The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the Windsor 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 Windsor 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 9 16 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing Open Source 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Windsor 6.897% 2.740% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 40.00% 7.407% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £550 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+69.23% -
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
Windsor
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
5 27 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Windsor 17.24% 36.99% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 4
Average daily rate £550 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+69.23% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
Open Source
Berkshire

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Windsor 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 Windsor region.

Windsor Open Source Daily Rate Trend

Open Source
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Windsor 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) ColdFusion
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) Blog
1 2 (100.00%) Social Network
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Sphinx
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Windsor 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Sphinx
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) ColdFusion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blog
1 2 (100.00%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby