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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 49 53 68
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +15
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 21 19 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 3.182% 2.471% 1.125%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.545% 9.453% 4.369%
Number of salaries quoted 19 19 8
Average salary £42,500 £27,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+54.54% -31.25%
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Northamptonshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
220 201 206
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 33.33% 26.14% 25.75%
Number of salaries quoted 189 187 180
Average salary £39,000 £30,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.00% -7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £20,400 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £42,500 £48,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +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 Northamptonshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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
Northampton +11 16 £43,250 +127.63%
Open Source
East Midlands

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 22 (88.00%) Tomcat
2 21 (84.00%) Linux
3 20 (80.00%) MySQL
4 19 (76.00%) Windows
4 19 (76.00%) Apache
4 19 (76.00%) LAN
4 19 (76.00%) WAN
4 19 (76.00%) Cisco
4 19 (76.00%) SaaS
4 19 (76.00%) IaaS
5 17 (68.00%) Scrum
6 16 (64.00%) Agile Software Development
6 16 (64.00%) Oracle
6 16 (64.00%) Java
7 13 (52.00%) Google
7 13 (52.00%) Google Apps
7 13 (52.00%) hybris
8 12 (48.00%) Project Management
9 11 (44.00%) Agile Project Management
10 10 (40.00%) SAN
10 10 (40.00%) UNIX
11 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
11 4 (16.00%) SOA
11 4 (16.00%) MVC
12 3 (12.00%) Java EE
12 3 (12.00%) Spring MVC
12 3 (12.00%) Subversion
12 3 (12.00%) Spring
12 3 (12.00%) Maven
12 3 (12.00%) Ajax

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 3 (12.00%) Java EE
1 3 (12.00%) Spring MVC
1 3 (12.00%) Spring
1 3 (12.00%) Ajax
1 3 (12.00%) XHTML
1 3 (12.00%) J2EE
1 3 (12.00%) CSS
1 3 (12.00%) JSP
1 3 (12.00%) Web Services
2 1 (4.000%) Gearman
2 1 (4.000%) RESTful
2 1 (4.000%) Symfony
2 1 (4.000%) Ext JS
2 1 (4.000%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 22 (88.00%) Tomcat
2 19 (76.00%) Apache
3 3 (12.00%) OpenCms
4 2 (8.000%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (52.00%) Google Apps
2 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 19 (76.00%) LAN
1 19 (76.00%) WAN
2 10 (40.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (80.00%) MySQL
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Subversion
1 3 (12.00%) Maven
1 3 (12.00%) Ant
1 3 (12.00%) JUnit
2 1 (4.000%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (4.000%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (64.00%) Infrastructure Designer
1 16 (64.00%) Designer
2 4 (16.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Senior Designer
2 4 (16.00%) Senior Infrastructure Designer
3 3 (12.00%) Lead Java Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (4.000%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 1 (4.000%) Head of Development
4 1 (4.000%) Team Leader
4 1 (4.000%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (76.00%) SaaS
1 19 (76.00%) IaaS
2 1 (4.000%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (84.00%) Linux
2 19 (76.00%) Windows
3 10 (40.00%) UNIX
4 1 (4.000%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Scrum
2 16 (64.00%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (48.00%) Project Management
4 11 (44.00%) Agile Project Management
5 4 (16.00%) SOA
5 4 (16.00%) MVC
6 2 (8.000%) OO
7 1 (4.000%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (4.000%) CRM
7 1 (4.000%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) Java
2 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (12.00%) SQL
4 1 (4.000%) PHP5
4 1 (4.000%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.000%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.000%) XenApp
Vendors
1 19 (76.00%) Cisco
2 16 (64.00%) Oracle
3 13 (52.00%) Google
3 13 (52.00%) hybris
4 3 (12.00%) VMware
4 3 (12.00%) JBoss
5 1 (4.000%) Zend
5 1 (4.000%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.000%) Citrix
Kettering, Northamptonshire
Skills - PHP5 MYSQL, HTML5 Javascript, AJAX, XML, XHTML, CSS Web Development, LAMP... You’ll have strong PHP 5, MySQL, AJAX or Javascript, XML and HTML / XHTML and CSS.
Stafford-Sharp Associates
Salary: From £22,000 to £27,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Northampton, Northamptonshire
Operating systems including Linux and Windows... Experience in Open Source technologies, including Linux, MySQL, Apache and Tomcat. Cloud platform experience including SaaS and IaaS... Cisco) Additional Website Text.
Travis Perkins Trading Company Limited
Salary: Competitive salary
Posted: 26 April 2013