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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 45 49 54
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 11 14 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 2.075% 2.291% 1.900%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.548% 8.917% 5.759%
Number of salaries quoted 11 9 10
Average salary £25,000 £35,000 £34,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.57% +2.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £32,000 £26,350
10% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £35,000 £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
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
168 157 191
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 31.70% 25.70% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 150 137 154
Average salary £33,000 £32,500 £34,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.53% -5.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £21,000 £27,075
10% offered a salary of more than £51,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Open Source
South Yorkshire

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

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

Sheffield Open Source Salary Histogram

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 (72.22%) CSS
2 12 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 11 (61.11%) MySQL
4 10 (55.56%) HTML
5 9 (50.00%) PHP
5 9 (50.00%) jQuery
6 8 (44.44%) HTML5
7 7 (38.89%) CSS3
8 5 (27.78%) MVC
9 4 (22.22%) LAMP
9 4 (22.22%) .NET
9 4 (22.22%) Java
9 4 (22.22%) Web Services
10 3 (16.67%) Linux
10 3 (16.67%) ISEB
10 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
10 3 (16.67%) Photoshop
10 3 (16.67%) C#
10 3 (16.67%) Scrum
10 3 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (16.67%) XHTML
10 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
10 3 (16.67%) Magento
10 3 (16.67%) Selenium
10 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
10 3 (16.67%) Degree
10 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
11 2 (11.11%) Spring MVC
11 2 (11.11%) Joomla!
11 2 (11.11%) Web Development

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 13 (72.22%) CSS
2 10 (55.56%) HTML
3 9 (50.00%) jQuery
4 8 (44.44%) HTML5
5 7 (38.89%) CSS3
6 4 (22.22%) LAMP
6 4 (22.22%) .NET
6 4 (22.22%) Web Services
7 3 (16.67%) XHTML
8 2 (11.11%) Spring MVC
8 2 (11.11%) Java EE
8 2 (11.11%) Spring
8 2 (11.11%) JPA
8 2 (11.11%) Hibernate
8 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
8 2 (11.11%) J2EE
8 2 (11.11%) XML
9 1 (5.556%) Flash
9 1 (5.556%) SOAP
9 1 (5.556%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Magento
2 2 (11.11%) Joomla!
2 2 (11.11%) Apache
3 1 (5.556%) IIS
3 1 (5.556%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Photoshop
1 3 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (5.556%) Mingle
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) MySQL
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 3 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (5.556%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (5.556%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.556%) FitNesse
2 1 (5.556%) Subversion
General
1 2 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (5.556%) Banking
2 1 (5.556%) Back Office
2 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.556%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.556%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Web Developer
2 3 (16.67%) UI Programmer
2 3 (16.67%) Front-End Developer
2 3 (16.67%) UI Developer
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Photoshop Designer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Photoshop Designer
3 2 (11.11%) Designer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Designer
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Test Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Web Designer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Web Designer
4 1 (5.556%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Tester
4 1 (5.556%) Junior
4 1 (5.556%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (5.556%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.556%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) MVC
2 3 (16.67%) Scrum
2 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 2 (11.11%) Web Development
3 2 (11.11%) SOA
3 2 (11.11%) Web Design
3 2 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (5.556%) Configuration Management
4 1 (5.556%) Project Management
4 1 (5.556%) E-Commerce
4 1 (5.556%) Web Application Development
4 1 (5.556%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (5.556%) Software Architecture
4 1 (5.556%) Unit Testing
4 1 (5.556%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 9 (50.00%) PHP
3 4 (22.22%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) C#
5 2 (11.11%) SQL
6 1 (5.556%) Python
6 1 (5.556%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.556%) ActionScript
6 1 (5.556%) Perl
6 1 (5.556%) ActionScript 3.0
6 1 (5.556%) Bash shell
6 1 (5.556%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) ISEB
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (5.556%) MCP
2 1 (5.556%) MCSD
2 1 (5.556%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (5.556%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Adobe
2 1 (5.556%) HP
2 1 (5.556%) Microsoft