The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex 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 Sussex 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 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Open Source 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 0.862% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.000% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
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 Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
50 41 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 21.55% 12.46% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 14
Average daily rate £425 £373 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.09% +24.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £193 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £444 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Average hourly rate £17.00 £16.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% +45.45%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
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 East Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

East Sussex 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 Sussex region.

East Sussex Open Source Daily 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 Sussex 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
Brighton - 1 £350 -
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) Web Services
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceStack
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) NUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Billing
3 1 (25.00%) Subversion
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) FitNesse
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Fiddler
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) JPA
3 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (25.00%) StyleCop
3 1 (25.00%) MSTest
3 1 (25.00%) soapUI

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 (75.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceStack
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) JPA
3 1 (25.00%) soapUI
3 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) NUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (25.00%) Fiddler
1 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (25.00%) StyleCop
1 1 (25.00%) MSTest
1 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (25.00%) Billing
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Scala Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) BDD
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) ATDD
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
2 1 (25.00%) Java