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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank - 63 38
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 0 8 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington - 1.527% 0.358%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 4.819% 1.563%
Number of salaries quoted 0 8 1
Average salary - £33,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Warrington
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
82 166 64
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 22.53% 31.68% 22.94%
Number of salaries quoted 52 141 49
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Open Source
Cheshire

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington 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 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (85.71%) HTML
2 6 (85.71%) Ajax
2 6 (85.71%) jQuery
3 4 (57.14%) J2EE
3 4 (57.14%) JUnit
4 3 (42.86%) TDD
4 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 3 (42.86%) GIS
4 3 (42.86%) ESRI
4 3 (42.86%) ArcGIS
4 3 (42.86%) MVC
4 3 (42.86%) Advertising
4 3 (42.86%) Publishing
4 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
4 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
4 3 (42.86%) CSS
4 3 (42.86%) Servlets
4 3 (42.86%) SOAP
4 3 (42.86%) Oracle
4 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
4 3 (42.86%) C#
4 3 (42.86%) .NET
4 3 (42.86%) JPA
4 3 (42.86%) Guice
4 3 (42.86%) PostGIS
4 3 (42.86%) Endeca
4 3 (42.86%) WPF

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington 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 6 (85.71%) HTML
1 6 (85.71%) Ajax
1 6 (85.71%) jQuery
2 4 (57.14%) J2EE
3 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
3 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
3 3 (42.86%) CSS
3 3 (42.86%) Servlets
3 3 (42.86%) SOAP
3 3 (42.86%) .NET
3 3 (42.86%) JPA
3 3 (42.86%) Guice
3 3 (42.86%) PostGIS
3 3 (42.86%) WPF
3 3 (42.86%) Silverlight
4 1 (14.29%) OSGi
4 1 (14.29%) XML
4 1 (14.29%) Swing
4 1 (14.29%) J2SE
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) ArcGIS
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Spatial
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) GIS
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (42.86%) Advertising
1 3 (42.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Consultant
2 3 (42.86%) GIS Consultant
2 3 (42.86%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Java Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) TDD
1 3 (42.86%) MVC
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) OOD
2 1 (14.29%) OO
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) ESRI
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
1 3 (42.86%) Endeca