The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 20 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 Southampton 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 34 28 25
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -3
Contract jobs citing Open Source 2 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 0.678% 1.316% 1.657%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.279% 5.085% 8.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £300 £211 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.18% -
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
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
61 59 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 20.68% 25.88% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 25 10
Average daily rate £338 £360 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £216 £216 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £479 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 12
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £26.68
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -17.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.47 £14.01 £20.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £37.15 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
Open Source
Hampshire

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Open Source Hourly Rate Trend

Open Source
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 3 (60.00%) SAP
2 2 (40.00%) JBoss
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DBA
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) TDD
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) SAP
2 2 (40.00%) JBoss
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle