The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the Uxbridge 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 Uxbridge 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 16 18 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Contract jobs citing Open Source 5 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 4.673% 2.419% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.29% 17.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
Average daily rate £375 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
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
Uxbridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
35 17 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 32.71% 13.71% 21.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 10 8
Average daily rate £450 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £178 £337
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
Average hourly rate £16.00 £26.00 £11.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-38.46% +126.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.34 £26.00 £10.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £26.00 £31.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
Open Source
London

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Uxbridge 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 Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge Open Source Daily Rate Trend

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge 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 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
1 5 (83.33%) HTML
1 5 (83.33%) CSS
1 5 (83.33%) E-Commerce
1 5 (83.33%) OO
1 5 (83.33%) Apple
1 5 (83.33%) SEO
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Workflow
2 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) JSF
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Workflow Management
2 1 (16.67%) Java EE
2 1 (16.67%) SWT
2 1 (16.67%) JPA
2 1 (16.67%) EJB 3.0
2 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) JBoss
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) JMS
2 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) JavaBeans
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge 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 5 (83.33%) CSS
1 5 (83.33%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE
2 1 (16.67%) EJB
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) JMS
2 1 (16.67%) JavaBeans
2 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 1 (16.67%) JSF
2 1 (16.67%) Java EE
2 1 (16.67%) SWT
2 1 (16.67%) JPA
2 1 (16.67%) EJB 3.0
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) OO
1 5 (83.33%) E-Commerce
1 5 (83.33%) SEO
2 1 (16.67%) Workflow
2 1 (16.67%) Workflow Management
2 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Apple
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) JBoss