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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 33 59 57
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -2
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 60 8 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 5.982% 1.183% 2.422%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 15.31% 3.791% 7.836%
Number of salaries quoted 48 8 21
Average salary £50,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,750 £46,950 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £39,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
392 211 268
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 39.08% 31.21% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 323 189 236
Average salary £43,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.75% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £73,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Open Source
Oxfordshire

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Open Source across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Oxford Open Source Salary Histogram

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 64 (57.14%) Java
2 53 (47.32%) Python
3 49 (43.75%) SQL
4 41 (36.61%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (32.14%) TDD
5 36 (32.14%) Degree
6 34 (30.36%) Lucene
6 34 (30.36%) Tomcat
6 34 (30.36%) Apache Solr
7 33 (29.46%) Computer Science
8 28 (25.00%) OO
9 26 (23.21%) MySQL
9 26 (23.21%) Mathematics
10 25 (22.32%) Java EE
10 25 (22.32%) Spring
10 25 (22.32%) Hibernate
10 25 (22.32%) .NET
10 25 (22.32%) J2EE
11 23 (20.54%) OOP
12 22 (19.64%) RDBMS
12 22 (19.64%) C
12 22 (19.64%) Scrum
12 22 (19.64%) NoSQL
13 21 (18.75%) C#
14 19 (16.96%) JavaScript
15 17 (15.18%) XML
15 17 (15.18%) Finance
15 17 (15.18%) Big Data
16 16 (14.29%) jQuery
17 15 (13.39%) ActionScript

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 34 (30.36%) Lucene
2 25 (22.32%) Java EE
2 25 (22.32%) Spring
2 25 (22.32%) Hibernate
2 25 (22.32%) .NET
2 25 (22.32%) J2EE
3 17 (15.18%) XML
4 16 (14.29%) jQuery
5 15 (13.39%) Web Services
6 14 (12.50%) ASP.NET
7 13 (11.61%) Ajax
8 12 (10.71%) LAMP
8 12 (10.71%) Flash
9 10 (8.929%) JSON
10 7 (6.250%) CSS
10 7 (6.250%) HTML
11 3 (2.679%) Symfony
11 3 (2.679%) CodeIgniter
11 3 (2.679%) CakePHP
11 3 (2.679%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 34 (30.36%) Tomcat
1 34 (30.36%) Apache Solr
2 2 (1.786%) CMS
2 2 (1.786%) Drupal
3 1 (0.893%) Amazon AWS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.893%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.679%) Firewall
1 3 (2.679%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (36.61%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (23.21%) MySQL
3 22 (19.64%) RDBMS
3 22 (19.64%) NoSQL
4 17 (15.18%) Big Data
5 11 (9.821%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 11 (9.821%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (7.143%) Oracle ODI
7 7 (6.250%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (2.679%) Pentaho
8 3 (2.679%) OLTP
8 3 (2.679%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 14 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 9 (8.036%) Selenium
3 8 (7.143%) WATIR
3 8 (7.143%) QuickTest Pro
4 7 (6.250%) LoadRunner
5 3 (2.679%) Git (software)
5 3 (2.679%) Subversion
6 1 (0.893%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.893%) Rational Robot
General
1 17 (15.18%) Finance
2 12 (10.71%) Games
3 7 (6.250%) Publishing
4 3 (2.679%) Retail
5 2 (1.786%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (65.18%) Developer
2 42 (37.50%) Programmer
3 38 (33.93%) Java Developer
4 33 (29.46%) Analyst
5 30 (26.79%) Developer Analyst
5 30 (26.79%) Java Analyst Programmer
5 30 (26.79%) Java Programmer
5 30 (26.79%) Analyst Programmer
6 22 (19.64%) J2EE Developer
6 22 (19.64%) J2EE Analyst Programmer
6 22 (19.64%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 13 (11.61%) PHP Developer
8 12 (10.71%) Senior Developer
9 11 (9.821%) .NET Developer
10 9 (8.036%) Web Developer
10 9 (8.036%) Systems Engineer
10 9 (8.036%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (7.143%) PHP Web Developer
11 8 (7.143%) Python Developer
11 8 (7.143%) Python Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 33 (29.46%) Computer Science
2 26 (23.21%) Mathematics
3 12 (10.71%) 3D Graphics
4 3 (2.679%) Web 2.0
5 1 (0.893%) Machine Learning
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.929%) Linux
2 3 (2.679%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (32.14%) TDD
2 28 (25.00%) OO
3 23 (20.54%) OOP
4 22 (19.64%) Scrum
5 14 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 9 (8.036%) Configuration Management
6 9 (8.036%) Stress Testing
7 8 (7.143%) Security Testing
7 8 (7.143%) Test Management
7 8 (7.143%) Software Testing
7 8 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
7 8 (7.143%) ETL
8 7 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (6.250%) CRM
9 5 (4.464%) Test Automation
9 5 (4.464%) Investment Management
9 5 (4.464%) Asset Management
10 4 (3.571%) BCP
10 4 (3.571%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (3.571%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 64 (57.14%) Java
2 53 (47.32%) Python
3 49 (43.75%) SQL
4 22 (19.64%) C
5 21 (18.75%) C#
6 19 (16.96%) JavaScript
7 15 (13.39%) ActionScript
8 14 (12.50%) PHP
9 13 (11.61%) Objective-C
10 12 (10.71%) C++
10 12 (10.71%) ActionScript 3.0
11 3 (2.679%) Groovy
11 3 (2.679%) PHP5
12 1 (0.893%) Scala
12 1 (0.893%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (32.14%) Degree
2 8 (7.143%) ISEB
3 3 (2.679%) GWAPT
3 3 (2.679%) GPEN
3 3 (2.679%) OSCP
3 3 (2.679%) OSCE
3 3 (2.679%) GCIH
3 3 (2.679%) CEH
3 3 (2.679%) CISA
3 3 (2.679%) CISM
3 3 (2.679%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.036%) QA
2 3 (2.679%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 8 (7.143%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (10.71%) Perforce
2 8 (7.143%) Oracle
3 7 (6.250%) Siebel
4 3 (2.679%) Zend
5 1 (0.893%) Microsoft
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