The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 21 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 Middlesex region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 49 39 69
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +30
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 10 17 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.908% 3.400% 1.132%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.181% 9.392% 3.065%
Number of salaries quoted 0 15 8
Average salary - £52,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +50.00%
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
193 181 261
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 36.83% 36.20% 36.92%
Number of salaries quoted 152 146 196
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £43,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% +3.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £37,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
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 Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 10 (90.91%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) Apache
2 7 (63.64%) MySQL
2 7 (63.64%) Ruby
2 7 (63.64%) Degree
3 6 (54.55%) C
4 5 (45.45%) Broadband
4 5 (45.45%) Git (software)
5 4 (36.36%) nginx
5 4 (36.36%) JSON
5 4 (36.36%) Mathematics
5 4 (36.36%) Xen
5 4 (36.36%) Python
5 4 (36.36%) CSS
5 4 (36.36%) XML
5 4 (36.36%) UNIX
5 4 (36.36%) HTML
5 4 (36.36%) Java
5 4 (36.36%) DNS
5 4 (36.36%) Citrix
5 4 (36.36%) HTML5
6 3 (27.27%) Service Management
6 3 (27.27%) Nagios
6 3 (27.27%) HP
6 3 (27.27%) SNMP
6 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
6 3 (27.27%) Perl
6 3 (27.27%) PHP
6 3 (27.27%) SQL
6 3 (27.27%) VBScript

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 (36.36%) JSON
1 4 (36.36%) CSS
1 4 (36.36%) XML
1 4 (36.36%) HTML
1 4 (36.36%) HTML5
2 3 (27.27%) jQuery
3 1 (9.091%) Middleware
3 1 (9.091%) Spring
3 1 (9.091%) SOAP
3 1 (9.091%) Web Services
3 1 (9.091%) Spring MVC
3 1 (9.091%) Grails
3 1 (9.091%) CSS3
3 1 (9.091%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 7 (63.64%) Apache
2 4 (36.36%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Broadband
2 4 (36.36%) DNS
3 3 (27.27%) SNMP
4 1 (9.091%) Wireless
4 1 (9.091%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) MySQL
2 3 (27.27%) Big Data
3 1 (9.091%) MongoDB
3 1 (9.091%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git (software)
2 1 (9.091%) Subversion
2 1 (9.091%) JUnit
2 1 (9.091%) Hudson
General
1 1 (9.091%) Electronics
1 1 (9.091%) Multimedia
1 1 (9.091%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) Server Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Web Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Mathematics
2 2 (18.18%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (9.091%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) UNIX
3 1 (9.091%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Service Management
1 3 (27.27%) Web Development
1 3 (27.27%) Embedded Software Development
1 3 (27.27%) Analytics
2 1 (9.091%) BDD
2 1 (9.091%) MVC
2 1 (9.091%) Scrum
2 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (9.091%) TDD
2 1 (9.091%) Pair Programming
2 1 (9.091%) Project Planning
2 1 (9.091%) Product Marketing
2 1 (9.091%) Kanban
2 1 (9.091%) Release Management
2 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
2 1 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Ruby
2 6 (54.55%) C
3 4 (36.36%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 3 (27.27%) Perl
4 3 (27.27%) PHP
4 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 3 (27.27%) VBScript
4 3 (27.27%) C#
4 3 (27.27%) AWK
4 3 (27.27%) sed
5 1 (9.091%) Groovy
5 1 (9.091%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Nagios
1 3 (27.27%) SCOM
1 3 (27.27%) Cacti
1 3 (27.27%) Munin
1 3 (27.27%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Citrix
2 3 (27.27%) HP
Middlesex, South East
Using various Open Source toolsets and technologies such as Nagios, Apache, Linux, MySQL, PHP & Perl Using enterprise monitoring technologies such as HP SIM, OEM, HP Operations Manager & SCOM...
British Sky Broadcasting
Salary: Sky Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Middlesex
Using various Open Source toolsets and technologies such as Nagios, Apache, Linux, MySQL, PHP & Perl... Knowledge in one or more of: Perl, PHP, SED, AWK, Java, XML, JSON,...
Sky
Salary: Sky Benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013