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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 40 66 47
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -19
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 16 16 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 3.587% 2.374% 5.365%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.19% 7.048% 17.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13 7 18
Average salary £30,000 £32,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% +3.17%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,800 £30,300 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
157 227 143
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 35.20% 33.68% 30.69%
Number of salaries quoted 120 181 117
Average salary £35,000 £38,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.09% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,200 £27,850
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £58,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Open Source
North West

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool +21 16 £30,000 -7.69%
Open Source
North West

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 18 (75.00%) Java
2 14 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (41.67%) Web Development
3 10 (41.67%) SQL
4 9 (37.50%) Apache
4 9 (37.50%) Scrum
4 9 (37.50%) Ruby
4 9 (37.50%) Groovy
4 9 (37.50%) Mobile App
5 8 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (33.33%) Spring
5 8 (33.33%) HTML
5 8 (33.33%) CSS
5 8 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 8 (33.33%) C#
6 7 (29.17%) C++
6 7 (29.17%) PHP
6 7 (29.17%) MVC
6 7 (29.17%) Python
6 7 (29.17%) Degree
7 6 (25.00%) ISTQB
7 6 (25.00%) Automated Testing
7 6 (25.00%) QA
7 6 (25.00%) Selenium
7 6 (25.00%) FitNesse
7 6 (25.00%) Manual Testing
7 6 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 6 (25.00%) WebDriver
7 6 (25.00%) Cucumber
7 6 (25.00%) Hudson

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 8 (33.33%) HTML
1 8 (33.33%) CSS
1 8 (33.33%) Spring
2 6 (25.00%) Struts
2 6 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 5 (20.83%) HTML5
3 5 (20.83%) Flash
4 4 (16.67%) JMS
4 4 (16.67%) Spring Web Flow
4 4 (16.67%) EJB
4 4 (16.67%) .NET
4 4 (16.67%) jQuery
4 4 (16.67%) EJB 3.0
5 3 (12.50%) J2EE
5 3 (12.50%) Servlets
6 2 (8.333%) JDBC
6 2 (8.333%) GWT
6 2 (8.333%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (8.333%) Java EE
6 2 (8.333%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 9 (37.50%) Apache
2 4 (16.67%) ESB
3 2 (8.333%) Tomcat
3 2 (8.333%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Photoshop
2 3 (12.50%) 3ds Max
2 3 (12.50%) ZBrush
3 2 (8.333%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (4.167%) Extranet
2 1 (4.167%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) MySQL
3 2 (8.333%) OLTP
3 2 (8.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (8.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (8.333%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (4.167%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) JUnit
1 6 (25.00%) Selenium
1 6 (25.00%) FitNesse
1 6 (25.00%) WebDriver
1 6 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (25.00%) Hudson
1 6 (25.00%) Behat
1 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (25.00%) JMeter
2 5 (20.83%) Maven
3 3 (12.50%) Subversion
3 3 (12.50%) Ant
4 2 (8.333%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (4.167%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (12.50%) Games
2 2 (8.333%) Finance
3 1 (4.167%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Developer
2 9 (37.50%) Senior Developer
3 8 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 6 (25.00%) Software Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Senior Games Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Games Developer
7 2 (8.333%) Designer
7 2 (8.333%) Digital Designer
7 2 (8.333%) SQL Server DBA
7 2 (8.333%) Front-End Developer
7 2 (8.333%) SQL DBA
7 2 (8.333%) DBA
8 1 (4.167%) Web Developer
8 1 (4.167%) .NET Developer
8 1 (4.167%) C# Developer
8 1 (4.167%) Programmer
8 1 (4.167%) PHP Developer
8 1 (4.167%) Senior J2EE Developer
8 1 (4.167%) Senior C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 3 (12.50%) Streaming Video
3 3 (12.50%) Physics
4 2 (8.333%) Social Media
5 1 (4.167%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
2 2 (8.333%) Mac OS
2 2 (8.333%) UNIX
2 2 (8.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (41.67%) Web Development
3 9 (37.50%) Scrum
4 8 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (29.17%) MVC
6 6 (25.00%) Automated Testing
6 6 (25.00%) Manual Testing
6 6 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (25.00%) User Stories
7 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
7 4 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
7 4 (16.67%) AOP
7 4 (16.67%) E-Commerce
7 4 (16.67%) SOA
8 2 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (8.333%) TDD
8 2 (8.333%) Supply Chain Management
8 2 (8.333%) Multithreading
8 2 (8.333%) Load Testing
8 2 (8.333%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) Java
2 10 (41.67%) SQL
3 9 (37.50%) Ruby
3 9 (37.50%) Groovy
4 8 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 8 (33.33%) C#
5 7 (29.17%) C++
5 7 (29.17%) PHP
5 7 (29.17%) Python
6 2 (8.333%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Degree
2 6 (25.00%) ISEB
2 6 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) JBoss
2 2 (8.333%) Oracle
2 2 (8.333%) Adobe
3 1 (4.167%) Apple
3 1 (4.167%) Google
3 1 (4.167%) Facebook
3 1 (4.167%) Microsoft
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4+ years current experience in C# & .NET writing and debugging scripts in C# Video streaming over Internet (via HTML5 or Flash)... Knowledge of 3D Studio Max, ZBrush, Photoshop.
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Liverpool, North West
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Posted: 10 May 2013