The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT jobs advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 23 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 Suffolk region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 59 - 69
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 19 0 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 2.746% - 0.908%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.480% - 2.317%
Number of salaries quoted 19 0 6
Average salary £32,500 - £27,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
254 194 259
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 36.71% 35.21% 39.18%
Number of salaries quoted 237 165 230
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,900 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Open Source
East of England

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk Open Source Salary Trend

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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 23 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
Bury St Edmunds - 8 £32,500 -
Open Source
East of England

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 14 (58.33%) Linux
1 14 (58.33%) Red Hat
1 14 (58.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 13 (54.17%) IP Telephony
2 13 (54.17%) Network Architecture
2 13 (54.17%) VoIP
3 10 (41.67%) PHP
4 9 (37.50%) SQL
4 9 (37.50%) HTML
4 9 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 9 (37.50%) CSS
4 9 (37.50%) Drupal
4 9 (37.50%) Migration
4 9 (37.50%) CMS
5 8 (33.33%) Subversion
5 8 (33.33%) Git (software)
5 8 (33.33%) JSP
5 8 (33.33%) Java
6 2 (8.333%) MySQL
6 2 (8.333%) Apache
7 1 (4.167%) Tomcat
7 1 (4.167%) Python
7 1 (4.167%) LAN
7 1 (4.167%) Ethernet
7 1 (4.167%) RDBMS
7 1 (4.167%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (4.167%) OCP
7 1 (4.167%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (4.167%) Middleware
7 1 (4.167%) Service Management

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 9 (37.50%) HTML
1 9 (37.50%) CSS
2 8 (33.33%) JSP
3 1 (4.167%) Middleware
3 1 (4.167%) J2EE
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.167%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 9 (37.50%) Drupal
1 9 (37.50%) CMS
2 2 (8.333%) Apache
3 1 (4.167%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.167%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 13 (54.17%) IP Telephony
1 13 (54.17%) VoIP
2 1 (4.167%) LAN
2 1 (4.167%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.333%) MySQL
2 1 (4.167%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (4.167%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Subversion
1 8 (33.33%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Network Engineer
2 9 (37.50%) Lead Developer
2 9 (37.50%) Developer
2 9 (37.50%) Drupal Developer
3 1 (4.167%) Consultant
3 1 (4.167%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (4.167%) Administrator
3 1 (4.167%) DBA
3 1 (4.167%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (4.167%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.167%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 14 (58.33%) Linux
1 14 (58.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.167%) UNIX
2 1 (4.167%) Windows
2 1 (4.167%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.167%) CentOS
2 1 (4.167%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Network Architecture
2 9 (37.50%) Migration
3 1 (4.167%) Service Management
3 1 (4.167%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) PHP
2 9 (37.50%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 8 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (4.167%) Python
4 1 (4.167%) Perl
4 1 (4.167%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.167%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) OCP
1 1 (4.167%) Oracle Certification
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle