Open Source Jobs in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

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

Location
 3 months to
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 162 135 118
Rank change year-on-year
-27 -17
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 106 150 164
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 1.278% 1.692% 1.747%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.298% 5.637% 5.544%
Number of salaries quoted 105 129 138
Average salary £42,500 £46,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.60% +16.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £30,000 £30,900
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £53,200
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 2466 2661 2958
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 29.74% 30.02% 31.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2147 2128 2530
Average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Open Source
England

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Open Source across the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 22 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
Cambridgeshire 0 66 £55,000 +10.00%
Suffolk - 19 £32,500 -
Hertfordshire -11 12 £28,750 -45.23%
Norfolk -7 4 £27,500 -8.33%
Bedfordshire -8 3 £60,000 -11.11%
Essex 0 2 £29,500 -30.58%
Open Source
England

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 92 (47.67%) Java
2 84 (43.52%) C#
2 84 (43.52%) .NET
3 77 (39.90%) OO
4 70 (36.27%) TDD
5 68 (35.23%) Agile Software Development
5 68 (35.23%) Linux
6 67 (34.72%) E-Commerce
7 61 (31.61%) Python
8 58 (30.05%) C++
9 51 (26.42%) PHP
10 50 (25.91%) Pair Programming
11 44 (22.80%) Blog
12 40 (20.73%) MySQL
13 37 (19.17%) Microsoft
13 37 (19.17%) Red Hat
14 36 (18.65%) SQL
14 36 (18.65%) OOD
15 35 (18.13%) Apache
15 35 (18.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 32 (16.58%) Continuous Integration
17 30 (15.54%) XML
18 29 (15.03%) Degree
19 28 (14.51%) CSS
20 27 (13.99%) Visual Studio
21 26 (13.47%) SQL Server
22 25 (12.95%) JavaScript
23 24 (12.44%) Windows
23 24 (12.44%) CQRS
24 23 (11.92%) HTML

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 84 (43.52%) .NET
2 30 (15.54%) XML
3 28 (14.51%) CSS
4 23 (11.92%) HTML
5 19 (9.845%) LAMP
6 14 (7.254%) XHTML
6 14 (7.254%) ASP.NET
7 13 (6.736%) jQuery
7 13 (6.736%) JSP
8 11 (5.699%) Ajax
9 9 (4.663%) SOAP
9 9 (4.663%) Web Services
10 8 (4.145%) HTML5
11 7 (3.627%) J2EE
11 7 (3.627%) XSLT
11 7 (3.627%) Swing
12 6 (3.109%) WebSphere
13 5 (2.591%) Spring
13 5 (2.591%) WSDL
14 4 (2.073%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 35 (18.13%) Apache
2 14 (7.254%) Windows Azure
3 13 (6.736%) CMS
4 9 (4.663%) Drupal
5 5 (2.591%) Tomcat
5 5 (2.591%) WebLogic
6 4 (2.073%) nginx
6 4 (2.073%) GlassFish
7 3 (1.554%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (1.554%) WordPress
8 1 (0.518%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.518%) JRun
8 1 (0.518%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.518%) Moodle
8 1 (0.518%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.518%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (0.518%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (9.326%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (5.181%) JDE OneWorld
2 1 (0.518%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.808%) DNS
2 13 (6.736%) IP Telephony
2 13 (6.736%) VoIP
3 12 (6.218%) TCP/IP
4 11 (5.699%) Firewall
4 11 (5.699%) SSL
5 10 (5.181%) Internet
6 6 (3.109%) LAN
6 6 (3.109%) SAN
6 6 (3.109%) Ethernet
6 6 (3.109%) HTTP
6 6 (3.109%) VLAN
7 5 (2.591%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (2.591%) IPsec
7 5 (2.591%) VPN
8 4 (2.073%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (2.073%) Wireless
9 3 (1.554%) DHCP
10 2 (1.036%) ATM
11 1 (0.518%) UPnP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (20.73%) MySQL
2 26 (13.47%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.109%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.591%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.073%) Redis
5 4 (2.073%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.073%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.554%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.554%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (1.036%) DB2
7 2 (1.036%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (1.036%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (0.518%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (0.518%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 27 (13.99%) Visual Studio
2 13 (6.736%) Git (software)
2 13 (6.736%) Subversion
3 5 (2.591%) JUnit
4 4 (2.073%) Ant
4 4 (2.073%) Maven
5 3 (1.554%) GitHub
6 2 (1.036%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.036%) WatiN
6 2 (1.036%) NUnit
7 1 (0.518%) Selenium
7 1 (0.518%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.518%) RubyGems
7 1 (0.518%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.518%) GCC
7 1 (0.518%) Automake
7 1 (0.518%) CMake
General
1 14 (7.254%) Finance
2 7 (3.627%) Marketing
3 4 (2.073%) Automotive
4 3 (1.554%) Retail
4 3 (1.554%) Telecoms
4 3 (1.554%) Publishing
5 2 (1.036%) Multimedia
5 2 (1.036%) Banking
5 2 (1.036%) Advertising
6 1 (0.518%) Music
6 1 (0.518%) Electronics
6 1 (0.518%) Law
6 1 (0.518%) Legal
6 1 (0.518%) Games
Job Titles
1 78 (40.41%) Developer
2 68 (35.23%) Software Engineer
3 22 (11.40%) Senior Software Engineer
4 18 (9.326%) Lead Software Engineer
4 18 (9.326%) Senior Developer
5 17 (8.808%) Administrator
5 17 (8.808%) Systems Administrator
5 17 (8.808%) Linux Administrator
5 17 (8.808%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 15 (7.772%) Junior
7 14 (7.254%) Junior Developer
8 13 (6.736%) .NET Developer
8 13 (6.736%) Network Engineer
9 11 (5.699%) Senior Manager
10 10 (5.181%) Product Manager
10 10 (5.181%) Senior Product Manager
11 9 (4.663%) Lead Developer
11 9 (4.663%) Systems Engineer
11 9 (4.663%) Drupal Developer
12 7 (3.627%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 44 (22.80%) Blog
2 19 (9.845%) Computer Science
3 18 (9.326%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.627%) SaaS
5 6 (3.109%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (3.109%) Replication
6 5 (2.591%) Blackberry
6 5 (2.591%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.554%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.036%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.036%) Digital Media
8 2 (1.036%) EPoS
8 2 (1.036%) APACS
8 2 (1.036%) IVR
8 2 (1.036%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.036%) Mathematics
8 2 (1.036%) Speech Recognition
9 1 (0.518%) Device Driver
9 1 (0.518%) SCORM
9 1 (0.518%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 68 (35.23%) Linux
2 35 (18.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 24 (12.44%) Windows
4 12 (6.218%) Ubuntu
5 10 (5.181%) UNIX
6 9 (4.663%) Debian
6 9 (4.663%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (4.145%) CentOS
8 5 (2.591%) Android
8 5 (2.591%) Windows 7
9 4 (2.073%) Apple iOS
9 4 (2.073%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (1.036%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.518%) Windows Mobile
11 1 (0.518%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.518%) Maemo
11 1 (0.518%) MeeGo
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (39.90%) OO
2 70 (36.27%) TDD
3 68 (35.23%) Agile Software Development
4 67 (34.72%) E-Commerce
5 50 (25.91%) Pair Programming
6 36 (18.65%) OOD
7 32 (16.58%) Continuous Integration
8 24 (12.44%) CQRS
9 20 (10.36%) Project Management
10 16 (8.290%) Network Architecture
11 11 (5.699%) PRINCE2
11 11 (5.699%) Product Management
12 10 (5.181%) Risk Analysis
12 10 (5.181%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (4.663%) Migration
14 6 (3.109%) Scrum
14 6 (3.109%) Load Balancing
14 6 (3.109%) Network Design
15 5 (2.591%) Software Engineering
15 5 (2.591%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 92 (47.67%) Java
2 84 (43.52%) C#
3 61 (31.61%) Python
4 58 (30.05%) C++
5 51 (26.42%) PHP
6 36 (18.65%) SQL
7 25 (12.95%) JavaScript
8 21 (10.88%) Perl
9 14 (7.254%) C
10 13 (6.736%) Bash shell
11 8 (4.145%) PL/SQL
11 8 (4.145%) Ruby
12 6 (3.109%) F#
12 6 (3.109%) OCaml
12 6 (3.109%) Haskell
12 6 (3.109%) Shell Script
13 4 (2.073%) VB
14 3 (1.554%) Tcl
15 2 (1.036%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.518%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 29 (15.03%) Degree
2 6 (3.109%) RHCE
3 4 (2.073%) CCIE
3 4 (2.073%) CISSP
3 4 (2.073%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (2.073%) JNCIA
3 4 (2.073%) JNCIS
3 4 (2.073%) JNCIP
3 4 (2.073%) JNCIE
4 2 (1.036%) Postgraduate
4 2 (1.036%) PhD
4 2 (1.036%) ISEB
5 1 (0.518%) LPIC
5 1 (0.518%) PMP
5 1 (0.518%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.518%) OCP
5 1 (0.518%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.554%) QA
System Software
1 11 (5.699%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.109%) vSphere
2 6 (3.109%) Postfix
2 6 (3.109%) Sendmail
2 6 (3.109%) VMware ESX
3 5 (2.591%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.554%) OpenSSO
5 1 (0.518%) Xen
5 1 (0.518%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 8 (4.145%) Nagios
2 6 (3.109%) OSSEC
3 4 (2.073%) Puppet
4 2 (1.036%) CFEngine
4 2 (1.036%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (1.036%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 37 (19.17%) Microsoft
1 37 (19.17%) Red Hat
2 12 (6.218%) Google
3 11 (5.699%) VMware
4 10 (5.181%) Cisco
5 8 (4.145%) Oracle
5 8 (4.145%) HP
6 6 (3.109%) SolarWinds
6 6 (3.109%) TippingPoint
6 6 (3.109%) JBoss
6 6 (3.109%) NetApp
7 4 (2.073%) Apple
8 1 (0.518%) Zend
8 1 (0.518%) Symbian
8 1 (0.518%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.518%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.518%) Facebook
8 1 (0.518%) Twitter
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Linux Software Engineer - graduate 1st / 2.1; C / C++; Python / Perl; Linux; Networking / Wireless; Cambridge, to £Excellent + benefits
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