The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT jobs advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Open Source over the 3 months to 23 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 Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Source
Rank 128 126 131
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 84 85 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 1.542% 1.631% 1.371%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.195% 5.563% 5.162%
Number of salaries quoted 64 62 60
Average salary £37,500 £33,750 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -4.92%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,200 £29,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +5.26%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1356 1528 1356
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 24.90% 29.31% 26.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1055 1268 1151
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Open Source
England

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Open Source Salary Trend

Open Source
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Open Source across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
West Yorkshire -16 42 £35,000 +7.69%
North Yorkshire +6 18 £37,500 +25.00%
South Yorkshire +11 16 £25,000 -28.57%
Open Source
England

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 82 (52.56%) Java
2 41 (26.28%) MySQL
3 39 (25.00%) J2EE
4 37 (23.72%) Web Development
5 35 (22.44%) JUnit
6 34 (21.79%) Hibernate
6 34 (21.79%) Degree
6 34 (21.79%) Subversion
7 32 (20.51%) JavaScript
7 32 (20.51%) PHP
8 31 (19.87%) Computer Science
9 26 (16.67%) CSS
9 26 (16.67%) Eclipse
10 25 (16.03%) .NET
10 25 (16.03%) Spring
11 24 (15.38%) Apache
11 24 (15.38%) Tomcat
11 24 (15.38%) OSGi
11 24 (15.38%) JFace
11 24 (15.38%) Eclipse RCP
12 22 (14.10%) Swing
12 22 (14.10%) QA
12 22 (14.10%) jQuery
13 21 (13.46%) Linux
13 21 (13.46%) JProfiler
14 20 (12.82%) HTML5
15 19 (12.18%) JavaFX
15 19 (12.18%) Qt
15 19 (12.18%) HTML
15 19 (12.18%) QuickTest Pro

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 39 (25.00%) J2EE
2 34 (21.79%) Hibernate
3 26 (16.67%) CSS
4 25 (16.03%) .NET
4 25 (16.03%) Spring
5 24 (15.38%) OSGi
5 24 (15.38%) JFace
6 22 (14.10%) Swing
6 22 (14.10%) jQuery
7 20 (12.82%) HTML5
8 19 (12.18%) JavaFX
8 19 (12.18%) Qt
8 19 (12.18%) HTML
9 18 (11.54%) GWT
9 18 (11.54%) Vaadin
10 17 (10.90%) XML
10 17 (10.90%) Struts
11 14 (8.974%) Web Services
12 13 (8.333%) Java EE
13 12 (7.692%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 24 (15.38%) Apache
1 24 (15.38%) Tomcat
2 14 (8.974%) Liferay
3 9 (5.769%) Magento
4 8 (5.128%) CMS
4 8 (5.128%) WebLogic
5 5 (3.205%) TeamSite
5 5 (3.205%) WordPress
5 5 (3.205%) Windows Azure
6 4 (2.564%) Moodle
6 4 (2.564%) IIS
6 4 (2.564%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (1.923%) Joomla!
7 3 (1.923%) Drupal
7 3 (1.923%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (1.923%) WebSphere MQ
8 2 (1.282%) Jetty
8 2 (1.282%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.641%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (1.923%) Adobe Captivate
1 3 (1.923%) MS Excel
1 3 (1.923%) Google Apps
2 2 (1.282%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.282%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.641%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.641%) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.974%) Firewall
2 12 (7.692%) Wireless
3 9 (5.769%) HTTP
4 5 (3.205%) DNS
5 3 (1.923%) FTP
5 3 (1.923%) Broadband
5 3 (1.923%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.282%) OSPF
6 2 (1.282%) DVB
6 2 (1.282%) BGP
6 2 (1.282%) IPv4
6 2 (1.282%) VoIP
6 2 (1.282%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (26.28%) MySQL
2 17 (10.90%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.487%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.564%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (2.564%) Big Data
5 3 (1.923%) Oracle 11g
5 3 (1.923%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (1.923%) Oracle 10g
5 3 (1.923%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.282%) RavenDB
7 1 (0.641%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 35 (22.44%) JUnit
2 34 (21.79%) Subversion
3 26 (16.67%) Eclipse
4 24 (15.38%) Eclipse RCP
5 21 (13.46%) JProfiler
6 19 (12.18%) QuickTest Pro
7 18 (11.54%) Selenium
8 15 (9.615%) Maven
9 14 (8.974%) Hudson
10 11 (7.051%) Cucumber
11 7 (4.487%) WebDriver
12 6 (3.846%) Jenkins
12 6 (3.846%) LoadRunner
13 5 (3.205%) Visual Studio
14 3 (1.923%) Dreamweaver
14 3 (1.923%) JMeter
15 1 (0.641%) FitNesse
15 1 (0.641%) SilkPerformer
15 1 (0.641%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (3.846%) Finance
1 6 (3.846%) Retail
2 5 (3.205%) Telecoms
3 4 (2.564%) Electronics
3 4 (2.564%) Marketing
4 3 (1.923%) Banking
5 1 (0.641%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.641%) Retail Banking
5 1 (0.641%) Back Office
5 1 (0.641%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.641%) Automotive
5 1 (0.641%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.641%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 88 (56.41%) Developer
2 64 (41.03%) Java Developer
3 14 (8.974%) Senior Java Developer
3 14 (8.974%) Senior Developer
4 13 (8.333%) Tester
5 12 (7.692%) Penetration Tester
5 12 (7.692%) Analyst
5 12 (7.692%) Security Tester
6 10 (6.410%) Test Analyst
6 10 (6.410%) Web Developer
6 10 (6.410%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 9 (5.769%) Architect
8 8 (5.128%) Software Developer
8 8 (5.128%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.487%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (4.487%) Technical Architect
9 7 (4.487%) Project Manager
10 6 (3.846%) Front-End Developer
10 6 (3.846%) Java Swing Developer
11 5 (3.205%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.87%) Computer Science
2 9 (5.769%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.846%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.205%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.923%) SCORM
5 3 (1.923%) Animation
5 3 (1.923%) Video Editing
5 3 (1.923%) Chemistry
5 3 (1.923%) E-Learning
5 3 (1.923%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.282%) SaaS
6 2 (1.282%) DTV
6 2 (1.282%) Streaming Video
6 2 (1.282%) MPEG
6 2 (1.282%) STB
7 1 (0.641%) RIA
7 1 (0.641%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.641%) IaaS
7 1 (0.641%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.46%) Linux
2 9 (5.769%) Windows
3 8 (5.128%) UNIX
4 3 (1.923%) AIX
4 3 (1.923%) Solaris
4 3 (1.923%) SUSE
4 3 (1.923%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.282%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.641%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.641%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (23.72%) Web Development
2 16 (10.26%) Scrum
2 16 (10.26%) Agile Software Development
3 14 (8.974%) MVC
3 14 (8.974%) OO
3 14 (8.974%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (7.692%) Security Testing
4 12 (7.692%) Network Design
4 12 (7.692%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 12 (7.692%) Penetration Testing
4 12 (7.692%) Data Protection
4 12 (7.692%) Reverse Engineering
4 12 (7.692%) Digital Forensics
4 12 (7.692%) Vulnerability Management
5 11 (7.051%) Project Management
6 10 (6.410%) Unit Testing
7 8 (5.128%) E-Commerce
7 8 (5.128%) TDD
8 7 (4.487%) Content Management
8 7 (4.487%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 82 (52.56%) Java
2 32 (20.51%) JavaScript
2 32 (20.51%) PHP
3 10 (6.410%) C#
4 8 (5.128%) SQL
5 6 (3.846%) C++
6 5 (3.205%) VB.NET
7 4 (2.564%) XQuery
7 4 (2.564%) Python
8 3 (1.923%) C
8 3 (1.923%) VBScript
9 2 (1.282%) Bash shell
9 2 (1.282%) Embedded C
9 2 (1.282%) Embedded C++
9 2 (1.282%) Perl
9 2 (1.282%) Ruby
10 1 (0.641%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.641%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 34 (21.79%) Degree
2 12 (7.692%) GCIH
2 12 (7.692%) CEH
2 12 (7.692%) CISSP
2 12 (7.692%) CISA
2 12 (7.692%) CISM
2 12 (7.692%) GWAPT
2 12 (7.692%) GPEN
2 12 (7.692%) OSCP
2 12 (7.692%) OSCE
3 10 (6.410%) ISEB
4 7 (4.487%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.641%) MCP
5 1 (0.641%) MCSD
5 1 (0.641%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.10%) QA
2 12 (7.692%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.282%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (1.923%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.282%) YUM
1 2 (1.282%) Splunk
2 1 (0.641%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 14 (8.974%) JBoss
2 13 (8.333%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.769%) Oracle
4 7 (4.487%) IBM
5 6 (3.846%) Adobe
6 5 (3.205%) Zend
6 5 (3.205%) Vignette
7 4 (2.564%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.923%) Google
8 3 (1.923%) VMware
8 3 (1.923%) HP
8 3 (1.923%) NetApp
8 3 (1.923%) F5
9 2 (1.282%) Terracotta
9 2 (1.282%) hybris
9 2 (1.282%) EPiServer
9 2 (1.282%) ATG
9 2 (1.282%) Cisco
10 1 (0.641%) Salesforce.com
10 1 (0.641%) McAfee
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