The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT jobs advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Basingstoke region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 76 52 58
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +6
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 3 16 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 0.435% 2.623% 0.371%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.190% 7.018% 1.290%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 2
Average salary £47,500 £50,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% +13.63%
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Basingstoke
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
252 228 155
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 36.57% 37.38% 28.76%
Number of salaries quoted 191 188 117
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,150 £32,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,000 £60,250 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Open Source
Hampshire

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke Open Source Jobs Demand Trend

Open Source
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Open Source across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Open Source.

1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) J2EE
1 7 (100.00%) XML
1 7 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 6 (85.71%) JMS
2 6 (85.71%) RDBMS
2 6 (85.71%) OO
2 6 (85.71%) JBoss
2 6 (85.71%) Apache
2 6 (85.71%) Tomcat
2 6 (85.71%) Ant
2 6 (85.71%) JUnit
2 6 (85.71%) Advertising
3 5 (71.43%) Customer Insight
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) Wiki
4 1 (14.29%) WCF
4 1 (14.29%) WF
4 1 (14.29%) System Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) MediaWiki
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Document Management
4 1 (14.29%) Spring
4 1 (14.29%) SOAP
4 1 (14.29%) Web Services
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (14.29%) MS Excel

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Open Source. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) J2EE
1 7 (100.00%) XML
1 7 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 6 (85.71%) JMS
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) WCF
3 1 (14.29%) WF
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) Apache
1 6 (85.71%) Tomcat
2 1 (14.29%) MediaWiki
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) RDBMS
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Ant
1 6 (85.71%) JUnit
General
1 6 (85.71%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (85.71%) J2EE Developer
2 6 (85.71%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 4 (57.14%) Lead Developer
3 4 (57.14%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior J2EE Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) OO
2 5 (71.43%) Customer Insight
3 1 (14.29%) System Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) JBoss
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle