The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 22 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 92 84 72
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -12
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 3 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.275% 0.103% 0.237%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.990% 0.350% 0.725%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 2
Average salary £60,000 £67,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +80.00%
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
303 286 276
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 27.82% 29.42% 32.66%
Number of salaries quoted 272 235 261
Average salary £40,000 £41,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.61% +10.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,450 £26,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Open Source
East of England

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Open Source across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Bedfordshire Open Source Salary Histogram

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Media
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Moodle
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) SCORM
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) LPIC
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) PHP

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Moodle
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Development
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Ruby
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) LPIC
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat