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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 81 70 -
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 11 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.950% 0.549% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.438% 1.896% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 0
Average salary £42,500 £67,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-37.03% -
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
320 211 287
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 27.63% 28.98% 27.60%
Number of salaries quoted 266 184 259
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £24,401
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £50,600 £51,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +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 Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

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

Kent 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 Kent 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
Tonbridge - 1 £42,500 -
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 15 (71.43%) MySQL
2 11 (52.38%) Java
3 10 (47.62%) JavaScript
3 10 (47.62%) OO
4 9 (42.86%) Linux
4 9 (42.86%) PHP
4 9 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (38.10%) Web Development
5 8 (38.10%) Apache
6 7 (33.33%) JPA
6 7 (33.33%) Scala
6 7 (33.33%) BDD
6 7 (33.33%) TDD
6 7 (33.33%) Hibernate
7 5 (23.81%) Ubuntu
7 5 (23.81%) nginx
7 5 (23.81%) Configuration Management
8 4 (19.05%) CSS
8 4 (19.05%) Zend
8 4 (19.05%) Zend Framework
9 3 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (14.29%) Ruby
9 3 (14.29%) Gentoo
9 3 (14.29%) RSpec
9 3 (14.29%) Degree
9 3 (14.29%) PHPUnit
9 3 (14.29%) Drupal
9 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (14.29%) HTML
9 3 (14.29%) OOP

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 7 (33.33%) JPA
1 7 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 4 (19.05%) CSS
2 4 (19.05%) Zend Framework
3 3 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (14.29%) HTML
3 3 (14.29%) XML
4 2 (9.524%) Memcached
4 2 (9.524%) CSS3
4 2 (9.524%) LAMP
4 2 (9.524%) Middleware
4 2 (9.524%) J2EE
4 2 (9.524%) SOAP
4 2 (9.524%) Web Services
4 2 (9.524%) jQuery
4 2 (9.524%) HTML5
4 2 (9.524%) WebSphere
5 1 (4.762%) Django
5 1 (4.762%) Ajax
5 1 (4.762%) WAMP
Application Platforms
1 8 (38.10%) Apache
2 5 (23.81%) nginx
3 3 (14.29%) Drupal
4 2 (9.524%) WordPress
5 1 (4.762%) Confluence
5 1 (4.762%) Magento
5 1 (4.762%) WebLogic
5 1 (4.762%) Tomcat
5 1 (4.762%) Documentum
5 1 (4.762%) CMS
5 1 (4.762%) concrete5
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) Firewall
1 2 (9.524%) IPsec
1 2 (9.524%) SAN
1 2 (9.524%) DNS
1 2 (9.524%) SSL
1 2 (9.524%) Internet
1 2 (9.524%) VRRP
1 2 (9.524%) SMTP
1 2 (9.524%) HTTP
1 2 (9.524%) iSCSI
1 2 (9.524%) VLAN
2 1 (4.762%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (71.43%) MySQL
2 3 (14.29%) Redis
3 1 (4.762%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.762%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.762%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) RSpec
1 3 (14.29%) PHPUnit
1 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 3 (14.29%) Phing
1 3 (14.29%) Capistrano
1 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 2 (9.524%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.762%) Selenium
3 1 (4.762%) Subversion
3 1 (4.762%) JIRA
3 1 (4.762%) Git (software)
3 1 (4.762%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.762%) FishEye
General
1 1 (4.762%) Marketing
1 1 (4.762%) Finance
1 1 (4.762%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Scala Developer
3 3 (14.29%) PHP Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Consultant
3 3 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) UNIX Consultant
4 2 (9.524%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) Linux Consultant
5 1 (4.762%) Web Architect
5 1 (4.762%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Senior Tester
5 1 (4.762%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (4.762%) QA Tester
5 1 (4.762%) PHP Web Developer
5 1 (4.762%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Senior QA Tester
5 1 (4.762%) Python Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.524%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (9.524%) Social Media
1 2 (9.524%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.762%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 1 (4.762%) Firmware
2 1 (4.762%) Device Driver
2 1 (4.762%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Ubuntu
3 3 (14.29%) Gentoo
3 3 (14.29%) Windows
3 3 (14.29%) Mac OS X
4 2 (9.524%) Debian
4 2 (9.524%) OpenBSD
4 2 (9.524%) FreeBSD
4 2 (9.524%) UNIX
4 2 (9.524%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) OO
2 9 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (38.10%) Web Development
4 7 (33.33%) BDD
4 7 (33.33%) TDD
5 5 (23.81%) Configuration Management
6 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (14.29%) OOP
6 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce
6 3 (14.29%) Active Record
6 3 (14.29%) Static Code Analysis
7 2 (9.524%) Multithreading
7 2 (9.524%) Content Management
7 2 (9.524%) Scrum
7 2 (9.524%) Software Testing
7 2 (9.524%) Load Balancing
8 1 (4.762%) Web Design
8 1 (4.762%) OWASP
8 1 (4.762%) Video Processing
8 1 (4.762%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Java
2 10 (47.62%) JavaScript
3 9 (42.86%) PHP
4 7 (33.33%) Scala
5 3 (14.29%) Ruby
5 3 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 2 (9.524%) Python
6 2 (9.524%) C++
6 2 (9.524%) C
7 1 (4.762%) C#
7 1 (4.762%) SQL
7 1 (4.762%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.524%) SLA
1 2 (9.524%) ISO 9001
2 1 (4.762%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.524%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (9.524%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Zend
2 2 (9.524%) Red Hat
2 2 (9.524%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.524%) VMware
3 1 (4.762%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.762%) hybris
3 1 (4.762%) Vignette
3 1 (4.762%) Sage