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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 85 85 74
Rank change year-on-year
0 -11
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 2 24 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 0.200% 1.716% 2.172%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.676% 6.977% 7.418%
Number of salaries quoted 2 20 25
Average salary £29,500 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.58% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,100 £38,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £33,900 £55,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
296 344 364
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 29.57% 24.59% 29.28%
Number of salaries quoted 253 292 302
Average salary £37,500 £38,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.59% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,700
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Open Source
East of England

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

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

Essex 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 Essex 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
Colchester +7 1 £24,000 -43.52%
Basildon - 1 £35,000 -
Open Source
East of England

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (87.50%) Computer Science
3 5 (62.50%) OO
3 5 (62.50%) Java
4 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (50.00%) PHP
4 4 (50.00%) PL/SQL
4 4 (50.00%) J2EE
4 4 (50.00%) Oracle
4 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (50.00%) Ant
4 4 (50.00%) WebLogic
4 4 (50.00%) HTML
4 4 (50.00%) CSS
4 4 (50.00%) XML
4 4 (50.00%) OOP
4 4 (50.00%) JBoss
4 4 (50.00%) Swing
4 4 (50.00%) Python
4 4 (50.00%) E-Commerce
4 4 (50.00%) ERP
4 4 (50.00%) Hibernate
4 4 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (50.00%) Automotive
4 4 (50.00%) WebSphere
4 4 (50.00%) Maven
4 4 (50.00%) GlassFish
5 3 (37.50%) Android
5 3 (37.50%) Apple iOS
5 3 (37.50%) Web Application Development

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 4 (50.00%) J2EE
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) XML
1 4 (50.00%) Swing
1 4 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (37.50%) Ajax
2 3 (37.50%) XML-RPC
2 3 (37.50%) Django
2 3 (37.50%) JMS
2 3 (37.50%) SOAP
2 3 (37.50%) ASP
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) FreeMarker
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 4 (50.00%) GlassFish
2 1 (12.50%) JRun
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (37.50%) RDBMS
2 3 (37.50%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Ant
1 4 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (50.00%) Automotive
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Computer Science
2 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Android
1 3 (37.50%) Apple iOS
1 3 (37.50%) Ubuntu
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) OO
2 4 (50.00%) OOP
2 4 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (50.00%) ERP
2 4 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (37.50%) Web Application Development
3 3 (37.50%) CRM
3 3 (37.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) MVC
4 1 (12.50%) Logistics
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) PHP
2 4 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
1 4 (50.00%) JBoss
Colchester
preferably Django, but also ASP, PHP)Good General IT knowledge or willingness to learn (system administration, hardware, maintenance, system building)
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Salary: £20k - 28k per year
Posted: 8 May 2013