The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT jobs advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 17 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 107 59 82
Rank change year-on-year
-48 +23
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 29 76 51
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 1.433% 3.893% 2.417%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.685% 13.82% 7.533%
Number of salaries quoted 26 74 51
Average salary £55,000 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+37.50% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,250 £30,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £59,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Buckinghamshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
619 550 677
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 30.58% 28.18% 32.09%
Number of salaries quoted 527 492 606
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -0.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £22,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +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 Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Open Source across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Milton Keynes -21 24 £55,000 +52.77%
High Wycombe - 2 £30,000 -
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 42 (70.00%) CSS
2 38 (63.33%) JavaScript
3 36 (60.00%) Java
4 35 (58.33%) J2EE
4 35 (58.33%) Servlets
4 35 (58.33%) Struts
4 35 (58.33%) Hibernate
4 35 (58.33%) Spring
5 33 (55.00%) XML
6 32 (53.33%) TCP/IP
7 31 (51.67%) OO
8 30 (50.00%) JDBC
8 30 (50.00%) JSP
8 30 (50.00%) DHTML
8 30 (50.00%) JMS
8 30 (50.00%) HTTP
9 26 (43.33%) OOA/OOD
10 23 (38.33%) Ajax
11 20 (33.33%) Maven
11 20 (33.33%) Dojo
11 20 (33.33%) Ant
11 20 (33.33%) JUnit
11 20 (33.33%) UML
11 20 (33.33%) JPA
12 18 (30.00%) Use Case
12 18 (30.00%) Software Architecture
13 11 (18.33%) Workflow
14 10 (16.67%) HTML
15 7 (11.67%) Service Delivery
16 5 (8.333%) jQuery

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 42 (70.00%) CSS
2 35 (58.33%) Servlets
2 35 (58.33%) Struts
2 35 (58.33%) J2EE
2 35 (58.33%) Hibernate
2 35 (58.33%) Spring
3 33 (55.00%) XML
4 30 (50.00%) DHTML
4 30 (50.00%) JDBC
4 30 (50.00%) JSP
4 30 (50.00%) JMS
5 23 (38.33%) Ajax
6 20 (33.33%) JPA
6 20 (33.33%) Dojo
7 10 (16.67%) HTML
8 5 (8.333%) .NET
8 5 (8.333%) jQuery
9 3 (5.000%) Google Maps API
9 3 (5.000%) Ext JS
9 3 (5.000%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.000%) Apache
2 2 (3.333%) CMS
3 1 (1.667%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.667%) Drupal
3 1 (1.667%) Moodle
3 1 (1.667%) SAS
3 1 (1.667%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.333%) Photoshop
1 2 (3.333%) MS Excel
1 2 (3.333%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (3.333%) InDesign
Communications & Networking
1 32 (53.33%) TCP/IP
2 30 (50.00%) HTTP
3 3 (5.000%) IP Telephony
4 2 (3.333%) Asterisk PBX
4 2 (3.333%) LAN
4 2 (3.333%) WAN
4 2 (3.333%) SMTP
5 1 (1.667%) PBX
5 1 (1.667%) VoIP
5 1 (1.667%) ISDN
5 1 (1.667%) SS7
5 1 (1.667%) H.323
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.333%) RDBMS
2 3 (5.000%) MySQL
3 1 (1.667%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 20 (33.33%) Ant
1 20 (33.33%) JUnit
1 20 (33.33%) Maven
2 2 (3.333%) Dreamweaver
General
1 3 (5.000%) Finance
2 2 (3.333%) Marketing
3 1 (1.667%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (61.67%) Developer
2 28 (46.67%) Java Developer
3 19 (31.67%) J2EE Developer
3 19 (31.67%) Senior Developer
3 19 (31.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 18 (30.00%) Senior J2EE Developer
4 18 (30.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 17 (28.33%) Lead Developer
6 12 (20.00%) Head of Development
7 10 (16.67%) Head of IT
8 5 (8.333%) Development Manager
9 3 (5.000%) Technical Support
9 3 (5.000%) Support Engineer
9 3 (5.000%) Software Developer
9 3 (5.000%) .NET Developer
9 3 (5.000%) C# Developer
9 3 (5.000%) Technical Support Engineer
9 3 (5.000%) Technical Engineer
9 3 (5.000%) C# .NET Developer
10 2 (3.333%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.667%) Digital Media
2 2 (3.333%) E-Learning
2 2 (3.333%) Blog
2 2 (3.333%) Social Media
3 1 (1.667%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.333%) Linux
2 3 (5.000%) Windows
3 2 (3.333%) Solaris
4 1 (1.667%) AIX
4 1 (1.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (51.67%) OO
2 26 (43.33%) OOA/OOD
3 20 (33.33%) UML
4 18 (30.00%) Use Case
4 18 (30.00%) Software Architecture
5 11 (18.33%) Workflow
6 7 (11.67%) Service Delivery
7 4 (6.667%) Scrum
7 4 (6.667%) Incident Management
7 4 (6.667%) ITIL
7 4 (6.667%) Portfolio Management
7 4 (6.667%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (5.000%) B2B
9 2 (3.333%) CRM
9 2 (3.333%) Web Development
9 2 (3.333%) MVC
9 2 (3.333%) SEO
9 2 (3.333%) Social Media Marketing
9 2 (3.333%) Brand Management
10 1 (1.667%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 38 (63.33%) JavaScript
2 36 (60.00%) Java
3 5 (8.333%) SQL
4 4 (6.667%) PHP
5 3 (5.000%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (8.333%) Degree
2 2 (3.333%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.667%) CCVP
3 1 (1.667%) CCIE
3 1 (1.667%) CCNA
3 1 (1.667%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.667%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.333%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (3.333%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.667%) NetBackup
1 1 (1.667%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 5 (8.333%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.000%) Oracle
2 3 (5.000%) Google
3 2 (3.333%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.333%) VMware
3 2 (3.333%) Cisco
3 2 (3.333%) IBM
3 2 (3.333%) Adobe
3 2 (3.333%) HP
3 2 (3.333%) Dell
3 2 (3.333%) EMC
3 2 (3.333%) Citrix
3 2 (3.333%) Zend
3 2 (3.333%) Riverbed
4 1 (1.667%) Dialogic
4 1 (1.667%) CommVault
4 1 (1.667%) NetApp
4 1 (1.667%) Siebel
4 1 (1.667%) Brocade
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