Open Source Contracts in Leeds
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 20 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 Leeds 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 51 63 53
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -10
Contract jobs citing Open Source 18 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 2.419% 0.891% 0.491%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.18% 5.926% 2.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 3 2
Average daily rate £278 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.50% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £187 £240 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £320 £295
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 161 135 143
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 21.64% 15.03% 23.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 70 72
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £214 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 10
Average hourly rate £11.75 £12.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.00% +13.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.78 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.25 £19.10 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
Open Source
West Yorkshire

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Leeds Open Source Daily Rate Histogram

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 14 (53.85%) Apache
2 13 (50.00%) Java
3 11 (42.31%) Linux
4 9 (34.62%) JavaScript
4 9 (34.62%) PHP
4 9 (34.62%) CSS
5 7 (26.92%) XML
5 7 (26.92%) XHTML
5 7 (26.92%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (23.08%) Tomcat
6 6 (23.08%) MySQL
6 6 (23.08%) .NET
7 5 (19.23%) ISEB
7 5 (19.23%) Internet
7 5 (19.23%) MVC
7 5 (19.23%) Telecoms
7 5 (19.23%) Scrum
7 5 (19.23%) Ruby
7 5 (19.23%) Oracle
7 5 (19.23%) Python
7 5 (19.23%) OO
7 5 (19.23%) XSLT
7 5 (19.23%) B2C
7 5 (19.23%) TDD
7 5 (19.23%) ISTQB
7 5 (19.23%) Zend
7 5 (19.23%) RIA
8 4 (15.38%) Degree
8 4 (15.38%) Multithreading
8 4 (15.38%) V-Model

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 9 (34.62%) CSS
2 7 (26.92%) XML
2 7 (26.92%) XHTML
3 6 (23.08%) .NET
4 5 (19.23%) XSLT
5 4 (15.38%) J2EE
5 4 (15.38%) Ajax
5 4 (15.38%) Web Services
6 3 (11.54%) LAMP
7 2 (7.692%) Lucene
7 2 (7.692%) Node.js
7 2 (7.692%) CSS3
7 2 (7.692%) Regular Expression
7 2 (7.692%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (7.692%) WebSphere
7 2 (7.692%) .NET Framework
7 2 (7.692%) LINQ
7 2 (7.692%) jQuery
7 2 (7.692%) RESTful
7 2 (7.692%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 14 (53.85%) Apache
2 6 (23.08%) Tomcat
3 2 (7.692%) Apache Solr
3 2 (7.692%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (3.846%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.846%) Route 53
4 1 (3.846%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.846%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.846%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) Internet
2 2 (7.692%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.846%) HTTP
3 1 (3.846%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) MySQL
2 2 (7.692%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.692%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (7.692%) RavenDB
2 2 (7.692%) Redis
3 1 (3.846%) Couchbase
3 1 (3.846%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.846%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.846%) CouchDB
3 1 (3.846%) SimpleDB
3 1 (3.846%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.846%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (7.692%) Visual Studio
1 2 (7.692%) Git (software)
1 2 (7.692%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.846%) WebDriver
2 1 (3.846%) Selenium
General
1 5 (19.23%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.846%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Test Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) PHP Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) Senior Technical Architect
5 2 (7.692%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Technical Architect
5 2 (7.692%) Software Architect
5 2 (7.692%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.692%) .NET Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Senior Architect
5 2 (7.692%) Agile .NET Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Graduate
6 1 (3.846%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.846%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Systems Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) RIA
2 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
4 2 (7.692%) Social Media
4 2 (7.692%) NHS
5 1 (3.846%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.846%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (19.23%) TDD
2 5 (19.23%) Scrum
2 5 (19.23%) OO
2 5 (19.23%) B2C
2 5 (19.23%) MVC
3 4 (15.38%) Multithreading
3 4 (15.38%) V-Model
3 4 (15.38%) Waterfall
4 3 (11.54%) BDD
4 3 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (11.54%) CRM
4 3 (11.54%) PRINCE2
5 2 (7.692%) ITIL
6 1 (3.846%) B2B
6 1 (3.846%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (3.846%) Configuration Management
6 1 (3.846%) Kanban
6 1 (3.846%) Network Design
6 1 (3.846%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Java
2 9 (34.62%) JavaScript
2 9 (34.62%) PHP
3 5 (19.23%) Python
3 5 (19.23%) Ruby
4 4 (15.38%) SQL
5 2 (7.692%) T-SQL
5 2 (7.692%) C#
6 1 (3.846%) C++
6 1 (3.846%) C
6 1 (3.846%) Erlang
6 1 (3.846%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) ISEB
1 5 (19.23%) ISTQB
2 4 (15.38%) Degree
3 2 (7.692%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.692%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (3.846%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle
1 5 (19.23%) Zend
2 4 (15.38%) JBoss
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