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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 28 45 40
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -5
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 6 4 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 2.098% 1.170% 0.353%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.451% 4.348% 1.042%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 1
Average salary £35,000 £46,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.32% +32.14%
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
71 92 96
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 24.83% 26.90% 33.92%
Number of salaries quoted 60 86 91
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -30.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £29,100
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £59,250
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Open Source
London

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 6 (85.71%) UNIX
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Bash shell
3 3 (42.86%) Change Control
3 3 (42.86%) Problem Management
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (42.86%) Fedora
3 3 (42.86%) Backup Exec
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
3 3 (42.86%) Degree
3 3 (42.86%) Apache
3 3 (42.86%) Solaris
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) HND
3 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco
3 3 (42.86%) Change Management
3 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (42.86%) OSPF
3 3 (42.86%) BGP
3 3 (42.86%) Veritas
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
4 2 (28.57%) TELNET
4 2 (28.57%) VMware
4 2 (28.57%) Korn
4 2 (28.57%) SSH
5 1 (14.29%) LAMP

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 1 (14.29%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 3 (42.86%) OSPF
2 3 (42.86%) BGP
3 2 (28.57%) TELNET
3 2 (28.57%) SSH
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (14.29%) LDAP
4 1 (14.29%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Team Leader
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 3 (42.86%) UNIX Team Leader
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) UNIX
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) Solaris
3 3 (42.86%) Fedora
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
4 1 (14.29%) CentOS
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Change Management
1 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
1 3 (42.86%) Problem Management
1 3 (42.86%) Change Control
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash shell
2 2 (28.57%) Korn
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) HND
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) CCNA
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Backup Exec
2 1 (14.29%) Cacti
2 1 (14.29%) Zenoss
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) CFEngine
2 1 (14.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
1 3 (42.86%) Veritas
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Sun
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper