The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 60 74 73
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -1
Contract jobs citing Open Source 13 7 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.477% 0.608% 0.494%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.019% 3.448% 2.717%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 4
Average daily rate £400 £400 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +60.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
+9.09% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
- +37.93%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
216 203 184
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 24.55% 17.64% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 84 81
Average daily rate £400 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £235 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £522 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 8
Average hourly rate £18.50 £15.58 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.78% +7.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.50 £11.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.25 £16.50 £21.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Open Source
Berkshire

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Reading Open Source Daily Rate Histogram

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 8 (40.00%) Java
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
2 7 (35.00%) HTML
2 7 (35.00%) PHP
3 6 (30.00%) MySQL
3 6 (30.00%) UML
3 6 (30.00%) ETL
3 6 (30.00%) GIS
4 5 (25.00%) Windows
4 5 (25.00%) SQL
4 5 (25.00%) Drupal
5 4 (20.00%) Greenplum
5 4 (20.00%) eTOM
5 4 (20.00%) Huawei
5 4 (20.00%) LTE
5 4 (20.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 4 (20.00%) HTML5
5 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (20.00%) Digital Media
5 4 (20.00%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (20.00%) Big Data
5 4 (20.00%) .NET
5 4 (20.00%) C
5 4 (20.00%) Oracle
5 4 (20.00%) Business Objects
5 4 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 4 (20.00%) ITIL
5 4 (20.00%) ATM
5 4 (20.00%) IPv4

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 7 (35.00%) HTML
2 4 (20.00%) HTML5
2 4 (20.00%) .NET
2 4 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (15.00%) CSS
4 2 (10.00%) jQuery
4 2 (10.00%) Ajax
4 2 (10.00%) SproutCore
4 2 (10.00%) CSS3
4 2 (10.00%) Memcached
5 1 (5.000%) Hibernate
5 1 (5.000%) JMS
5 1 (5.000%) J2EE
5 1 (5.000%) XML
5 1 (5.000%) XSLT
5 1 (5.000%) JSON
5 1 (5.000%) WebSphere
5 1 (5.000%) Spring
5 1 (5.000%) Velocity
5 1 (5.000%) FreeMarker
Application Platforms
1 5 (25.00%) Drupal
2 4 (20.00%) CMS
3 3 (15.00%) ArcGIS
4 2 (10.00%) Alfresco
4 2 (10.00%) Joomla!
4 2 (10.00%) Apache
5 1 (5.000%) Tomcat
5 1 (5.000%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (5.000%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) LTE
1 4 (20.00%) Radio Access Network
1 4 (20.00%) ATM
1 4 (20.00%) IPv4
1 4 (20.00%) 3G
1 4 (20.00%) 2G
2 1 (5.000%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) MySQL
1 6 (30.00%) GIS
2 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (20.00%) Big Data
2 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Ant
1 1 (5.000%) JUnit
General
1 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.00%) Games
2 2 (10.00%) Automotive
3 1 (5.000%) Banking
3 1 (5.000%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Drupal Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Web Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Data Architect
4 3 (15.00%) PHP Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Leader
5 2 (10.00%) Information Systems Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Information Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Systems Architect
6 1 (5.000%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Web Designer
6 1 (5.000%) Team Leader
6 1 (5.000%) Perl Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) CMS Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Designer
6 1 (5.000%) Lead Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (5.000%) Replication
2 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.000%) UNIX
3 1 (5.000%) AIX
3 1 (5.000%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) UML
1 6 (30.00%) ETL
2 4 (20.00%) eTOM
2 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (15.00%) Migration
3 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (15.00%) ArchiMate
3 3 (15.00%) Network Management
3 3 (15.00%) MODAF
3 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (15.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (15.00%) Fault Management
3 3 (15.00%) Time Management
3 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (10.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Java
2 7 (35.00%) PHP
3 5 (25.00%) SQL
4 4 (20.00%) C
4 4 (20.00%) Perl
5 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.000%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Varnish
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Greenplum
1 4 (20.00%) Huawei
1 4 (20.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
1 4 (20.00%) Business Objects
1 4 (20.00%) Citrix
1 4 (20.00%) Ericsson
1 4 (20.00%) NEC
2 3 (15.00%) ESRI
2 3 (15.00%) Mapinfo
3 1 (5.000%) Sun