The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT jobs advertised for the Worcestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 17 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 Worcestershire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 39 43 35
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -8
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 2 4 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Worcestershire 0.893% 1.460% 0.943%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.125% 5.000% 4.444%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 2
Average salary £45,000 £32,500 £21,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.46% +54.76%
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Worcestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
64 80 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Worcestershire 28.57% 29.20% 21.23%
Number of salaries quoted 47 61 38
Average salary £34,500 £28,750 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,800 £22,500 £20,300
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £43,500 £38,750
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +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 Worcestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Worcestershire Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Open Source across the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Worcestershire Open Source Salary Histogram

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 Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Redditch - 1 £30,000 -
Worcester - 1 £60,000 -
Open Source
West Midlands

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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 3 (75.00%) MVC
1 3 (75.00%) Web Development
1 3 (75.00%) CSS3
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Sinatra
2 2 (50.00%) Kohana
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (50.00%) Symfony
2 2 (50.00%) Zend
2 2 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
2 2 (50.00%) CakePHP
2 2 (50.00%) Django
2 2 (50.00%) SQLite
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Portal

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) Kohana
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) Sinatra
2 2 (50.00%) Symfony
2 2 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
2 2 (50.00%) CakePHP
2 2 (50.00%) Django
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) JSP
3 1 (25.00%) Servlets
3 1 (25.00%) Struts
3 1 (25.00%) XHTML
3 1 (25.00%) JSF
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Portal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQLite
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Web Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior Web Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Portal Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) MVC
1 3 (75.00%) Web Development
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) Content Management
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Sun Certification
1 1 (25.00%) IBM Certification
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Zend
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Sun