The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category.

Open Source
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank124160161
Rank change year-on-year
Up+36Up+1
Matching permanent IT job ads252219571347
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.091 %1.596 %1.411 %
As % of the Miscellaneous category6.675 %4.849 %4.298 %
Number of salaries quoted216817201137
Average salary£45,000£42,750£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26 %-5.00 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£28,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£70,000£67,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£38,000£37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26 %+1.33 %
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryAll Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
377854035731337
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK31.33 %32.91 %32.82 %
Number of salaries quoted317933387625593
Average salary£45,000£47,500£50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26 %-5.00 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,500£27,962£28,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£85,000£82,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66 %-

Open Source
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Open Source within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Open Source Demand Trend

Open Source
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Open Source within the UK.

Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Open Source over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Open Source Salary Histogram

Open Source
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+302417£45,000+1.12 %
LondonUp+291482£50,000+5.26 %
South EastUp+23418£45,000+12.50 %
City of LondonUp+51330£52,500+5.00 %
East of EnglandDown-12146£46,500+16.25 %
BerkshireDown-21132£50,000+5.26 %
YorkshireUp+384£35,000-6.66 %
SurreyUp+3582£40,000-5.88 %
North WestDown-2082£35,000-
HampshireUp+2676£40,500+1.25 %
BuckinghamshireUp+2073£40,000+23.07 %
South WestUp+1173£37,500+0.67 %
CambridgeshireDown-1473£50,000+12.35 %
West MidlandsUp+459£32,500-23.52 %
CambridgeDown-1059£50,000+12.35 %
ScotlandUp+3452£34,000-2.85 %
West YorkshireUp+1651£32,500-9.09 %
LeedsUp+1041£31,500-21.25 %
East MidlandsUp+1540£27,500-21.42 %
BristolUp+1939£45,000+20.00 %
BirminghamUp+1734£35,000-22.22 %
ReadingDown-2234£43,000-4.44 %
ManchesterDown-2333£35,000-
Milton KeynesUp+3131£35,500+5.97 %
HertfordshireDown-630£57,500+53.33 %
SouthamptonDown-129£46,250+42.30 %
GlasgowUp+2427£30,000-14.28 %
North EastUp+1525£37,500-2.59 %
OxfordshireDown-424£43,000+22.85 %
EssexDown-1324£42,500-

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

12107 (42.43 %)Java
21781 (35.86 %)Linux
31431 (28.82 %)JavaScript
41406 (28.31 %)PHP
51323 (26.64 %)MySQL
61306 (26.30 %)CSS
71155 (23.26 %)HTML
81085 (21.85 %)SQL
9981 (19.75 %)Apache
10960 (19.33 %)Degree
11953 (19.19 %)Agile Software Development
12930 (18.73 %)Python
13843 (16.98 %)OO
14824 (16.59 %)Ruby
15780 (15.71 %)XML
16763 (15.36 %)Web Services
17757 (15.24 %)C#
18752 (15.14 %)Perl
19736 (14.82 %)Spring
20718 (14.46 %)Finance
21704 (14.18 %)Oracle
22698 (14.06 %)TDD
23679 (13.67 %)UNIX
24667 (13.43 %)E-Commerce
25661 (13.31 %).NET
26660 (13.29 %)Ajax
27650 (13.09 %)J2EE
28621 (12.51 %)jQuery
29597 (12.02 %)Windows
30594 (11.96 %)Hibernate

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11306 (26.30 %)CSS
21155 (23.26 %)HTML
3780 (15.71 %)XML
4763 (15.36 %)Web Services
5736 (14.82 %)Spring
6661 (13.31 %).NET
7660 (13.29 %)Ajax
8650 (13.09 %)J2EE
9621 (12.51 %)jQuery
10594 (11.96 %)Hibernate
11563 (11.34 %)LAMP
12355 (7.149 %)HTML5
13324 (6.524 %)XHTML
14320 (6.444 %)ASP.NET
15298 (6.001 %)Ruby on Rails
16284 (5.719 %)JSP
17265 (5.336 %)Struts
18225 (4.531 %)JMS
19218 (4.390 %)Java EE
20208 (4.188 %)JDBC
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1981 (19.75 %)Apache
2449 (9.041 %)CMS
3445 (8.961 %)Tomcat
4336 (6.766 %)Drupal
5198 (3.987 %)WordPress
6185 (3.725 %)WebLogic
7144 (2.900 %)IIS
8116 (2.336 %)Joomla!
9111 (2.235 %)Magento
9111 (2.235 %)ESB
10103 (2.074 %)RabbitMQ
1199 (1.994 %)ActiveMQ
1279 (1.591 %)nginx
1377 (1.551 %)Apache Solr
1468 (1.369 %)Alfresco
1468 (1.369 %)SharePoint
1566 (1.329 %)Oracle Coherence
1661 (1.228 %)Mule
1759 (1.188 %)WebSphere MQ
1848 (0.967 %)WebSphere Application Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1151 (3.041 %)MS Excel
2108 (2.175 %)MS Visio
366 (1.329 %)Photoshop
440 (0.805 %)Mingle
522 (0.443 %)Fireworks
621 (0.423 %)MS Office
714 (0.282 %)Adobe Illustrator
89 (0.181 %)Google Apps
98 (0.161 %)SketchUp
105 (0.101 %)MATLAB
113 (0.060 %)InfoPath
113 (0.060 %)SPSS
122 (0.040 %)InDesign
122 (0.040 %)Adobe After Effects
122 (0.040 %)Inkscape
131 (0.020 %)Final Cut Pro
131 (0.020 %)Maya
131 (0.020 %)MS PowerPoint
131 (0.020 %)MS Project
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
134 (0.685 %)Google Analytics
229 (0.584 %)Oracle BPM
322 (0.443 %)SiteCatalyst
322 (0.443 %)Optimost
416 (0.322 %)Dynamics CRM
514 (0.282 %)BASE24
613 (0.262 %)Summit
76 (0.121 %)Tridion
85 (0.101 %)WebTrends
94 (0.081 %)BusinessWorks
94 (0.081 %)SAP Retail
103 (0.060 %)Apache OFBiz
112 (0.040 %)Line 50
112 (0.040 %)Advent Geneva
121 (0.020 %)Oracle BRM
121 (0.020 %)Dynamics AX
121 (0.020 %)Oracle EBS
121 (0.020 %)Oracle Applications
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1357 (7.189 %)Internet
2305 (6.142 %)TCP/IP
3269 (5.417 %)HTTP
4157 (3.161 %)Firewall
5142 (2.859 %)DNS
6124 (2.497 %)LDAP
7116 (2.336 %)SSL
877 (1.551 %)SMTP
970 (1.410 %)DMZ
1062 (1.248 %)SAN
1156 (1.128 %)VPN
1252 (1.047 %)Wireless
1349 (0.987 %)VoIP
1447 (0.946 %)iSCSI
1447 (0.946 %)NAS
1546 (0.926 %)FTP
1640 (0.805 %)DHCP
1739 (0.785 %)WAN
1834 (0.685 %)AMQP
1930 (0.604 %)IMAP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11323 (26.64 %)MySQL
2420 (8.458 %)SQL Server
3223 (4.491 %)PostgreSQL
4208 (4.188 %)RDBMS
5196 (3.947 %)MongoDB
6163 (3.282 %)Hadoop
7137 (2.759 %)NoSQL
874 (1.490 %)Apache Cassandra
965 (1.309 %)Redis
1048 (0.967 %)Data Warehouse
1144 (0.886 %)Oracle 11g
1241 (0.826 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1334 (0.685 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1427 (0.544 %)SQL Server 2005
1526 (0.524 %)Oracle 10g
1526 (0.524 %)SQL Server 2008
1625 (0.503 %)BusinessObjects
1718 (0.362 %)DB2
1718 (0.362 %)GIS
1813 (0.262 %)Crystal Reports
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1538 (10.83 %)Subversion
2407 (8.196 %)Selenium
3314 (6.323 %)Git (software)
4248 (4.994 %)JUnit
5240 (4.833 %)Maven
6191 (3.846 %)Ant
7184 (3.705 %)Eclipse
8177 (3.564 %)JIRA
9137 (2.759 %)Cucumber
10121 (2.437 %)FitNesse
11114 (2.296 %)Mercurial
1296 (1.933 %)QuickTest Pro
1374 (1.490 %)Hudson
1464 (1.289 %)RSpec
1559 (1.188 %)Visual Studio
1655 (1.108 %)NUnit
1753 (1.067 %)WATIR
1849 (0.987 %)jMock
1946 (0.926 %)WebDriver
2042 (0.846 %)ClearCase
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1718 (14.46 %)Finance
2235 (4.732 %)Banking
3218 (4.390 %)Marketing
4208 (4.188 %)Games
5159 (3.202 %)Telecoms
6150 (3.021 %)Retail
798 (1.973 %)Publishing
889 (1.792 %)Investment Banking
985 (1.712 %)Advertising
1059 (1.188 %)Electronics
1157 (1.148 %)Back Office
1256 (1.128 %)Music
1349 (0.987 %)Automotive
1441 (0.826 %)Front Office
1527 (0.544 %)Legal
1621 (0.423 %)Multimedia
1720 (0.403 %)Retail Banking
1818 (0.362 %)Billing
1913 (0.262 %)Manufacturing
2011 (0.222 %)Military
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12638 (53.12 %)Developer
2847 (17.06 %)Java Developer
3472 (9.505 %)Senior Developer
4434 (8.739 %)PHP Developer
5398 (8.014 %)Web Developer
6324 (6.524 %)Administrator
7307 (6.182 %)Architect
8253 (5.095 %)Software Engineer
8253 (5.095 %)Senior Java Developer
9248 (4.994 %)Systems Administrator
10242 (4.873 %)Analyst
11206 (4.148 %)C# Developer
12192 (3.866 %)Java/J2EE Developer
13162 (3.262 %)Tester
14161 (3.242 %)Linux Administrator
15158 (3.182 %)Software Developer
16138 (2.779 %)Linux Systems Administrator
17130 (2.618 %).NET Developer
18126 (2.537 %)Test Analyst
19114 (2.296 %)Linux Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1569 (11.46 %)Computer Science
2213 (4.289 %)Social Media
3157 (3.161 %)iPhone
4129 (2.598 %)Mathematics
5126 (2.537 %)Digital Media
6114 (2.296 %)SaaS
7110 (2.215 %)Social Network
8105 (2.114 %)Cloud Computing
9101 (2.034 %)Blackberry
10100 (2.014 %)RIA
1194 (1.893 %)Clustering
1290 (1.812 %)Online Games
1387 (1.752 %)Hedge funds
1477 (1.551 %)Management Information System
1572 (1.450 %)Big Data
1666 (1.329 %)Blog
1666 (1.329 %)Web 2.0
1756 (1.128 %)PKI
1854 (1.087 %)W3C
1951 (1.027 %)Replication
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11781 (35.86 %)Linux
2679 (13.67 %)UNIX
3597 (12.02 %)Windows
4237 (4.772 %)Android
5198 (3.987 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6160 (3.222 %)CentOS
7116 (2.336 %)Ubuntu
8112 (2.255 %)Debian
9110 (2.215 %)Apple iOS
1095 (1.913 %)Solaris
1157 (1.148 %)Windows Server 2003
1256 (1.128 %)Mac OS X
1354 (1.087 %)Windows Server 2008
1431 (0.624 %)Windows Mobile
1530 (0.604 %)Windows XP
1621 (0.423 %)AIX
1719 (0.383 %)Embedded Linux
1815 (0.302 %)Fedora
1913 (0.262 %)OpenSolaris
2012 (0.242 %)Windows Vista
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1953 (19.19 %)Agile Software Development
2843 (16.98 %)OO
3698 (14.06 %)TDD
4667 (13.43 %)E-Commerce
5535 (10.77 %)Scrum
6485 (9.766 %)MVC
7475 (9.565 %)Web Development
8305 (6.142 %)Multithreading
9239 (4.813 %)Continuous Integration
10231 (4.652 %)UML
11230 (4.631 %)OOP
12220 (4.430 %)Content Management
13219 (4.410 %)Software Engineering
14200 (4.027 %)Unit Testing
15177 (3.564 %)Project Management
16171 (3.443 %)Automated Testing
17169 (3.403 %)BDD
18158 (3.182 %)SOA
19151 (3.041 %)SEO
20134 (2.698 %)Pair Programming
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12107 (42.43 %)Java
21431 (28.82 %)JavaScript
31406 (28.31 %)PHP
41085 (21.85 %)SQL
5930 (18.73 %)Python
6824 (16.59 %)Ruby
7757 (15.24 %)C#
8752 (15.14 %)Perl
9471 (9.484 %)C++
10363 (7.310 %)C
11295 (5.940 %)Bash shell
12266 (5.356 %)PHP5
13223 (4.491 %)Scala
14152 (3.061 %)Erlang
15138 (2.779 %)F#
16114 (2.296 %)Haskell
17110 (2.215 %)Shell Script
18104 (2.094 %)Objective-C
1994 (1.893 %)Lisp
2081 (1.631 %)Groovy
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1960 (19.33 %)Degree
2186 (3.745 %)ISEB
354 (1.087 %)ISTQB
448 (0.967 %)RHCE
544 (0.886 %)Security Cleared
639 (0.785 %)PhD
733 (0.665 %)SC Cleared
821 (0.423 %)ITIL Certification
917 (0.342 %)Cisco Certification
1015 (0.302 %)MBA
1114 (0.282 %)CCNA
1212 (0.242 %)Microsoft Certification
1310 (0.201 %)Sun Certification
149 (0.181 %)RHCT
158 (0.161 %)HND
167 (0.141 %)MCSE
167 (0.141 %)MySQL Certification
176 (0.121 %)MCSA
184 (0.081 %)CISSP
184 (0.081 %)DV Cleared
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1378 (7.612 %)QA
230 (0.604 %)SLA
311 (0.222 %)HMG Infosec
49 (0.181 %)WCAG
49 (0.181 %)JTAG
58 (0.161 %)ISO 9001
65 (0.101 %)WAI
74 (0.081 %)COBIT
83 (0.060 %)Val IT
83 (0.060 %)ISO/IEC 27001
91 (0.020 %)Data Quality
91 (0.020 %)IEC 61508
91 (0.020 %)DO-178B
91 (0.020 %)PCI DSS
91 (0.020 %)ISO 9000
91 (0.020 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1102 (2.054 %)Active Directory
276 (1.530 %)VMware Infrastructure
357 (1.148 %)Xen
446 (0.926 %)Varnish
538 (0.765 %)Samba
637 (0.745 %)Postfix
732 (0.644 %)NFS
828 (0.564 %)VMware ESXi
925 (0.503 %)Sendmail
1024 (0.483 %)Hyper-V
1024 (0.483 %)Squid
1116 (0.322 %)XenServer
1116 (0.322 %)vSphere
1214 (0.282 %)Nmap
1312 (0.242 %)UAG
149 (0.181 %)vCloud
156 (0.121 %)OpenSSO
165 (0.101 %)Dovecot
165 (0.101 %)VMware ESX
174 (0.081 %)Terminal Services
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1132 (2.658 %)Nagios
1132 (2.658 %)Puppet
253 (1.067 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
349 (0.987 %)Cacti
441 (0.826 %)Ganglia
537 (0.745 %)ZABBIX
627 (0.544 %)Munin
724 (0.483 %)Foglight
820 (0.403 %)Nessus
918 (0.362 %)Zenoss
1017 (0.342 %)SCCM
1116 (0.322 %)MOM
1214 (0.282 %)NetBackup
1312 (0.242 %)Red Hat Spacewalk
148 (0.161 %)Netcool
148 (0.161 %)McAfee ePO
148 (0.161 %)Red Hat Satellite
157 (0.141 %)Splunk
157 (0.141 %)Plesk
157 (0.141 %)Cobbler
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1704 (14.18 %)Oracle
2421 (8.478 %)Microsoft
3287 (5.779 %)JBoss
4251 (5.054 %)Zend
5206 (4.148 %)Red Hat
6170 (3.423 %)Cisco
7160 (3.222 %)Google
8135 (2.718 %)Facebook
9133 (2.678 %)VMware
10111 (2.235 %)IBM
1178 (1.571 %)Symbian
1276 (1.530 %)HP
1373 (1.470 %)Twitter
1472 (1.450 %)Sun
1552 (1.047 %)Citrix
1649 (0.987 %)Juniper
1748 (0.967 %)NetApp
1847 (0.946 %)ATG
1946 (0.926 %)SAP
2045 (0.906 %)Sencha