The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire 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 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Open Source 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 0.485% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.762% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Warwickshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
21 51 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 10.19% 20.40% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 29 7
Average daily rate £280 £285 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.75% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £500 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
Average hourly rate £32.50 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+124.13% -47.27%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Open Source
West Midlands

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire Open Source Daily 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 Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Warwick - 1 - -
Open Source
West Midlands

Open Source
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby