Open Source Contracts in South Wales
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 17 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 Wales 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 38 37 45
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +8
Contract jobs citing Open Source 1 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 0.327% 0.775% 0.248%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.587% 4.348% 1.176%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
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
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 63 69 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 20.59% 17.83% 21.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 27 48
Average daily rate £375 £305 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.95% -12.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £105 £274
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £525 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 7
Average hourly rate £15.25 £14.00 £14.91
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.92% -6.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.95 £7.71
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £15.51 £22.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Open Source
Wales

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 Wales region.

South Wales Open Source Daily Rate Trend

Open Source
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Content Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
1 2 (66.67%) Web Development
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) Hudson
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) Hudson
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Content Management
1 2 (66.67%) Web Development
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
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