Open Source Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South East 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 166 171 171
Rank change year-on-year
+5 0
Contract jobs citing Open Source 58 69 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.744% 0.680% 0.790%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.711% 3.603% 4.201%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 31 36
Average daily rate £375 £320 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.18% -3.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £225 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £451 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
Average hourly rate - £50.00 £36.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +37.93%
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
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 1563 1915 1952
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 20.05% 18.87% 18.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 717 810 808
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 177 180
Average hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £30.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% -10.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.60 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East Open Source Daily Rate Histogram

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 South East region.

South East 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 South East 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
Berkshire +14 24 £413 +26.92%
Hampshire -6 19 £375 +13.63%
Buckinghamshire +6 6 - -
Surrey +9 5 £400 +25.00%
Middlesex - 3 £375 -
Oxfordshire +1 2 £438 +94.44%
East Sussex - 2 £350 -
West Sussex +17 1 - -
Open Source
England

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 34 (34.69%) Java
2 33 (33.67%) Linux
3 27 (27.55%) PHP
4 23 (23.47%) Apache
5 20 (20.41%) Microsoft
6 19 (19.39%) Oracle
7 18 (18.37%) .NET
8 17 (17.35%) Perl
9 16 (16.33%) UNIX
10 15 (15.31%) JavaScript
10 15 (15.31%) VMware
11 14 (14.29%) SQL
11 14 (14.29%) MySQL
11 14 (14.29%) CSS
11 14 (14.29%) Red Hat
12 13 (13.27%) Web Services
12 13 (13.27%) HTML
12 13 (13.27%) C
12 13 (13.27%) C#
12 13 (13.27%) Tomcat
12 13 (13.27%) Security Cleared
13 12 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
13 12 (12.24%) LDAP
14 11 (11.22%) OO
14 11 (11.22%) Windows
14 11 (11.22%) Configuration Management
14 11 (11.22%) Telecoms
14 11 (11.22%) TDD
14 11 (11.22%) SC Cleared
15 10 (10.20%) Continuous Integration

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 18 (18.37%) .NET
2 14 (14.29%) CSS
3 13 (13.27%) Web Services
3 13 (13.27%) HTML
4 10 (10.20%) SAML
4 10 (10.20%) XML
5 8 (8.163%) jQuery
5 8 (8.163%) HTML5
6 7 (7.143%) ASP.NET
7 6 (6.122%) JSON
7 6 (6.122%) Spring
7 6 (6.122%) Hibernate
7 6 (6.122%) J2EE
8 5 (5.102%) JDBC
8 5 (5.102%) Servlets
8 5 (5.102%) Struts
8 5 (5.102%) JMS
8 5 (5.102%) Ajax
8 5 (5.102%) CSS3
9 4 (4.082%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 23 (23.47%) Apache
2 13 (13.27%) Tomcat
3 9 (9.184%) GlassFish
4 8 (8.163%) CMS
5 7 (7.143%) Drupal
6 6 (6.122%) Windows Azure
6 6 (6.122%) Amazon AWS
7 4 (4.082%) OpenStack
7 4 (4.082%) Joomla!
7 4 (4.082%) ArcGIS
8 2 (2.041%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (2.041%) Liferay
8 2 (2.041%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.041%) IIS
9 1 (1.020%) ColdFusion
9 1 (1.020%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (1.020%) WebLogic
9 1 (1.020%) ESB
9 1 (1.020%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.020%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (8.163%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.020%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.020%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.24%) LDAP
2 10 (10.20%) IPsec
2 10 (10.20%) SAN
2 10 (10.20%) SSL
2 10 (10.20%) LAN
2 10 (10.20%) WAN
3 8 (8.163%) HTTP
4 5 (5.102%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.082%) LTE
5 4 (4.082%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (4.082%) 2G
5 4 (4.082%) ATM
5 4 (4.082%) IPv4
5 4 (4.082%) 3G
6 3 (3.061%) DNS
6 3 (3.061%) Internet
6 3 (3.061%) Firewall
7 2 (2.041%) iSCSI
7 2 (2.041%) SMTP
8 1 (1.020%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.29%) MySQL
2 9 (9.184%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.184%) GIS
2 9 (9.184%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (8.163%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.082%) Big Data
5 2 (2.041%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (2.041%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.020%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.020%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (1.020%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.020%) JasperReports
6 1 (1.020%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (8.163%) Visual Studio
2 4 (4.082%) Git (software)
2 4 (4.082%) Selenium
2 4 (4.082%) Subversion
3 3 (3.061%) JUnit
3 3 (3.061%) NetAdvantage
3 3 (3.061%) PHPUnit
3 3 (3.061%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (3.061%) TeamCity
3 3 (3.061%) Visual Studio Team System
3 3 (3.061%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.041%) WebDriver
4 2 (2.041%) Moq
4 2 (2.041%) SpecFlow
4 2 (2.041%) WiX
4 2 (2.041%) Hudson
4 2 (2.041%) ReSharper
4 2 (2.041%) NUnit
4 2 (2.041%) Bugzilla
4 2 (2.041%) NetBeans
General
1 11 (11.22%) Telecoms
2 8 (8.163%) Finance
3 5 (5.102%) Electronics
3 5 (5.102%) Marketing
4 4 (4.082%) Banking
5 2 (2.041%) Retail
5 2 (2.041%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.041%) Automotive
6 1 (1.020%) Law
6 1 (1.020%) Games
6 1 (1.020%) Military
6 1 (1.020%) Billing
Job Titles
1 31 (31.63%) Developer
2 22 (22.45%) Architect
3 9 (9.184%) Administrator
4 7 (7.143%) Analyst
4 7 (7.143%) Consultant
5 6 (6.122%) PHP Developer
5 6 (6.122%) Test Analyst
6 5 (5.102%) DBA
6 5 (5.102%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.102%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (5.102%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (4.082%) JavaScript Developer
7 4 (4.082%) Linux Administrator
7 4 (4.082%) Technical Leader
7 4 (4.082%) .NET Developer
7 4 (4.082%) C# Developer
7 4 (4.082%) Technical Consultant
7 4 (4.082%) Test Manager
7 4 (4.082%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (4.082%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.143%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (6.122%) Digital Media
3 5 (5.102%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.082%) IaaS
4 4 (4.082%) Mathematics
4 4 (4.082%) Computer Science
4 4 (4.082%) Device Driver
4 4 (4.082%) 3D Graphics
5 3 (3.061%) Inversion of Control
6 2 (2.041%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.041%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.041%) SaaS
6 2 (2.041%) Social Media
6 2 (2.041%) Clustering
7 1 (1.020%) NHS
7 1 (1.020%) Replication
7 1 (1.020%) Cryptography
7 1 (1.020%) Animation
7 1 (1.020%) Blog
7 1 (1.020%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 33 (33.67%) Linux
2 16 (16.33%) UNIX
3 11 (11.22%) Windows
4 7 (7.143%) CentOS
5 4 (4.082%) Oracle Linux
5 4 (4.082%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (4.082%) Solaris
6 3 (3.061%) Android
7 2 (2.041%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.041%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.020%) FreeBSD
8 1 (1.020%) AIX
8 1 (1.020%) Debian
8 1 (1.020%) OpenBSD
8 1 (1.020%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (11.22%) OO
1 11 (11.22%) Configuration Management
1 11 (11.22%) TDD
2 10 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (10.20%) Identity Management
2 10 (10.20%) PRINCE2
3 9 (9.184%) ETL
3 9 (9.184%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (8.163%) Test Automation
4 8 (8.163%) Software Testing
4 8 (8.163%) ITIL
5 7 (7.143%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (7.143%) BDD
6 6 (6.122%) Performance Testing
6 6 (6.122%) Automated Testing
6 6 (6.122%) MVC
7 5 (5.102%) UML
7 5 (5.102%) Migration
7 5 (5.102%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 34 (34.69%) Java
2 27 (27.55%) PHP
3 17 (17.35%) Perl
4 15 (15.31%) JavaScript
5 14 (14.29%) SQL
6 13 (13.27%) C
6 13 (13.27%) C#
7 8 (8.163%) C++
8 3 (3.061%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.061%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.061%) Bash shell
8 3 (3.061%) GLSL
9 2 (2.041%) Scala
9 2 (2.041%) Ruby
9 2 (2.041%) VC++
9 2 (2.041%) Python
10 1 (1.020%) AWK
10 1 (1.020%) Groovy
10 1 (1.020%) sed
Qualifications
1 13 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.22%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.143%) Degree
4 3 (3.061%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.041%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.020%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.020%) RHCE
6 1 (1.020%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.082%) SLA
2 3 (3.061%) QA
3 1 (1.020%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (10.20%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.102%) Shibboleth
4 2 (2.041%) Squid
5 1 (1.020%) NFS
5 1 (1.020%) Nmap
5 1 (1.020%) Varnish
5 1 (1.020%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.020%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (3.061%) Puppet
2 2 (2.041%) CA SiteMinder
3 1 (1.020%) Nagios
3 1 (1.020%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.020%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 20 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 19 (19.39%) Oracle
3 15 (15.31%) VMware
4 14 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 9 (9.184%) JBoss
6 5 (5.102%) Cisco
6 5 (5.102%) Juniper
7 4 (4.082%) Greenplum
7 4 (4.082%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 4 (4.082%) Huawei
7 4 (4.082%) ESRI
7 4 (4.082%) NEC
7 4 (4.082%) Business Objects
7 4 (4.082%) Mapinfo
7 4 (4.082%) Ericsson
7 4 (4.082%) Citrix
8 3 (3.061%) SAP
8 3 (3.061%) Infragistics
8 3 (3.061%) Zend
9 2 (2.041%) Facebook
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