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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 62 - 49
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 3 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 0.482% - 0.266%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.639% - 1.020%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
Average salary £42,500 - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Coventry
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
183 94 98
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 29.37% 25.82% 26.06%
Number of salaries quoted 156 87 92
Average salary £38,000 £30,000 £39,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.66% -23.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £19,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £65,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Open Source
West Midlands

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 17 (94.44%) HTML
1 17 (94.44%) CSS
1 17 (94.44%) JavaScript
2 16 (88.89%) Linux
2 16 (88.89%) Apache
3 9 (50.00%) Java
3 9 (50.00%) C++
3 9 (50.00%) SQL
4 8 (44.44%) ActionScript
4 8 (44.44%) PHP
4 8 (44.44%) Web Services
4 8 (44.44%) HTTP
4 8 (44.44%) DNS
4 8 (44.44%) Python
4 8 (44.44%) Subversion
4 8 (44.44%) Ruby
4 8 (44.44%) Ajax
4 8 (44.44%) Ruby on Rails
4 8 (44.44%) Squid
5 5 (27.78%) Web Development
6 4 (22.22%) Degree
7 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 3 (16.67%) UNIX
7 3 (16.67%) Device Driver
7 3 (16.67%) Samba
7 3 (16.67%) VoIP
7 3 (16.67%) DHCP
7 3 (16.67%) C
8 1 (5.556%) J2EE
8 1 (5.556%) JUnit

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 (94.44%) HTML
1 17 (94.44%) CSS
2 8 (44.44%) Web Services
2 8 (44.44%) Ajax
2 8 (44.44%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (5.556%) J2EE
3 1 (5.556%) XML
3 1 (5.556%) XSLT
3 1 (5.556%) JSP
3 1 (5.556%) Servlets
3 1 (5.556%) Struts
3 1 (5.556%) AWT
3 1 (5.556%) Swing
3 1 (5.556%) LAMP
3 1 (5.556%) WebSphere
3 1 (5.556%) Spring
3 1 (5.556%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 16 (88.89%) Apache
2 1 (5.556%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.556%) CMS
2 1 (5.556%) Drupal
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) HTTP
1 8 (44.44%) DNS
2 3 (16.67%) VoIP
2 3 (16.67%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Subversion
2 1 (5.556%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 16 (88.89%) Developer
2 10 (55.56%) Senior Developer
3 8 (44.44%) Team Leader
3 8 (44.44%) Ruby Developer
4 6 (33.33%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Web Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Web Project Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
1 3 (16.67%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Web Development
2 1 (5.556%) UML
2 1 (5.556%) Project Management
2 1 (5.556%) Workflow
2 1 (5.556%) Migration
2 1 (5.556%) Content Management
2 1 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (5.556%) TDD
2 1 (5.556%) Unit Testing
2 1 (5.556%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) JavaScript
2 9 (50.00%) Java
2 9 (50.00%) C++
2 9 (50.00%) SQL
3 8 (44.44%) ActionScript
3 8 (44.44%) PHP
3 8 (44.44%) Python
3 8 (44.44%) Ruby
4 3 (16.67%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) QA
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Squid
2 3 (16.67%) Samba