Open Source Jobs in the North East
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

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

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 49 49 65
Rank change year-on-year
0 +16
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 17 25 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 2.467% 2.857% 0.424%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.49% 12.89% 1.299%
Number of salaries quoted 15 25 3
Average salary £33,000 £37,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.00% -2.59%
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 148 194 231
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 21.48% 22.17% 32.67%
Number of salaries quoted 125 171 204
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,000 £19,900
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £42,750 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Open Source
England

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Open Source across the North East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 21 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
Tyne and Wear -6 17 £33,000 -12.00%
Open Source
England

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 13 (50.00%) Scrum
2 12 (46.15%) CSS
2 12 (46.15%) Selenium
3 11 (42.31%) JavaScript
3 11 (42.31%) Linux
4 10 (38.46%) RAD
4 10 (38.46%) TCP/IP
4 10 (38.46%) ISTQB
4 10 (38.46%) Automation Testing
5 9 (34.62%) HTML
6 8 (30.77%) MVC
7 7 (26.92%) Wireless
7 7 (26.92%) soapUI
8 6 (23.08%) Software Testing
8 6 (23.08%) TDD
8 6 (23.08%) .NET
9 5 (19.23%) SQL
9 5 (19.23%) ASP.NET
9 5 (19.23%) OO
9 5 (19.23%) SOAP
9 5 (19.23%) CMS
9 5 (19.23%) E-Commerce
9 5 (19.23%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (19.23%) Ajax
9 5 (19.23%) Test Management
9 5 (19.23%) QA
10 4 (15.38%) HTML5
10 4 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (15.38%) jQuery
10 4 (15.38%) Management Information System

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 12 (46.15%) CSS
2 9 (34.62%) HTML
3 7 (26.92%) soapUI
4 6 (23.08%) .NET
5 5 (19.23%) ASP.NET
5 5 (19.23%) SOAP
5 5 (19.23%) Ajax
6 4 (15.38%) HTML5
6 4 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (15.38%) jQuery
6 4 (15.38%) XML
7 3 (11.54%) XHTML
8 2 (7.692%) Spring
8 2 (7.692%) JSF
8 2 (7.692%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (7.692%) WebSphere
8 2 (7.692%) Java EE
8 2 (7.692%) WebGL
8 2 (7.692%) CSS3
8 2 (7.692%) WebSockets
Application Platforms
1 5 (19.23%) CMS
2 2 (7.692%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (7.692%) Drupal
3 1 (3.846%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) TCP/IP
2 7 (26.92%) Wireless
3 2 (7.692%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) MySQL
2 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (46.15%) Selenium
2 2 (7.692%) JIRA
2 2 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (7.692%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.846%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (3.846%) PHPUnit
3 1 (3.846%) Maven
General
1 4 (15.38%) Games
2 2 (7.692%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Test Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Web Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Team Leader
5 2 (7.692%) QA Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) .NET Team Leader
5 2 (7.692%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Front-End Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Front-End Web Developer
5 2 (7.692%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Tester
5 2 (7.692%) QA Tester
5 2 (7.692%) PHP Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.692%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.846%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.846%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Flash Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.846%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.692%) SaaS
3 1 (3.846%) W3C
3 1 (3.846%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.846%) Digital Media
3 1 (3.846%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Scrum
2 10 (38.46%) RAD
2 10 (38.46%) Automation Testing
3 8 (30.77%) MVC
4 6 (23.08%) Software Testing
4 6 (23.08%) TDD
5 5 (19.23%) OO
5 5 (19.23%) E-Commerce
5 5 (19.23%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (19.23%) Test Management
6 3 (11.54%) OOP
6 3 (11.54%) Content Management
7 2 (7.692%) Risk Analysis
7 2 (7.692%) Refactoring
7 2 (7.692%) Web Development
7 2 (7.692%) Kanban
7 2 (7.692%) BDD
7 2 (7.692%) UML
8 1 (3.846%) SEO
8 1 (3.846%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) JavaScript
2 5 (19.23%) SQL
3 4 (15.38%) C#
3 4 (15.38%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) PHP
4 2 (7.692%) Ruby
5 1 (3.846%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.846%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.846%) ActionScript
5 1 (3.846%) Objective-C
5 1 (3.846%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.846%) ISEB
2 1 (3.846%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) QA
2 1 (3.846%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (7.692%) ATG
1 2 (7.692%) EPiServer
1 2 (7.692%) hybris
1 2 (7.692%) IBM
1 2 (7.692%) Adobe
1 2 (7.692%) Red Hat
1 2 (7.692%) JBoss
1 2 (7.692%) Oracle
2 1 (3.846%) Citrix
Web Developer
Darlington, County Durham
Candidates will have strong web development skills with the following technologies PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, XML, AJAX, Apache HTTP Server, Linux/UNIX, with good understanding of...
Northgate
Salary: From £24,000 to £27,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Javascript Developer
Tyneside
Javascript, Linux, Javascript Developer... They have a blueprint to become an Open Source Technology Centre of Excellence they are on track to achieve huge things for the Open...
Solutions Recruitment
Salary: From £24,000 to £27,000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
PHP Website Developer - OpenSource
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
You will be working as part of a design and development team creating mainly bespoke web applications, CMS driven websites, e-commerce as well as e-learning applications...
Solutions Recruitment
Salary: From £25,000 to £27,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Web Developer
Newcastle upon Tyne
Frontend development skills: - Expert, hands-on knowledge of HTML(5), CSS(3), OO JavaScript - Experience translating comps and wireframes into flexible and usable code templates - Excellent understanding of...
Accenture
Salary: £21K + (Including paid overtime and excellent benefits package)
Posted: 20 May 2013
Web Developer
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Frontend development skills: Expert, hands-on knowledge of HTML(5), CSS(3), OO JavaScript... MVC frameworks such as Spring, Play, Zend or Cake... Experience working with Enterprise and /...
Accenture
Salary: £21K + (Including paid overtime and excellent benefits package)
Posted: 9 May 2013
Java Developer - Sunderland
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
This multi-team agile project makes extensive use of open source technologies and methods including Behaviour Driven Development, Ghekins, Selenium, Jenkins, Jira and kanban... Restful web service integration...
Sopra Group Ltd
Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Java Developer
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
This multi-team agile project makes extensive use of open source technologies and methods including Behaviour Driven Development, Ghekins, Selenium, Jenkins, Jira and kanban. Experience Required Applicants must...
Polar Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £31000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Software Developer - C#/MVC
County Durham
Beneficial skills and experience: - Commercial experience with WCF, ASP.NET Web Forms, MS SQL Server Reporting Services, HTML5, CSS3, TFS, and Jira... - Industry recognised qualifications, such as Microsoft...
Catalyst
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum Salary flexible depending upon exper
Posted: 14 May 2013
Application Developer C#/MVC
County Durham
Requirements analysis... Required skills and experience: - A degree in a relevant discipline - At least 3 years commercial development experience (at least 1-2 years specifically in .NET web...
Catalyst
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum Salary flexible depending upon exper
Posted: 14 May 2013
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