The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 118 101 81
Rank change year-on-year
-17 -20
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 104 133 143
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 2.013% 2.167% 2.709%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.684% 7.801% 9.173%
Number of salaries quoted 86 119 138
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £32,500 £29,450
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £58,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1556 1705 1559
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 30.11% 27.78% 29.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1246 1415 1390
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Open Source across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Berkshire Open Source Salary Histogram

Open Source
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the Berkshire 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +6 36 £48,250 +12.20%
Maidenhead +10 19 £32,500 -39.53%
Slough -1 11 £45,600 +30.28%
Newbury +16 8 £42,000 +24.44%
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 91 (50.56%) Java
2 64 (35.56%) Linux
3 63 (35.00%) JavaScript
4 55 (30.56%) CSS
5 51 (28.33%) OO
6 49 (27.22%) XML
6 49 (27.22%) Agile Software Development
7 44 (24.44%) Degree
8 43 (23.89%) Apache
8 43 (23.89%) HTML
9 41 (22.78%) J2EE
9 41 (22.78%) PHP
10 37 (20.56%) MySQL
10 37 (20.56%) UNIX
11 36 (20.00%) Tomcat
11 36 (20.00%) SQL
12 34 (18.89%) E-Commerce
13 33 (18.33%) SQL Server
14 32 (17.78%) Windows
14 32 (17.78%) JSON
15 31 (17.22%) HTML5
15 31 (17.22%) Spring
16 29 (16.11%) CSS3
17 28 (15.56%) Ajax
17 28 (15.56%) Eclipse
18 25 (13.89%) Web Services
19 24 (13.33%) Microsoft
19 24 (13.33%) Bash shell
20 23 (12.78%) REST
20 23 (12.78%) Groovy

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 55 (30.56%) CSS
2 49 (27.22%) XML
3 43 (23.89%) HTML
4 41 (22.78%) J2EE
5 32 (17.78%) JSON
6 31 (17.22%) HTML5
6 31 (17.22%) Spring
7 29 (16.11%) CSS3
8 28 (15.56%) Ajax
9 25 (13.89%) Web Services
10 23 (12.78%) REST
10 23 (12.78%) XSLT
11 22 (12.22%) JSP
12 18 (10.00%) jQuery
12 18 (10.00%) Servlets
12 18 (10.00%) Struts
12 18 (10.00%) Hibernate
13 16 (8.889%) LAMP
13 16 (8.889%) SOAP
13 16 (8.889%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 43 (23.89%) Apache
2 36 (20.00%) Tomcat
3 17 (9.444%) CMS
4 10 (5.556%) Alfresco
5 9 (5.000%) Liferay
6 8 (4.444%) WordPress
6 8 (4.444%) Drupal
6 8 (4.444%) WebSphere Application Server
7 7 (3.889%) WebLogic
7 7 (3.889%) Jetty
7 7 (3.889%) Magento
7 7 (3.889%) ExpressionEngine
8 5 (2.778%) Lync
9 3 (1.667%) IIS
9 3 (1.667%) nginx
9 3 (1.667%) Apache Pig
10 2 (1.111%) Amazon AWS
10 2 (1.111%) Apache Solr
10 2 (1.111%) SharePoint
10 2 (1.111%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 10 (5.556%) MS Excel
2 6 (3.333%) Photoshop
2 6 (3.333%) Acrobat
3 5 (2.778%) MS PowerPoint
4 4 (2.222%) Google Apps
4 4 (2.222%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (1.111%) MS Office
5 2 (1.111%) QuarkXPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.556%) Optimost
1 1 (0.556%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.556%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.778%) TCP/IP
2 13 (7.222%) OSPF
2 13 (7.222%) BGP
3 10 (5.556%) LDAP
3 10 (5.556%) DNS
4 8 (4.444%) DHCP
5 6 (3.333%) SAN
6 5 (2.778%) SSL
6 5 (2.778%) VoIP
6 5 (2.778%) Internet
6 5 (2.778%) MPLS
6 5 (2.778%) Firewall
6 5 (2.778%) Unified Communications
7 4 (2.222%) FTP
7 4 (2.222%) HTTP
8 3 (1.667%) IPv4
8 3 (1.667%) IPv6
8 3 (1.667%) SNMP
8 3 (1.667%) Ethernet
8 3 (1.667%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (20.56%) MySQL
2 33 (18.33%) SQL Server
3 15 (8.333%) MongoDB
4 13 (7.222%) SQL Server 2008
5 10 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
5 10 (5.556%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (4.444%) NoSQL
7 7 (3.889%) DB2
7 7 (3.889%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (3.333%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.778%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.222%) Redis
11 3 (1.667%) Oracle BI EE
11 3 (1.667%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.667%) Big Data
11 3 (1.667%) BigTable
12 2 (1.111%) Jackrabbit
13 1 (0.556%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 1 (0.556%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.556%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 28 (15.56%) Eclipse
2 23 (12.78%) Subversion
3 16 (8.889%) Selenium
3 16 (8.889%) Jenkins
4 15 (8.333%) GitHub
5 11 (6.111%) JIRA
6 9 (5.000%) IntelliJ
6 9 (5.000%) Gradle
7 7 (3.889%) Ant
8 6 (3.333%) JUnit
9 5 (2.778%) Eclipse RCP
10 3 (1.667%) Rational Robot
10 3 (1.667%) TestComplete
10 3 (1.667%) RSpec
10 3 (1.667%) PHPUnit
10 3 (1.667%) Git (software)
10 3 (1.667%) Capistrano
10 3 (1.667%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.667%) Phing
11 2 (1.111%) FishEye
General
1 15 (8.333%) Marketing
2 10 (5.556%) Retail
3 9 (5.000%) Finance
4 8 (4.444%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.778%) Games
6 4 (2.222%) German Language
6 4 (2.222%) Advertising
7 3 (1.667%) Billing
8 1 (0.556%) Front Office
8 1 (0.556%) Publishing
8 1 (0.556%) Legal
8 1 (0.556%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 83 (46.11%) Developer
2 37 (20.56%) Java Developer
3 26 (14.44%) Web Developer
4 23 (12.78%) Senior Developer
5 21 (11.67%) Analyst
6 17 (9.444%) PHP Developer
7 14 (7.778%) Lead Developer
7 14 (7.778%) QA Analyst
8 13 (7.222%) Systems Engineer
9 11 (6.111%) Front-End Developer
9 11 (6.111%) Front-End Web Developer
10 10 (5.556%) Java/J2EE Developer
11 9 (5.000%) J2EE Developer
11 9 (5.000%) Administrator
11 9 (5.000%) PHP Web Developer
11 9 (5.000%) Data Integration Specialist
11 9 (5.000%) Agile Java Developer
12 8 (4.444%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.444%) Senior Web Developer
12 8 (4.444%) Senior PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.11%) Computer Science
2 19 (10.56%) Mobile App
3 18 (10.00%) Data Integration
4 15 (8.333%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (5.556%) SaaS
6 9 (5.000%) EPoS
7 6 (3.333%) W3C
8 5 (2.778%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (2.778%) Informatics
8 5 (2.778%) Semantic Web
9 4 (2.222%) Social Media
9 4 (2.222%) N-Tier
10 3 (1.667%) Clustering
11 2 (1.111%) Mathematics
11 2 (1.111%) Blog
11 2 (1.111%) Replication
11 2 (1.111%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.556%) E-Learning
12 1 (0.556%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.556%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 64 (35.56%) Linux
2 37 (20.56%) UNIX
3 32 (17.78%) Windows
4 14 (7.778%) CentOS
4 14 (7.778%) Windows 7
4 14 (7.778%) Solaris
5 13 (7.222%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (6.667%) Windows Vista
7 8 (4.444%) Android
8 5 (2.778%) Debian
8 5 (2.778%) Ubuntu
9 4 (2.222%) Apple iOS
9 4 (2.222%) Windows XP
9 4 (2.222%) Mac OS X
10 3 (1.667%) Gentoo
11 2 (1.111%) Windows 8
11 2 (1.111%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (1.111%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.556%) AIX
12 1 (0.556%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.33%) OO
2 49 (27.22%) Agile Software Development
3 34 (18.89%) E-Commerce
4 22 (12.22%) TDD
5 21 (11.67%) Continuous Integration
6 20 (11.11%) Scrum
7 18 (10.00%) OOP
7 18 (10.00%) ETL
8 17 (9.444%) Web Development
9 16 (8.889%) Integration Testing
10 15 (8.333%) MVC
10 15 (8.333%) Workflow
11 14 (7.778%) Data Validation
11 14 (7.778%) Web Application Development
11 14 (7.778%) Validation
11 14 (7.778%) Project Management
11 14 (7.778%) Pair Programming
11 14 (7.778%) Information Management
12 12 (6.667%) Digital Marketing
13 11 (6.111%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 91 (50.56%) Java
2 63 (35.00%) JavaScript
3 41 (22.78%) PHP
4 36 (20.00%) SQL
5 24 (13.33%) Bash shell
6 23 (12.78%) Groovy
7 22 (12.22%) Perl
8 15 (8.333%) Shell Script
9 14 (7.778%) Scala
10 11 (6.111%) C#
11 9 (5.000%) VB
12 7 (3.889%) Python
12 7 (3.889%) Ruby
13 6 (3.333%) C
14 5 (2.778%) PHP5
15 3 (1.667%) T-SQL
16 2 (1.111%) PowerShell
16 2 (1.111%) VBScript
16 2 (1.111%) C++
17 1 (0.556%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 44 (24.44%) Degree
2 9 (5.000%) ISEB
3 3 (1.667%) CCIE
3 3 (1.667%) CCIP
3 3 (1.667%) CISSP
3 3 (1.667%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (1.667%) GIAC
4 2 (1.111%) MCITP
4 2 (1.111%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.111%) MCSE
4 2 (1.111%) MCP
4 2 (1.111%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.111%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.556%) Sun Certification
5 1 (0.556%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.556%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.56%) QA
2 14 (7.778%) SLA
3 4 (2.222%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.667%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.667%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.111%) WAI
6 1 (0.556%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.667%) FreeRADIUS
2 2 (1.111%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (1.111%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.111%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.556%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 11 (6.111%) Puppet
2 7 (3.889%) Nagios
3 4 (2.222%) HP Operations Orchestration
3 4 (2.222%) BladeLogic
4 3 (1.667%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.556%) Ganglia
5 1 (0.556%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 24 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.11%) JBoss
3 18 (10.00%) Oracle
4 14 (7.778%) Red Hat
5 13 (7.222%) Cisco
6 9 (5.000%) IBM
6 9 (5.000%) GigaSpaces
7 7 (3.889%) Adobe
7 7 (3.889%) Google
8 6 (3.333%) Cognizant
9 5 (2.778%) BEA
10 4 (2.222%) Zend
10 4 (2.222%) Informatica
10 4 (2.222%) BMC
10 4 (2.222%) HP
10 4 (2.222%) Sun
11 3 (1.667%) Teradata
11 3 (1.667%) BT
11 3 (1.667%) ZyXEL
11 3 (1.667%) Draytek
Reading, Berkshire
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