6 3 (11.11%) C++
7 2 (7.407%) Assembly Language
8 1 (3.704%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (3.704%) RHCA
3 1 (3.704%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.407%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.704%) XenServer
1 1 (3.704%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.704%) Samba
1 1 (3.704%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (3.704%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.93%) Oracle
3 2 (7.407%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.704%) NetApp
4 1 (3.704%) Citrix
4 1 (3.704%) VMware
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