The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 24 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 Guildford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 72 63 53
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -10
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 13 19 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 1.449% 2.610% 0.431%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.075% 6.884% 1.887%
Number of salaries quoted 10 19 2
Average salary £34,500 £40,000 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.75% +53.84%
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
319 276 106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 35.56% 37.91% 22.84%
Number of salaries quoted 245 262 103
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,200 £23,900
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Open Source
Surrey

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Open Source across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Guildford Open Source Salary Histogram

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 (58.62%) ISEB
1 17 (58.62%) WinRunner
1 17 (58.62%) QuickTest Pro
1 17 (58.62%) Automated Testing
1 17 (58.62%) ISTQB
1 17 (58.62%) Software Testing
1 17 (58.62%) QA
1 17 (58.62%) Selenium
2 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
2 6 (20.69%) CSS
3 5 (17.24%) Linux
3 5 (17.24%) Photoshop
3 5 (17.24%) Adobe
3 5 (17.24%) XHTML
3 5 (17.24%) WordPress
3 5 (17.24%) Google
3 5 (17.24%) Animation
3 5 (17.24%) GWT
3 5 (17.24%) jQuery
3 5 (17.24%) Umbraco
3 5 (17.24%) Content Management
3 5 (17.24%) SEO
3 5 (17.24%) HTML5
3 5 (17.24%) Social Media
3 5 (17.24%) SilverStripe
3 5 (17.24%) CSS3
3 5 (17.24%) Analytics
4 4 (13.79%) Java
5 3 (10.34%) UNIX
5 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 6 (20.69%) CSS
2 5 (17.24%) XHTML
2 5 (17.24%) GWT
2 5 (17.24%) jQuery
2 5 (17.24%) HTML5
2 5 (17.24%) CSS3
3 1 (3.448%) Web Services
3 1 (3.448%) HTML
3 1 (3.448%) .NET
3 1 (3.448%) Lucene
3 1 (3.448%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.448%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (3.448%) Resque
3 1 (3.448%) PostGIS
Application Platforms
1 5 (17.24%) WordPress
1 5 (17.24%) Umbraco
1 5 (17.24%) SilverStripe
2 1 (3.448%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.448%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.448%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.448%) Internet
1 1 (3.448%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.448%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.448%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.448%) Redis
1 1 (3.448%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (3.448%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 17 (58.62%) WinRunner
1 17 (58.62%) QuickTest Pro
1 17 (58.62%) Selenium
2 1 (3.448%) Git (software)
2 1 (3.448%) RSpec
2 1 (3.448%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (3.448%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (58.62%) Test Manager
2 9 (31.03%) Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Front-End Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Front-End Web Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Web Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Android Developer
5 2 (6.897%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.448%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.448%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.448%) Architect
6 1 (3.448%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Animation
1 5 (17.24%) Social Media
2 3 (10.34%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.448%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.448%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) UNIX
2 3 (10.34%) Android
3 2 (6.897%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Automated Testing
1 17 (58.62%) Software Testing
2 5 (17.24%) Content Management
2 5 (17.24%) SEO
2 5 (17.24%) Analytics
3 3 (10.34%) Cyber Security
4 1 (3.448%) Project Management
4 1 (3.448%) CRM
4 1 (3.448%) TDD
4 1 (3.448%) MVC
4 1 (3.448%) Risk Management
4 1 (3.448%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (3.448%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (3.448%) Web Development
4 1 (3.448%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (3.448%) Multithreading
4 1 (3.448%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
2 4 (13.79%) Java
3 1 (3.448%) C#
3 1 (3.448%) C++
3 1 (3.448%) PHP
3 1 (3.448%) SQL
3 1 (3.448%) FoxPro (VFP)
3 1 (3.448%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (58.62%) ISEB
1 17 (58.62%) ISTQB
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.448%) MCSE
3 1 (3.448%) MCSA
3 1 (3.448%) CCNP
3 1 (3.448%) CCNA
3 1 (3.448%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.448%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.448%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (58.62%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.448%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Adobe
1 5 (17.24%) Google
2 1 (3.448%) JBoss
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle
2 1 (3.448%) Pegasus
2 1 (3.448%) VMware