Open Source Contracts in the South West
 
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 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 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 90 123 118
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -5
Contract jobs citing Open Source 18 13 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.892% 0.402% 0.141%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.455% 2.060% 0.794%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 0
Average daily rate £278 £393 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.29% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £33.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £41.25 £33.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +23.13%
Search 10 Open Source jobs in the South West
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 404 631 504
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 20.03% 19.51% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 335 215
Average daily rate £350 £390 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.25% +11.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £264 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £525 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 42 56
Average hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -24.13%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.70 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £44.00 £42.50
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

South 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 South West region.

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

South West 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 West region.

South 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 South West 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
Bristol +13 7 £275 -29.93%
Wiltshire +6 6 £377 +25.50%
Dorset - 2 £105 -
Somerset - 2 - -
Open Source
England

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 12 (38.71%) MySQL
2 11 (35.48%) Security Cleared
3 10 (32.26%) DV Cleared
3 10 (32.26%) PHP
4 9 (29.03%) HTML
4 9 (29.03%) CSS
4 9 (29.03%) Linux
5 8 (25.81%) jQuery
6 7 (22.58%) Military
6 7 (22.58%) VoIP
6 7 (22.58%) Cisco
6 7 (22.58%) SNMP
7 6 (19.35%) Internet
7 6 (19.35%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (19.35%) Apache
8 5 (16.13%) CMS
8 5 (16.13%) CCNP
8 5 (16.13%) CCNA
8 5 (16.13%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (16.13%) Computer Science
8 5 (16.13%) WhatsUp Gold
8 5 (16.13%) Git (software)
8 5 (16.13%) Digital Media
9 4 (12.90%) HTML5
9 4 (12.90%) PHP5
9 4 (12.90%) Zend
9 4 (12.90%) Zend Framework
9 4 (12.90%) CakePHP
9 4 (12.90%) Degree
9 4 (12.90%) LAMP

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 9 (29.03%) HTML
1 9 (29.03%) CSS
2 8 (25.81%) jQuery
3 4 (12.90%) HTML5
3 4 (12.90%) Zend Framework
3 4 (12.90%) CakePHP
3 4 (12.90%) LAMP
3 4 (12.90%) .NET
4 2 (6.452%) WinForms
4 2 (6.452%) NHibernate
4 2 (6.452%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.226%) OpenCV
5 1 (3.226%) ASP
5 1 (3.226%) Flash
5 1 (3.226%) JSP
5 1 (3.226%) Web Services
5 1 (3.226%) XML
5 1 (3.226%) OpenGL
Application Platforms
1 6 (19.35%) Apache
2 5 (16.13%) CMS
3 3 (9.677%) SharePoint
3 3 (9.677%) Drupal
3 3 (9.677%) Apache Solr
4 2 (6.452%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (6.452%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (6.452%) InDesign
1 2 (6.452%) Photoshop
2 1 (3.226%) MS Office
2 1 (3.226%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.226%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.226%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) VoIP
1 7 (22.58%) SNMP
2 6 (19.35%) Internet
3 3 (9.677%) IPsec
4 2 (6.452%) DHCP
4 2 (6.452%) HTTP
4 2 (6.452%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.452%) ATM
5 1 (3.226%) Bluetooth
5 1 (3.226%) PBX
5 1 (3.226%) Firewall
5 1 (3.226%) Wireless
5 1 (3.226%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (38.71%) MySQL
2 1 (3.226%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Git (software)
2 2 (6.452%) Subversion
General
1 7 (22.58%) Military
2 3 (9.677%) Finance
3 2 (6.452%) Advertising
3 2 (6.452%) Law
4 1 (3.226%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.226%) Electronics
4 1 (3.226%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.226%) Games
4 1 (3.226%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Network Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) PHP Developer
4 3 (9.677%) Drupal Developer
5 2 (6.452%) Front-End Developer
5 2 (6.452%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.452%) Systems Support Engineer
5 2 (6.452%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.452%) Systems Support
5 2 (6.452%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.452%) Android Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Graduate
6 1 (3.226%) Programmer
6 1 (3.226%) Junior
6 1 (3.226%) Junior PHP Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Graduate Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Junior Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Computer Science
1 5 (16.13%) Digital Media
2 3 (9.677%) Mathematics
2 3 (9.677%) Visualisation
3 2 (6.452%) Social Media
3 2 (6.452%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.226%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (3.226%) Biometrics
4 1 (3.226%) DTV
4 1 (3.226%) Physics
4 1 (3.226%) iPhone
4 1 (3.226%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 9 (29.03%) Linux
2 3 (9.677%) UNIX
2 3 (9.677%) Windows
2 3 (9.677%) Solaris
2 3 (9.677%) Android
3 2 (6.452%) Mac OS X Server
3 2 (6.452%) FreeBSD
4 1 (3.226%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.13%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (12.90%) OO
2 4 (12.90%) E-Commerce
3 3 (9.677%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (9.677%) Software Engineering
3 3 (9.677%) Systems Analysis
3 3 (9.677%) Information Security
3 3 (9.677%) Requirements Engineering
4 2 (6.452%) BDD
4 2 (6.452%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (6.452%) Scrum
4 2 (6.452%) Web Design
4 2 (6.452%) TDD
4 2 (6.452%) Change Control
5 1 (3.226%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (3.226%) Data Analysis
5 1 (3.226%) Resource Management
5 1 (3.226%) Programme Management
5 1 (3.226%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (3.226%) Pattern Recognition
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) PHP
2 4 (12.90%) PHP5
2 4 (12.90%) C
3 3 (9.677%) C#
4 2 (6.452%) Ruby
4 2 (6.452%) C++
4 2 (6.452%) Java
4 2 (6.452%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.452%) Perl
4 2 (6.452%) SQL
4 2 (6.452%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.226%) ActionScript
5 1 (3.226%) VBA
5 1 (3.226%) Python
5 1 (3.226%) MATLAB
5 1 (3.226%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 11 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 10 (32.26%) DV Cleared
3 6 (19.35%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (16.13%) CCNP
4 5 (16.13%) CCNA
5 4 (12.90%) Degree
6 3 (9.677%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.677%) JSP 440
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) WhatsUp Gold
2 2 (6.452%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Cisco
2 4 (12.90%) Zend
3 3 (9.677%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.452%) Adobe
4 2 (6.452%) Oracle
5 1 (3.226%) SAP
5 1 (3.226%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.226%) Sun
5 1 (3.226%) SIMUL8
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