The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT jobs advertised for the Wolverhampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 20 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 Wolverhampton region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 20 15 -
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 2 6 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wolverhampton 3.077% 8.333% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.696% 22.22% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 0
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Wolverhampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
23 27 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wolverhampton 35.38% 37.50% 32.79%
Number of salaries quoted 21 26 15
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -4.41%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £30,500 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £43,250 £38,550
UK excluding London average salary £38,625 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.43% +6.66%
Open Source
West Midlands

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wolverhampton 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 Wolverhampton region.

Wolverhampton Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wolverhampton 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 6 (85.71%) PHP
1 6 (85.71%) MySQL
2 5 (71.43%) HTML
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) CSS
2 5 (71.43%) OO
2 5 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (71.43%) Subversion
3 4 (57.14%) NetBeans
3 4 (57.14%) Zend
3 4 (57.14%) Zend Studio
3 4 (57.14%) Eclipse
3 4 (57.14%) Web Services
4 1 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
4 1 (14.29%) Replication
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) JSP
4 1 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 1 (14.29%) jQuery
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
4 1 (14.29%) Web Accessibility
4 1 (14.29%) HTML5

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wolverhampton 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 5 (71.43%) HTML
1 5 (71.43%) CSS
2 4 (57.14%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 1 (14.29%) TopLink
3 1 (14.29%) jQuery
3 1 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (14.29%) CSS3
3 1 (14.29%) Sass
3 1 (14.29%) JSP
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Subversion
2 4 (57.14%) Zend Studio
2 4 (57.14%) Eclipse
2 4 (57.14%) NetBeans
3 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Programmer
1 4 (57.14%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
2 1 (14.29%) PHP Developer
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) OO
1 5 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (14.29%) Web Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) PHP
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Zend
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle