Open Source Contracts in West Yorkshire
 
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 West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 23 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 West Yorkshire 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 76 86 72
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -14
Contract jobs citing Open Source 17 8 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 1.358% 0.506% 0.437%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.693% 3.604% 2.146%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 4
Average daily rate £268 £300 £261
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.83% +14.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £280 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £320 £292
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -1.51%
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
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 254 222 233
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 20.29% 14.05% 20.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 112 100
Average daily rate £298 £338 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.85% +8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £211 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 18
Average hourly rate £12.50 £16.00 £11.65
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.87% +37.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.83 £11.00 £8.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.75 £27.25 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Open Source
Yorkshire

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Leeds +3 16 £268 -14.40%
Open Source
Yorkshire

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 14 (41.18%) Java
1 14 (41.18%) Linux
1 14 (41.18%) Apache
2 11 (32.35%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (29.41%) CSS
4 9 (26.47%) JavaScript
4 9 (26.47%) PHP
4 9 (26.47%) OO
5 8 (23.53%) .NET
6 7 (20.59%) C
6 7 (20.59%) C++
6 7 (20.59%) XML
6 7 (20.59%) XHTML
7 6 (17.65%) Tomcat
7 6 (17.65%) MPEG
7 6 (17.65%) MySQL
7 6 (17.65%) Middleware
7 6 (17.65%) DVB
7 6 (17.65%) MVC
7 6 (17.65%) STB
7 6 (17.65%) Software Testing
7 6 (17.65%) Multithreading
7 6 (17.65%) GStreamer
8 5 (14.71%) Ruby
8 5 (14.71%) ISTQB
8 5 (14.71%) TDD
8 5 (14.71%) RIA
8 5 (14.71%) Zend
8 5 (14.71%) Telecoms
8 5 (14.71%) Scrum

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 10 (29.41%) CSS
2 8 (23.53%) .NET
3 7 (20.59%) XML
3 7 (20.59%) XHTML
4 6 (17.65%) Middleware
4 6 (17.65%) GStreamer
5 5 (14.71%) XSLT
6 4 (11.76%) Web Services
6 4 (11.76%) J2EE
6 4 (11.76%) Ajax
7 3 (8.824%) Node.js
7 3 (8.824%) LAMP
8 2 (5.882%) LINQ
8 2 (5.882%) jQuery
8 2 (5.882%) WebSphere
8 2 (5.882%) .NET Framework
8 2 (5.882%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (5.882%) Lucene
8 2 (5.882%) HTML5
8 2 (5.882%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 14 (41.18%) Apache
2 6 (17.65%) Tomcat
3 2 (5.882%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (5.882%) Apache Solr
4 1 (2.941%) Route 53
4 1 (2.941%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.941%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.941%) Windows Azure
4 1 (2.941%) nginx
4 1 (2.941%) RabbitMQ
Business Applications
1 3 (8.824%) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) DVB
2 5 (14.71%) Internet
3 2 (5.882%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.941%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.941%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) MySQL
2 2 (5.882%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (5.882%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (5.882%) RavenDB
2 2 (5.882%) Redis
3 1 (2.941%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.941%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.941%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.941%) CouchDB
3 1 (2.941%) SimpleDB
3 1 (2.941%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.941%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.882%) Visual Studio
1 2 (5.882%) Git (software)
1 2 (5.882%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.941%) WebDriver
2 1 (2.941%) Selenium
General
1 5 (14.71%) Telecoms
2 4 (11.76%) Electronics
3 1 (2.941%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Developer
2 10 (29.41%) Software Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) PHP Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Architect
3 5 (14.71%) Analyst
3 5 (14.71%) Test Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (5.882%) Graduate
5 2 (5.882%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.882%) Software Architect
5 2 (5.882%) Team Leader
5 2 (5.882%) Senior Technical Architect
5 2 (5.882%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (5.882%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (5.882%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.882%) .NET Developer
5 2 (5.882%) Software Team Leader
5 2 (5.882%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 2 (5.882%) Senior Architect
5 2 (5.882%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) MPEG
1 6 (17.65%) STB
2 5 (14.71%) RIA
3 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (8.824%) Computer Science
5 2 (5.882%) NHS
5 2 (5.882%) Social Media
6 1 (2.941%) IaaS
6 1 (2.941%) IPTV
6 1 (2.941%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 14 (41.18%) Linux
2 3 (8.824%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.941%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (26.47%) OO
3 6 (17.65%) MVC
3 6 (17.65%) Software Testing
3 6 (17.65%) Multithreading
4 5 (14.71%) TDD
4 5 (14.71%) Scrum
4 5 (14.71%) B2C
5 4 (11.76%) Waterfall
5 4 (11.76%) V-Model
6 3 (8.824%) BDD
6 3 (8.824%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (8.824%) PRINCE2
6 3 (8.824%) CRM
7 2 (5.882%) ITIL
8 1 (2.941%) Automation Testing
8 1 (2.941%) Kanban
8 1 (2.941%) Test Automation
8 1 (2.941%) Network Design
8 1 (2.941%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) Java
2 9 (26.47%) JavaScript
2 9 (26.47%) PHP
3 7 (20.59%) C
3 7 (20.59%) C++
4 5 (14.71%) Ruby
4 5 (14.71%) Python
5 4 (11.76%) SQL
6 3 (8.824%) C#
7 2 (5.882%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.941%) Bash shell
8 1 (2.941%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) ISTQB
1 5 (14.71%) ISEB
2 4 (11.76%) Degree
3 2 (5.882%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.882%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (2.941%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Zend
1 5 (14.71%) Oracle
2 4 (11.76%) JBoss
3 1 (2.941%) Microsoft
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