The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the North Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 24 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 North Yorkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 14 - 29
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Open Source 11 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 7.285% - 0.532%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 28.95% - 3.846%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
Average daily rate £355 - £108
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
North Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
38 8 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 25.17% 4.571% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 2 9
Average daily rate £425 £255 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% +45.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £12.13 - £15.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Open Source
Yorkshire

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
York - 9 £354 -
Open Source
Yorkshire

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 12 (80.00%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (53.33%) Citrix
2 8 (53.33%) VMware
2 8 (53.33%) Google
2 8 (53.33%) Xen
2 8 (53.33%) SCOM
2 8 (53.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (53.33%) Cloud Computing
2 8 (53.33%) OpenStack
2 8 (53.33%) CloudStack
2 8 (53.33%) IaaS
2 8 (53.33%) SaaS
2 8 (53.33%) PaaS
2 8 (53.33%) Hyper-V
2 8 (53.33%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (53.33%) Windows Azure
3 5 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (33.33%) J2EE
3 5 (33.33%) AOP
3 5 (33.33%) Subversion
3 5 (33.33%) Maven
4 4 (26.67%) Hibernate
4 4 (26.67%) Content Management
4 4 (26.67%) Spring
4 4 (26.67%) MCTS
4 4 (26.67%) MCITP
4 4 (26.67%) Web Services
4 4 (26.67%) JUnit
4 4 (26.67%) WebLogic

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 5 (33.33%) J2EE
2 4 (26.67%) Hibernate
2 4 (26.67%) Spring
2 4 (26.67%) Web Services
3 3 (20.00%) Ehcache
3 3 (20.00%) RESTful
3 3 (20.00%) FreeMarker
3 3 (20.00%) JMS
3 3 (20.00%) JDBC
3 3 (20.00%) WebSphere
3 3 (20.00%) Apache Axis
3 3 (20.00%) Spring MVC
3 3 (20.00%) Tapestry
3 3 (20.00%) SiteMesh
4 2 (13.33%) WCF
4 2 (13.33%) .NET Remoting
4 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
4 2 (13.33%) .NET
5 1 (6.667%) SOAP
5 1 (6.667%) XML
Application Platforms
1 8 (53.33%) OpenStack
1 8 (53.33%) CloudStack
1 8 (53.33%) Amazon EC2
1 8 (53.33%) Windows Azure
2 4 (26.67%) WebLogic
2 4 (26.67%) Tomcat
2 4 (26.67%) MS Exchange
3 3 (20.00%) Jetty
3 3 (20.00%) Apache
4 1 (6.667%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) JasperReports
2 1 (6.667%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Subversion
1 5 (33.33%) Maven
2 4 (26.67%) JUnit
2 4 (26.67%) Hudson
3 3 (20.00%) Subclipse
3 3 (20.00%) TestNG
3 3 (20.00%) EasyMock
3 3 (20.00%) jMock
3 3 (20.00%) Eclipse
3 3 (20.00%) Log4j
4 1 (6.667%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Architect
2 7 (46.67%) Technical Architect
3 6 (40.00%) Developer
4 5 (33.33%) Java Developer
5 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (20.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (6.667%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (6.667%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (53.33%) Cloud Computing
2 8 (53.33%) IaaS
2 8 (53.33%) SaaS
2 8 (53.33%) PaaS
3 2 (13.33%) N-Tier
4 1 (6.667%) Web 2.0
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) AOP
2 4 (26.67%) Content Management
2 4 (26.67%) MVC
3 3 (20.00%) OOD
3 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) OO
4 2 (13.33%) SOA
5 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.667%) VB.NET
2 1 (6.667%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) MCTS
1 4 (26.67%) MCITP
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Xen
1 8 (53.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (53.33%) Hyper-V
2 4 (26.67%) UAG
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
1 8 (53.33%) Citrix
1 8 (53.33%) VMware
1 8 (53.33%) Google
2 3 (20.00%) JBoss
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle
3 1 (6.667%) Vignette