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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 70 81 64
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -17
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 20 11 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in East Sussex 2.242% 1.149% 1.502%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.623% 3.207% 7.042%
Number of salaries quoted 20 11 9
Average salary £41,250 £29,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+42.24% -3.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £29,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
East Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
302 343 142
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in East Sussex 33.86% 35.84% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 272 311 127
Average salary £37,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.71% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £47,000 £47,500
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 East Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

East Sussex 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 Sussex region.

East Sussex Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

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

East Sussex 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 Sussex 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
Brighton +9 20 £41,250 +42.24%
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Sussex 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 25 (51.02%) PHP
2 20 (40.82%) MySQL
3 18 (36.73%) SQL
4 17 (34.69%) Web Services
5 14 (28.57%) TDD
6 13 (26.53%) OO
7 12 (24.49%) Linux
7 12 (24.49%) Drupal
8 11 (22.45%) Web Development
8 11 (22.45%) MVC
8 11 (22.45%) XML
8 11 (22.45%) CSS
8 11 (22.45%) SOAP
8 11 (22.45%) HTML
8 11 (22.45%) SQL Server
9 10 (20.41%) C#
9 10 (20.41%) .NET
9 10 (20.41%) ASP.NET
9 10 (20.41%) WCF
10 9 (18.37%) Computer Science
10 9 (18.37%) OOD
10 9 (18.37%) Internet
10 9 (18.37%) XSLT
11 8 (16.33%) Java
11 8 (16.33%) E-Commerce
11 8 (16.33%) Scrum
11 8 (16.33%) Zend
11 8 (16.33%) Content Management
11 8 (16.33%) Agile Software Development
11 8 (16.33%) RESTful

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Sussex 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 (34.69%) Web Services
2 11 (22.45%) XML
2 11 (22.45%) HTML
2 11 (22.45%) CSS
2 11 (22.45%) SOAP
3 10 (20.41%) .NET
3 10 (20.41%) ASP.NET
3 10 (20.41%) WCF
4 9 (18.37%) XSLT
5 8 (16.33%) RESTful
6 7 (14.29%) jQuery
7 6 (12.24%) Ajax
8 5 (10.20%) CakePHP
8 5 (10.20%) Symfony
8 5 (10.20%) LAMP
9 4 (8.163%) XHTML
9 4 (8.163%) HTML5
9 4 (8.163%) CSS3
10 3 (6.122%) REST
11 2 (4.082%) Cocoa
Application Platforms
1 12 (24.49%) Drupal
2 8 (16.33%) ExpressionEngine
3 7 (14.29%) CMS
3 7 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (10.20%) Joomla!
5 4 (8.163%) WordPress
6 3 (6.122%) MSMQ
7 2 (4.082%) Confluence
7 2 (4.082%) Moodle
8 1 (2.041%) Magento
8 1 (2.041%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (6.122%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.37%) Internet
2 4 (8.163%) Gigabit Ethernet
2 4 (8.163%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (40.82%) MySQL
2 11 (22.45%) SQL Server
3 6 (12.24%) RDBMS
3 6 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (12.24%) Hadoop
3 6 (12.24%) HBase
4 3 (6.122%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (2.041%) Couchbase
5 1 (2.041%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Git (software)
2 3 (6.122%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.082%) Xcode
4 1 (2.041%) NetBeans
4 1 (2.041%) Subversion
4 1 (2.041%) JIRA
4 1 (2.041%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.041%) Dreamweaver
General
1 7 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (2.041%) Music
Job Titles
1 29 (59.18%) Developer
2 12 (24.49%) PHP Developer
3 10 (20.41%) Administrator
3 10 (20.41%) Systems Administrator
3 10 (20.41%) Linux Administrator
3 10 (20.41%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 9 (18.37%) .NET Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Senior Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Web Developer
6 5 (10.20%) Development Manager
6 5 (10.20%) C# Developer
6 5 (10.20%) Web Manager
6 5 (10.20%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (8.163%) Web Development Manager
8 3 (6.122%) Senior Web Developer
8 3 (6.122%) Graduate
9 2 (4.082%) Architect
9 2 (4.082%) Project Manager
9 2 (4.082%) Senior Manager
9 2 (4.082%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.37%) Computer Science
2 5 (10.20%) Social Media
3 4 (8.163%) Mathematics
3 4 (8.163%) Learning Management System
4 3 (6.122%) Copywriting
5 2 (4.082%) E-Learning
5 2 (4.082%) SCORM
6 1 (2.041%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.041%) W3C
6 1 (2.041%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.49%) Linux
2 2 (4.082%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.041%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.57%) TDD
2 13 (26.53%) OO
3 11 (22.45%) MVC
3 11 (22.45%) Web Development
4 9 (18.37%) OOD
5 8 (16.33%) E-Commerce
5 8 (16.33%) Scrum
5 8 (16.33%) Content Management
5 8 (16.33%) Agile Software Development
6 7 (14.29%) BDD
7 6 (12.24%) Refactoring
7 6 (12.24%) Configuration Management
8 4 (8.163%) SEO
8 4 (8.163%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (6.122%) Online Marketing
9 3 (6.122%) Web Marketing
9 3 (6.122%) Pair Programming
9 3 (6.122%) Digital Marketing
9 3 (6.122%) Integration Testing
9 3 (6.122%) Marketing Strategy
Programming Languages
1 25 (51.02%) PHP
2 18 (36.73%) SQL
3 10 (20.41%) C#
4 8 (16.33%) Java
5 7 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 7 (14.29%) PHP5
5 7 (14.29%) VB.NET
6 3 (6.122%) F#
7 1 (2.041%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (8.163%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.122%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (14.29%) Puppet
2 6 (12.24%) Ganglia
3 1 (2.041%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) Zend
2 7 (14.29%) Adobe
3 3 (6.122%) Google
4 2 (4.082%) Alias
5 1 (2.041%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.041%) Facebook
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Salary: £21000 - £24000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
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Salary: £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
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Posted: 18 May 2013
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Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum
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