The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 19 June 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 North West 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 114 123 119
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -4
Contract jobs citing Open Source 3 11 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.126% 0.362% 0.198%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.538% 1.923% 1.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 4
Average daily rate £338 £301 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.12% -14.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £328 £298 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £348 £380 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
+9.09% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £17.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
- +37.93%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
558 572 588
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.38% 18.83% 19.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 267 292
Average daily rate £325 £325 £321
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +1.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £212 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £471 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 54 76
Average hourly rate £17.21 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.74% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.75 £13.10 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.63 £25.22 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West Open Source Daily Rate Trend

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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Manchester +1 2 £338 +12.12% 5
Cheshire - - - - 3
Lancashire - - - - 2
Merseyside - - - - 3
Open Source
England

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 4 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 4 (50.00%) Ruby
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) CSS
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services
3 2 (25.00%) XML
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (25.00%) Apache
3 2 (25.00%) XHTML
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (25.00%) .NET
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) NHS
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Ajax
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (25.00%) Haskell
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (25.00%) Web Development
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) LINQ

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 4 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (37.50%) CSS
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services
3 2 (25.00%) XML
3 2 (25.00%) XHTML
3 2 (25.00%) .NET
3 2 (25.00%) Ajax
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (25.00%) LINQ
3 2 (25.00%) Grails
3 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 2 (25.00%) Sinatra
3 2 (25.00%) Regular Expression
3 2 (25.00%) Lucene
4 1 (12.50%) PostGIS
4 1 (12.50%) jQuery
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Solr
2 1 (12.50%) Joomla!
2 1 (12.50%) WordPress
2 1 (12.50%) CMS
2 1 (12.50%) ArcGIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (25.00%) RavenDB
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) GIS
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (25.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (25.00%) GitHub
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Agile .NET Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Scala Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) OpenView Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) NHS
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (12.50%) Data Conversion
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL
1 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (25.00%) Scrum
1 2 (25.00%) TDD
1 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (25.00%) Web Development
2 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
2 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Ruby
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) Haskell
3 2 (25.00%) Scala
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) HP UCMDB
1 1 (12.50%) OpenView
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) ESRI
1 1 (12.50%) HP
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