The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 23 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 Merseyside 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank - 35 -
Contract jobs citing Open Source 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - 0.758% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 2.740% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
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 £33.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +23.13%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
37 73 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 17.96% 27.65% 29.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 26 34
Average daily rate £250 £300 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £260 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £478 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 24 18
Average hourly rate £11.96 £17.51 £13.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.69% +28.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.37 £11.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.43 £25.00 £25.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Open Source
North West

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Open Source Daily Rate Trend

Open Source
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Endeca
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) Guice
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) Guice
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Endeca