The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT jobs advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 24 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 Swindon region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 47 52 55
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 8 6 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 1.663% 1.167% 0.209%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.229% 3.750% 1.695%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 1
Average salary £29,040 £34,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.58% +36.00%
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
153 160 59
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 31.81% 31.13% 12.32%
Number of salaries quoted 140 123 54
Average salary £35,329 £38,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.03% -10.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £23,450
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Open Source
Wiltshire

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 8 (57.14%) CSS
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) HTML
3 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 6 (42.86%) OO
3 6 (42.86%) Apache
3 6 (42.86%) jQuery
4 5 (35.71%) Ajax
4 5 (35.71%) Oracle
4 5 (35.71%) PHP
5 4 (28.57%) UNIX
5 4 (28.57%) Solaris
5 4 (28.57%) SOAP
5 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
5 4 (28.57%) Sun
5 4 (28.57%) Project Management
5 4 (28.57%) MySQL
5 4 (28.57%) CMS
5 4 (28.57%) LAMP
5 4 (28.57%) CentOS
5 4 (28.57%) Network Security
6 3 (21.43%) Joomla!
6 3 (21.43%) Drupal
6 3 (21.43%) Data Management
6 3 (21.43%) Web Development
6 3 (21.43%) HTML5
6 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
6 3 (21.43%) MVC
6 3 (21.43%) XML
6 3 (21.43%) OOP

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 8 (57.14%) CSS
2 7 (50.00%) HTML
3 6 (42.86%) jQuery
4 5 (35.71%) Ajax
5 4 (28.57%) SOAP
5 4 (28.57%) LAMP
6 3 (21.43%) HTML5
6 3 (21.43%) XML
7 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
7 2 (14.29%) JSP
7 2 (14.29%) .NET
7 2 (14.29%) Web Services
7 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
7 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (14.29%) Node.js
7 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 2 (14.29%) WCF
7 2 (14.29%) Spring
7 2 (14.29%) Ext JS
8 1 (7.143%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) Apache
2 4 (28.57%) CMS
3 3 (21.43%) Joomla!
3 3 (21.43%) Drupal
4 2 (14.29%) WordPress
5 1 (7.143%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (7.143%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Network Security
2 1 (7.143%) Firewall
2 1 (7.143%) PBX
2 1 (7.143%) VoIP
2 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (14.29%) Big Data
2 2 (14.29%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.143%) CouchDB
3 1 (7.143%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.143%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.143%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Moq
1 2 (14.29%) Subversion
1 2 (14.29%) NUnit
General
1 1 (7.143%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) PHP Developer
2 4 (28.57%) UNIX Specialist
3 3 (21.43%) Database Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 2 (14.29%) LAMP Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Network Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Network Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.143%) Computer Science
2 1 (7.143%) RIA
2 1 (7.143%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) UNIX
2 4 (28.57%) Solaris
2 4 (28.57%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) OO
2 4 (28.57%) Project Management
3 3 (21.43%) Data Management
3 3 (21.43%) Web Development
3 3 (21.43%) MVC
3 3 (21.43%) OOP
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Workflow
4 2 (14.29%) BDD
4 2 (14.29%) TDD
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (7.143%) Product Management
5 1 (7.143%) Multithreading
5 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (7.143%) Load Balancing
5 1 (7.143%) Network Management
5 1 (7.143%) Scrum
5 1 (7.143%) SEO
5 1 (7.143%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 5 (35.71%) PHP
3 3 (21.43%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) C
4 2 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) C++
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) Perl
4 2 (14.29%) Clojure
4 2 (14.29%) R
4 2 (14.29%) Scala
5 1 (7.143%) XAML
5 1 (7.143%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.143%) VB
5 1 (7.143%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) PhD
2 1 (7.143%) CCNP
2 1 (7.143%) CCNA
2 1 (7.143%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) Samba
1 1 (7.143%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) Legato
1 1 (7.143%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle
2 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 4 (28.57%) Sun
3 1 (7.143%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (7.143%) Zend
3 1 (7.143%) F5
3 1 (7.143%) Juniper
3 1 (7.143%) JBoss
3 1 (7.143%) Cisco
3 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
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