The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 21 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 Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 62 73 58
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -15
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 21 10 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 2.763% 1.319% 2.096%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.554% 3.584% 9.434%
Number of salaries quoted 21 10 9
Average salary £42,500 £29,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+46.55% -3.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £28,900 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £38,700 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
278 279 106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 36.58% 36.81% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 259 254 94
Average salary £36,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,750 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Open Source
East Sussex

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Open Source across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Brighton Open Source Salary Histogram

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 25 (53.19%) PHP
2 20 (42.55%) MySQL
3 18 (38.30%) SQL
4 17 (36.17%) Web Services
5 14 (29.79%) TDD
6 13 (27.66%) OO
7 11 (23.40%) Linux
7 11 (23.40%) XML
7 11 (23.40%) SOAP
7 11 (23.40%) SQL Server
7 11 (23.40%) Web Development
7 11 (23.40%) Drupal
8 10 (21.28%) WCF
8 10 (21.28%) C#
8 10 (21.28%) HTML
8 10 (21.28%) .NET
8 10 (21.28%) ASP.NET
8 10 (21.28%) CSS
8 10 (21.28%) MVC
9 9 (19.15%) Scrum
9 9 (19.15%) XSLT
9 9 (19.15%) OOD
9 9 (19.15%) Internet
10 8 (17.02%) E-Commerce
10 8 (17.02%) Content Management
10 8 (17.02%) Agile Software Development
10 8 (17.02%) Computer Science
10 8 (17.02%) Zend
10 8 (17.02%) RESTful
10 8 (17.02%) ExpressionEngine

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 17 (36.17%) Web Services
2 11 (23.40%) XML
2 11 (23.40%) SOAP
3 10 (21.28%) WCF
3 10 (21.28%) HTML
3 10 (21.28%) .NET
3 10 (21.28%) ASP.NET
3 10 (21.28%) CSS
4 9 (19.15%) XSLT
5 8 (17.02%) RESTful
6 7 (14.89%) jQuery
7 6 (12.77%) Ajax
8 5 (10.64%) CakePHP
8 5 (10.64%) Symfony
8 5 (10.64%) LAMP
9 4 (8.511%) CSS3
9 4 (8.511%) XHTML
9 4 (8.511%) HTML5
10 3 (6.383%) REST
11 2 (4.255%) Cocoa
Application Platforms
1 11 (23.40%) Drupal
2 8 (17.02%) ExpressionEngine
3 7 (14.89%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (14.89%) CMS
4 4 (8.511%) WordPress
4 4 (8.511%) Joomla!
5 3 (6.383%) MSMQ
6 2 (4.255%) Apache
6 2 (4.255%) Moodle
6 2 (4.255%) Confluence
7 1 (2.128%) Magento
Business Applications
1 3 (6.383%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.15%) Internet
2 4 (8.511%) Ethernet
2 4 (8.511%) Gigabit Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (42.55%) MySQL
2 11 (23.40%) SQL Server
3 5 (10.64%) Hadoop
3 5 (10.64%) RDBMS
3 5 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.64%) HBase
4 3 (6.383%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (2.128%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.128%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Git (software)
2 3 (6.383%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.255%) Xcode
4 1 (2.128%) Subversion
4 1 (2.128%) JIRA
4 1 (2.128%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.128%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (2.128%) NetBeans
General
1 7 (14.89%) Marketing
2 1 (2.128%) Music
Job Titles
1 27 (57.45%) Developer
2 12 (25.53%) PHP Developer
3 10 (21.28%) Linux Administrator
3 10 (21.28%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 10 (21.28%) Systems Administrator
3 10 (21.28%) Administrator
4 9 (19.15%) .NET Developer
5 5 (10.64%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (10.64%) C# Developer
5 5 (10.64%) Senior Developer
5 5 (10.64%) Web Developer
6 4 (8.511%) Development Manager
6 4 (8.511%) Web Manager
7 3 (6.383%) Web Development Manager
7 3 (6.383%) Graduate
8 2 (4.255%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (4.255%) Senior C# Developer
8 2 (4.255%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.255%) Architect
8 2 (4.255%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Computer Science
2 4 (8.511%) Learning Management System
2 4 (8.511%) Social Media
2 4 (8.511%) Mathematics
3 3 (6.383%) Copywriting
4 2 (4.255%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.255%) E-Learning
4 2 (4.255%) SCORM
5 1 (2.128%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.128%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.40%) Linux
2 2 (4.255%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.255%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (29.79%) TDD
2 13 (27.66%) OO
3 11 (23.40%) Web Development
4 10 (21.28%) MVC
5 9 (19.15%) Scrum
5 9 (19.15%) OOD
6 8 (17.02%) E-Commerce
6 8 (17.02%) Content Management
6 8 (17.02%) Agile Software Development
7 7 (14.89%) BDD
8 6 (12.77%) Refactoring
9 5 (10.64%) Configuration Management
10 4 (8.511%) SEO
10 4 (8.511%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (6.383%) Software Engineering
11 3 (6.383%) Pair Programming
11 3 (6.383%) Competitor Analysis
11 3 (6.383%) Digital Marketing
11 3 (6.383%) Online Marketing
11 3 (6.383%) Web Marketing
Programming Languages
1 25 (53.19%) PHP
2 18 (38.30%) SQL
3 10 (21.28%) C#
4 7 (14.89%) Java
4 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.89%) VB.NET
5 6 (12.77%) PHP5
6 3 (6.383%) F#
7 1 (2.128%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (8.511%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.383%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) Puppet
2 5 (10.64%) Ganglia
3 2 (4.255%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) Zend
2 7 (14.89%) Adobe
3 3 (6.383%) Google
4 2 (4.255%) Alias
4 2 (4.255%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.128%) Facebook
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