The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT jobs advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Leicestershire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 76 80 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 6 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.880% 0.259% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.830% 0.893% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 0
Average salary £35,500 £34,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.89% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £39,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Leicestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
212 224 151
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 31.09% 29.02% 28.17%
Number of salaries quoted 190 200 140
Average salary £42,500 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.76% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £21,500 £22,550
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £54,750 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Open Source
East Midlands

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Open Source Salary Trend

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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Leicester +2 4 £36,000 +4.34% 1
Open Source
East Midlands

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) MySQL
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) HP
2 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (50.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (40.00%) Magento
3 4 (40.00%) PHP
4 3 (30.00%) Software Deployment
4 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (30.00%) ProCurve
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (30.00%) VMware ESX
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (30.00%) Windows
4 3 (30.00%) MS Exchange
4 3 (30.00%) VoIP
5 2 (20.00%) Cisco
5 2 (20.00%) IBM
5 2 (20.00%) OOP
5 2 (20.00%) XHTML
5 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
5 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 2 (20.00%) AIX
5 2 (20.00%) HTML
5 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (20.00%) Photoshop

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 2 (20.00%) XHTML
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) XML
1 2 (20.00%) LAMP
1 2 (20.00%) jQuery
1 2 (20.00%) Ajax
1 2 (20.00%) JSON
1 2 (20.00%) Zend Framework
1 2 (20.00%) CSS3
1 2 (20.00%) RESTful
1 2 (20.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Magento
2 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (30.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (20.00%) CMS
3 2 (20.00%) Drupal
3 2 (20.00%) WordPress
3 2 (20.00%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (20.00%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) VoIP
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) SAP HANA
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 3 (30.00%) Server Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Development Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Web Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Product Development Manager
2 2 (20.00%) PHP Web Developer
2 2 (20.00%) PHP Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Support
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Clustering
1 2 (20.00%) Derivative
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) AIX
3 2 (20.00%) SUSE
3 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Software Deployment
2 2 (20.00%) OOP
2 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Change Management
2 2 (20.00%) Content Management
2 2 (20.00%) Scrum
2 2 (20.00%) IT Governance
2 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (10.00%) Database Tuning
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PHP
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (30.00%) VMware ESX
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (50.00%) HP
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) ProCurve
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) IBM
3 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 2 (20.00%) Dell
3 2 (20.00%) Zend
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