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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 52 49 66
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +17
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 14 2 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 2.448% 0.466% 0.880%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.22% 2.174% 2.262%
Number of salaries quoted 14 2 5
Average salary £35,500 £36,875 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.72% -26.25%
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
137 92 221
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 23.95% 21.45% 38.91%
Number of salaries quoted 130 87 213
Average salary £35,000 £35,250 £39,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.70% -10.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £22,400 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £54,600 £47,750
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Open Source
South Wales

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

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

Cardiff Open Source Salary Histogram

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 6 (37.50%) SAS
2 6 (37.50%) SPSS
2 6 (37.50%) Statistical Analysis
2 6 (37.50%) Logistic Regression
2 6 (37.50%) R
3 5 (31.25%) Scrum
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) C#
3 5 (31.25%) HTML
3 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 5 (31.25%) CSS
3 5 (31.25%) Web Services
4 4 (25.00%) UML
4 4 (25.00%) Flash
4 4 (25.00%) ActionScript
4 4 (25.00%) Internet
4 4 (25.00%) SOA
4 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 4 (25.00%) Kanban
5 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
5 3 (18.75%) Java EE
5 3 (18.75%) WCF
5 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
5 3 (18.75%) Advertising
5 3 (18.75%) .NET
5 3 (18.75%) Oracle

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 5 (31.25%) HTML
1 5 (31.25%) CSS
1 5 (31.25%) Web Services
2 4 (25.00%) Flash
3 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
3 3 (18.75%) Java EE
3 3 (18.75%) WCF
3 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
3 3 (18.75%) .NET
4 2 (12.50%) jQuery
4 2 (12.50%) NHibernate
5 1 (6.250%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (6.250%) XHTML
5 1 (6.250%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (37.50%) SPSS
2 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2012
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (6.250%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (6.250%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Data Modeller
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Statistician
4 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Web Developer
5 2 (12.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) .NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
5 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior C# Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (6.250%) SOA Architect
6 1 (6.250%) Software Architect
6 1 (6.250%) Analyst
6 1 (6.250%) Test Analyst
6 1 (6.250%) Lead Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
1 6 (37.50%) Statistical Analysis
1 6 (37.50%) Logistic Regression
2 5 (31.25%) Scrum
3 4 (25.00%) UML
3 4 (25.00%) SOA
3 4 (25.00%) Kanban
4 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) OO
5 2 (12.50%) User Experience Design
6 1 (6.250%) Usability Testing
6 1 (6.250%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) R
3 5 (31.25%) C#
3 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
4 4 (25.00%) ActionScript
5 1 (6.250%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) ISEB
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle