The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead 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 11 20 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing Open Source 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 2.083% 1.075% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.29% 6.250% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
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
Hemel Hempstead
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7 16 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 14.58% 17.20% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 5
Average daily rate - £350 £120
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +191.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £8.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Open Source
Hertfordshire

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Hemel Hempstead Open Source Daily Rate Trend

Open Source
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mapping

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle