The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 18 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 Surrey 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 77 85 88
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +3
Contract jobs citing Open Source 5 8 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.407% 0.495% 0.648%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.016% 2.632% 3.279%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
Average daily rate £400 £218 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+83.90% -37.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £146 £277
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £333 £452
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £340 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.19% +4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
- +29.03%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
248 304 366
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 20.21% 18.82% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 136 195
Average daily rate £400 £325 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -10.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £192 £160 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 25 14
Average hourly rate £22.13 £31.75 £38.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.31% -18.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.60 £12.00 £12.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Woking -5 2 - -
Camberley - - - -
Cranleigh - - - -
Egham - - - - 1
Farnham - - - -
Guildford - - - -
Reigate - - - -
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 9 (64.29%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 5 (35.71%) PHP
3 5 (35.71%) OO
3 5 (35.71%) TDD
3 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (28.57%) jQuery
4 4 (28.57%) HTML5
4 4 (28.57%) C
4 4 (28.57%) C++
4 4 (28.57%) Apache
4 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 4 (28.57%) MVC
5 3 (21.43%) Electronics
5 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
5 3 (21.43%) 3D Graphics
5 3 (21.43%) OpenGL
5 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
5 3 (21.43%) HTML
5 3 (21.43%) C#
5 3 (21.43%) .NET
5 3 (21.43%) CSS
5 3 (21.43%) Web Services
5 3 (21.43%) BDD
5 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
5 3 (21.43%) Mathematics
5 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
5 3 (21.43%) CentOS
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon AWS

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 4 (28.57%) jQuery
1 4 (28.57%) HTML5
2 3 (21.43%) .NET Framework
2 3 (21.43%) HTML
2 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) CSS
2 3 (21.43%) Web Services
2 3 (21.43%) OpenGL
3 2 (14.29%) WPF
3 2 (14.29%) Symfony
3 2 (14.29%) LINQ
3 2 (14.29%) MonoRail
3 2 (14.29%) DOM
3 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 2 (14.29%) StructureMap
3 2 (14.29%) NHibernate
3 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (14.29%) CSS3
3 2 (14.29%) Backbone.js
3 2 (14.29%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Apache
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon AWS
2 3 (21.43%) OpenStack
3 1 (7.143%) Tomcat
3 1 (7.143%) Liferay
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Internet
2 1 (7.143%) TELNET
2 1 (7.143%) iSCSI
2 1 (7.143%) NAS
2 1 (7.143%) tcpdump
2 1 (7.143%) LDAP
2 1 (7.143%) SMTP
2 1 (7.143%) DHCP
2 1 (7.143%) HTTP
2 1 (7.143%) SNMP
2 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.143%) DNS
2 1 (7.143%) SSL
2 1 (7.143%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2012
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (7.143%) MySQL
3 1 (7.143%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MSI
1 2 (14.29%) NetAdvantage
1 2 (14.29%) ReSharper
1 2 (14.29%) TeamCity
1 2 (14.29%) PHPUnit
1 2 (14.29%) Moq
2 1 (7.143%) Hudson
2 1 (7.143%) WiX
2 1 (7.143%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.143%) Git (software)
2 1 (7.143%) JUnit
2 1 (7.143%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.143%) Bugzilla
2 1 (7.143%) NetBeans
2 1 (7.143%) Subversion
General
1 3 (21.43%) Electronics
1 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
1 3 (21.43%) Marketing
2 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.143%) Games
3 1 (7.143%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) C# Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Agile C# Developer
4 2 (14.29%) WPF Developer
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Developer
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Developer
4 2 (14.29%) PHP Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Web Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.143%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (7.143%) C Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) 3D Graphics
1 3 (21.43%) Mathematics
1 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
1 3 (21.43%) IaaS
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (14.29%) Device Driver
2 2 (14.29%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (7.143%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (7.143%) Clustering
3 1 (7.143%) Cryptography
3 1 (7.143%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) CentOS
3 2 (14.29%) Android
4 1 (7.143%) UNIX
4 1 (7.143%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) OO
1 5 (35.71%) TDD
1 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (28.57%) MVC
3 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
3 3 (21.43%) BDD
3 3 (21.43%) Embedded Software Development
3 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Project Planning
4 2 (14.29%) ERP
5 1 (7.143%) SOA
5 1 (7.143%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.143%) Scrum
5 1 (7.143%) Pair Programming
5 1 (7.143%) Load Balancing
5 1 (7.143%) Multithreading
5 1 (7.143%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (35.71%) PHP
3 4 (28.57%) C++
3 4 (28.57%) C
4 3 (21.43%) C#
5 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (14.29%) GLSL
6 1 (7.143%) sed
6 1 (7.143%) PL/SQL
6 1 (7.143%) VC++
6 1 (7.143%) Shell Script
6 1 (7.143%) AWK
6 1 (7.143%) Ruby
6 1 (7.143%) Bash shell
6 1 (7.143%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) NFS
1 1 (7.143%) Nmap
1 1 (7.143%) Squid
1 1 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.143%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) Nagios
1 1 (7.143%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 2 (14.29%) Infragistics
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.143%) SAP
3 1 (7.143%) JBoss
3 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.143%) EMC
3 1 (7.143%) NetApp
3 1 (7.143%) VMware